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"Yes, the series of eight Each figure represents an incarnation of the god Venus"
Ga jaws and foreheads "Ugh I've always thought of the goddess of love as a delicateout of the sea foam on a scallop shell"
"That's because you've been brainwashed by Botticelli's vision and wasted your tiot out of the Teame The Mayan Venus was a male "
"How chauvinistic"
"Only to a point The Maya were firm believers in equal opportunity when it came to human sacrifice Venus symbolized Quetzalcoatl or Kukulcan The feathered serpent It's all tied in The analogy of birth and rebirth Like Quetzalcoatl, Venus disappears for part of its cycle only to reappear"
"I get it," Trout said "The Maya decorated their teod to make him happy so he'd come back"
"There was souy You have to understand how architecture orked into theft religion Mayan buildings were often fixed on key points like the solstice and equinox or where Venus appears and disappears A celestial calculator in other words"
Gamay said, "Professor Chi compared the observatory tower at the MIT site to a computer's hardware, the inscriptions on its side to software He felt that it was only part of the whole picture, the way one circuit is part of a computer"
"Yes, he ran that theory by o before it becomes an IBM clone"
"Still, it's possible that the tower and the others were part of a unified plan?" Gamay persisted
"Don't getThe Maya were incredibly sophisticated and always e to surprise They often lined up palace doorways and streets to point to the sun and stars at various ti the ive the priests treod told the far, harvest, and rainy season The Caracol at Chichen Itza has s that line up with Venus at various points on the horizon"
"There are no boat inscriptions on the Caracol, as far as I know," Gamay said
"Only on those eight teht days during its cycle A scary thing if you were depending on the planet for important decisions So the priests tossed a few , and everything was peachy again Speaking of bloodletting, I've got a class in fivediscussion later?"
Gaht days and that there are eight tes Coincidence?"
"Chi didn't think so Got to go Can't wait to tell the class about the Musters"