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Book Review: The Book of Ancient Revelations

© Rose B. Glavas

"The Book of Ancient Revelations" certainly wasn't what I expected when I first got it. Going by the title I was expecting something along the lines of Nostradamus! (Alright, you can stop laughing now!)

Just because this book wasn't what I expected doesn't mean to say that I didn't enjoy it... I did. Anybody with an interest in historical artwork, myth, epic literature, astrology and geography and, of course, history, will get something out of this title.

Hugh Fox is one of the foremost authorities on pre-Columbian cultures, with over seventy books and hundreds of articles and stories published, including: "The Gods of the Cataclysm", "The Mythical Foundations of the Epic Genre: The Solar Voyage as the Hero's Journey", and "Stairway to the Sun". He has a Ph.D. in American Literature, and is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University.

Being an astrologer I was particularly interested in the author's journey in following the Sun around the globe until finding its resting place... the Tropic of Capricorn. He describes his journey like this:

".... I also knew (because I had done it before, in 1961), that if I began to follow the Sun south, across the curve of the earth, trying to get beneath it, so that it would be directly above me at the apex of the sky at noon during the winter, I would end up in Mexico City, I would end my journey at the Tropic of Capricorn, the northern House of the Sun, ...". p. 92

This particular passage caught my eye because in our age of computer simulations, program, etc, the average person has lost contact with the actual events that shape the perception of life. For example, as an astrologer I have a software package that tells me where the planets are in the sky at any particular moment. Although using this method to draw up a birth chart is probably much more technically accurate than going outside and looking at where they physically are, or calculating them manually, some of the magic and awe of nature is taken away by using modern methods of understanding the world around us.

Even though I don't feel qualified enough to rate this book, I am qualified to find it fascinating. The only problem I has with "The Book of Ancient Revelations" was figuring out how to pronounce some of the words - I feel this is important because the author was trying to link different words as part of his theory, and pronunciation is important as part of this.