The Great Year
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Actor: James Earl Jones, Walter CruttendenBrand: Victor
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 46 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: The Yuga Project
Movie Reviews of The Great Year
Movie Review: A Good Addition to the "Paleo-civilisation" discourse
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good, concise film, propounding a revolutionary concept that the Sun is a member of a binary star system, and that the Earth was host to previously unknown advanced civilisations outside the pale of known history (otherwise known among "alternative" theoreticians as "paleocivilisations") - and that the binary star system's cycle is responsible for the rise and fall of these various Human civilisational epochs. That is a matter related to eschatology or "doomsday study". The makers of this film base their assumptions on the ancient Hindu tradition of the Ages of Man, Plato's similar concept of the "Great Year", and numerous other similar traditions worldwide - most being based on, or found to be derived from the 26000 year cycle of the precession of our planet's axis of rotation. Although the film presents all this somewhat optimistic and simplistically, there may be more to this approach than what the sceptic is inclined to think impulsively. I rate this film at five stars because of its revolutionary nature. But it is plagued by several discrepancies, in ignoring masses of other, albeit fragmented evidence available, regarding paleocivilisational issues. This is obscure "specialist" evidence, and is too numerous to detail here within this space. After all, it is the quest of all scholars in every field of endeavour to create a "grand unified theory" of their subject, so as to assemble diverse evidence into a coherent whole. And what we have available regarding the murky issues of paleocivilisations and related phenomena such as the ancient gods of myth and scripture, aliens, UFOs, fairies, angels, Atlantis and the Pyramids is very plentiful both physically and philosophically. It just needs clearing up and assembling. The film is also vague on source material to substantiate its conclusions. Moreover the main basis for its conclusions, the Hindu Yug(or "Yuga")concept of different human epochs of existence, is open to diverse interpretation: classical Vedic scholars interpret the Kal Yug (or "Kali Yuga" - Dark Age) as being 432,000 years long; the makers of this film estimate it at being around a more reasonable 2400 years or so. But this is still a great difference. Also ommitted here in their list of ages is the classical Vedic Age of Brahma, in which the entire universe is destroyed and then recreated - first as a lotus that then opens to reveal Brahma - the Hindu Supreme deity, who then proceeds to recreate everything. However, there are certain Hindu authorities on eschatology whose views are similar to those propounded in the film, but they reach conclusions that agree with other important sources of information that contradict this film's theory, and which its makers have overlooked. N.S.Rajaram, an Indian author who studied the sacred traditions of the legendary Hindu mystic scholar Ved Vyas, estimates the Kal Yug to have begun in 3012 B.C and to have ended around 1999. That is around 5100 years. Ved Vyas was said to have been born at around this time. This date coincides with the Mayan Calendrical cycle that holds our (present) human era of the "Fourth Sun" to have begun on August 12, 3114 B.C precise - which will end in seven years' time on 21 December 2012. 3100 B.C is also the time when mankind's known, recorded, history is officially agreed upon by all the world's authorities, to have inexplicably begun: the "sudden" appearance of the Sumerian civilisation, the first true human civilisation, followed quickly by the dramatic rise of Dynastic Egypt and the Mohenjodaro-Harappa Indus valley urban culture of India, and a few years hundred later by the first Chinese "heavenly kingdom". This period is also referred to by some as the Adamic Age. In other words, the age that Ved Vyas told us began as the Dark Age is universally recognised as all of history, all that we or science know about us being civilised beings: there is no known trace of human civilisation prior to it except in "improbable" myths and legends such as those of Biblical Eden and Atlantis to mention but just two. Yet all these myths have so strong an impact on humanity's collective cultural psyche, as to be sacred. So the question needs addressing as to whether all our history so far has been that of a dark age only, or not, in the light of this plausible cyclic theory. But I also don't think that these cycles come or go with the clockwork regularity as the film would have us believe. The evidence to the contrary is too much. The makers of the film imply that the Sun's binary "twin" affects the civilisational changes, but don't tell us how other than that it causes the precesssional "wobble". They don't tell us how this wobble affects civilisation, other than causing the symbolic movement of the spring equinox. This neat theory, while having its merits, also doesn't take into account sudden/irregular catastrophic civilisational changes, such as those from asteroid and cometary strikes or shifting movements of the Earth's crust.
Summary of The Great Year
Just as the Earth?s spin on its axis causes day and night and it?s annual orbit around the Sun is responsible for the ongoing cycle of the seasons, what if there is some greater celestial cycle, lasting thousands of years, slowly influencing the rise and fall of civilization across the globe?To many ancient cultures, the answers lie in the stars. In their view, time moved in a cyclical pattern, with human civilization and consciousness rising and falling as great ages came and went. Vedic scholars spoke of the Yuga Cycle, a great circular progression of ages; and Plato taught of a large cycle of time which would slowly return us to a "Golden Age". He called this cycle: The Great Year.
The Great Year investigates commonalities in these beliefs and looks back into time seeking answers to questions that still loom over science today. How far back do humankind?s roots really go? What did the ancients know about the stars and their movements and what can we learn from them? How was the Precession of the Equinox, the slow progression of the stars across the sky over thousands of years, used to mark the rise and fall of these great ages by the ancients? Many cultures spoke of an unseen sun driving Precession and causing the cycle of this Great Year. Could there be an unseen companion to our Sun? The Great Year examines this theory and finds that perhaps these ancients were really onto something!
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