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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Chapter 21

A Computer for Calculating the End of the World

The Maya knew where their advanced learning originated. It was handed
down to them, they said, from the First Men, the creatures of
Quetzalcoatl, whose names had been Balam-Quitze (Jaguar with the Sweet
Smile), Balam-Acab (Jaguar of the Night), Mahucutah (The Distinguished
Name) and Iqui-Balam (Jaguar of the Moon). According to the Popol Vuh,
1
these forefathers:
were endowed with intelligence; they saw and instantly they could see far; they
succeeded in seeing; they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. The
things hidden in the distance they saw without first having to move ... Great was
their wisdom; their sight reached to the forests, the rocks, the lakes, the seas, the
mountains, and the valleys. In truth, they were admirable men ... They were able
to know all, and they examined the four corners, the four points of the arch of the
sky, and the round face of the earth.
2
The achievements of this race aroused the envy of several of the most
powerful deities. ‘It is not well that our creatures should know all,’ opined
these gods, ‘Must they perchance be the equals of ourselves, their
Makers, who can see afar, who know all and see all? ... Must they also be
gods?’
3
Obviously such a state of affairs could not be allowed to continue. After
some deliberation an order was given and appropriate action taken:

Let their sight reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face
of the earth ... Then the Heart of Heaven blew mist into their eyes which clouded
their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. Their eyes were covered and they
could only see what was close, only that was clear to them ... In this way the
wisdom and all the knowledge of the First Men were destroyed.
4
Anyone familiar with the Old Testament will remember that the reason for
the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden had to do with
similar divine concerns. After the First Man had eaten of the fruit of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
The Lord God said, ‘Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and
evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and
live for ever, [let us] send him forth from the Garden of Eden ...’
5
The Popol Vuh is accepted by scholars as a great reservoir of

1 Popol Vuh, p. 167.
2 Ibid., pp. 168-9.
Ibid., p. 169.
3
4 Ibid.
5 Genesis, 4:22-4

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