Weird News: Entrance to Xibalba Discovered?
Friday, August 29, 2008
Researchers have discovered an immense network of temples leading underground in the Yucatan Peninsula--perhaps the mythical pathway to the Mayan underworld of Xibalba? The bone strewn, watery passages of these crypts snaking under the humid hills sounds all too familiar as well. Fans of weird fiction will find a lot of disturbing commonality in H.P. Lovecraft's revisionist tale, "The Mound." Just because it's in the Yucatan Peninsula rather than Oklahoma doesn't mean a horrid underground civilization might be lurking down there. K'n-yan = Xibalba, anyone?
