The ancient Mayans had contact with alien visitors
who left behind evidence of their existence,
according to a new Mexican documentary.
Sundance winner Juan Carlos Rulfo's Revelations
of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond is currently in
production for release next year to coincide
with the end of the Mayan calendar, reports the
Wrap.
Producer Raul Julia-Levy said the documentary-makers
were working in cooperation with the Mexican
government for what he said was "the good
of mankind". He said the order to collaborate
had come directly from the country's president, Álvaro
Colom Caballeros.
"Mexico will release codices, artefacts
and significant documents with evidence of Mayan
and extraterrestrial contact, and all of their
information will be corroborated by archaeologists," he
said. "The Mexican government is not making
this statement on their own – everything
we say, we're going to back it up."
Caballeros himself was conspicuous by his absence
from the statement released by Julia-Levy. So
far, the minister of tourism for the Mexican
state of Campeche, Luis Augusto García
Rosado, appears to be the highest-ranking government
official to go on record confirming the discovery
of extraterrestrial life, but he's not holding
back.
In a statement, Rosado spoke of contact "between
the Mayans and extraterrestrials, supported by
translations of certain codices, which the government
has kept secure in underground vaults for some
time". In a telephone conversation with
the Wrap, he also spoke of "landing pads
in the jungle that are 3,000 years old".
The documentary is believed to focus in part
on previously unexplored sections of a Mayan
site at Calakmul, Mexico, as well as a number
of sites in Guatemala, where officials are also
backing the documentary.
"Guatemala, like Mexico, home to the ancient-yet-advanced
Mayan civilisation … has also kept certain
provocative archeological discoveries classified,
and now believes that it is time to bring forth
this information in the new documentary," Guatemala's
minister of tourism, Guillermo Novielli Quezada,
said in a statement.
The Mayan calendar ends on 21 December 2012,
a fact which conspiracy theorists have used to
predict imminent apocalypse. However, according
to Mayanist scholars there is no evidence that
the Mayans themselves expected cataclysmic events
to occur once the calendar had reached its denouement.
More likely, it would simply mark the beginning
of another 5,125-year-long cycle.
