image credit: Stephane Guisard
As per the photographer’s comment and ‘copyright infringement notice’ below, the link to the original source of this image is http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/Chichen-Itza.html. Check out Stephane’s home page for an array of stunning images of the heavens.
Wikipedia discusses the Mesoamerican Kukulkan serpent traditions here.
And a series of three YouTube videos on Chichen Itza gives interesting high level background on the indigenous Mayan culture of the area. In addition to noting their prowess at engineering, astronomy and mathematics it suggests that the Mayans developed the concept of zero some hundreds of years ahead of the Arabs.
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Wow, stunning photo and fascinating info, Anake!
This is a copyright infringement notice:
Please renove this image from you blogs, servers and computers. If you want to share this picture, you can do so ONLY by sharing the link to its original source:
http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/Chichen-Itza.html
Thank you for doing that within the next 24hours and for letting me know.
Best regards,
Stephane Guisard
hey Stephane. hopefully i have interpreted your message / comment / request correctly. best regards …
Thank you very much, Since you were very kind and cooperative and to make your post “not so naked” now, I authorize you to put a small version of the image 600×400 pixels max if you wish, which you can link to the higher res version on my website. Best regards,
Stephane
On Saturday, December 22, 2012, anakegoodall wrote: > anake goodall commented: “hey Stephane. hopefully i have interpreted your message / comment / request correctly. best regards …” >
… But please do not use the version of the picture you have which has been “pirated” with somebody putting its own url on the image.
Thank you,
Stephane Guisard
On Saturday, December 22, 2012, Stephane Guisard wrote: > > Thank you very much, > Since you were very kind and cooperative and to make your post “not so naked” now, I authorize you to put a small version of the image 600×400 pixels max if you wish, which you can link to the higher res version on my website. > Best regards, > > Stephane > > > On Saturday, December 22, 2012, anakegoodall wrote: >> anake goodall commented: “hey Stephane. hopefully i have interpreted your message / comment / request correctly. best regards …” >>
Stephane, i have taken a simple screenshot of the original image – removing the bogus URL – and have posted the screenshot in place of the original. best regards …