Back to Future !?

When we think of time we consider it to be a progression towards future events. We think of the future as being ahead of us, and the past as being behind us. How strange is it then that researchers studying the Aymara people in South America have found that they have a concept of time opposite to the rest of us, so that the past lies ahead of them and the future behind. "The Aymara case is the first documented to depart from the standard model [of time]," said one researcher. For the study, anthropologists collected about 20 hours of conversations with Aymara people. The Aymara language recruits "nayra," the basic word for "eye," "front" or "sight," to mean "past" and "qhipa," the basic word for "back" or "behind," to mean ''future." Thus the expression "nayra mara" - which means "last year" - can be literally translated as "front year". They also refer to the future by thumbing or waving over their shoulders and swept forward with their hands and arms for now or the near past and farther out, to the full extent of the arm for ancient times.
from paranormalmagazine