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Skywatchers : A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico |
Author: Anthony F. Aveni
Published: 2001-08-15 |
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 A Landmark Book
This is one of my favorite books. I am a writer and happened to stumble onto this amazing book while researching Velikovsky, the current failed comet model, earth changes and much more. Aveni produced this fine scholarly work on the central american archaeological sites. I was blown away when I realized from this source that the grid axes of nearly all of the ancient meso american sites are skewed to the east. Aveni didn't grok on the reason but his reliable data is invaluable. And the reason? The ruins are much much older than the so called experts claim -- and date to before the last crustal shift which probably occurred at the close of the last ice age -- around 9500 BC. Thereabouts. The ruins, in other words, were once oriented N-S just like the pyramids of Giza today -- but when the crust moved so did the temples.
Aveni's analysis of the Berlin Codex is also a treasure. Amazingly, the Codex includes an authentic Mayan ephemeris of Venus -- and it is telling. Aveni is puzzled by it -- and wonders how these Mayans (whose calendar was accurate to how many decimal points -- and yet they) couldn't manage to record the stations of Venus accurately. Aveni doesn't get it -- but his translation and analysis is nonetheless a tremendous contribution. Of course the Mayans did record the stations accurately. They recorded what they saw: namely, a planet (Venus) that was in an extremely elliptical orbit. (Venus today has an almost perfectly circular orbit.) Velikovsky was right. Venus was then a comet in the process of being captured by the sun. And this confirmatory evidence - which Velikovsky did not know about -- has been lying around since 1980 when this book was published -- and no one (except for me) has even noticed.
Aveni's scholarship is second to none. The book is a gem.
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