The Yonaguni ruins as they are known cover a massive 311 miles and actually includes eight separate sites. Divers have reported that in addition to the huge eight story tall structures that many people are familiar with; there is clear evidence of roads, paved streets, huge altar-like formations and a processional walk way surmounted by pylons. The single largest structure so far discovered lies near the eastern shore of Yonaguni at 100 feet down. It is approximately 240 feet long, 90 feet across and 45 feet high. Countless accounts from hundreds of cultures around the world tell of a flood that destroyed many if ...
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Chief Kepuha I recently read an article written my mother on the most prominent historical figure of ancient Guam Chief Kepuha. A statue of his image stands in a very visible area in the capital city of Hatgatna. He was known as a powerful leader of the Chamorro people who embraced the Catholic faith of the conquering Spanish, and as you can read by my mother’s article below, he was seen as a man of faith and as a hero. Of course, through the filter of a very biased view of history that favors the western version of events and the dominant society, Kepuha is seen as a stellar ...
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I need info on jungle quests and lost civilizations, but I'm not sure what year my story is set yet. Here's what I've got so far: I'm thinking Carl Barks style adventure set in a fantasy world backdrop. I'm planning to send my hero off after a "lost treasure", and have him end up in the deep jungle where there's a lost civilization that is totally cut off from the rest of the world and is totally differant from humans as we know them. Not sure yet if it'll be a "magic realm" or not. At the moment, I set mine in the middle ...
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I'm starting this thread to ask questions and get answers about Ancient Mesoamerican cultures, such as Mayan, Aztec, Incas, or any of the others. If you are also wrting about this time period and have questions too, feel free to ask them here maybe together we can get gather enough info to write great stories! Okay, quick recap of my story: My MC lives in today's time, somehow comes across an anceint artifact that sends him to South America to find a "lost treasure". Once he gets to South America though, he gets lost and ends up in an "ancient city", that has been ...
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Now that humans had food, a sun, and a moon, they needed something that would bring joy to their lives. The gods gathered and decided that the people of the fifth sun should be able to partake in something that would make them want to rejoice with music and dance. One night, Quetzalcoatl went to the goddess Mayahuel, the goddess of maguey (agave plant), and convinced her to descend to Earth with him. Once on Earth, they bound themselves into a tree, each taking up a branch. When Mayahuel’s grandmother woke up the next morning, she found that her granddaughter was missing. Enraged, the ...
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