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Marco Vigato: Forgotten Civilizations of Mexico

Earth Ancients

CHAPTER

The Paradox of Ancient Lost Civilization

There may be some symbolic reasons behind that which does not necessarily mean that these sites are 100,000 or 200,000 years old. It's almost like when you have for instance like most mosques even today they are all oriented towards Mecca. For a moment you assume you have no idea why your mosque is oriented as such then you probably come up with all kinds of different bodies that becomes a ritual orientation right for these sites. So how do you explain these apparent paradox of the fact that the further you go back in time it's not that things are getting simpler or more formative. Things are actually getting more complex as if what you're looking at is not a linear evolution but rather a descent

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