Comments on: Apocalypto http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/12/03/apocalypto/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:11:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: KCorax http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/12/03/apocalypto/#comment-2232 KCorax Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:27:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/12/03/apocalypto/#comment-2232 JCS is it on Youtube or sth ? JCS is it on Youtube or sth ?

]]> By: Kitty http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/12/03/apocalypto/#comment-2234 Kitty Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:27:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/12/03/apocalypto/#comment-2234 In the strict sense, even in biblical studies, apocalypse means just what Eugenia said is the meaning of the Greek word: “revelation”. There are a number of writings that are known as apocalypses ( for example the gnostic apocalypses ) and that are not about the end of the world. But in common language “apocalypse” has taken that sense, of course because of the most famous of them all: John’s “revelations”. In that sense the word is probably not entirely inappropriate as Mayan had a calendar and a mythology that revolved upon I think five great cycles of time and cosmology, so that the idea of the time ending and civilizations being swept away was sort of embedded in their culture. In the same way the rapture/judgement day/escathon of christian and giudaic tradition is sort of the end of a time cycle and the beginning of a different one (and for a while the millenarist linked that moment with a precise time on the calendar, year AD 1000, much like the 2012 of mayan calendar). So yes, the part about the new beginning is not really the meaning of the word, that’s plain wrong. Though “apocalypse” in layman’s terms has something to do with the movie’s subject… and I suppose Gibson’s fundamentalist point of view is that the mayan civilization mirrors ours and that we should be conscious it will end for good. In the strict sense, even in biblical studies, apocalypse means just what Eugenia said is the meaning of the Greek word: “revelation”. There are a number of writings that are known as apocalypses ( for example the gnostic apocalypses ) and that are not about the end of the world. But in common language “apocalypse” has taken that sense, of course because of the most famous of them all: John’s “revelations”.

In that sense the word is probably not entirely inappropriate as Mayan had a calendar and a mythology that revolved upon I think five great cycles of time and cosmology, so that the idea of the time ending and civilizations being swept away was sort of embedded in their culture.
In the same way the rapture/judgement day/escathon of christian and giudaic tradition is sort of the end of a time cycle and the beginning of a different one (and for a while the millenarist linked that moment with a precise time on the calendar, year AD 1000, much like the 2012 of mayan calendar).
So yes, the part about the new beginning is not really the meaning of the word, that’s plain wrong. Though “apocalypse” in layman’s terms has something to do with the movie’s subject… and I suppose Gibson’s fundamentalist point of view is that the mayan civilization mirrors ours and that we should be conscious it will end for good.

]]> By: Luis http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/12/03/apocalypto/#comment-2233 Luis Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:49:00 +0000 http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2006/12/03/apocalypto/#comment-2233 Hehe, you didn’t expect Mel Gibson to study classical languages at school, did you? <img src='http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' /> Strangely enough, as a Christian believer he is (if I’m not mistaken) he must have heard the word in the bible, where the Apocalypse describes the <i>end</i> of the world, not a new <i>beginning</i> (in this sense it’s used in the movie “Apocalypse now” too). Hehe, you didn’t expect Mel Gibson to study classical languages at school, did you? :)

Strangely enough, as a Christian believer he is (if I’m not mistaken) he must have heard the word in the bible, where the Apocalypse describes the end of the world, not a new beginning (in this sense it’s used in the movie “Apocalypse now” too).

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