This is not a review of the entire monograph. My focus is on the
section dealing with mythological placenames rather than on the
historical-geographical ones. I'll admit right off that I have a
specific viewpoint to offer. In reading a review of this
monograph last week, I read that one of the mythological "sites"
identified by Stuart and Houston was deciphered as meaning
"black hole." I immediately thought of the dark-rift in the
Milky Way near the ecliptic in Sagittarius. As my recent work on
the astronomical alignment that occurs on the 13-baktun cycle
end-date shows, this dark-rift is precisely where the winter
solstice sun will be on the current era's end date in A.D. 2012.
I don't have time to thoroughly review this here; my recent
110-page monograph ( The Center of Mayan Time , March 1995)
explores this intriguing discovery with full documentation.
However, some of this work will necessarily be mentioned as we
progress. The dark-rift in the Milky Way is a significant
astronomical location whose mytholo