For the Aymara people living in the Andes, the past lies ahead and the future lies behind. Perhaps the way to release the tension from the apparent differences in viewing time would be to have the Aymaran people cheerfully viewing their times past with their eyes in the fronts of their heads, while...
I'd rather see that view as a spiral (imagine an infinite bedspring), because it is not the same worlds that is re-created, but looking at the spiral from its bottom or top, it appears circular. Which would be in effect the same as a linear view of time (albeit spiralling around an axis)—unless you...