Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids

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Summary: Excellent reference on a broad spectrum of subjects
Review: This book covers about astrology, geodesic forces of energy on earth, the meaning of rituals in descriptive form, acheologic findings using also intuitive sciences, relates different cultures like the egipcian, atlantis, the people of mu, etc., Talks about the chakras, the dormant serpent This is a great book to read for the lay man as well for archeologists, historians, astrologists, phisicists or anybody intrigued by the ancient sciences and applications to the "new world." sinceramente; TM practitioner

Rating:
Summary: Excellent reference on a broad spectrum of subjects
Review: This book covers about astrology, geodesic forces of energy on earth, the meaning of rituals in descriptive form, acheologic findings using also intuitive sciences, relates different cultures like the egipcian, atlantis, the people of mu, etc., Talks about the chakras, the dormant serpent This is a great book to read for the lay man as well for archeologists, historians, astrologists, phisicists or anybody intrigued by the ancient sciences and applications to the "new world." sinceramente; TM practitioner

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Summary: Good Narrative of Historical Takes
Review: Tompkins starts with an introduction to the genocide of peoples and desecration of the ancient Mesoamerican cultural structures by the Spaniards before getting to a very readable romp about personalities who attempted to preserve or ripoff Teotihuacan and other archeaological sites. The book presents a good overview of this site, which unlike the Giza/Egyptian pyramid complexes was not treated to in depth technical study until the 1950s and later. Even now, large portions remain unexcavated. The later parts of the book delve into Atlantean connections, a natural link with the speculations of Augustus Le Plongeon and others who appear earlier in the text. While it is not directly a history of the Maya, Olmecs, Aztecs, or others, there is enough citation within the interesting sidenotes and extensive bibliography to take serious readers into the bowels of the beast as of the 1970s, when this was published. All in all, this is a very nice little treasure.

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Summary: An Excellent Text on Ancient Mexico
Review: Tompkins, in this book, shows the amazing relationship between points in the entire pyramid complex to points in the heavens, and their relationship to important calender days, with much of this being so amazing that it seems to be beyond the capabilties of even modern engineers. At the same time, he takes us on a walk through time from a period when everything about the Mexican Indians was held in the utmost scorn and neglect, to the slow discovery of its importance by increasingly enlightened scholars. However, its progress seems to have taken some bad turns because some of the more important discoveries were made by people who were interested in advancing theories of Atlantis and Mu, and so the rather stodgy and Eurocentic scholars in American university circles promptly threw the baby out with the bath water at the mere mention of these topics (kind of like another reviewer here did, who admits that he stopped reading the book before he could get past that subject - nothing quite like reviewing a book that you haven't read - no?) As a result of that, the fact that archeological finds that can be easily dated back some ten thousand years just sit on a shelf somewhere just because they got mentioned in the same paragraph as Atlantis and Mu.

Tompkins never did advocate the existence of Atlantis, by the way. He simply reported the historical fact that certain scholars who visited the pyramids attempted to associate them with that myth.

Besides the wealth of information about the true nature of the Pyramids, in terms of the astronomical and calender data that they contain - which I believe is not catalogued so thoroughly anywhere else - this book also contains a wealth of historical and comparative religion data - again compiled from a wide range of little known scholarship which Tompkins does not endorse or malign - he only cites it - scholarship which I don't think you will find in such a complete and far ranging setting anywhere else. This includes archeological evidence of visits from people from other continents and the evidence of their influence on the course of the development of mesoamerican culture and religion, and on the building of the pyramids themselves.

In short, I really recommend this book, and I admire the author greatly for his tremendous contribution to the understanding of not only the Mexican pyramids themselves, but of ancient Mexican culture itself.