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Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids

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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.

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.

Unlike his book "Mysteries of the Egyptian Pyramids" Tompkins spends the first half of this book reviewing Conquest and Post Conquest history of Mexico without giving more information on the subject matter. The first half of the book hardly mentions Teotihuacan at all. Only chapters 16 and 17 get into Teotihuacan proper and then the rest of the book goes to speculation in the remaining chapters about the mathematical significance of measurements taken at Teotihuacan and tries to weave the city into Tompkins personal theories of Atlantis. I love history and read the first half of the book without a problem while waiting for any information on Teotihuacan. The last half of the book I couldn't finish as it got bogged down trying to link the builders of Teotihuacan with Atlantis. If you want information on Teotihuacan then this is not the book for you

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

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.

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.