A scientist says Mayan priests have used astronomical knowledge to control the masses

The Mayan priests They have monopolized the scientific knowledge of astronomy to control the mbades and preserve the state of affairs of their time, said Friday the Mexican researcher Eddie Salazar Gamboa.

"Those who had this knowledge of the stars, their movements and their influence on Earth were this clbad of priests and not the people," he told Efe Salazar, an academic. Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY), southeast of Mexico.

The caste of the priests transmitted his knowledge of astronomy from generation to generation, it was "something very elitist," said Salazar Gamboa at a conference "The Dresden Codex and something else "offered at UADY headquarters.

He claimed that mastery of this knowledge was part of the mbad control applied by Mayan priests in the same way as the priests of ancient Egypt.

About the data he found in his research on the Dresden Codex, he pointed out that the Mayas had records of solar and lunar eclipses and that they could also predict them.

He added that this codex, which exists in the German city of the same name for centuries and to which the replies have had access, has 78 pages.

Between pages 51 and 58 of the Codex, the subject of eclipses and their influence on the life and society of the Mayans is discussed, he explained.

The Mayans devoted themselves "to search for eclipses, more than for scientific zeal, to the fear they had, that they disappear or eat the sun more than the moon, with which they had no conflict, they are put forward and have taken great care of their sun, "he said.

This is why the peoples of this ethnic group have sought to drive out the moon so that it does not eat the sun, called "Kin" in the Mayan cosmogony, he said.

The interviewee pointed out that the movement of the stars, and in particular the lunar cycle, had an influence on life, on Earth, and compared for example the cycle of female fertility to the mole.

"Nothing is a coincidence in this universe, everything is synchronized and nothing is separated from the rest, everything is united," he insisted.

The Dresden Codex is an ancient Maya text from the 11th century of the present day. It is considered the oldest of those that still exist and that is generated by any culture or ethnicity in America.

During the looting of Mayas, the remains are in the hands of the Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco de Montejo the Codex was stolen and transferred to Europe.