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Oerdin's post is full of exaggeration. Assuredly Mel took numerous things form different areas and time periods. Also, there were some things that didn't make much sense.
But it was in the realm of what hollywood does, when I went in I saw previews for 300, and that is hugely bastardized too.
Also, there isn't the strong implication that Spaniards are a good thing. Notice that the hero does not want to go to them. They aren't saviors. Rather, it is the forest that he goes...
It isn't a tale of a standard time, a usual time, it is a tale of a time where there was famine, etc... note that the people feel their city is dying. This might all be a modification of the sort of thing that really occurred (but think about 300 also), but consider that your complaints against it's depictions of human sacrifice were that that wasn't the way it was normally done.
The city in the film wasn't in a 'normal' time for it.
I also have doubts about some who claim that they are doing things the way they were done 500 years ago. My understanding is that the cultures were smashed by the coming disease and war and etc. That is the reason why we have had gains of understanding in the last decades. Do we have such changes of understanding in our studies of europe or even China? No. And if there was direct culture left, we wouldn't have such changes now.
No, the people who are trying to keep up Mayan culture are trying to keep it up from old stories/etc, many of which were probably made up in the last 400 years.
I view the whole thing sort of how I view those claiming to be druids now. These aren't the same cultures, the culture wasn't prime for too long.
Even immigrants from foreign places get different cultures within a generation. Even if the language is kept, and they stay in their own communities.
Jon Miller
But it was in the realm of what hollywood does, when I went in I saw previews for 300, and that is hugely bastardized too.
Also, there isn't the strong implication that Spaniards are a good thing. Notice that the hero does not want to go to them. They aren't saviors. Rather, it is the forest that he goes...
It isn't a tale of a standard time, a usual time, it is a tale of a time where there was famine, etc... note that the people feel their city is dying. This might all be a modification of the sort of thing that really occurred (but think about 300 also), but consider that your complaints against it's depictions of human sacrifice were that that wasn't the way it was normally done.
The city in the film wasn't in a 'normal' time for it.
I also have doubts about some who claim that they are doing things the way they were done 500 years ago. My understanding is that the cultures were smashed by the coming disease and war and etc. That is the reason why we have had gains of understanding in the last decades. Do we have such changes of understanding in our studies of europe or even China? No. And if there was direct culture left, we wouldn't have such changes now.
No, the people who are trying to keep up Mayan culture are trying to keep it up from old stories/etc, many of which were probably made up in the last 400 years.
I view the whole thing sort of how I view those claiming to be druids now. These aren't the same cultures, the culture wasn't prime for too long.
Even immigrants from foreign places get different cultures within a generation. Even if the language is kept, and they stay in their own communities.
Jon Miller
Oerdin posted about the eclipse 2 days ago so I thought it was too late anyway.
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