Mayan Priests Cut Their Penises to Predict the Future?

That's how they figured out a date for the end of the world. They would cut the ends of their penises off and count the rings. Unlike a tree, where each ring represents a year of growth for the tree, with the Mayan penis, each ring represented one year of existence remaining. Then they would add together all the years from all the male mayans and that's how they came up with the end of the world happening in 2012. As for the exact date, they just really like the solstice, so they were pretty much guestimating.

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Piercing the penis or tongue was part of ritual bloodletting among the Maya. There are images of kings & gods doing that in Maya ruins. It was some form of sacrificial blood offering.

No doubt they used something that had an anesthetizing effect, like chewing coca leaves (like cocaine) or some other substance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting_in_Mesoa...

Unbelivable, but if they did they were morons

that is not what they teach in college anthropology.

You just gave me a really good laugh. Thanks.