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The Venus Calendar Observatory at Aztec New Mexico
Between the 10th and 14th century's AD a grand civilization developed in what are now the 4 corners of the USA, encompassing approximately 10,000 square miles. Many scholars have studied this "Chaco Phenomena" and have ascertained that there was great influence from cultures of the South in what is now Mexico and Guatemala. Parrots, Macaws, cacao certain iconography and burial effects found in the Chaco Domain are consistent with materials mentioned in the Mayan Popol Vuh describing specific attributes of Ahauship (kingship) in Meso-America. These items have been found within the Chaco Domain. Implicit in the above is the use of Meso-American calendrics, which eluded scholars until recently....
The Bountiful Loch
This is Alan MacGillivray's second collection of poems. It has a more political slant than Kindly Clouds, with several poems reflecting on issues of the day, e.g., Iraq, Scottish concerns, etc. The centrepiece of the collection is a series of monologues by a rapacious and opinionated seagull who has travelled widely and observed the world with a cynical eye, delivering his judgements on all and sundry with a resounding splat. Crowlin Press is the imprint created and used by Alan MacGillivray for the publication of his poetry and prose writings.
An Altitude Within
An Altitude Within is Alan MacGillivray's fourth poetry publication. It brings together most of the poems of his previous pamphlets, Kindly Clouds and The Bountiful Loch, together with his more recent unpublished work. The collection reveals a poet whose approach is eclectic and adventurous in subjects and forms, ranging widely, and frequently humorously, through history and the contemporary world, moving out from his home territory of Scotland with its current concerns of individuality and identity to survey the wider world in its cultural variety and environmental fragility. Alan MacGillivray is of Highland parentage but was brought up in Dumfries in the Scottish Borders. He taught English...
Collected Verse 2001-2021
This new collection brings together poems that have already been published, others drawn from pamphlets, and two previously unpublished works.
Sipapuni
...SIPAPUNI a Hopi word meaning place of emergence, from where we all came! The sacred conch sounds and the Great Vision Serpent appears taking the reader on a magical journey through the phantasmagoric universe of indigenous peoples of the Americas. Through time, space, spirit, architecture and ceremony we examine a new understanding of the ancient city of TeotihuacA n and the Tzolkin and their relationship to the Chaco Domain. How harmonic architecture reveals the knowledge of passive solar technology a thousand years ago among Puebloan peoples We imagine studying Astronomy through the eyes of the ancient stargazers and interpret ancient constellations on the Piedra Del Sol of the Aztecs. ...
A History of the Clan Macgillivray
"The MacGillivrays were drawn to...Nova Scotia and Glengarry County in Upper Canada now called Southern Ontario...in the early 1790s." Includes family history in Scotland, and discusses some descendants in the United States.
