Tony Shearer (born Fred Anthony Shearer October 27, 1926,

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, d. May 2002) was an American Mayanism proponent and

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author. His work contributed to the modern popularization of syncretic beliefs based on Maya calendrics and the purported significance of dates in August 1987 and December 2012. Shearer withdrew from a promising career in conventional

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in the 1960s in order to investigate the

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, leading him to research and experience beliefs and practices of

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s, both ancient and modern.

Publications

*''Lord of the Dawn: Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent of Mexico'', 1971 **''Lord of the Dawn : Quetzalcoatl and the tree of life'', 1995 reprint *''The Story as Told'', co-authored with Jalil Mahmoudi and Massood Mahmoudi, 1973 *''Beneath the Moon and Under the Sun: A Poetic Reappraisal of the Sacred Calendar and the Prophecies of Ancient Mexico'', 1975 *''The Praying Flute: Song of the Earth Mother: A Bald Mountain Story'', children's book published 1975, 1988, 1991, 2004 *''The Sacred Calendar of Quetzalcoatl'', 1976 *''Spirit Song'', 1981 *''Boy and Tree and Poetic Myth'', 1993

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