The Great Year - The Galactic Equinox and the Myths of Ancient Civilizations

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To many ancient cultures, the answers lie in the stars. In their view, time and civilization did not progress ever forward in a strict linear path, but moved in a cyclical pattern, with human civilization and consciousness rising and falling as great ages came and went. To the ancient Mayans, we are entering the time of the Fifth Sun; Hindu and Vedic scholars spoke of the Yuga Cycle a great circular progression of ages; and in ancient Greece, Plato taught of a large cycle of time which would slowly return us to a "Golden Age". He called this cycle: The Great Year.

The Great Year investigates the common thread in these beliefs and looks back into time seeking answers to the questions that still loom over science today. How far back into history do humankind's roots really go? What did the ancients know about the stars and their movements and what can we learn from them? Why was the "Precession of the Equinox" universally revered? Many of these cultures spoke of an unseen sun that drives this movement of the stars across the sky over thousands of years and causes great ages to rise and fall. Could there be an unseen binary partner to our Sun? The Great Year examines this theory and finds growing scientific evidence to support it.

This provocative film, narrated by James Earl Jones, is accompanied by 18 minutes of animation and a moving original musical score. The message behind the film may be the beginning of a whole new way to look at time and history, and just might set off a new scientific movement to find our Sun's binary companion.


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Vincent Monroe's picture

Hands down this is one of my

Hands down this is one of my all time favorite videos on Enlightenment Network. This video nails it as far as the Precession of the Equinox is concerned, which is a vital concept to understand for 2012 studies.

Carla Kaiser's picture

This is one of my favorites.

This is one of my favorites. It really helped me understand HOW the ancient people could have known all that stuff. I love it.

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