David Stuart quote on 2012

Here is an amazing quote from David Stuart, one of the world’s greatest translators of Mayan glyphs.

David Stuart’s parents were both archaeologists. I read a wonderful book by his mother about their experiences in the Mayan ruins in Coba, Yucatan. I’ve heard that David had a Mayan nanny. As a result, he is fluent in Mayan. At 16, he was deciphering Mayan glyphs, because he knew the language and the archaeology. He translated the one text on earth with the 2012 date on it. Half of the inscription on a stone stele is indecipherable because of weathering. The part of the glyphs that David could read say something about an ancient Mayan god named Bolon descending. From this comes all the whoopla about 2012? Here’s the quote from David Stuart I found on a website called, Exposing PseudoAstronomy.

From David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at the University of Texas at Austin:

“There’s going to be a whole generation of people who, when they think of the Maya, think of 2012, and to me that’s just criminal. … The whole year leading up to it is going to be just crazy, I’m sorry to say. I just think it’s sad, it really just frustrates me. People are really misunderstanding this really cool culture by focusing on this 2012 thing. It means more about us than it does about the Maya.”