The pyramids of Tikal, like all ancient ruins, have passed through the stream of time to the present moment as a reminder of when and why they were built. They stand as messages etched in some of the hardest and strongest materials found on earth to whichever society or culture shares the same space after the original builders have long passed on. Their most powerful ability, depending on the perceptions of the societies and cultures of course, is the ability to confirm the existence of time travel. Each placed stone, each strike of the tool, or utterance of a specific harmonic frequency by the builders, was a reach forward in time of hundreds, even thousands of years. The commonly held notion of time is that it is something that happens to us, beyond our use as a tool, outside of our perceptions as a sense such as taste or smell. The act of building, or more generally creating, is a way of reaching forward, using time as a tool, to communicate and inform those who will come after you, who, with the right motivation and inspiration, can be counted on to use the gifts bestowed on them by those who came before them.
