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General Forum >> [I]Manitou[/I] author passes--James Mavor, Jr.
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[I]Manitou[/I] author passes--James Mavor, Jr. |
Aluta
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|  Posted 05-09-2006 at 00:38
James W. Mavor, Jr., only surviving author of Manitou, the influential book on U. S. sacred landscape, died Tuesday. Mavor was also author of Voyage to Atlantis, a book proposing that the Aegean island Thera was the site of the legendary Atlantis.
For many people interested in the thousands of enigmatic stone sites in the northeastern United States, the book Manitou, The Sacred Landscape of New England's Native Civilization, written by Mavor and his associate Byron Dix (who passed some years ago), was the catalyst for a new understanding of the sites and of the nature of spirituality among some of North America's indigenous people. It is still the primary reference recommended for anyone interested in the topic of the stonework sites.
Mavor's began to study archaeoastronomy after reading Alexander Thom. It was only while excavating stonework sites that he and Dix began to suspect that native peoples rather than mysterious travelers from overseas were the originators of the sites, an idea that revolutionised their study. With Mavor's passing, the hope that a full account of their historic experiences together may one day be written receives a grave blow.
We honor his passing.
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| Posted 05-09-2006 at 00:41
I don't know how to edit the title. Sorry!
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