Despite the tragic attempts by the early christian church to snuff out any trace of the "works of the devil," Mayan literature today is experiencing a renaissance. The Mayan's literature is considered some of the oldest in the world, reaching way back, thousands of years before the arrival of the colonial Spanish. Dennis Tedlock--ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author posits a view of the Mayans which is much different than most commonly perceived. Tedlock has presented his findings, after years of living with and studying the Mayans, in a new book entitled: "2000 Years of Mayan Literature."
In 1976 Robert Temple wrote the Sirius Mystery, a revolutionary view of the Dogon tribe folowing a line of study started in the 30's by the French anthropologist Marcel Griaule. It is purported that the mysterious Dogon people, inhabitants of the central plateau region of Mali, have passed down knowledge from ancient times regarding the star Sirius.
The macrocosmos, the outer cosmic limits of the conceivable space around us, is comprised of the same microscopic forces as those found deep within the subatomic realm. That is to say also, that everything in space including ourselves, exists as a coagulation of the same force. Atomic theory. Further, the forces that hold the microscopic together, unexplainable to this day, are the same forces that expand and contract the universe.
The Great Year as its called by the hopi indians, is also called a Platonic year or Equinoctial cycle. One Equinoctial cycle is about 26,000 years long, we won't be seeing one in our lifetimes. In fact we won't see one in the lifetime of the United States, or even the English language for that matter. This great cycle is the longest period of time measurable by man; accurately.
Scientists speculate the distance of nearby stars and galaxies, they speculate the age of rock formations and plankton fields, but this span of time is no speculation. The great cycle is measurable, though tricky due the the nature of the elliptic. The great year is a repetitive cycle, and all other cycles of earth fall within its framework.
Despite the tragic attempts by the early christian church to snuff out any trace of the "works of the devil," Mayan literature today is experiencing a renaissance. The Mayan's literature is considered some of the oldest in the world, reaching way back, thousands of years before the arrival of the colonial Spanish. Dennis Tedlock--ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author posits a view of the Mayans which is much different than most commonly perceived. Tedlock has presented his findings, after years of living with and studying the Mayans, in a new book entitled: "
In 1976 Robert Temple wrote the Sirius Mystery, a revolutionary view of the Dogon tribe folowing a line of study started in the 30's by the French anthropologist Marcel Griaule. It is purported that the mysterious Dogon people, inhabitants of the central plateau region of Mali, have passed down knowledge from ancient times regarding the star Sirius.
The macrocosmos, the outer cosmic limits of the conceivable space around us, is comprised of the same microscopic forces as those found deep within the subatomic realm. That is to say also, that everything in space including ourselves, exists as a coagulation of the same force. Atomic theory. Further, the forces that hold the microscopic together, unexplainable to this day, are the same forces that expand and contract the universe. 
The Great Year as its called by the hopi indians, is also called a Platonic year or Equinoctial cycle. One Equinoctial cycle is about 26,000 years long, we won't be seeing one in our lifetimes. In fact we won't see one in the lifetime of the United States, or even the English language for that matter. This great cycle is the longest period of time measurable by man; accurately.
