Posted February 2nd, 2011 at 12:34 PM by chas
CLUB MAYA
“Ci-u-than”
--Mayan for ‘I don’t understand you,’ aka ‘Yucatan’
“Hands up! Baby, hands up!
Gimmie your heart
Gimmie, gimmie, your heart
Gimmie, gimmie!
Sail away, sail away…”
--Club sing along theme song
The Aztecs, in their central lake in Mexico, and the Incas in the mountains of Peru, displayed civilized cities rich in silver and gold. These cities were sacked and destroyed by the Spanish Conquistadores. But the Maya, whose great cities had already fallen, had no such obvious treasures. Thus, ironically, the buried ruins long abandoned to the jungle survived the Sixteenth Century European Age of Exploration, without all the looting, burning, and massacre, in their inaccessible Yucatan peninsula. When the Mayans first met Spaniards on the coast, and were asked direction in Spanish, they replied: “Ci-u-than” or “I don’t understand you.” “What’s that he’s saying?”’ “I don’t know captain—he says we’re...
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