An Associated Press wire story, carried by CBS News on October 12, 2009, reporting Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun's own frustration with international questions about a supposed Mayan doomsday tied to December 21, 2012. Quoted in his own words: "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff." The article states plainly that Chile Pixtun said the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan, ideas, and separately quotes archaeologist Jose Huchim observing that Mayan-speaking communities in the Yucatan had no awareness of any such prophecy and were occupied with more pressing concerns, drought and rainfall shortages. Read here directly for a documented Maya voice responding to the Western-built claim, distinct from Restall and Solari's scholarly reception history, already live on this row as source 15246.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Tier two: an Associated Press wire story carried by CBS News, quoting a Guatemalan Mayan elder and an archaeologist directly on the record. Its strength is that it documents a Maya voice responding to the Western built 2012 doomsday claim, distinct from Restall and Solari's scholarly reception history already live on this row. Its limit is that it is contemporary news reporting rather than a peer reviewed academic source. NotesA mainstream wire report, valued here for carrying an actual Maya voice directly rejecting the Western claim on the record, at a specific datable moment three years before the date itself, rather than for original scholarship, which source 15246 already supplies on this row.
Citation
AuthorAssociated Press
PublisherAssociated Press, via CBS News
Publication Year2009
URLhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/mayan-elder-tired-of-2012-queries/
Source Typenews
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Chile directly: "Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun's own frustration with international questions about a supposed Mayan doomsday tied to December 21, 2012."
Maya, Figures This source names Maya directly: "October 12, 2009, reporting Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun's own frustration with international questions about a supposed Mayan doomsday tied to December 21, 2012."
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Prophecies, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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