Mayan Cosmos

Man, the Mayans had some the most mind-shattering ideas... This is just amazing. I love how non-chalant this seems with the labelling/captions on it. "Now, over here is the Sun Jaguar, which is just next to the Vision Serpent..."

Sun Jaguar.

Vision Serpent.

I would easily go for this belief system, based purely on the kind of shit these "Ancient Skywatchers" were churning out - its all so much cooler, more badass, and more vibrant stuff than anything Jesus had to offer. Anyways, here's a colourful version, because colours are fun.


Kind of an awesome way to summarize your entire existence, and keep your people in line. "Bird of Heaven, Cosmic Monster... You get it... Just obey them." Instant civilization!

Ancient beliefs

Old-timey scientific beliefs are awesome -- how did people come to these crazy and amazing conclusions? Who knows. Its awesome to think that at one point people actually, truly believed that the world was held up by four giant elephants, who were in turn standing atop an enormous cosmic turtle.

Auroras

Man, why don't we get these in Australia? I want them. I could probably look at one "all night long" and not get bored.

There's a very good scientific explanation about their existence, but I like to attribute them to "the beauty of the cosmos".

The Cree apparently used to call auroras the "Dance of the Spirits". They had the right idea.