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jamesd1628 · 03-25-2008, 05:37 PM

I read a book recently called “Lost Star of Myth and Time” that discussed the Mayan calendar quite a bit (here’s the Amazon link: Amazon.com: Lost Star of Myth and Time: Walter Cruttenden: Books). The theory of the book is that the human population is far older than currently believed, stretching back hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years. The book also argues that, in addition to the cycles of the day (one rotation of earth on its axis) and the year (one revolution of the earth around the sun), our solar system is subject to one other cycle caused by our sun’s interaction with another star (or some other object, such as a black hole) in a binary system (which are apparently far more common in the universe than non-binary systems). Not saying I buy this theory, but the book sites a great deal of very interesting sources to support it. Essentially, the book argues that it takes approximately 25,000 years, give or take, for our sun to complete its rotation around this other sun/black hole. The period is referred to as the Great Year. There is a lot of historical information about the Great Year in many old texts, etc. The Great Year is then broken down into small periods of around 5,000-6,000 years (I can’t remember exactly). The author believes that the Mayan calendar reflects these small periods within the Great Year. Thus, the 2012 year reflects not the end of time, but the end of the current period and the beginning of the next period of the Great Year. A previous poster mentioned the ages of Pisces, Aquarius, etc. Those, too, are supposedly based on this Great Year. There was a lot more to the book, which was quite interesting. As noted, not sure I buy the theory, but definitely some interesting reading. It also explains why ancient cultures, such as the Mayans, had such incredible knowledge of things like astronomy and other sciences.

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jamesd1628 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 723	I read a book recently called “Lost Star of Myth and Time” that discussed the Mayan calendar quite a bit (here’s the Amazon link: Amazon.com: Lost Star of Myth and Time: Walter Cruttenden: Books). The theory of the book is that the human population is far older than currently believed, stretching back hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years. The book also argues that, in addition to the cycles of the day (one rotation of earth on its axis) and the year (one revolution of the earth around the sun), our solar system is subject to one other cycle caused by our sun’s interaction with another star (or some other object, such as a black hole) in a binary system (which are apparently far more common in the universe than non-binary systems). Not saying I buy this theory, but the book sites a great deal of very interesting sources to support it. Essentially, the book argues that it takes approximately 25,000 years, give or take, for our sun to complete its rotation around this other sun/black hole. The period is referred to as the Great Year. There is a lot of historical information about the Great Year in many old texts, etc. The Great Year is then broken down into small periods of around 5,000-6,000 years (I can’t remember exactly). The author believes that the Mayan calendar reflects these small periods within the Great Year. Thus, the 2012 year reflects not the end of time, but the end of the current period and the beginning of the next period of the Great Year. A previous poster mentioned the ages of Pisces, Aquarius, etc. Those, too, are supposedly based on this Great Year. There was a lot more to the book, which was quite interesting. As noted, not sure I buy the theory, but definitely some interesting reading. It also explains why ancient cultures, such as the Mayans, had such incredible knowledge of things like astronomy and other sciences.