I recently came across the videos below about the Mayan Temple at El Mirador in Guatemala. The temple is located in the Mirador Basin which contains the Petén rainforest, the last tract of virgin rainforest in Central America.1
Dr. Richard Hansen, an archaeologist from Idaho State University, is the current director of the Mirador Basin Project. He recently took CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on a tour of the site and the surrounding area.
In the video clip below, Dr. Hansen shows Ms. Baldwin an artefact of the Popol Vuh. The Popol Vuh was written by anonymous members of the Quiché-Maya nobility, a branch of the Maya that dominated the highlands of western Guatemala prior to the arrival of Spanish conquerors in 1524 and contains the creation story of the Mayas.
El Mirador appears to be one of those “‘powerhouses’ that attest to ‘the fading or fictive nature of the vaunted powers from on high.’”2
Sources:
- Baldwin, Brooke. “Uncovering a masterpiece the Mayans left behind“. 15 Oct 2009. CNN. 31 Oct 2009.
- See Nibley on Book of Mormon Geography.
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