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Both are on the campus of the Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Sexta Calle Final, ... Professor Nicholas Hellmuth occasionally gives seminars and archaeology ..... 361 2321The museum is on the same side of the street as the Museo Ixchel ...Below is a quote from Nicholas Hellmuth in an article he posted on his FLAAR site shortly after I had posted an article in rebuttle to that of Emily Stone's 'ch ocolateincontext.com'pataxte article with video that says and shows nothng in 2008 which you can find on the link to her pataxte article also below.Funny enough Hellmuth cited her as a or the major source,on pataxte before quietly removing the citation probably after finding my post on indymedias that should have been much stronger about a University of Pennsylvania 'writing assistent teacher' or something like that ripping off my investigation of pataxte and allowing a self promoting pseudo 'archeoligist whose biggeast claim to fame or infamy should 'misplacing a very rare vase or its even rarer contents which was probably cacao as he only in recen years admits or possibly a rare dish of beabs or frijoles which is what he believed for years until other real archeologists documented the very deep connection between the Mayan civilization and cacao .My article,'Pataxte,(Theobroma Bicolor): Real White Chocolate,Macademia Nut Of The Guatemala Maya ?,had already been out on the indymedia.com for a short while before his FLAAR article appeared citing Ms. Stone.The only reason Emily Stone was able to ripoff my verbal communication with her was because friends of hers getting into the conventional sugar cocoa powder cocoa butter business came occasionaly to buy coffee at the Tostaduria Antigua and told her about my discovery of pataxte and how I was saying it could be used as a form of 'white chocolate.
Hellmuth has used the concept ever since as another means of self promoting himself and has even recently layed claim to being among the few artcheolgists who have documented finding a ceramic asrtifact with cacao residue in Antigua's revuemag.com..In fact he is lieing and has never docomented finding such a vase but instead has admitted to losing one or one that he suspects contained cacao.This is like the big fish that got away but the fisherman still claims-lies to have caught !I f indeed by his disciption that remains on his FLAAR website,(unlike his citation of Emily Stone as his pataxte souirce which has long disappeared),of the contents of .
To quote Mr.Hellmeth or 'Dr' Hellmuth as he and Yale University must jokingly like to call him,'At age 19, while a student at Harvard, working at Tikal twelve months for the University of Pennsylvania, I discovered a polychrome painted Maya vessel filled with food remains. The pot was about half filled with crusted remains of food; in the crust were the hollow shapes of what had once been a bean-like seed.Since this was in 1965, and today it is 2009, I don’t exactly have my field notes handy. But at age 19 I naively assumed these were frijoles (beans) in the pot. As I look back in my memory, I now question whether the “beans” were probably cacao. To tell for sure would require finding the University of Pennsylvania records'......
Huh?! 'To tell for sure would require finding the University of Pennsylvania records' ,he says ?
Is the University that took him,(and Emily Stone as students and gave them both degrees such a reliable source that all we do - if we were able - would be to consult their records?!(Are we to believe a Jehova's Witness' claims to having seen Jesus nailed to a cross?! The idiot doesn't seem to realise when the reponsibility to put up or acknowlege one is a making false claims resides with him and not some institution that was foolish enough to place him in a position of responsibility in a serious archeological dig that so far it appears he blew big time according to his own writing on his FLAAR website !Where is the vase or pot and even if its ingredients can't be fouind why hasn't he located it and submitted it to a chemical analysis for traces of theobromine ? Huh?!
And wasn't it Helmuth's and Stone's prized University Of Pennsylvania - that recently had a pedophile scandal involving a coach? That reminds me of another Nicholas Hellmuth story.He always
uses the revuemag to promote one unproven 'Mayan' plant after another as an aphrodesiac for men or as
he says for the 'libido'.I guess Mr.Yale professor ain't got the word that we are so overpopulated in Guatemala and the world that the LAST thing we need to be searching for as a plant that enhances the 'libido'.
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Merriam‑Websterli·bi·do. noun \lə-ˈbē dō also ˈli-bə-ˌdō\. : a person's desire to have sex. plural li·bi·dos. Full Definition of LIBIDO. 1. : instinctual psychic energy that in ... Smilax : Revue Magazine
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Smilax · Nicholas Hellmuth | October 9, 2013 | 0 Comments ... (Smilax is a potential way to increase libido). Smilax is used in cosmetics (to treat the skin).
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Mar 1, 2014 - by dr. nicholas m. hellmuth .... Nicholas Hellmuth makes a case for returning to an ancient diet in ...... At least 19 plants to increase libido.
Two species of Cassia in Guatemala Cassia grandis is native, and ...
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Mar 12, 2013 - FLAAR reports · Add a Nicholas Hellmunth to yor network. FLAAR reports. | Share ... It reportedly spurs spontaneous libido. Could this be due to ...- This 'Dr.' Hellmuth reminds me of those CIA agents in Afghhanistan who in order to engraciate themselves with the warlords who they have helped bring to power in order to oversee and protect the CIA's opium harvest,giveway free viagra in order that these lards can take and rape and impregnate more unlucky young women who happen to have the misfortune of living in the CIA warlords' turf.Nichiolas Hellmuth could be prosecuted by trhe FDA in the USA.
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Apr 29, 2009 - Cacao Chocolate Guatemala Maya Pataxte Theobroma Bicolor Theobroma Cacao Criollo Theobromine White Chocolate. Pataxte,(Theobroma ..'' I was blissfully ignorant of pataxte until about three years ago I saw a label on a tree in the nature preserve at the ruins of Takalik Abaj. It labeled a tree as Theobroma and clearly a different species. But the tree was so totally unlike the thousands of Theobroma cacao that I had seen prior to that visit, that I naively assumed the label might have been a mistake.''-Yale 'educated' archeologist Nicholas Hellmuth
Now this about the great Jungle Jim or Raper of the Lost Arch 'hero',(in his own mind),Nicholas Helmuth from Antigua Guatemala's revuemag.com in which he claims to have read the Popul Vu so many times that he must have it memorized cover to cover.As you can see it says he has read the Popul Vuh ' around a dozen times'.We can only presume his many rading readings only occured less than 3 years ago if he only somehow on his own 'discovered' pataxte around the same time coincidentally that I did !The Popul Vuh's very brief mention of pataxte has been around for a few centuries since it was put to writing in Spanish by Mayan living in Tecpan Guatemala after being passed on generation to generation verbally in the local Mayan dialect or language .
Certain aspects of the Popul Vuh seem to be confirm archeological discoveries in the Guatemalan Mayan lowlands from a vase that depicts the head of one of the heroe twins growing out of what to me and others is definitely a cacao bush although the version of the verbal tradition of Tecpan say his head grows from a pumpkin.Nonetheless the vase is an amazing provides an amazing confirmation of the Mayan cultural continiuty to the present.Also other artistic relief representations of the story of the mythological twins exist in the lowlands of Guatemala as well and those older archeolgical artifacts depict Hunapu's head re-emerging from a cacao plasnt and NOT a pumpkin as is written in the later oral translation of the Popul Vuh .This is probably due to te fact that the peroplke of Tecpan are highlanders and cacao is a lowland tropical plant even though it is indeed mentioned in Popul Vuh as important to ALL Mayan people.
Now back to Mr.Hellmuth.He has clearly stated he thought that the contents of the ceramic 'pot' he found in Tikal as a student in the 1960's contained beans a legume and NOT cacao.As one wo has had an amateurs interest in rthe Mys for MANY years I confer with the reasoning behind his illogical assumption.In the 1980's the real imporatance of cacao to the lowland Maya culture was virtuslly unknown ven though Columbus himself wrote of sighting the boat tansport of cacao beans even among the soon to be holocausted Caribe people of the Caribbean islands and even though the evil Spanish conquistador and rapist Hernan Cotez would a little later take cacao back to the king of Spain and introduce sugar cane into Mexico and Meso-America to employ his newly aquired 'Indian' slaves in the production of on his stolen lands in Morelos Mexico etc..(As an aside one American here in Guatemala actulaly named his chocolate candy bars made with Hernan Cortez' sugar cane and processed cocao powder and cocoa butter after the prtesumed Godess of Mayan cacao 'Ixcacao' !He did not take kindly to my reminding him that Ixcacao would be made literally sick eating cacao that the Aztec and probably Maya ALWAYS drank or ate in unsweetened bitter form - not mention considering trhe source of that unhealthy sugar was Hernan Cortez ! So when I call my cacao - honey bars Maya cacao honey I don't mean the Maya made cacao bars with honey in fact although they had honey produced from small 'stingless' bees we have no reason at all to suspect they were using that honey to sweeten cvacao either in a solid or in a liquid drink preparation.The very fact that people with native American 'indigenous blood and genes are more suseptible than most to diabetes indicates that they had and consumed very low amounts of sugar even in the form of honey,etc..
.Thanks to archeologic findings verbal history and tradition of the the Popul Vuh is validated on one level and shown to be probably incorrect or modified over time as the legend moves from its source of origen or creation by lowland Mayan culture to the highlands such as Tecpan Guatemala.Cultural relativity one might call it.Below you see a photographic image clearly showing
As for the below one can only ask is how stupid can this Yale 'doctor' get ?It has already been shown that
the Maya while being very god abstract artists so to speak are also or more so very pecise artists whern they want to be.Even they phonetic writing is based upon artistic renditions of very ral objects.The cacao glyph is a fish head and archeologists who know this can very readily recognize this word cacao by recognizing the Mayan scribes' drawing or artistic rendition of a fish head with two dots near the head to remind the reading to repeat the sound ca two times.
Note below and written in stone or ancient fired ceramic which is a much more reliable source than oral tradition whether it be the Popul Vuyh or Bhaga Vad Ghita is Mayan ceramic vase that depicts what is most likely Huanpu's head re-growing friom a cacao bush - NOT a pumpkin.
http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_list.php?rowstart=490&search=maya&vase_number=&date_added=&vase_type=&ms_number=&site=&icon_elements=
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Photographs © Justin Kerr
Comments: After his beheading by the Lords of the Otherworld, Hun Hunaphu's head is hung in a cacao tree. CLICK for the shape of the vessel
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Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth
Most people who read the Popol Vuh, the Mayan book of creation, are historians or anthropologists who do so only once to gain an insight into Mesoamerican culture thousands of years ago. Nicholas Hellmuth, Ph.D., has read the text around a dozen times.
Below is a link to a Ms.Emily Stone's frivilous self centered chocolateincontext.com website from 2008 that
Nicholas Hellmuth cited as some sort of credible source on his FLAAR website in 2008 shortly after I posted my article about pataxte or Theobroma bicolor in rebuttal to her plagiarizing my idea that pataxte could not only be a drink as it has been used for historically in both Mexico and Guatemala for centuries although it has been dying out due to the rape of the environment and loss of cultural traditions in both places,
particularly with large mono-cultural agriculturtal projects that dictated the clearing of natural excosystems in general and forest conserving cacao agro-ecosystems in particular.From cattle and cotton on the Pacific coast to a virtual monoculture of Hernan Cortez' introduced sugar cane today.Note that this strange white woman who thinks she is a 'Semite' says just before ripping off my concept of using pataxte as an alternative to white chocolate (that the archeological fraudster Nicholas Hellmuth will later do in her place after I write my article ,'Tony from the Tostaduria Antigua is doing some strange some strange stuff with local cacao beans and cinnamon,....' Well the weird thing about this is that Ms.Stone KNOWS what I'm doing is being the first in Guatemala and as far as I could find on an internet search was to be roasting both cacao as well as our usual many years of coffee roasting in the same roaster and THEN without any cocoa powder or butter and ONLY the natural bean from the very Meso American region where cacao was first used by civilization I was adding honey instead of sugar! In fact the pseudo 'Semite' bimbo Ms.Stone knew that but because she also knew I was a critic of the Israeli government in general and of stock fraud and money laundering operations against Americans I was the enemy - the new 'white Palestinian' to her - even tough I had confided in her as 'my fellow American' that these people were also threatening my life !And while Nicholas Hellmuth has made a living off the historic talents of the Maya rather than any of his own and remained silent while Israelis supplied the arms to the Guatemalan military to mass murder the Maya who he cynically claims to admire he is equally sleazy and has in many ways done to me what he has done to the Maya by ripping off their archeological and cultural excellence foer his own egotistical glory and pocketbook ! Some sick American living in Guatemala has actually made the claim that the present Maya of modern types aren't the 'real' Maya ! In truth it is white people of European origen who erroneously call themselves 'Jews' and who aided and abetted in,(AND PROFITED FROM), the slaughtering of Mayan people in the 1980's along with the U.S.Bush-Reagan CIA and their right wing Christian helpers who came to convert the Maya to Protestant Christianity before they were slaughtered so they would be 'saved' before they were slaughtered who are NOT SEMITES (as they erroneously and fraudulently claim in order to justify the occupation of Palestinian lands),as well as to defraud Americans in stock and financial scams when they should never even by allowed in the U.S.in the first place ! Ms.Stone is a ' bimbo' NOT a 'Semite' !
Chocolate in Context: Chocolate Homecoming: Guatemala, (St ...
chocolateincontext.blogspot.com/.../chocolate-homecoming-guatemala-st...Mar 30, 2008 - ... hometown of Antigua took up most of my attention: Tony from the Tostaduria Antigua is doing some strange stuff with local cacao beans and cinnamon, and Greg and Nikol from the Bagel ... posted by Emily Stone at 7:29 AM ...
Chocolate in Context: The Great Guatemalan Pataxte Experiment
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Aug 23, 2008 - "Pataxte" is a local name for theobroma bicolor, a largely ... It tasted vaguely like Passover matzo, which is to say that it didn't taste like much.
Only just now I came across the citing of Emily Stones chocolateincontext.com that I thought Nicholas Helmuth had removed from his site.:
Pataxte, cacao, jaguar tree - maya-archaeology.org
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Jan 13, 2010 - Most photographs are by FLAAR: rollouts by Nicholas Hellmuth and still ... http://chocolateincontext.blogspot.com/2008/08/great-guatemalan- ...
As you can see if if take the link above Emily Stone who certainly could have benefitted from a course in ethics , actually does nothing after visiting our Tostaduria Antigua coffee and cacao roasting operation which I have come to feel is a lab as much as a roaster but rush to publish her name with pataxte at any cost,even that of doing any real culinary experiments with the plant.My having told her that I believed it could indeed be a 'white chocolate' led her to rush to get others involved in processed sugar chocolate here to help her get seeds from the plant just to beat me to finally get samples myself and grind them to see if the butter fast was similar enough to chocolate or cacao to make a bar.She never did that and was so culturo- centric as to conclude that it tasted like an Estern European Jewish 'passover matza' !Considering what Israelis did to the Mayan population of Guatemala in the 1980's while self promoting 'Mayan archeologists' like Nicholas Hellmuth as well as many of Euro Jewish origen such a Emily Stone remained silent is more than sickening.
Unfotunately Stone did noty know how or think to grind the pataxte seed to see if it had cocoa butter properties and in fact can be used for so much more as my article describes after I finally was able to get enough seeds to grind and eperiment with.Even now more research should be done on its nutitional properties including sulpher containing compounds.The few people mainly women who still keep its use alive in the few cacao growing areas of Guatemala only use it for a liquid drink generally with corn or ground tortillas as a base.Just as cacao was taken back to Europe after the conquest with only use as a drink in mind.Still it appears from the recent discovery of the theobromine molecule on a Mayan plate that cacao may have also been used in solid food as well or as a mole like sauce that Puebla nuns are given credit for inventing.
Chocolate residue found on early Maya plates, a first - Worldnews.com
article.wn.com/.../Chocolate_residue_found_on_early_Maya_plates_a_fi...Aug 3, 2012 - Archaeologists have found residues of cacao -- or chocolate -- on 2500-year-old plate fragments from the Northern Maya Lowlands in Yucatan, ...Archaeologists find signs of cacao on Maya plate fragments ...
www.smartbrief.com/.../archaeologists-find-signs-cacao-maya-plate-frag...Aug 6, 2012 - Archaeologists and chemists have discovered traces of theobromine and caffeine, which are characteristics of cacao, on 2500-year-old plate ... Holy mole! Chocolate found on ancient Mexican plates - NBC News
www.nbcnews.com/.../holy-mole-chocolate-found-ancien...Aug 3, 2012 - Holy mole! Chocolate found on ancient Mexican plates. Archaeologists' find suggests cacao was used not only in Maya-era drink, but also food ..
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The followig link will give some idea have what I have had to endure since undertaking a personal investigation of U.S.penny stock fraud and Israeli connection at the highest levels to that fraud note that I investigated for years on pwenny stock message boards particlary one called ragingbull.com before I even began posting on the internet itself.My wolfblitzzer0 alias made Ehud Olmert's and Iraeli President Moshe Katsav's partner in UCSY or Air Water Corp so mad he sued his fellow Zionist Wolf Blitzer and CNN for $100 million in court in 2005 claiming they had an obligation to stop my complaints !It was about that time that one Israeli female government employee and then another and another complained that Israeli President Katsav raped them.In the end they covered up their stock frauds against Americans using WORTHLESS U.S.PENNY STOCKS but Katsav was xconvicted of rape sometime after Emily Stone undertook to take credit for my investigations into pataxte for herself and in the end so did Yale con artist Hellmuth who lost valuable Tikal organic specimen that could have been cacao or beans both of which would have been of great value to knowledge of the Maya of Tikal.
Did Israel President Moshe Katsav aid Muslim Terrorism or only fraud
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's American Crime Family: 9/11, WTC,'Orthodox Jews',Stock Fraud,Gay Prostitutes and Death Threats
Had Ehud Olmert been involved in Michael Zwebner's multi-million or centi-million dollar swindle in Israel instead of the USA and had he profited from a stock fraud whose money went to harrass and intimidate and threaten the lives of Israeli citizens as he and his 'business' partners have done to Americans and to pay lawyers(with money from UCSY penny stock scam) in an attempt to suppress Americans Constutional rights to free speech and to hire male prostitutes - he may not have gotten off as lightly as his other partner in U.S. penny stock fraud and money laundering,ex Israeli President Moshe Katsav.
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Anyway it was only when someone who knew about my idea of using pataxte to make a pataxte or pataxte cacao honey bar and that it was my idea and not hers informed me about her website pataxte self promotion that I at least took a trip to find enough pataxte to grind and experiment with it myself.Stone had never even ground the pataxte she got because the person she teamed with to one uop me used cocoa powder and butter and had never even ground cacao in his life as she apparently had never done herself.In my case I had discovered pataxte by accident in our cacao beans and had to have my Guatemalan partner take it back to the person we bought cacao beans from to see if he knew what it was.I really did think it wqas an 'albino' cacao bean and that somehow iots bitterness of uinsweetened cacao or chocolate had somehow been 'bleached out' as well.The cacao seller informed my partner that it was 'pataxte' and an internet search rvealed that pataxte is Theobroma Bicolor .......
to be continued
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Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth
Most people who read the Popol Vuh, the Mayan book of creation, are historians or anthropologists who do so only once to gain an insight into Mesoamerican culture thousands of years ago. Nicholas Hellmuth, Ph.D., has read the text around a dozen times.
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Note that below Nicholas Hellmuth seems to be confusing himself and his reading audience regarding what he terms 'Cacao effigy vessels.I welcome any unbiased botonist to step in as an unbiased expert but what he calls ' Cacao effigy vessels' is in fact pataxte or Therobroma bicolor which is the subject of my dispute with this unethiclal Yale self promoting sheister who has pretended my concept and experiment and creation of pataxte and cacao pataxte bars - in my case using honey - is somehow his or an unnamed sources invention.
The guy is as unethical as Emily Stonw who he at first used as a reference before probably coming across my rebuttal of her unacknowledged theft of my idea that was then mirrored on the probable stock fraudster Gordon's thecholatelife.com who has also along with Yale University 'educated' stock fraudster Mitchell Bodian been promoting the lie and fraud called 'Ghirardelli broma process' to extract cocoa butter from the bean when in fact with the cacao honey bar we made at Tostasduria Antigua in 2005 it is unneccessary to even do the Dutch processed cocoa butter extraction using tons of pressure per square inch and cocoa powder in the first place and of course no need to use Henan Cotes suger cane that isd destroying large parts of Guatemala and Latin America in general.
Furthermore Hellmuth acknowleges he and his professors complete ignorance of the importance of cacao to the Maya in the 1960s which is a well known fact to me that he just confirms.He acknowledges here that he NEVER EVEN FOLLOWED UP ON CONFIRMING IF THE MATERIAL IN THE VASE WAS OR NOT CACAO.IF SO HE MAY VERY WELL HAVE HAD THE BEST OR ONLY REAL SAMPLE OF A REAL MASS OF CACAO BEAN MATERIAL IN MAYAN ARCHEOLOGY.ALL OTHER
PROOFS TO MY KNOWLEDGE COME NOT FROM ANY BREAN MATERIAL EXCEPT FOR THE THEOBROMINE ALKALOID ITSELF TAKING FROM SCRAPINGS.RECENTLY WITHOUT EVER PROVIDIDING ANY PROOF BUT OUT OF SHEER SELF AGRANDIZEMENT HE HAS ERRONEOUSLY CLAIMED IN REVUE MAGAZINE ANTIGUA GUATEMALA THAT HE HAD DISCOVERED A VASE WITH CACAO WHEN IN FACT IT APPEARS HE IS STILL FANTASIZING ABOUT THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY .MY SUGGESTION IS THAT HE FINALLY EITHER PUT UP OR SHUT UP ABOUT THAT VASE OR DOCUMENT THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS THAT CONFIRMS HIS CONTENTION,I PRESUME HIS ARTICLE IS INDEED REFERING TO THE VASE HE HAS NEVER DONE ANY CHEMICAL ANANYSIS OF AND THAT HE HAS NOT EVEN GONE BACK TO TO FIND AND VERIFY THIS 'POLYCHROME PAINTED MAYA VESSEL FILLED WITH FOOD REMAINS' REALLY DIS HAVE CACAO WHICH HE NOW CLAIMS WHICH WITHOUT VERIFICATION IS JUST LYING !(SOMETHING YALE GRADS SEEM TO BE ALL TO GOOD AT!)
http://www.maya-archaeology.org/FLAAR_Reports_on_Mayan_archaeology_Iconography_publications_books_articles/24_Cacao_Vs_Pataxte_Theobroma_cacao_and_Theobroma_bicolor_Revue_Magazine-Dec-2010.pdf
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There is a cacao tree inside the museum of Copan, Honduras, that flowers and somehow even fruits (how the flowers of a single tree are fertilized I will have to leave to a botanist).
In the last several years pre-Columbian Maya cacao has become a popular topic, after all, most of us drink chocolate and enjoy chocolate candy. Hundreds of books exist on chocolate and many ethnobotanical monographs on cacao and chocolate have been published in the last few years.
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Cacao in Maya archaeology: cacao seeds in Tikal Burial 196.
My first encounter with Maya cacao was in 1965, at Tikal.At age 19, while a student at Harvard, working at Tikal twelve months for the University of Pennsylvania, I discovered a polychrome painted Maya vessel filled with food remains. The pot was about half filled with crusted remains of food; in the crust were the hollow shapes of what had once been a bean-like seed.
Since this was in 1965, and today it is 2009, I don’t exactly have my field notes handy. But at age 19 I naively assumed these were frijoles (beans) in the pot. As I look back in my memory, I now question whether the “beans” were probably cacao. To tell for sure would require finding the University of Pennsylvania records. I tended to save the contents of any artifact I felt needed more study; since I was only a student, I was petrified of making a mistake, so I put the contents of each area of the burial, and each intact vase, into a separate bag for the lab that I thought might be of future use. It would be interesting if my samples from the vase of the fat man in front of the enthroned figure were still preserved in the bodega of Tikal.
During late 1965, I excavated, and subsequently prepared my undergraduate thesis on this Burial 196, Structure 5D-73, a five-terraced stone-faced pyramid but with no stone temple. This was located facing the side of Temple II (Str. 5D73 was next to the Central Acropolis).
This tomb is known popularly as the Tomb of the Jade Jaguar.
I am still studying Maya cacao (and jaguars) after all these decades.
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Similarly Nicholas Hellmeth in his writing often repeats the mistake of overly generalizing between cacao or chocolate and pataxte.As I have shown above the ceramics that Hellmuth presents a photo of while going on and on about cacao is really pataxte.Itr is Hellmuth who like his asanine egotistical archeology professors who is confused and I sure wish he would never had decided to plagiarize my discovery that pataxte could be used in bar form including in a cacao pataxte bar mix.If Hellmuth had read the Popul Vul 'a dozen times' why in the heil did it taker him so long to discover it was in the Popul Vuh and how did just simply seeing a tree at a ruina few years ago after decades in Guatemala lead him to immediately know it had anything to do with the Maya or that they ever used it in anyway.
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I was blissfully ignorant of pataxte until about three years ago I saw a label on a tree in the nature preserve at the ruins of Takalik Abaj. It labeled a tree as Theobroma and clearly a different species. But the tree was so totally unlike the thousands of Theobroma cacao that I had seen prior to that visit, that I naively assumed the label might have been a mistake.-'Archeolgist'(who lost or 'mis-placed a valuable and irreplacable Mayan cacao or bean containing 'pot' while a student excavating at Tikal)
The truth is that Hellmuth never mentioned pataxte until after Emily Stone pilfered the 'pataxe white chocolate' connection from me.
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As for the below one can only ask is how stupid can this Yale 'doctor' get ?It has already been shown that
the Maya while being very god abstract artists so to speak are also or more so very pecise artists whern they want to be.Even they phonetic writing is based upon artistic renditions of very ral objects.The cacao glyph is a fish head and archeologists who know this can very readily recognize this word caco by recognizing the Mayan scribes' drawing or artistic rendition of a fish head with two dots near the head to remind the reading to repeat the sound ca two times.
Similarly Hellmeth in his writing often repeats the mistake of overly generalizing between cacao or chocolate and pataxte.As I have shown above the ceramics that Hellmuth presents a photo of while going on and on about cacao is rally pataxte.Itr is Hellmuth who likew his asanine egotistical archeolgy professors who is confused and I sure wish he would never had decided to plagiarize my discovery that pataxte could be used in bar form including in a cacao pataxte bar mix.If Hellmuth had read the Popul Vul 'a dozen times' why in the heil did it taker him so long to discover it was in the Popul Vuh and how did just simply seeing a tree at a ruina few years ago after decades in Guatemala lead him to immediately know it had anything to do with the Maya or that they ever used it in anyway.
I have often said not knowing if I am paraphrasing someone else or derived the phrase on my on that if you want a good answer you need to ask a good question.YALE UNIVERSITY 'DR' DICHOLAS HELLLMUTH PROVES MY POIINT BY ASKING HIMSELF AND HIS STUDENTS ABOUT THE STUPIDIST AND SILLIEST QUESTION I CAN IMAGINE REGARDING THE POPUL VUH AND THE MENTIONING THAT THE HEAD OF ONE OF ITS 'TWIN HEROES' RETURNS AFTER ITS BEHEADING BY 'EVIL ONES' IN 'HELL' IN THE FORM OF A PUMPKIN ON A PUMPKIN PLANT.THE YALE NITWIT AND CON ARTIST NICHOLAS HELMUTH ASKS HIMSELF AND HIS STUDENTS WHETHER THEY CAN FIND A PUMPKIN THAT IS SHAPED IN THE FORM OF A HUMAN HEAD TO PROVE THAT THE POPUL VUH IS LITERALLY CORRECT WHEN ANY NITWIT WOULD KNOW BY NOW IF THEY WERE KEEPING AFIELD OF MAYAN ARCHEOLOGY THAT THE ORIGINAL STORY ORGINATED WITH THE LOWLAND MAYA AND NOT THE HIGHLAND MAYA OF TECPAN EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE ALL MAYAN PEOPLE - AND WE HAVE PROOF DATING BACK FURTHER THAN THE POPUL VUH THROUGH LOWLAND MAYAN CERAMICS AND RELIEFS THAT THE STORY OF POPUL VUH THAT DATES MUCH FURTHER BACK THAN TECPAN ORAL HISTORY AND THE HEAD WAS INDEED GROWING FROM A CACAO BUCH AND NOT A PUMPKIN !THIS GUY IS AS DUMB AS HE IS UNETHICAL AND THAT'S SAYING SOMETHING !
http://www.revuemag.com/2013/08/dr-nicholas-hellmuth/
Most people who read the Popol Vuh, the Mayan book of creation, are historians or anthropologists who do so only once to gain an insight into Mesoamerican culture thousands of years ago. Nicholas Hellmuth, Ph.D., has read the text around a dozen times.
He and his team are committed to separating history from legend by verifying the authenticity of every mention of flora and fauna that decorate the pages of Mayan texts.
“For example: in the Popul Vuh when Hun Hunahpu is playing the ballgame, at one point he has no head—his head is cut off—and his brother goes out and makes a head out of a pumpkin. What we study is: Is that true? Did they have pumpkins shaped like heads?”
In search of the answer, Hellmuth and his team embarked on a month-long field trip traveling all over Guatemala. They studied around 3,000 pumpkins, visited every pumpkin patch in the country and spoke with farmers and locals, before eventually stumbling across what they had been looking for in the back of a truck: a pumpkin shaped like a head.
Now you can see below a photographic image of a ceramic vase clearly showing
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mexico beans archeology
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