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accurate. Light year A unit of measure to indicate the distance that light travel in one year's time. Light travels at 186,000 miles in a second, and 5,865,696,000,000 miles in a year. Lotus position A sitting position where the individual crosses the legs in a certain way during meditation. Lyra The home of the human race that populated Earth. Lyra is a star constellation. Madagascar A large island located off the southwest coast of Africa. This area has the same mysterious effects as the Bermuda triangle. Mayan Calendar An ancient prophetic calendar left by a race of people called Mayans who lived in central Mexico. Their predictions have been preserved down through the ages on what is called the Mayan calendar. The Pleiadians believe that the information on this calendar is very Mecca Located on the Red Sea, this town is the spiritual capital of the Muslim empire. Every day millions of Muslims get down on their knees and face the city of Mecca and say their prayers. Milky Way A name given to the galaxy that we live in. If you look up in the sky on a clear night towards the direction of the center of our galaxy, you can see millions of stars that appear in a milky, cloud-like formation, which has led to the name The Milky Way. Milona The ancient ancestors of Lyra founded colonies on three planets in our solar system: Earth, Mars, and Milona, a planet that was in orbit past Mars. A violent war destroyed Milona, and all that is left is the debris that we now call the asteroid belt.