TY - JOUR AU - Martínez, Miguel PY - 2013/06/23 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - La mistificazione delle Americhe. La cosiddetta “Profezia Maya” del 2012 JF - Altre Modernità JA - AMonline VL - IS - 0 SE - Saggi Ensayos Essais Essays DO - 10.13130/2035-7680/3064 UR - https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/3064 SP - 1-13 AB - <p>The fluidity of post-modern vision and interaction with the tourist market and mass media are leading to increasing mythification and commodification of Native American cultures.</p><p>In this article, we provide some case histories revolving around the so-called 2012 Maya Prophecy, for example Eugenia Casarin Limón, who in Mexico presents herself as a psychotherapist and member of an originally French neo-Hermetic organization, whereas in Italy she appears as a "Maya priestess"; or the better known José Argüelles, whose cultural background is entirely North American and European.</p><p>Argüelles has made use of an ethnic Maya, Hunbatz Men, who however drew inspiration, not from traditional sources, but from a self-styled Gnostic movement, founded by the German adventurer Arnold Krumm-Heller; and the Mexican author Martínez Paredez, who inspired the symbolic work of Argüelles, was in turn inspired by a French Freemason, Augustus Le Plongeon.</p><p>Application by Argüelles and others of the I Ching to the so-called Maya Prophecy is especially interesting because of the changing meaning of this Chinese work to the West, from the times of the Jesuit missions to today's cyberculture.</p><p>The Maya Prophecy has much more to tell us about “Western” culture than about the Mesoamerican world.</p> ER -