00:00.00 archpodnet Hello and welcome back to the pseudo archeology podcast episode 106 and we have been discussing ancient maya astronauts we have been destroying our minds with ancient Maya astronauts. And I thought I would wrap this up with a little discussion on who was pacall the great actually when did he live you know how long did he rule and all that kind of good stuff. So I would say if you have to pick one Paco. The great is probably. The most famous maya ruler of them all now I don't know if he was the most famous maya ruler of them all during the time of the ancient maya but he definitely is today and even during the time of the ancient maya he had to be up there. For several specific reasons. First the guy lived until he was eighty years old that's really impressive right? Especially for the time he lived from 6 so 3 to 89 a d and. In terms of the maya time period. That's right in the middle of the classic period. So in the Maya world when you're studying the ancient Maya. There's basically the pre-classic the classic and the post-class period. The pre classic is from about 1800 b c to about two fifty a d and that. 01:28.27 archpodnet I like to call it ah is a time of firsts right? It's like oh the first time they build big pyramids who the first time you get powerful Kings and queens write these these time of firsts. The classic period is from about two fifty a d to around oh around 800 a d. Nine hundred eighty depending on who you ask eight fifty a d and I like to call that the time of most right? This is the time of the most powerful Maya Rulers this is the time of the biggest cities. This is the time of warfare in city on city and um. 02:04.12 archpodnet Where they almost become an empire but never really do so. There's all kinds of great stuff going on if you don't know but much about the maya but you think of a maya archeology site it's almost for sure going to be a classic period maya site big names like to call that's it. Famous maya classic maya site if you're a fan of star wars right? The original star wars the planet Yavin that the rebel base that was filmed at to call at the end of the classic period is the maya collapse. And then you have the post classic period from about oh about 9 fifty a d to ah when the spanish come so in like 1520 or so so those is the 3 time periods pacall ruled right in the middle of the most time right of the. Classic period and six hundred in the six hundred s a D that's even the late classic period just by a tick and this is really the most of the most the late classic period picall was referred to as a 3 katoon lord. Now the my account in base 20 and a cartoon is 20 years that means he ruled over 60 years that's amazing and actually he ruled 68 years in total so if you do the math. Yeah let's say he died at 80 ruled 68 years 03:39.16 archpodnet Yes, he ascended to rulership at the age of 12 so if we compare pacall to somebody like Queen Elizabeth the second right? it's. The same thing. It's that length of rule except but call had real power right? He wasn't just a figurehead. This would be the equivalent so a ruler that's been there for 68 years it would be the equivalent of eisenhower still being president. Isn't that crazy imagine how much power that person had imagine how much respect this was the king of your parents. This was the king of your grandparents. This guy is a major entity in. Ancient Maya History if you want his full name. It's in each janab paal and you'll hear the word in each a lot in ah maya studies because it means ruler right. And you will also hear a term that goes with him a how the word a how in ancient maya means Lord or ruler so paal was the a how of the maya city state of Palen and of course he did. 05:10.74 archpodnet Everything that you would think a powerful Maya Ruler would have done. He had building projects done. You know he ah made alliances had warfare all this kind of stuff you know ruling for the decades and decades as he did and his death must have been just a major. Below and a major cultural moment for these people just like the recent death of Queen Elizabeth same idea right? Amazing what this singular person would have seen throughout history. So just a massively important character in really in world history. Which brings us to the whole ancient astronaut Bs yet again. So you have this person who is just the most multifaceted interesting person of the past reduced to a stupid. Stupid story that doesn't even make any sense so lame and if you actually look at the sarcophagus lid of pacall and you look at things like his hands his hands don't even look like they're working the controls or something and he doesn't even really look like he's in a spacecraft at all. It's just. Utter nonsense. Ah, but how many people have actually heard the story I just told you how many people actually know the greatness what makes pacall. 06:48.46 archpodnet But call the great. You know what? I mean very few people know that story but man here's something that hurt your frontal cortex. How many people know the ancient astronaut story. You see what I'm saying. Ah, just just sit on that one for a second. My friends so as we ride off into the sunset. Hopefully having learned a little about call the great. From the seventh century a da 68 years of rain for somebody who lived to the age of 80 who basically saw the entirety of the seventh century in the Maya Lolands well he would have thought the ancient astronaut thing was totally stupid too. Let me do that again. Well he would have thought the ancient astronaut thing was totally stupid too and with that. I'll see you guys next time.