The Story of the Maya Sorcerer at the Edgar Cayce Forum Tomorrow

My talk at the Edgar Cayce Forum tomorrow, Wednesday, September 29th, 7:30 p.m., at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, will also include a snippet of a videotaped interview with a Maya man describing the story told to him by his mother, told to her by her father, about the Sorcerer who built the Pyramid of the Sorcerer in Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico..

Come to the Edgar Cayce Forum tomorrow night for the The Yucatan Connection to Atlantis and Lemuria Using Cayce Clues and Mythology and hear Santiago Dominguez recount the story of his ancestors.

Warrior Statue at Kabah in Yucatan

The Mayan ruin of Kabah is on the Puuc Route in southern Yucatan close to the famous ruin of Uxmal. The Puuc Route encompasses a number of interrelated ruins.

Warrior Statue at Kabah Mayan Ruin in Yucatan

Chichen Itza land sold to Yucatan

The archeological site of Chichen Itza:

The Archeological Site of Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico during a nighttime sound and light show

The land under the Chichen Itza ruins used to be privately owned until this year. However, as this online article at Art Daily recounts, the owner Hans Jurgen Thies Barbachano sold the 205, 067 acres for $17,800,150 US on March 29, 2010 to the State of Yucatan, Mexico.

Quetzalcoatl, Kukulcan or Itzamna?

I’m doing research for my talk at the Edgar Cayce Forum, THE YUCATAN CONNECTION TO ATLANTIS AND LEMURIA USING CAYCE CLUES AND MYTHOLOGY on September 29th at 7:30 p.m. at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

The myth of the creator god Itzamna interests me. But, who was Itzamna? He sounds similar to Kukulcan who is supposed to be the Maya version of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent. But is he?

Directional Colors the same in Aztecs, Navajos and Pueblos.

According to Frank Waters in Mexico Mystique, the four colors of the four directions of the Mexican Aztecs are the same colors allocated to the four directions as the Native American indigenous cultures of the Navajos and Pueblos. They are: East = White; South = Blue; West = Yellow-red; North = Black.

Interestingly, three of these four directional colors are the same as the ones used by the Tibetan Buddhists and the Hindus, who ascribe Red (not Yellow-red) to West and Yellow to North.

Science Fiction Writers can also be good scientists

In talking about L. Taylor Hansen yesterday, I implied that since she made her living writing science fiction, her He Walked the Americas must be fiction as well. The book is about a white-skinned, bearded man, Christ-like, who traveled throughout North America educating the people before the arrival of the Europeans. In Maya legend, he was called Itzamna.

Yes, I know that Itzamna is a god of the Maya. But, did L. Taylor Hansen merely taken known legends, such as that of Itzamna, and merely fabricate fictionary tales of serpent boats, lightning bolt carvings, and granite handprints.

Because she was a science fiction writer did it mean that all her writing was fiction?

Not necessarily so. Overnight, I thought of Sir Arthur C. Clarke who, as scientist, was first to conceive of a system of satellites in geostationary orbits that could be used for communication as well as weather reporting and prediction.

Arthur C. Clark was also a prolific science fiction writer who wrote the screenplay of the magnificent 2001: A Space Odyssey.

He Walked the Americas: Science Fiction or True Native Legends?

This is a hard one. Is the book, He Walked the Americas by L. Taylor Hansen researched anthropological fact based on Native legends or is it merely cleverly-crafted fiction?

I’m reading He Walked the Americas by L. Taylor Hansen in preparation for my September 29th talk, THE YUCATAN CONNECTION TO ATLANTIS AND LEMURIA USING CAYCE CLUES AND MYTHOLOGY for the Edgar Cayce Forum in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

However, as fascinating as the stories in the book appear, there are details that seem absolutely outlandish such as that this Pale Faced Prophet knelt to pray. The rendition of the Lord’s Prayer, Native American-style seems concocted rather than a true translation from a Native American tongue.

Therefore, I did a Google search to see if I could find a biography of L. Taylor Hansen and discovered that she made her living as a science fiction writer. Therefore, could it be that He Walked the Americas a cleverly crafted science fiction novel a la Michael Crichton’s Congo?

I also went to Amazon’s listing of the book to see if I could come across research by other readers and discovered that a reviewer that gave the book a one-star rating had contacted Stanford University and discovered that L. Taylor Hansen had never been a student there as her biography on the back of the book says.

In addition, her own Amazon review (posthumously posted on Amazon from her autobiographical memoir) says that she went to University of California at Los Angeles, went to a northern dog-sled adventure and then returned to school, I assume to Stanford but she does not say in her own autobiography. Did she, or did she not go to Stanford?

These are just some of the confusing details that make me wonder if her book is science fiction rather than actual anthropological research.

The book sure did get me excited that the Natives of the Americas had recollections of Atlantis (“the Old Red Land“) in their traditions. But, like I said, it might all be fiction.

Yucatan Travel Movie Preview Loop almost finished

Still working on the Yucatan Travel Movie Preview Loop that I will play continuously at my table during upcoming book fairs.

“Atlantis and Lemuria in Yucatan” Movie Will Be Next

I am looking forward to starting my next movie which will be on searching for clues of travelers from the lost city of Atlantis and the lost continent of Lemuria Mu in Yucatan.

Book Fair Yucatan Travel Movie Preview Loop

I have a couple of book fairs scheduled in the autumn. Therefore, today I worked on a video preview that loops around so I can have it playing continually on my laptop during the book fair. In that way, people walking by can get a glimpse of the Yucatan Travel Movie.