--- In [email protected], "John" <jr_esq@...> wrote: > > This is a very interesting documentary about the Mayan's > technology for keeping time. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P7MaGCyuwk&feature=related
I rarely look at these things, because I'm just not on "The ancients knew more than we do" bus, and I didn't watch this clip, either. However, it being posted reminded me of a fascinating film that used to be hard to find (you could only get it on DVD from the filmmakers or at the gift shop at Chaco Canyon itself), but which, after a quick search, I discover is now on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFRQfPQCic0 Narrated by and partially funded by Robert Redford, this is a great film about one of the most spectacular historical sites on the planet, and certainly the most spectacular in North America, Chaco Canyon. I've been there many times. There are buildings there larger than the Colusseum in Rome, built in an ares in which few of the building materials could be found. The Anasazi ruled an area that encompassed 95,000 square miles in the American Southwest. They were the Romans of the North American continent. And then one day (literally, in a historical sense), they just went away. Where, how, and why are still a mystery. In the film, they use computer modeling to show that the Anasazi were so hip to the movement of the stars and planets that the whole complex can be legitimately be seen as an enormous computer, just as Stonehenge can. That said, the Anasazi were kinda on the dark side; modern-day Peublo Indians won't even go there, and consider their ancestors the Anasazi almost black magicians. I certainly felt some darker vibes in some of the sites there at Chaco, but in others what I felt while meditating there was shiny and high, and to me supports the film's theory that this was a place not for dwelling in full-time, but a place of pilgrimage to which tens of thousands of Anasazi would travel at times of power (Solstices, Equinoxes, eclipses, etc.) to revere power. Enjoy. If you liked the clip about the Mayans, you'll like this one about their more Northern counterparts.
