Christopher Columbus and the Mayans

 I found this jewel regarding Christopher Columbus and his work called "Libro de las profecias" during the 1502 voyage regarding the Maia on Guanaja. What is interesting to me is that many people of those times in Central America and the Caribbean saw Columbus coming as the beginning of an Apocalypse of their cultures. If you study the History of the Mayans, Aztecs, etc. you can see that in some ways when he came it was the end of their cultures. And it makes me think that if there are aliens from other planets the fact that they haven't  forced themselves on us publicly possibly because they don't want to cause the same kinds of apocalyptic things that Christopher Columbus' arrival (And later Cortez and Pizarro) did to existing cultures that had been around likely more than 1000 years already. So, the biggest problem for existing cultures then in the 1500s was "They had no way of understanding who these people really were. So, by viewing them as Gods and not as men from another culture, it ended their culture(at least formally speaking).

begin quote from:
wikipedia under the heading "2012 Phenomenon"

The European association of the Maya with eschatology dates back to the time of Christopher Columbus, who was compiling a work called Libro de las profecias during the voyage in 1502 when he first heard about the "Maia" on Guanaja, an island off the north coast of Honduras.^[30] Influenced by the writings of Bishop Pierre d'Ailly, Columbus believed that his discovery of "most distant" lands (and, by extension, the Maya themselves) was prophesied and would bring about the Apocalypse. End-times fears were widespread during the early years of the Spanish Conquest as the result of popular astrological predictions in Europe of a second Great Flood for the year 1524.^[30]
In the early 1900s, German scholar Ernst Förstemann interpreted the last page of the Dresden Codex as a representation of the end of the world in a cataclysmic flood. He made reference to the destruction of the world and an apocalypse, though he made no reference to the 13th b'ak'tun or 2012 and it was not clear that he was referring to a future event.^[31] His ideas were repeated by archaeologist Sylvanus Morley,^[32] who directly paraphrased Förstemann and added his own embellishments, writing, "Finally, on the last page of the manuscript, is depicted the Destruction of the World ... Here, indeed, is portrayed with a graphic touch the final all-engulfing cataclysm" in the form of a Great Flood. These comments were later repeated in Morley's book, The Ancient Maya, the first edition of which was published in 1946.^[30]


end quote from: 2012 Phenomenon from Wikipedia.


So, maybe the lesson for humans now is that we shouldn't be making some of the same mistakes that the Mayan, Aztec, and Incas and others did when the Conquistadors and Columbus arrived. That may seem like a no-brainer to me and other educated people, but that might not be true for everyone.

Note: I had a thought that also might be historically true according to how "Group Karma" works. I realized that when Spain "Caused?" the collapse of the "Mayan, Aztec, and Inca and other middle and south American cultures that the likely "group karma" of that was the Spanish Armada disaster which financially sort of  financially broke Spain at that time.  And, Strangely enough, this also caused England to settle in North America. So, Spain stayed to the south near where Columbus landed and English settlers settled more North America along with France in Canada and the Louisiana Purchase in New Orleans.