Atlantis, The Antediluvian World

epresentations of bearded men. How could the beard

ivilized races of Central Amer

Nahua family was Quetzalcoatl. T

rd. He wore a mitre on his head, and was dressed in a long white robe reaching to his feet, and covered with red crosses. In his hand he held a sickle. His habits were ascetic, he never married, was most chaste and pure in life, and is said to have endured penance in a neighboring mountain

and invented the Mexican calendar. He finally returned to the land in the East from which he came: leaving the America

says of the co

r. On the chapiters of the columns that support the portico, at the entrance of the castle in Chichen Itza, may be seen the carved figures

ent vase from Tula, we see a beard

ce that might be duplicated among

he sun sets, and it is there that we came; and in the direction of the setting sun there is another, where is the god; so that there are four Tulans; and it is where t

lace called Tulan and when they emigrated they called their first stopping-place o

rs of the great races that followed. According to Ixtlilxochitl, these people-which are conceded to be the ones who occupied th

ction of the "Popol Vuh," presents a very remarkable analogy between

fairs of the empire. Their descendants governed after them. The ten kings of Xibalba, who reigned (in couples) under Hun-Came and Vukub-Came (and who together constituted a grand council of the kingdom), certainly furnish curious points of comparison. And there is wanting neither a catastr

e. The early writers report that the natives believe their ancestors to have cros

er portion, 'the great descent,' came from the West. Cogolluda considers the Eastern colony to have been the larger.... The culture-hero Zamna, the author of all civilization in Yuca

fe, after wandering one hundred and four years, landed at Antlan, and pa

they named their first

origin back to an Aztlan (Atlan-tis). Duran describes Aztlan

animals used to crouch before him (domesticated animals); lakes and rivers became solid for him (boats and bridges); and he taught the use of agriculture and magic. Like him, Bochica, the great law-giver of the Muyscas,

MOUND,

o the time of the mammoth in North America, or these people held intercourse at some time in the past with races who possessed the elepha

ounds of earth representing differen

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representation of an elephant, that its builders must have been well acquainted with all the physical ch

quity," p. 530) for a picture of this singular object. It was found in a section where the ancient mounds were very abundant and rich in relics. The pipe is of sandstone, of t

lief of a priest. His elaborate head-dress or helmet represents very faithfully

many parts of the ancient ruins of Central America,

p. 313, I find a remarkable representation of an elephant,

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