Movie Description:
Just as the Earth`s spin on its axis causes day and night and our planet`s annual orbit around the Sun is responsible for the ongoing cycle of theseasons, what if there is some greater celestial cycle, lasting thousands of years, slowly influencing the rise and fall ofcivilization across the globe?Where is the evidence? What could be thecause? To many ancient cultures, the answers lie in the stars. In their view, timemoved in a cyclical pattern, with human civilization and consciousness rising and falling as great ages came and went.To the ancient Mayans, we are enteringthe time of the Fifth Sun; Hindu and Vedic scholars spoke ofthe Yuga Cycle, a great circular progression of ages; and in Ancient Greece, Plato taught of alarge cycle of time which wouldslowly return us to a "Golden Age". He called this cycle: TheGreat Year. The Great Year investigates the common thread inthese beliefs and looks back into time seeking answers to the questions that still loom overscience today. How far back into history do humankind`s rootsreally go? What did the ancients know about the stars and their movements and what can we learn from them? How was thePrecession of the Equinox, the slowprogression of the stars acrossthe sky over thousands of years, used to mark the rise and fall of these great ages bythe ancients? Many cultures spoke of anunseen sun that drives Precession and causes the cycle of this Great Year. Could there be an unseen binary partner to our Sun? The Great Year examines thistheory and finds that perhaps these ancients were really onto something!
