Author's Note |
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Foreword |
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PART I: INTRODUCTION |
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Ancient Astronomy and the Roots of Science |
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Our Debt to the Babylonian Astronomers |
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10 | (3) |
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13 | (6) |
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Time and the Pyramid: The Legacy of Egypt |
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19 | (5) |
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Sky Visions, Ancient and Modern |
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24 | (9) |
PART II: THE SKY AND THE STONES |
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33 | (9) |
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33 | (1) |
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A Golden Age or a ``Menacing World''? |
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34 | (6) |
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The Geometry of Stone Circles |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (8) |
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42 | (4) |
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46 | (4) |
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Death and the Sun in Ancient Britain |
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50 | (11) |
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Newgrange: The Sun Reborn |
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50 | (3) |
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53 | (4) |
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The Cairn of the Ancestors |
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57 | (4) |
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The Moon and the Megaliths |
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61 | (13) |
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61 | (2) |
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Moon Rites in Ancient Scotland |
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63 | (4) |
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Did They Predict Eclipses? |
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67 | (7) |
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The Riddle of the Fairy Stone |
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74 | (10) |
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The Great Broken Stone of Brittany |
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74 | (3) |
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Cows, Stones, and Sex: The Meaning of the Breton Megaliths |
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77 | (7) |
PART III: THE SKY PRIESTS OF NORTH AMERICA |
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The Hunters and the Heavens |
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84 | (12) |
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84 | (4) |
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Who Were the First Americans? |
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88 | (4) |
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92 | (4) |
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The Counting of the Moons |
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96 | (14) |
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96 | (5) |
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The Moon Calendars of North America |
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101 | (4) |
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The Pawnee, Star People of the Plains |
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105 | (5) |
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``Crystals in the Sky'': The Astronomy of the Chumash |
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110 | (15) |
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The Chumash, Californian Artists and Astronomers |
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110 | (4) |
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A Power Struggle in the Cosmos |
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114 | (6) |
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120 | (5) |
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The Sun Priests of the Southwest |
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125 | (16) |
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125 | (2) |
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``The Ways of Our Fathers'' |
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127 | (6) |
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The Year of the Hopi: ``Bound Up in Time'' |
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133 | (3) |
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Hopi Priests and Planters |
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136 | (5) |
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The Astronomy of the ``Old Ones'' |
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141 | (24) |
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The Star, the Moon, and the Sacred Hand |
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141 | (4) |
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The Sun Towers of Hovenweep |
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145 | (2) |
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Daggers of Light: The Sun Shrine Discoveries |
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147 | (9) |
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156 | (4) |
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The Fate of the ``Old Ones'' |
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160 | (5) |
PART IV: SKYWATCHERS OF THE TROPICS: THE ANCIENT AND MODERN MAYA |
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165 | (21) |
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165 | (5) |
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Sun Lines in Ancient Peru |
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170 | (6) |
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Conquest and the Calendar |
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176 | (5) |
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Seeking the Tropic: The Carved Circles of Mexico |
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181 | (5) |
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The Hidden Lines of Uxmal |
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186 | (8) |
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186 | (4) |
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190 | (4) |
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Beans and Crystals: The Rites of the Modern Maya |
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194 | (10) |
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194 | (4) |
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198 | (3) |
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The Sun Stones of the Maya |
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201 | (3) |
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204 | (15) |
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204 | (4) |
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In the Jaws of the Sky Dragon |
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208 | (3) |
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211 | (5) |
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Mayan Myths and ``Magic Numbers'' |
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216 | (3) |
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Prophecy and Precision: The Written Evidence for Mayan Astronomy |
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219 | (15) |
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219 | (2) |
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Mayan Methods of Prediction |
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221 | (3) |
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The Super-number of Venus |
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224 | (2) |
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226 | (8) |
PART V: CONCLUSION |
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From the Maya to the Megaliths |
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234 | (17) |
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Were There ``Wise Men'' in Wessex? |
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234 | (5) |
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239 | (3) |
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Chiefs, Priests, and Calendars |
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242 | (3) |
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245 | (6) |
Glossary |
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251 | (6) |
Bibliography |
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Sources of Quotations |
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269 | (3) |
Photo Credits |
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272 | (1) |
Index |
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