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Did the Maya Depict the End of Atlantis at Tikal?

2/17/2014

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I have two somewhat silly topics for today. The first deals with a bizarre minor claim about the death of Atlantis, and the second is a funny bit of Templar nonsense.

The Mayan Atlantis Frieze
Yesterday the Humans Are Free conspiracy website published a new article reviving the claim that the lost city of Atlantis had been found off the coast of Cuba. This is the same website that this morning published an article by conspiracy radio host Dave Hodges interviewing conspiracy author Daniel Estulin about the “super-elite” Bildeberg Group purposely trashing the global economy to force poor people into the major cities in order to exterminate “90%” of humanity to make an all-rich paradise unsullied by the poor. So who exactly will be doing all of the service jobs for these rich people? And how will they still be rich when money has no value?

Anyway, back to Atlantis. Alexander Light rehashes claims from the past few years about an elaborate city, giant pyramids, and massive sphinxes off the Cuban coast, plagiarizing a 2012 article from Before It’s News that was itself rehashing material from 2001. It falsely claimed that the Cuban Missile Crisis was an effort to prevent the Soviets from finding Atlantis and that the pyramids of the “city” exactly match Plato’s description—that would be the same Plato who never wrote about any Atlantean pyramids. Anyhow, the claims are old news and were debunked back in 2012, when Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews of Bad Archaeology noted that the claims only regained popularity after they showed up on Ancient Aliens.

I don’t care much about this rehashing of old material per se, but I feel compelled to comment on the image Light chose to illustrate the story, something presented as a genuine piece of Mayan art from the city of Tikal. At face value it seems to depict a Mayan escaping a volcano. Note, too, the collapsing pyramid at left.
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Other sources routinely describe this as a “photograph” and as a depiction of the sinking of Atlantis. Some online speculators even try to identify the fish in the lower left corner with the coelacanth! Worse, others claimed last month that it was Freemason or Illuminati work!

You may wonder why you haven’t seen this piece of art all over the place since it’s apparently such a dramatic depiction of a volcanic eruption. Well, there’s a convenient explanation for that. Supposedly the piece was cut from atop a Maya temple at Tikal and shipped to Berlin where it was destroyed during World War II. That’s the story David Hatcher Childress tells in Lost Cities of Atlantis (1996) and Lost Cities of North and Central America (1992). Naturally, the only documentation of it is this single “photograph,” which I’m sure you recognize is almost certainly a drawing.

So where did the picture come from?

It was published in 1939 in Atlantis: Mother of Empires by Robert Stacy-Judd, an English architect best known for—wait for it—working in the Mayan Revival architectural style! An accomplished artist, he decorated his buildings with imaginative art in the style of the ancient Maya. His book was a merry mix of fact and fiction, and the illustration above was almost certainly created by him as a fictional depiction of the Atlantis he thought lay behind Maya civilization, drawing on the similar claims of Ignatius Donnelly and Augustus Le Plongeon.

The drawing appears as a plate opposite page 91 in the book (which was, of course, reprinted by David Hatcher Childress for Adventures Unlimited in 2007) with a caption describing it as a photograph of a bas-relief depicting the sinking of Atlantis. Stacy-Judd’s discussion in the body of the text gives more details. He starts by saying that the “photograph” is in his own private collection.
The picture was taken by Teobert Maler in a remote and at the time unknown spot deep in the jungles of Yucatan. Maler stated just prior to his death that the recorded scene was but a portion of a continuous frieze which surrounded the interior of an underground chamber.

Yes, conveniently, the image is not from one of Maler’s innumerable published works but is a secret image disclosed only in a proverbial deathbed confession. More conveniently, the location was unknown! Note for later that Stacy-Judd claims only that Maler took a photograph of the frieze underground and did not publish it. This will become important.
Stacy-Judd then debates whether the frieze depicts the Atlantis flood or the flood he believes caused the Maya to migrate to Mexico in the first centuries BCE before concluding: “Whatever the explanation, one thing is assured—they possessed positive knowledge not only of the Great Deluge but of numerous other events recorded in the Bible.” Yes, of course they’re in on Bible history. His source? He cites Ignatius Donnelly.

Teoberto Maler was an Austro-German explorer (and later a Mexican citizen) who traveled to Mexico with the Habsburg claimant to the Mexican throne, the Emperor Maximilian. After the fall of the Empire, he spent the most of his life documenting Maya ruins. The photograph Stacy-Judd attributes to him does not match Maler’s published photographs, nor does the drawing resemble Maler’s usual art style. For comparison, at right is a genuine Maler photograph of a bas-relief on a stela.
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As you can see, the composition, the use of light, etc. are all different. After reviewing hundreds of Maler’s photos, it’s apparent that the Stacy-Judd image lacks the fine-grain details of the stone work we’d expect to see in a real image. It’s too smooth, too lacking in granular detail. Instead, it is most similar to the romanticized drawings and paintings done by Catherwood. It contains elements not seen in typical Maya art, including the crumbling pyramid and the modern arrangement and use of perspective. Its lines are harder, squarer than typical Mayan art, but much in keeping with the Art Deco-inspired Mayan Revival style (also called Aztec Revival) favored by Stacy-Judd.

It’s a well-done drawing, but one almost certainly done by Stacy-Judd, not Teoberto Maler. Stacy-Judd had the artistic skill to pull it off as well as the well-documented interest in using Maya artistic conventions and themes in his own professional work. Until someone produces an original photograph—or better yet, the frieze itself—there is no reason to doubt this is a fake.

The claim that it was destroyed in World War II in Berlin I can trace back no farther than Childress, though he must have gotten the idea from somewhere. Did he notice that his claims contradicted those of Stacy-Judd’s 1939 book, which never said anything about the frieze leaving the Americas? The claim developed in an interesting direction, though. Frank Joseph, in Survivors of Atlantis (2004), among his other books repeating the same claims, called the frieze “the single most persuasive” piece of evidence that the Maya descended from the Atlanteans and asserts that it was found high up on the Central Acropolis at Tikal before the section was removed and sent to Vienna where it was displayed until the Soviets looted it in 1945. Joseph claimed that the frieze was the prized treasure of the Vienna “Voelkerkunde Museum” (Museum für Völkerkunde, now the Weltmuseum) until the Soviets looted it—all without ever producing a single record of its existence! How can it have caused a “sensation” in Vienna as Joseph claims without ever being mentioned in the Viennese press? (The actual Mexican artifacts from the museum are largely collections sent to Vienna by Dominik Bilimek and Philipp J. Becker, not Teoberto Maler.) He asserts in another book that Maler’s “copies” of the frieze are stored at the University of Pennsylvania. Without citing sources, Joseph claimed that the frieze caused Maler to abandon skepticism in favor of all-out belief—something not even Stacy-Judd attributed to the long-dead scholar.

This all seems to be a corruption of Childress’s 1992 claim that Maler shipped the entire frieze from the North Acropolis to Berlin where it was displayed until the Americans bombed the museum in World War II, probably based on Joseph’s obvious understanding that Maler was Austrian, that the North Acropolis frieze is still in Tikal, and that the Allies never bombed the Hofburg in Vienna, where the Austrian Mexican antiquities collection is housed.

This jumble of claims is quite confusing. Why would Maler, a Mexican citizen working for Harvard’s Peabody Museum, ship part (or all) of the frieze to Vienna? Had he found it during Maximilian’s reign, it would have gone to Mexico City; later, Maler had no connections with Vienna at all. Why are there no in-situ photographs, or even photographs from the half century it supposedly spent on display in Vienna? Why is there no museum record? The Habsburgs weren’t shy; they would have trumpeted an artifact that would be as sensational as the Babylonian account of the Flood that was the British Museum’s big sensation. Why does Joseph’s account disagree on every detail from that of Stacy-Judd, who had claimed that Maler took the photo in secret, that the frieze was underground, and that he confessed this only at the end of his life? Why does his account seem to be a Mad Libs version of Childress’s account?

The incident Joseph and Childress describe in varying forms seems to be a distortion of a real incident from the city of Yaxchilan, where Percival Maudslay cut down a lintel to ship to the British Museum. It was accidentally shipped to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, where it remained until it was destroyed during Allied bombings in World War II. We know this lintel wasn’t the alleged Atlantis frieze because a plaster cast still exists in London. This incident must have become attributed to Maler because he took over for Maudslay and also discussed the lintel in his Researches in the Central Portion of the Usumatsintla Valley (1903), in which he documented the city and its art. This incident has been conflated with Maler’s involvement with Tikal, which he explored with Carl Gustav Bernoulli, who had two carved wooden lintels shipped to yet another Völkerkunde Museum, this one in Switzerland. Finally, the University of Pennsylvania involvement must come from the fact that the school conducted the most extensive excavations as Tikal, in the 1950s, and therefore had copies of Maler’s published materials as archival records.
The Phantom’s Templar Treasure
This morning newspaper readers across the country learned the actual secret resting place of the lost treasures of the Knights Templar when the Media-Academic-Oreo Cookie conspiracy chose to reveal this information not via a cable television documentary but rather through a vaguely racist comic strip best known for introducing the superhero uniform of form-fitting full-body tights. That’s right, if you are one of the dwindling number of readers of The Phantom, you learned that the Knights Templar treasure is squirreled away in darkest Africa, where it is guarded by a white man who pretends to have supernatural powers and administers justice to the African natives.

Here’s the panel from today’s strip:
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You will of course recognize in this the latest derivation of Jean de Châlons’s “confession” under torture during the trials of the Templars in June of 1308:
Then he [Jean] said that, learning beforehand about this trouble, the leaders of the Order have fled, and he himself met Brother Gerard de Villiers leading fifty horses, and he heard it said that he had set out to sea with eighteen galleys, and Brother Hugues de Châlons fled with the whole treasury of Brother Hugues de Pairaud. When asked how he was able to keep this fact secret for so long, he responded that no one would have dared reveal it for anything, unless the Pope and the King had opened the way, for if it were known in the Order that anyone had spoken, he would at once be killed.

Registra Avenionensia 48, Benedicti XII, Book 1 (my trans.)

The Phantom is a problematic comic in that it emerges in the 1930s in a colonialist world, where indeed his first home was a European colony in the East Indies, where the natives were superstitious cannibals. While the Phantom was an American creation, the figure’s home was retroactively reconfigured as British India and then Britain’s east African colonies as the Empire retreated. In time, the Phantom’s fictional homeland of Bangalla (originally Bengali before the writers realized it was a real place) achieved independence. Nevertheless, despite changes to the character to reflect changes in society over the decades, the Phantom as a figure is still a colonialist and imperialist figure, a white man posing as a supernatural god and dispensing justice while accumulating untold wealth. There’s a very thoughtful essay about the Phantom and its complex relationship to colonialism here.

In other words, the Phantom is a perfect analogue for what many Templar theorists imagine of their knightly heroes after they allegedly came to the Americas and ruled over the natives and were worshiped as Great White Gods.

19 Comments
Pacal
2/17/2014 10:43:33 am

I remember seeing the so-called Mayan frieze "photo" decades ago and thinking at the time that it was a rather obvious fake. In fact it reminded me of an attempt to fuse together a Mayan style with a Central Mexican , (Aztec) style. As it is it is unlikely to be for real.

Thank you Jason for providing details of where this alleged "photo" came from. It is now abundantly clear that this "photo" can be given absolutely no credence. So the "founder" of this "photo" was a member of the Mayan revival school of art and there is the old death bed confession confection. no reason to take it even the slightest bit seriously.

I suspect that Stacy-Judd probably used in his Atlantis theorizing and the Maya the Mayan book of Popul-Vuh with its multiple creations and destructions . With some by fire and water. Then he says "Ah-Ha!", they must be talking about Atlantis. Well no.

As for the Phantom. That is certainly a perfect example of the "Great White God" mythos in popular culture. Sadly for the myth virtually every story about "Great White God(s)" disappears upon examination. Much like Thor Heyerdahl's blond and red haired Peruvian mummies. In fact the myth of "Great White God(s)" who were prophesized to return is basically a European myth and not a "native" myth at all.

As for the Templars we know what happened to the Templar treasure. Phillip IV, called "the fair", seized it in a series of raids in 1307. There was a kangaroo court of trials where under torture various Templars "confessed" to heresy and other crimes. They were almost certainly innocent. During all this Phillip IV made sure to seize the Templar's wealth through out France. For by then the Templars were a wealthy order and also bankers. Phillip IV pressed the Pope to dissolve the order, which it was. The suppression of the order in the rest of Europe involved trials and the seizure of the assets of the order. In 1314 Phillip IV had the head of the order, Jacques de Molay, burned alive as a relapsed heretic. There was no treasure of the Templars to hide away it had all been seized.

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2/18/2014 03:54:15 am

Sorry, Pacal. We don't know, but thats not what happened to that treasure. These people here said no one knows. That dumb Fair King killed people and took their properties and SOME money, but that treausure is NOT accounted like you said. Pacal. Sorry, that Rat King did NOT made sure to get every thing. He probly missed that main jackpot.

Pacal, That wealth got away, I believe. They took it with them and got away. This is possibly as the other way, where that Rat KIng got not that much hardly at all. You have to look for that proof either way. I believe Templars and wealth (most of treasure!) got away to some places, maybe more than two. Alot of them Templars got away from that Rat Kling! With $$$ in treasures is my best guess.

Well then forget Oak island to, to follow them Templars going west, fast, far further in-land to start over again right smak-dabbed in the middle of north America! (You guessed it.)

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Pacal
2/19/2014 04:49:42 am

Actually we do know that the Templar treasure is myth that has been circulating for centuries. It is a fantasy. Like most military orders and like the overwhelming majority of wealthy people at the time the Templar wealth was largely in lands and buildings. Phillip IV (the Fair), seized that throughout France and thus stole at the stroke the great majority of the wealth of the Order in the form of Land and buildings. Phillip IV was always cash poor and needed to seize the assets of the Order to improve his finances and to, supposedly, finance a Crusade. Phillip's attack on the Order was a complete surprise, so the Order didn't have much of a chance to hid anything and very few Templar members who were in France got away. Then Phillip IV tortured confession out of them and got them to confess to all sorts of crimes. By then any hidden treasures would have been confessed too. Phillip IV accountants took possession of a vast hall of coins, bullion and plate from the Templar's although that was small compared to their landed wealth These accountants kept careful records. I doubt much wealth escaped Phillip IV of the Templar fortune in France.

The idea of an immense Templar treasure is a fantasy based on little more than gossip and rumour. Stories flourished based on the obvious wealth of the order, that their "must" be some secret huge stash. That is the merest fantasy. It goes with all sort of other legends of fabulous hidden fortunes, like the "lost" Inca treasure.

The idea that the main wealth of the Templars escaped from France is a nice story but there is no evidence for it and lots of evidence of Phillip IV's seizure of Templar wealth. I suggest you read The Trial of the Templars by Malcolm Barber.

Antony Chavez
3/20/2018 10:20:55 am

Interesting conversation,.........so there is No Real Evidence of the Maya linked to the Ancient Civilization of Atlantis or Mu,....?

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Sean link
7/21/2023 11:48:01 am

..Could Really do without the Cultural Marxist opinions, Far left injections and SJW spin… Seriously, Can Anyone from this generation write anything without Politicization or crying “racism”..? Sadly, Current Academia has failed miserably, unless, of course, churning out nothing but pseudo intellectual trash and Radical T.D.S. Infected simps happens to be the new goal… Its So sad.
Seriously, This reads more like a 7”Single review of a punk band from a Communist Zine from the streets of Berkeley that a historical “clear up”/“Take”.
(When it comes to RUINING film, T.V., Sports, Politics, Academia and Life… It’s Always the National Socialist left..ALWAYS!)

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Mark E.
2/17/2014 11:09:56 am

Thanks Jason, your post fit in nicely with my day as I just returned from the Mayan exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Did not spot any depictions of Atlantis or ancient astronauts just for the record.

Wasn't aware of the Art Deco Mayan Revival, some of the architecture and art pieces I'm looking at pictures of are quite amazing.

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Martin R
2/17/2014 12:26:10 pm

Would you place Tarzan in the same category as The Phantom? He didn't guard treasure but appeared to have the same sway over the natives? Again, the white super being, acquiring powers the natives lacked.

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Jason Colavito link
2/17/2014 12:35:37 pm

Interesting question. Tarzan also has the opposite trope--going native--happening in his story. He is, of course, superior by dint of being European, but he is also the Wildman, the Noble Savage, turned white, representing the apparently inherent natural superiority of the European, even without the benefits of civilization.

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RLewis
2/18/2014 12:52:47 am

Anyone want to bring up the Lone Ranger and his sidekick Tonto? I wonder if there's ever been a study of white (super) heroes with non-white side kicks.

yakko
2/17/2014 05:02:45 pm

I'm no expert, but even I can tell that the photo is a piece of work by some modern artist trying to look Mesoamerican. The stylization is all wrong, and the guy rowing the boat just looks like some guy rowing some boat.

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Shane Sullivan
2/18/2014 05:14:52 am

"It contains elements not seen in typical Maya art, including the crumbling pyramid and the modern arrangement and use of perspective."

True. I don't know much about Maya art, so I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't mentioned it, but a quick Google search shows that, indeed, Maya art--and Mesoamerican art in general--has very little in the way of layered backgrounds.

Instead, I was sceptical from one because even if the frieze was real, if a volcanic eruption is all that is needed to prove the existence and mark the location of Atlantis, then there over a thousand Atlantisses (Atlanti?) in the world.

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william smith
2/23/2014 04:03:07 am

The photo of the Mayan stone freeze was studied in detail by myself when it was introduced to the THOR group in 2005. The copy we have on file is the one you show if it came from page 305 of (Mysteries of The Mexican Pyramids) by Peter Tompkins. Below the photo it stated it was by J.M. Valentine.
We also felt the photo looked like a drawing rather than an actual black and white photo, however we were more interested in the details of the photo rather than its likely fabrication. Especially the tool shown on the belt of the man in the boat and his checkerboard head dress.
We manufactured a tool which we call the Coba Dial and by actual use proved it had all the components to function as a navigational tool to measure longitude and latitude. Including the ability to adjust for the suns change in aperture during the year.
At a (AAAPF)conference in 2006 in upper Michigan Frank Joseph used this photo in his presentation of the lost Island of MU. After his presentation I told him he was showing the ship going the opposite direction from the so called original. Wayne May and Scott Wolter were also in attendance at this conference.
Additional research indicated their was a J.M Valentine that took or made the photo in 1397 from what was explained a German research team in Coba Mexico. The story of the Germans taking the actual stones back to Germany and they being lost in WWII was also told.
As far as this connecting to the Templars is way beyond belief in my opinion and another way to mislead the people watching the HC to connect this to ongoing bull shit.
As a tool for navigation to measure the sun at mid day for latitude and the position of the moon for longitude it is very functional based on the prototype we made. The head dress of checkerboard squares do plot on a world map to a common location in the Atlantic where we have plotted 38 other sun god symbols from various locations. (the center of this location is 26.4 degree N latitude and 65 degrees W longitude)
I am only an engineer interested in ancient mysteries and not an author, Other people may say the tool on the chiefs belt is a sea turtle shell with a cutting tool to remove the meat.
The Scott Wolter, Frank Joseph and many others have their opinions on early America mysteries, however most only provide a story of interest for the gullible. I find in many cases their opinion does not match mine. Some of my opinions have changed due to actual study of the subjects. Examples of my opinions are based on evidence rather than stories that fit the HC agenda. The Newport Tower is a smoke house for processing cod fish, (Supported by the artifacts found in the 1947/8 Godfrey dig) The mystery stone in N.H, is a lodestone from a compass (Supported by a compass found in N.Y. missing the stone and a like lodestone in Bermuda from admiral George Somers 1600 compass) The Kensington Rune Stone is older than the 1800s (based on the measurements of a mechanical wear line below the runic letters)
I know my research is very armature, however the team I took to Kansas City to address a rune stone is the only rune stone in America that is accepted as authentic by the State of MO and on file with them. It dates to after 1881 and tells the story of Arthur Slater's marriage. Had we not done this I am sure you would have seen it as a Templar connection on the HC.

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william smith
2/23/2014 01:54:09 pm

After I posted the follow-up on the Mayan Photo, I reread my words and realize the 1397 date for the valentine photo should have been 1937.

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mstower
7/7/2014 01:13:59 am

Reading around this topic, I’ve just now discovered Robert Stacy-Judd’s “Destruction of Atlantis” (1936):

http://mexicoart.org/2011/09/20/robert-stacy-judd-destruction-of-atlantis-1936/

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/09/pst-a-to-z-mexla-at-the-museum-of-latin-american-art.html

http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/4/lerner.php

Diehards will claim that the painting was inspired by the secret transmission from Maler.

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mstower
7/7/2014 01:53:18 am

It seems that this 1936 painting was used as the cover art of the 1939 book:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AmvrGw9OL.jpg

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william smith
7/7/2014 11:23:40 am

MSTower _ Thanks for the follow up on this post. If you are interested. Their was a photographor working with the Germans in Coba Mexico in 1936 and 1937. I did reproduce a replica of the tool on the belt of the man in the boat. The large turtle shell looking part has 30 windows if you double the count for the hidden side. It also is very similar to the sea turtle which has 28 tabs at the base. The square and small compass like parts of the tool are used to adjust for the time of the year as well as aim the longer leg toward the sun at mid day and read latitude. After latitude was measured at mid day the position of the moon would be identified in the tab or window. When the traveler left home he took a mid day lunar sighting and counted his days of travel. At a new longitude position he took another lunar reading and his new longitude would be the variance he observed on the base dial from his home recording after allowing 12 degrees for the moon to move each day. I have a patent application on file in 2006 for lunar navigation. This same practice was used at Stonehenge to read the mid day position of the moon to establish the new year. It is also a standard construction of the 64 medicine wheels in America. I do not believe in Atlantis, however I am convinced an island at the 26.4 latitude north and longitude 65 degrees west is a common point on the earth where ancients traveled from and recorded their voyages in the form of sun god symbols (checker board squares) on the top of Dolmans. I have 39 of these recordings on a world map which all have only one point on the earth in common to all.

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Damon
7/5/2015 06:02:05 pm

Thank you for the highly interesting articles.

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willaim smith
7/6/2015 01:45:15 am

Thank you Damon for your interest in my research and if you are from Oklahoma, I thank you for all the information relating to the Heavener stone. Since the posting of this information a lot of new findings have surfaced that add credibility to the authinticity of the subjects covered.

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David Jones
7/21/2015 02:32:14 am

Hello Jason,

Would you please tell me who holds the copyright for the picture of the Mayan rowing away from the volcano?

If you do not know could give me any leads in that direction?

Thanks so much for your help,
David

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