Ancient Aliens - Mysteries of the Maya

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

Considered by many to be the greatest civilization in the history of the Americas, the Maya thrived for more than 2,000 years. Now, new evidence is being discovered that completely upends our understanding of this ancient culture… and might provide evidence that the Maya came in contact with extraterrestrial visitors.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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They built huge pyramid cities. They created the only writing system in all of the Americas. The Maya possessed knowledge that defies explanation. How did they understand the long, vast orbits of the earth? through the Milky Way galaxy. And new evidence has revealed a civilization more extraordinary and more ancient than we ever imagined. We have discovered a lost chapter of human history. But could the Maya's greatest secret involve contact with visitors from beyond Earth?

The early Maya themselves said we were taught by extraterrestrial beings. beings. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone. To call, Palincai, Chechnica, Usmall, Copan. Throughout Central America stand the ruins of the Maya, considered by many to be the greatest civilization in the history of the Americas. While archaeologists and historians have been studying this ancient culture for over four centuries, there are still many questions left to answer, since much of the Maya's history is still hidden within the jungles of Mexico

and Guatemala. This is William Henry, an author and investigative mythologist. The roots of the Maya are very obscure, but traditional Maya scholarship says that historically you have the more primitive pre-classical Maya, and then you've got the classical Maya, who are more advanced. For centuries, scholars considered the height of the Maya civilization to be during the classic era between roughly 250 and 900 AD. Before this was the pre-classic era that began around 2000 BC and was believed to be made up of nomadic people who lived in simple dwellings. Ed Barnhart is an archaeologist and

director of the Maya Exploration Center. There was a thinking that the classic period was really where they started building cities. But then in the 60s and 70s, as we got deeper into the jungle, we realized there were older cities that were as big and in some cases bigger than the classic ones. Today, archaeologists believe that the Maya built cities throughout Central America and thrived as a civilization for more than 2,000 years. They were responsible for some of the most impressive architecture in the entire North American continent, and this is just one of their many accomplishments. The Maya really stand out among ancient civilizations in terms of their achievements.

They created the only writing system we know in all of the Americas, and through that writing system they were able to conduct very... scientific investigations and they became masters of mathematics and astronomy. The Maya were arguably the ancient world's best astronomers, even excelling the Greeks. Here is Hugh Newman, co-author of Megalith Studies in Stone. Many of the Maya sites, also the Yucatan, Guatemala, Belize, and throughout Mexico, are kind of astronomically aligned. Now, they, even have observatories as parts of the site.

The most famous being really at Palenca and at Chichenica, for instance, where they have literally places where they would observe the stars. Why the Maya were so preoccupied with tracking the stars remains a mystery. But scholars agree that they possessed a remarkably advanced understanding of astronomy, which is perhaps most evident within their highly sophisticated and complex

calendar system. Dresden, Germany. Germany, 1880. Librarian Ernst Forsterman uses his extensive knowledge of mathematics to decipher the dots and symbols of a 12th century Maya text, known as the Dresden Codex. In doing so, he unlocks the secrets of the Maya calendar. The Maya have what's widely understood as the most sophisticated ancient calendar ever made. It involves so many different cycles. It's so sophisticated, in fact, that early scholars thought that the Maya were, as they called, esoteric time worshippers.

The Maya are very interested in the cycles of life. So a lot of their calendars were created to track those cycles and look for harmonies between cycles to better harmonize themselves with the natural world. This is Andrew Collins, author of Origins of Origins of Life. the gods. The long count calendar of the Maya lasted for 5,125 years. It was backdated to have begun in 3,114 BC, which meant that it actually ended on December 21st, 2012. And many of us will remember how it was believed that there was going to be a time of great transformation, possibly the end of the world. In 2012, over a thousand years after the fall of the Maya civilization, their calendar became known to people all around the world.

Many believed that the final date on the calendar was intended to mark an apocalyptic event. The idea that the Maya predicted the end of the world was really just a Western misunderstanding of how their calendar works and what they were using their calendar for. Westerners see time as a line. It goes back into the past and forward into the future, and we're the point in the middle. The Maya saw time as a cycle that kept going, like the hands of a clock. When it hit 12, it didn't just explode. It just went back around for another loop. So, Maya calendar systems were set up to be never-ending cycles.

While the Maya were exceptional at tracking time and observing the heavens, archaeologists were astounded when they discovered that this ancient culture was tracking what is known in astronomy as procession. Precession is the wobbling of the Earth on its axis, which changes the location of constellations in the night sky. It's actually a huge cycle that lasts 26,000 years. And the Maya, without a shadow of a doubt, were calculates. procession. They were able to say, back in the distant past, this planet would have been in that constellation. Scholars remain mystified as to how the Maya came to have such an advanced understanding of astronomy, mathematics, and timekeeping. And answers have been difficult to come by, since a large portion of the Maya's writing and artifacts have been lost or destroyed over the centuries.

Carolyn Whitehill, Ph.D. is a georeologist. There was a big cultural shift between about 900 and 1,200 AD. And one of the prevailing theories about the end of Maya civilization was that basically they tax their resources, that they created an unstable landscape that then lent itself to landslides, to fires, to floods. And that can lead to societal collapse. In the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Maya cities of the year. Yucatan Peninsula. They found the sites sparsely populated or even abandoned, with many structures

already in ruins. And while Spanish colonizers were the first Europeans to record their accounts of the Maya culture, they were also responsible for destroying much of the Maya's own history. When the Spanish showed up, they wanted to convert them to Christianity. Step one in that process is dividing them from their traditional wisdoms, and those were written in the books. So the Spanish on purpose burned every document they could find. They destroyed as much as they could. Today, we have four surviving books

that at least scholarship has been able to study and know about. There are probably more, almost certainly, hiding in the mountains in Guatemala and the Maya for good reason, Hide them. Have the secrets of the Maya and how they built such an advanced civilization more than a thousand years ago been lost forever? Ancient astronaut theorists suggest there are still answers to be found in the Maya texts that have survived, and there are accounts of powerful beings who came down from the sky. Los Angeles, California, October 18, 2022. The Getty Museum opens an exhibition displaying the oldest book ever described.

discovered in the Americas called the Maya Codex of Mexico. Like other Maya codices, the roughly 900-year-old text consists of illustrations and hieroglyphs written on tree bark pages that were bound together like a book. Here is David Childress, author of Technology of the Gods. The Mayans had hundreds, thousands of codexes that were describing the Mayan history and the gods and everything. that they wanted to write down. And four Mayan codices are known to exist and to have survived.

In addition to these manuscripts, archaeologists have found Maya hieroglyphs carved on temples that date to as early as the 3rd century BC. But since the great majority of the Maya codices have been lost or destroyed, scholars have only recently begun to decipher the ancient writing system. It's been a long process to translate Maya hieroglyphs and we're not done.

Experts estimate we've got maybe 80% of it translated and there are still glyphs that elude us. Here is Mesoamerican archaeologist David Cheetah. About 70 years ago, Maya archaeologists started to unravel the Maya hieroglyphic world. And by the 70s, the 80s, more and more of the language was understood in terms of its interface with the glyphs. As scholars slowly learned how to read Maya hieroglyphs, they discovered the codices contain richly illustrated astronomical charts, divination tables, and instructions for religious ceremonies.

But the most important story found in the codices is a historical record known as the Popul Vu. Their creation story is called Popul Vu. In its opening chapters outlined that the gods, which they call the makers and modelers, set up the world. But the story really centers around two boys, a pair of twins, they call the hero twins, Hunapu and Shibalanke. And they battle with the lords of death, and they make the world safe for creation, us, to occur. According to the story, after the hero twins have prepared the earth for humanity, they are followed by a larger pantheon of gods. Here is ancient astronaut theorist, Georgiosuclos. Their beginning of creation, and they have a date for it, is the 11th of August 3,114 BC.

The Popul Vu says that on that day, the road of the stars descended from the sky, and the gods, 13 of them, descended from the heavens down to Earth and imparted knowledge to the local population. While researchers have documented more than 250 Maya gods, the original pantheon of 13 beings taught the ancient Maya, agriculture, mathematics, and astronomy. The most prominent of all the Maya gods described in the Popul Vu is the flying serpent Ku Klukkulkan. Lofty thinking and knowledge was a gift from Kukulkan, who gave them sophistication, the art of speech, also mathematics. This is mythologist Pamela J. Smith.

Kukle Khan was the second deity in the Maya Pantheon, and the name means both wind and giver. You find Kugl Khan connected with a lot of the happenings in the sky, whether it's, you know, thunder, lightning, storms, rain. And his appearance was as a serpent, which is a very common symbol for, you know, thunder, lightning, storms, rain. which is a very common symbol for wisdom. What ancient astronaut theorists find particularly intriguing about Kukukon is that this god is not always depicted as a flying serpent, but is sometimes shown as a humanoid face emerging from the serpent's mouth. In my iconography, Kukukokan is shown as a serpentine being with a humanoid head that flies through the sky.

And it makes you wonder, what? What is going on here? It's very possible that it's some sort of a craft that is interpreted as a feathered serpent and a god being emerges from that craft and is a culture bearer. Kukul Khan looks like a snake shooting across the sky. If you look at a modern day plane,

that looks like a flying snake. If you don't have the vocabulary with which to describe the fuselage and the wings, for example. So of course we have stories of flying flying snakes because those were the best terms with which to describe what they witnessed. Is it possible that the gods described in the Maya writings were otherworldly visitors witnessed by their earliest ancestors as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? The first known Maya codices containing the Popul Vue date to the 16th century AD,

but archaeologists have clearly identified figures from the Polo Vue featured on Maya temples that are hundreds of years older. And ancient astronaut theorists suggest they provide further evidence of an extraterrestrial influence. Like the carvings found at the ruins of Kyrigua in Guatemala. What's interesting is that often repeated motif of what seems to be people in helmets. In Kyrgya, Guatemala, there is this helmeted person

sitting in what seems very, reminiscent of something technological in nature, what looks to be some type of a spacecraft. Perhaps the most extraordinary Maya depiction of a being that descended from the heavens can be found on a pyramid in the ancient city of Chechenitsa. Here is Eric von Danikin, author of Chariots of the Gods. The Maya said the guardians on the sky descended

and they showed it in their temples. For example, the temple of Chechenica, Every year, on March 21st, you can see the descending of God Kukul Khan, the feathered serpent coming down. The sun goes up and because of the astronomical orientation, because of the steps, you see a triangle shadow going down the step, the step exactly in the center of the pyramid. These discoveries support the Mayan legends

of how the god Itzama came down and gave knowledge of writing and books, While the feathered serpent, Kukul Khan came, and he gave them knowledge of astronomy and agriculture, it would seem that the core Maya knowledge came from these gods who were probably extraterrestrials. Could it be that stories of the Popul Voo aren't fictional mythology, but are, in fact, recorded history of ancient Maya interaction

with beings who descended from the sky? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a Maya city in Honduras that was literally built to reflect the cosmos. Copan, Honduras. This ancient site located deep in the jungle served as one of the most important city centers of the Maya civilization. At the peak of its power in the 7th century AD, the Kingdom of Copan had a population of at least 20,000 people and covered an area of over 100 square miles.

Copan is a classic Maya city that sits at the far eastern edge of the Maya world. Most of the Maya world is built out of limestone, and a lot of those limestone monuments have now melted. But Copan's sculpture, because it's in volcanic tuft, is beautiful. It's deep relief and still very visible. David Sedat is an archaeologist. The city of Copan is probably one of the longest. known and most investigated Maya city today.

These fantastic carved stones of Copan awoke the imagination and the mystery of this place. It was called the Athens of the Maya world. Among the most remarkable carvings discovered at Copan are the 15 stone statues known as Steele that connect the city's ancient rulers with the gods. The most fantastic part of Copan is the carved monuments which are carved in the round. They're not what we call planocon convex, like a slab with a low-relief carving. These are carved in a sort of Michelangelo way in the round, and they're absolutely fantastic. The most well-known of Copan Steele were built during the 36-year reign of the ruler,

Was Shakla-un-Ubacquil, better known by the nickname, 18 Rabbit. On one of the stele of Copan, 18 Rabbit, portrayed himself as the foremost patron god of Copan, the all-encompassing god, Chantei Ahao. And on the stele, he basically gives a dissipation on the cosmos. For all intents and purposes, 18 Rabbit is depicted like modern-day astronauts. You see tubes, you see weird boxes, you see weird canisters, and tanks, you see boots. It's stuff that looks more technological in origin.

And what's fascinating is that Ntikal in Guatemala, one of the steely shows this being with a tube that comes straight down in the front and then it goes to the left and it culminates in some sort of a tank, it all looks very technological in origin. It would seem that these gods of the ancient Maya were real physical,

physical beings. And they were interacting with the Mayans, giving them knowledge, and we're really instrumental in creating this advanced culture in Central America. Do the incredible ruins of Copan serve to commemorate the Maya's interactions with extraterrestrials? As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the answer is a resounding yes. And they suggest further evidence can be found by examining the artwork at another famous Maya site 400 miles to the northwest. Southern Mexico, 1949. Under a pyramid called the Temple of Inscriptions at the Ruins of Palincai, archaeologist Alberto Ruse-Louis

Louie discovers a mysterious underground stairway obstructed with large stones. Over the next three years, Ruse and his team carefully clear the stairwell consisting of 71 When the door at the base of the stairwell is finally open, they encounter room after room of skeletons and artifacts. And in the final room, they find the tomb of King Kinnich Janab Pekal. One of the best known and famous Maya Ahau, or royal lord, was Pekal who ruled in the 7th century AD. And he ruled for 68 years at this site, thus making him deluxe. him, the longest-lived ruler in the Americas that we know of. While Pekal became a famous leader during his lifetime,

today he remains one of the most well-known Maya kings because of the magnificence of his tomb and sarcophagus. The tomb of Pekal is one of the most amazing pieces of Maya art that we've ever found. On the top of the lid is a very elaborate carving that we believe is a depiction of Pekal, falling into the underworld upon his death. Although many historians and archaeologists interpret the carvings on Pekal's lid as the king's descent into the underworld,

ancient astronaut theorists suggest it depicts a very different type of journey. The sarcophagus of Lord Pekal forever will remain one of the smoking guns of the ancient astronaut theory. He is in a reclining position, he has a breathing apparatus attached to his nose, His hands are manipulating some buttons, and his feet are on pedals. It looks as if Pakal is lifting off into space inside some type of a rocket vehicle. As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the idea that King Pakal's sarcophagus lid depicts a journey to space is supported by Maya writing that surrounds the iconic carving.

Those Mayaglifts say that this is King Pakal's journey, to Gibalba. Gibalba means underworld. Well, archaeologists about 15 years ago revisited the term Gibalba and concluded that actually Gibalba can also be translated as Milky Way.

And all of a sudden, this depiction makes sense because what we have here is a representation of King Pekal on his journey to the Milky Way. Could it be that the carving on King Pekal's sarcophagus depicts the cockpit of a spacecraft? Do the artifacts of Palenke and Copan support the notion that the Maya did not just write stories about gods who came down from the sky, but had real encounters with otherworldly visitors? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and suggest further evidence can be found at the oldest Maya site ever discovered, a site that until the 20th century had remained hidden in the jungles of Guatemala for more than a thousand years.

The Mirador Basin, northern Guatemala, 1978. A team of American archaeologists launches a project to excavate a mysterious ancient site that has been discovered deep in the jungle. Called El Mirador, it features two gigantic pyramids, now known as El Tigray and La Danta. The Mirador Basin is very deep in the jungle. You can fly a plane over it, but you don't really see anything. Everything is covered in trees. So we assumed if humans were ever in there, they weren't building anything of substance. But as we got in on the ground and we could see from the bottom of the trees instead of on the top,

we realized that a lot of the things we mistaked for mountains were actually gigantic pyramids. Artwork carved on the pyramids at El Mirador identified them as belonging to the Maya. La Danta, the bigger of the two, is larger in volume than the great pyramid of Giza in Egypt. The Dante is not just a pyramid, it's a pyramid with pyramids on top of it. This is a massive structure that's rivaling or even bigger than any other known Maya temple complex. Research for the Mirador Archaeological Project, which ran from 1978, to 1983, were astonished to find such massive Maya structures in this remote jungle area. And it begged the question, could this be one of the oldest Maya sites ever discovered,

built at a time when the environment was more hospitable? The answer would be provided by archaeologist Richard Hansen, who was in charge of the Tigre complex in the western sector of the site. In March of 1979, Richard Hansen was excavating a room within a structure called the Jaguar Paw Temple. At the time, these structures were understood to be from what they call the classic Maya period, which dates from about 250 AD to 900 AD. And that's because archaeologists didn't think the Maya were capable of building large structures like this before that time. But Hansen came upon ceramic artifacts that he immediately recognized as Chicanoe, which means that these are artifacts from around 200 BC.

And of course, he was shocked. Richard Hansen himself said that he suddenly realized the whole evolutionary model for the Maya was wrong. And in that moment, he was the only person in the world who knew it. Since Hansen's discovery, other scientists, data has revealed that El Mirador dates to at least 600 BC and could be even older. This is long before the classic Maya era, which is the period when most archaeologists had believed the Maya started building monumental structures. The debate on how to subdivide Maya history has actually gone on for as long as we've been

studying the Maya. But for decades, there was a... understanding that before the classic period, they had more humble village-style living. It's in the last 50 years or so, including information from places like El Mirador, that we have as archaeologists come to both understand and appreciate the fact that a great civilization

actually predates the classic period. For ancient astronaut theorists, the discoveries at El Mirador support the idea that the Maya's stories of sky gods are in fact historical accounts of extraterrestrial visitation. The Maya said that they were in contact with the gods and that they were given this knowledge directly by these extraterrestrial beings. And what we have discovered is the pyramids that were constructed likely to honor these otherworldly beings. In 2003, 24 years after his first incredible discovery at El Mirador, Dr. Richard Hansen, got the opportunity to conduct a survey of a much larger area of the basin using a sophisticated

remote sensing method called LIDAR. Here is astrophysicist Travis Taylor and Fernandez Diaz, co-project leader at the National Center of Airborne Laser Mapping. LIDAR is a laser imaging detection and ranging device. It uses light in the same way a radar uses radio for detection and ranging. A compact system can be flown on a small airplane. In four to five hours we can map 200 square kilometers at really high resolution, something that will take years or decades for a ground crew to do using traditional techniques. Dr. Hansen spent nearly two decades performing his LIDAR survey,

and what he uncovered was that the pyramids of El Tigray and Ladanta provide only a small glimpse of what is hidden in the Mirador jungle. jungle. December 5th, 2022. 19 years into the vast LIDAR study of the Mirador Basin, Dr. Richard Hansen and his archaeological team announced their findings. Incredibly, LIDAR surveys covering the 1.6 million acres of the jungle have revealed nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including houses, palaces, and colossal pyramids. And they are believed to date back at least 3,000 years, long before the height of Maya civilization. These are some of the largest buildings that were ever made by the Maya.

Some of these buildings include things like bulkarts, temple structures, palace structures, residential compounds, plaza groups. It boggles the mind. What's amazing is we've found what seems to be an entire civilization that's rival of the Egyptian civilization. that the Mayans had built a long time ago we never knew were there. There are pyramids there that rival the pyramids in Egypt. The results of the Lidar study established the pre-classic Maya

as being just as advanced as other great early civilizations like the Egyptians and the Greeks. An archaeologists were astounded by how much the Maya built. The data revealed that hidden within the jungles of the Mirdor Basin are more than 110,000 ancient structures. Archaeologists realized that this area was at one time densely populated, and they built huge pyramid cities. There were hundreds of thousands, if not even millions,

of people living there. It's really awesome when we can go and find a city that's unknown to modern science. I mean, that's incredible. And for me, some of the really cool things, it's actually being able to see features that remind us that the Maya were just like you and I. And being able to see stuff like a market. I mean, we think about pyramids and like temples and stuff like that,

but finding some structures that archaeologists interpret to be a market where people came from different places to exchange goods and services. That's amazing. Dr. Hansen's LIDAR survey produced one incredible revelation after another. But for archaeologists, the most astonishing of all was an elaborate network of causeways, or elevated roads. El Mirador at these elevated causeways, superhighways, is the way the archaeologists described them,

and they were actually also covered with white plaster so that they would reflect the light of the moon so that then they could travel during the nighttime hours. These ancient Maya causeways are considered more sophisticated than those of other civilizations at the time, like the Greeks or the Romans. Due to the fact that they were elevated over many, miles.

The longest costway that we know is over 100 kilometers long. The largest portion of the crossway connect the site of Mirador to other sites. Some of these costways were the size of a four-lane highway. They are probably between two and five meters in elevation with relationship to the lowlands. So it was a massive undertaking. Name another city in 1000 BC that had elevated roadway. that are as wide as a four-lane highway. There is none.

The discoveries that continue to be made in the Mirador Basin are completely upending our understanding of the Maya and present new questions as to how this sophisticated culture emerged seemingly out of nowhere more than 3,000 years ago. What we have discovered right there is a lost chapter of human history

because they now have now determined that even a thousand years before the classical Maya period, they had an entire network of roads with buildings, with structures. I mean, my mind is blown because this is a complete rewriting of Maya history. We have a whole new scenario here. The evolutionary theory of how the Maya came along is wrong. It's completely upset by this discovery. How is it that the early Maya developed sophisticated cities and structures

at a time when it is thought that the entire North American continent was populated by primitive nomadic people? Could it be that the Maya creation story is, in fact, a historical account of extraterrestrial visitation? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and suggest further evidence can be found by examining the Maya's connection with the Pleiades Star Cluster. Located 400 light years from Earth near the constellation of Taurus is a star cluster known

as the Pleiades. It is commonly recognized as seven bright stars referred to as the Seven Sisters, but there are in fact around 3,000 stars in the Pleiades Star Cluster. This area of the night sky held great significance for the Maya civilization. The Maya themselves associate the celestial beings that had contact with their own ancestors with the Pliadist constellation. In more recent years, this has come through the work and the teachings of a writer and researcher by the name of Jose Arguelles, who during the 1970s spent a long time in the Maya lands, having his own

experiences talking to the Maya themselves and coming to the conclusion that the founders of the Maya civilization were in fact star beings that had come down in the distant parts that had given the Maya the knowledge and wisdom to create the foundations of their civilization. Could it be that the Maya identify the Pleiades as the home of the gods because this was told to their ancestors by ever extraterrestrial visitors. As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

that question was answered by the recent LIDAR studies at El Mirador. Because what they revealed is that, incredibly, the ancient structures of El Mirador appeared to have been intentionally positioned to mirror the seven brightest stars of the Pleiades. Some archaeologists have suggested that El Mirador is aligned with the Pleiades.

that the pyramids and other structures there are actually recreating the Pleiades star system on the grounds in the El Meredore base. In my opinion, those structures are calling cards of our visitors long ago. Does the layout of El Mirador provide the ultimate proof that Maya society was the product of extraterrestrial intervention? While ancient astronaut theorists find this possibility in terms, They believe even more profound discoveries are yet to be made. The things that we've actually been able to excavate is just a fraction,

a sub percent of what's actually out there to see. I can say with confidence that we have dug less than 1% of the Maya world. Even in cities we know well, like Palenke, for example, I made a map of Palenke. I mapped almost 1,500 buildings. We've excavated 33, and that's a well-known city. We have barely begun to scratch the surface of what's still remaining of ancient Maya society.

As a tourist or an archaeologist going into the Maya Lollins, it's quite remarkable to see pyramids sticking out of the canopy of the jungle, and you're tempted to think, well, wow, there must be thousands of sites that are remaining to be discovered. When we look at what is happening in Maya country now, it's a resurgence of civilization long lost, but that is truly among the most magnificent in all human history.

The modern Maya have to be incredibly proud of this. This is their lineage. This is their ancestors that built these magnificent cities that are now being unveiled and uncovered. I think what we're going to be finding here is some incredible new discoveries among the Maya, and it's ultimately going to point to the Pleiades and extraterrestrials as the ones that were the teachers of this civilization. Could the lost cities of the Mirador Basin that archaeologists are only now beginning to explore hold incredible new evidence about not only the Maya, but the origins of human civilization?

Are the jungles of Central America hiding the ultimate proof of ancient alien visitation? Perhaps as we continue to unravel the mysteries of the Maya, we will learn that their stories of sky gods are, in fact, historical accounts of our extraterrestrial past. All. Pay off your home, travel for life, drive a Ferrari. In celebration of the world premiere of the Monopoly Big Board Buckslot Machine by Aristocrat Gaming, Yamava Resort and Conceesuit. and San Manuel is giving one person a $1.6 million dream package. The biggest prize in Yamava's history. Club Serrano members can earn daily instant prizes and secure a spot in the finale May 29th.

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