Different notions of time between peoples bear a hardly noticed potential of conflicts concerning social relations. particularly politics. The “cyclical” experience contrasts the “linear” advance in the antagonistic understanding of the complex and therefore often failing dialogues between the “Third” and the “First” Worlds. The dimension of time is being presented against the historical background as an important fact in political decisions, from the antiques with its myths up to the modem science-orientated times. The intercultural examples reach from Egypt to Mexico, especially focussing on Latin America and those societies being interwoven in their metaphysical bonds.
