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Portal to Mythical Mayan Underworld Found in Mexico

reuters.com — Mexican archeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones, which ancient Mayans believed was a portal where dead souls entered the underworld.

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  • pingpants, on 08/15/2008, -3/+50FTA: The souls of the dead followed a mythical dog who could see at night, de Anda said.

    ?!chupacabra!?
  • drmobutu, on 08/15/2008, -6/+84Oh, this is total viral marketing for the next Tomb Raider...
  • CLAWC, on 08/15/2008, -5/+41It amazes me that we think we know SO much, yet have SO much to find. We really have touched the tip of the things actually out there (on our very own planet nonetheless)
    • ssn697, on 08/15/2008, -12/+3So you are waiting for that dog to show up, taking you to the portal?
    • InYourHonor, on 08/15/2008, -2/+9I agree with you 100%, I think the bane of American Youth is the beliefe that everything has been done, and discovered. There is no more wonder in this world and its a deep shame.
    • RobotBuddha, on 08/15/2008, -2/+7I kind of agree with you. I don't know if the average person on the street thinks we know a lot. Most of them seem pretty convinced that science isn't real and magic unicorns and crystals are really where it's at. Most actual researchers usually don't think we know everything there is to know, or they wouldn't be in the field. I think it's mostly just laymen with only a superficial understanding of a subject who tend to feel the case is closed on a scientific issue, or even a historical one.
    • therumfoodle, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2That 'there is always more to know' is a grammatical truth about the notion of 'knowing,' not some sort of empirical observation. Your comment amounts to a truism, and a trite one at that.

      It is in no way a condemnation, or even an observation, of the actual practice of science.

      What you said amounts to "People think they're so smart but they're not!"
    • kayala, on 08/15/2008, -4/+3Other CLAWC comments, for perspective:
      "And yes, you can believe in evolution or not. Just like you can believe in God or not. Evolution is not 'proven' yet it's taught as fact since they can't really explain our Universe without bringing in an outside force."
      "You don't have to be religious to believe in Creation/intelligent design whatever you want to call it. Lots of well credited scientists have refused to accept evolution as an answer to the amazing things in the universe. It's a stupid idea (which is conveniently taught as TRUTH) brought up by ONE man years ago."
      "Evolution is pure bull. It's just an "explanation" for things we don't understand. AMAZING things that are WAY above our understanding. Of course, I'm gonna get buried for having a LITTLE bit of common sense. Despite what anyone says, the Bible has PLENTY of proof for its authenticity & even touches on some scientific things that were correct way before men got it right. Things in life are DESIGNED for specific purposes. How could BLIND CHANCE 'choose' for things to be the way they are?"
    • jimmick, on 08/16/2008, -1/+2Viral advertising brings out the over-the-counter philosophy in all of us.
  • ScottMcIntyre, on 08/15/2008, -1/+11It's like Stargate:Atlantis
    • elfprince13, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3the thumbnail even kind of looks like Tayla
    • yngtimmy, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4Although not as cool. Find me some ancient ZPM and I will be interested.
  • Cabose, on 08/15/2008, -0/+36Why isn't the thumbnail the image of the cave?
    • koonchu, on 08/15/2008, -1/+15Because that image of the chick gets the instantaneous fap-digg.
    • imasuperDOTcom, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3Because Digg's image detection sucks, and when you submit an article with an appropriate picture, usually the only choices (2 or 3 at the most) are not what you're looking for.
      • cawpin, on 08/15/2008, -2/+4*****, you can pic ANY image you want for the thumbnail.
    • deviouskoopa, on 08/15/2008, -1/+8Because a Georgian reporter who was hit by a sniper yet continues to report her story is more relevant.
    • thebigbradwolf, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2the cave is a lie
  • Croecop, on 08/15/2008, -27/+1Stupid Mexicans
  • imasuperDOTcom, on 08/15/2008, -3/+22I think it's funny how many people think we've found all we're going to find on this earth, even on land. We talk all the time about how the only land left to explore on the earth is the Sea, but really, that's just ignorance!


    All hail Discovery!
    • ssn697, on 08/15/2008, -5/+6Who thinks we have found all we are going to find? I certainly don't, and neither does anyone I know.

  • TheTaoOfBill, on 08/15/2008, -1/+65Why is the image a picture of that journalist that got shot by a sniper?
    • alcavit, on 08/15/2008, -2/+3LoL I dont know
    • kingmanic, on 08/15/2008, -0/+12Isn't it obvious? The flesh wound became gangrenous and she's on here way to the Mayan underworld now. Either that or the sniper upgraded to an AWP and got a clean body shot on the second round. ***** camping AWPers.
    • leetninja, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4she is entering the mayan underworld! DUH!
    • LeviTheSmith, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4Obviously someone is hacking the Digg server. They must have got past Norton AND Windows firewall(we're dealing with serious guys here..) using a brute-force intrusion kit they downloaded off of Limewire. They must have sent malicious batch files over MSN which ping to server forcing it to change the article images.

      That's my take on it anyway
      • TheTaoOfBill, on 08/15/2008, -0/+4That's probably the most likely scenario.
  • sindex, on 08/15/2008, -1/+10So... where's it actually lead? Does it just dead-end (heh) or what?
    • absurdist, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5To the Mayan Underworld, of course. Didn't you read the article? ;)
  • zadadka, on 08/15/2008, -8/+1You remember in Lion King where the hyenas got the shivers just from the name "Mufasa"?
    "Portal" does that for me.
  • lazydrumhead, on 08/15/2008, -8/+10Well......

    This was a triumph.
    • NexusV2, on 08/15/2008, -7/+2Why? Keyboard broken? You've read your first article?

      You've got a girlfriend?
    • absurdist, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2"This was a triumph."

      And now it's what? A BSA? Royal Enfield? Velocette?
    • kjk437, on 08/15/2008, -1/+6I'M MAKING A NOTE HERE
    • Spartanious, on 08/15/2008, -1/+6Huge Success
  • xsquirrel378x, on 08/15/2008, -8/+6Buried for misleading title You know you all got excited when you saw the word Portal
  • badwithcomputer, on 08/15/2008, -2/+21Portal to Mexico was recently found in a Maternity World store near the border. With sexy results.
  • alcavit, on 08/15/2008, -1/+3Amazing Find
  • mobislink, on 08/15/2008, -3/+5I wish there were more pictures. I want to see this pool filled with scorpions, pus, and blood.
  • v4vishal, on 08/15/2008, -1/+8Glad they found it before Mayan doom's day..
  • harrisbradley, on 08/15/2008, -2/+6this is not a cake
  • tmyprod, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4So, I guess you could call it a Highway to Hell.
  • Gonz037, on 08/15/2008, -4/+3Cake... lie.... etc...
  • Brownds, on 08/15/2008, -1/+5I for one welcome our new mythical-dogs-who-could-see-at-night overlords...
  • boner79, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2AVP3
  • cloudcity, on 08/15/2008, -0/+13"According to an ancient Mayan scripture, the Popol Vuh, the route was filled with obstacles, including rivers filled with scorpions, blood and pus and houses shrouded in darkness or swarming with shrieking bats,"

    Dugg for rivers of "blood and pus".
  • carlosauresrex, on 08/15/2008, -0/+8hmm... i read "portal" i thought to myself, "yes, valve is releasing portal 2 soon." shows where my head is.
  • UtahApocalyse, on 08/15/2008, -4/+4Buried for4 inaccurate thumbnail. This is Digg not the MSM we can't have stupid errors like that here
  • t4stringer, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2creepy
  • AndrewMoyer, on 08/15/2008, -1/+20The Department of Homeland Security has asked that the entrance to the underworld be blurred out on Google Maps... Dick Cheney doesn't want anybody knowing where he lives.
  • tiggerdigger, on 08/15/2008, -3/+3for a second there i thought that a real portal to the underworld was discovered... damn it
    • Monk22, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1im sure if they did, digg would be the first place you heard about it.
  • BradOFarrell, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2"The souls of the dead followed a mythical dog who could see at night, de Anda said."

    Hey, speaking of which, anyone remember this: http://www.alessonislearned.com/cmx/lesson015.gif
    • RobotBuddha, on 08/15/2008, -1/+2One of the most underrated webcomics out there.
  • ncapone, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2This is pretty incredible; I wonder what went through the minds of the scientists when they discovered it.

    PS. I Just hear Popol Vuh's first album and it was pretty weird, and I realized it ties in pretty well with the whole Mayan thing.
  • helias, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1Two damn images. What the hell?
    I think everyone would have been much more satisfied if there were more photos :(

    I just couldn't resist posting this.
  • BikerDude69, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3They have found chupacabra, bigfoot and now this. Last month governments released documents stating UFOs were real. This is amazing!
  • cjshamrock, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Gotta go there and take some Peyote;
  • Lhakrots, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Anyone else think of Pan's Labyrinth? : )
  • rhinopig, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1The Mythical Mayan Underworld is a lie.
  • compgeek, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1interesting find I had been doing a lot of reading and watching a lot of discovery channel stuff on the mayans lately and a story on this just happened to pop on last night. awesome
  • SeniorCarbone, on 08/15/2008, -1/+5Guess who is going to investigate...
    (Hint: She has 2 pistols)
  • snotrokit, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3so THAT's where they went
  • dildoolielly, on 08/15/2008, -13/+8Any evidence found for the mythical Jesus yet?

    Actually, one of the main reasons I denounced my Christian faith is because I can't find one single shred of evidence for the Jesus of the Bible. Not one artifact or eyewitness account. Not even in the Bible.

    Amazingly, we have not one Jewish, Greek, or Roman writer, even those who lived in the Middle East, much less anywhere else on the earth, who ever mentions him during his supposed life time. This appears quite extraordinary, and you will find few Christian apologists who dare mention this embarrassing fact.

    After confronting a few Church members with this new knowledge for lack of evidence, it became painfully obvious that these people seems to have NO interest whatsoever in scientific debate. It seems all they care about is re-affirming their superstitious beliefs of disturbing stories of hell and damnation and devils and eternal suffering and ramming them down the throats of unsuspecting children.

    I'd be happy to be proven wrong about this. But so far I haven't been.
    • mandarin, on 08/15/2008, -3/+14Who cares about you ?
      No one wants to prove you wrong or right, stop pushing your beliefs.
      • dildoolielly, on 08/15/2008, -5/+2How do you "push" non-evidence?! Please enlighten us you piece of pathetic scum sucking maggot dung!
    • mlvassallo, on 08/15/2008, -2/+2So wait, when Nero documented the fire that caused Rome to burn to the ground was the fault of Jesus and his militant followers some thirty years after his death that doesn't count as a historical reference?

      Sounds like you got it all figured out. Enjoy your life!
      • dildoolielly, on 08/15/2008, -3/+2Your drivel is nothing more than fancy semantics.

        Let me add that its fine if you believe he was real, but there is a real dispute on the matter. This isn't like holocaust denial where one can go and look at the death camps. All we have are 4 shallow reports of a man named Jesus that were written down by people who heard somebody talk about him a generation after he supposedly lived. Plenty of time for the Christ-cult to spread their mythology. And if I recall correctly, only one really makes reference to him as a martyr.

        Sure, he might have been a real messianic martyred figure, but nobody unbiased really knows.

        But, why don't you present what you feel is the best piece of evidence for the biblical jesus? Not one artifact or eyewitness account. Not even in the Bible

        No more debates filled with fancy semantics, just back up your statements with actual scientific evidence.
      • mlvassallo, on 08/16/2008, -2/+1"Sure, he might have been a real messianic martyred figure, but nobody unbiased really knows."

        Wait... I was just refuting your point that a man named Jesus didn't really live at that time... I thought that is what you were so sure of...
      • dildoolielly, on 08/17/2008, -2/+2------------Wait... I was just refuting your point that a man named Jesus didn't really live at that time... I thought that is what you were so sure of...--------------


        Let me put it this way so your small brain can wrap around the idea.

        If one of your loved ones was on trial for a horrible crime and all the "evidence" the cops had was hearsay from what someone said somebody else who has been dead for over half a decade, would you agree to 30 years hard labor or eternity in hellfire?

        I'm sure I'll get an intellectual answer
    • benicillin1, on 08/15/2008, -2/+2i'm glad you brought that up bc it's extremely relevant to this conversation....
    • variablek, on 08/15/2008, -2/+6After reading a few paragraphs it became painfully obvious how desperately in need of attention you are. Although you make some valid points, they have no reason to be posted here and bare zero relevance to the article.
      • dildoolielly, on 08/15/2008, -4/+2--------------After reading a few paragraphs it became painfully obvious how desperately in need of attention you are.----------------

        BOO-FVCKIN'-HOO!

        Wow you Christians are so persecuted aren't you!

        You're just the weak little kids cowering at the feet of the big bad Atheists from the way you talk.
        I don't know if you just got back from your space trip, But you know what? Christians have taxless insane asylums on just about every corner of America preaching death and destruction to millions of people on as many corners as possible re-affirming their superstitious beliefs of disturbing stories of hell and damnation and devils and eternal suffering and ramming them down the throats of unsuspecting children.

        Its is because of Christians that the GOP have had the majority of the political power in this country for the last 8 fvcking years so I think, wait...yes that's correct, you are todays grand prize winners of a lifetime supply of "Shut The ***** Up!" It goes great with pork and and hot air!

        I don't give a damn what brand of ***** anyone believes until those beliefs begin to turn into laws and campaign platforms, you've overstepped the boundry separating church from state.
        Thats what happening in this country. Don't expect politeness, Nutbars.

        It is a chilling fact that most of the world's leaders believe in nonsensical fairytales about the nature of reality. They believe in Gods that do not exist, and religions that could not possibly be true. We are driven to war after war, violence on top of violence to appease madmen who believe in gory mythologies.These men are called Christians, Muslims and Jews.

      • variablek, on 08/20/2008, -0/+2Ha! Who said I was a Christian? I was merely pointing out that your rants, regardless of validity, bear zero relevance to the submitted article on a Portal to the the Mythical Mayan Underworld. Maybe, just maybe, you posted to the wrong thread, but from where I'm standing, it sure looks like a case of "Mommy hasn't been paying enough attention to me lately but I need my views to be heard!" You sir, expect to lead us Atheists? Eat a dick. We don't want your help. However, I kindly offer this suggestion to you: decaf, look into it (or hey, maybe this site is more your speed: http://www.stopmethaddiction.com/%29.
    • darushin, on 08/15/2008, -2/+4Actually the Roman historian Joecefius (Seriously I think) did record of him though briefly. He mentioned in a daily recordings he did for Pious that "Jesus was crucified", though many wonder why only that line survived since this historian kept very detailed daily history reports of Pious's actions and the events in Judea. I may have the names wrong, but the events are right though.
      • dildoolielly, on 08/15/2008, -3/+3First of all you are speaking about "Josephus" which shows you obviously shouldn't be getting in any debates with people.

        Josephus was born after the supposed Christ death. Do you understand what evidence is?


      • dildoolielly, on 08/16/2008, -1/+2Digging me down with out a rebuttal or evidence, eh?

        Christians...thank you for living up to what my parents always told me you were: an entire lot of self-righteous, blathering hypocrites.
    • tekproxy, on 08/15/2008, -1/+4Totally off topic! Angst much? None the less, it's an interesting thing to say. Richard Dawkins and Douglas Adams both say something about this which helps me cope. :-D Most people assume that faith is unassailable and must be respected. "It's my faith! I don't need evidence. Duh?" is the attitude most people have; even those without faith!

      Keep it up. Keep questioning faith. People will one day realize that faith is just self-imposed ignorance and does not make you a better, more spiritual person. It is not a desirable quality and does not purify you to receive special truths.

  • randomdave, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Well that title was a let down
  • DopplerDuck, on 08/15/2008, -0/+2Big deal! There's been a similar port to the underworld in India for quite some time too. Its called the Lok Sabha. There are 28 greater ports too. These are called Vidhan Sabhas.
  • poisonborz, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1Oh man, how human culture is changing with times.... I mean, imagine, you live in 2000 BC, these caverns are one of the foundations of your civilization, the holiest places one can enter, that is believed to be standing there from the beginning of times, to be there for ever... and the legacy is... "Mythical Mayan Underworld Found in Mexico" blah blah, Dugg, Next!
  • jbuberel, on 08/15/2008, -2/+1But what about Galaga? That was my all-time arcade favorite.
  • fixyourthinking, on 08/15/2008, -3/+5Hmmm ... interesting this was found shortly before the Mayan Calendar ends in 2012
  • Borgcube636, on 08/15/2008, -0/+42012
  • meprogrammerguy, on 08/15/2008, -0/+0"including rivers filled with scorpions, blood and pus and houses shrouded in darkness or swarming with shrieking bats"

    Yea, that was in room 13. Shoot the blue portal above the zombies and the orange one at your feet. That will get you out.

    ;)
  • therumfoodle, on 08/15/2008, -2/+2Some underground temples were discovered. It was reported as "Secret portal to the Mayan underworld discovered!"

    Think it's a slow newsday?
  • LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/15/2008, -0/+3Xibalba FTW.
  • ribo, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1I thought Reuters would at least get that it's the Maya underworld, not the MayaN underworld : (
  • travelina, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2There's a Maya trivia quiz on National Geographic's site now, to go along with their special issue on the Maya. What did Maya dentists use to make fake inlaid teeth? Why did the Maya hang little balls of resin between the eyes of their young children?
    http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/08/maya-ris ...
  • triad203, on 08/16/2008, -1/+1Yeah, I guess "Portal to Mythical Myan Underworld" sounds a lot more interesting than what it actually is: "Cave"
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