Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids [Paperback]

Peter Tompkins (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 444 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins (April 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060913665
• ISBN-13: 978-0060913663
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #862,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Most Important Book, August 13, 2006

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ZANZIBAR "Hotep" (Diaspora) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids (Paperback)

Peter Tompkins in this most valuable work takes you inside Ancient Mesoamerica and the archaeology done in the Yucatan by none other than Augustus Le Plongeon forerunner to the Churchward brothers, Col.Churchward and brother Albert all high degree Freemasons. This book opens up so many revelations a few paragraphs of review would not do it proper justice, get the book. Tompkins covers the theories of the Chuchwards, Edgar Cayce, Augustus Le Plongeon, Leopoldo Batres, and Don Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora.

The Olmec and Mayan cultures are covered extensively. Much of Tompkins work has been dissmissed by scholarly academia, but I think this book as well as his treatise on "Obelisks" ground breaking. This book clarifies a Canaanite-Phoenician-Carthaginian-Olmec-Moor connection. Profusely illustrated throughout this book gives you a feeling of being right there. There is a very interesting picture of Montezuma wearing an apron with a human head affixed. The title is a bit missleading, for the book is about much more than that. Part V will give the reader a scientific analysis and mathematical extrapolation of the pyramid paradigm. This book is one of the best on Mesoamerican culture and lore.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting book about history of M. pyramid discovery, January 21, 1998

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This review is from: Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids (Paperback)

Really fun book to read, specailly the chapter about prehistoric origins of Maya. Recommend it to those who are curious about who and how the mexican pyramids were discovered.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Text on Ancient Mexico, February 6, 2004

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Edward B. Holman (Presidio, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids (Hardcover)

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.