The ancient Mayan people predicted that the world will end in 2012 and believed we are living in the fifth, and final, age of the sun. These mysterious beliefs are now being backed up by modern scientific findings - but how did these people living more than 1,000 years ago in the jungles of Central America come to possess such extraordinary insight? Where did this super-knowledge come from? Combining the skills of a private detective with the passion of Indiana Jones, Cotterel journeys to Palenque, to the tomb of the Mayan priest-king Lord Pacal, to discover the truth. The amazing conclusions he reaches have profound implications for us all.
This is one of those books where the author takes some concepts, takes them out of context and then applies a strange kind of non-earth logic to the whole thing. Entertaining to a degree but it's foundations are quite shaky. I must admit to mental glazing over parts because my brain was refusing to even come close to agreeing with what he was proposing.
I also found it interesting to see the commonalities between the divine and semi-divine heroes in world-myth, though I have a suspicion there are other wirters with more grounding in reality who actually have written better works.
If you're a Von Dankein fan you'll like this one.
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22 October, 2009:
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