AMERICAS

Archaeological findings have shown that there were earlier cultures than the Mayas throughout the Americas, notably the Aztecs in Mexico and the Olmecs in Central America.

Stone and rock carvings, pottery suggest that the ancient inhabitants of the Americas new almost every race in the world prior to 300 BC.

They were the mysterious, black-skinned Olmecs and the long-nosed (yet unnamed) white visitors.

Ancient carvings and depictions show battles between these races, perhaps explaining the mysterious disappearance of many of these cultures.

Aztec and Mayan legends speak of People with supernatural powers that have settled in the Americas and given scientific knowledge and culture to the natives. These People had names like Quetzalcoatl ("Feathered Snake") or Viracocha. These visitors who, apparently came from the East (Europe, Egypt?) arrived in America and helped the Natives build many monuments. They had traveled throughout the world and were notably wise.

Ancient Contacts in the Americas:

The Maya have memories of white gods, or heroes.

"Itzamna came across the ocean from the east. He was a teacher.

Later twenty men arrived, the chief of whom was called KolKolKan."

They all wore flowing robes and sandal shoes. Each had a long beard and their heads were bare. Kulkulcan, as he was also known, instructed the people in the arts.

A tribe immediately to the west of the Maya were visited by another white man, called Votan (Wotan? Odin?).

He taught the people how to cultivate maize and cotton and invented hieroglyphic signs. It is likely that the great white hero of the Mexicans, Quetzalcoatl (the feathered serpent) could have been Celt or Nordic.

A hoard of Roman coins has been discovered in Venezuela, and a Roman pottery head was found in Mexico, and dated for stylistic reasons to the second century AD

Botanists claim to have identified two of the plants depicted on a Roman fresco in Pompeii as an American fruit, the pineapple, and an American vegetable, a species of squash.

From the depths of the Well of Sacrifice at Chichen Itza, scuba divers have recovered a wood and wax doll, bearing the Roman script.

Elsewhere a stone sarcophagus was unearthed at Palenque by excavators who liken it in the style of the Phoenicians.

In 1966, a certain Manfred Metcalf obtained an inscribed stone in Georgia, now known as the Metcalf Stone.

It bears text very similar in nature to Cretan Linear A and B writing and is regarded by Cyrus Gordon in Manuscripts, 1969, Vol. XXI, No. 3, as probably an inventory.

A coin found in 1957 in a field near Phoenix City, Alabama, was identified as coming from Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, and dating from 490 BC

In 1976 an ancient coin was found in the town of Heavener, Oklahoma. It was identified as being made of bronze originally with a silver wash, now missing. It was struck in Antioch, Syria, 63 AD, and according to Dr. Barry Fell, "The profile is of Nero, with the Greek inscription saying 'Nero Caesar Augustus'."

In 1936, Dr Charles Elvers excavated a stone pendant or amulet in Gallo Canyon, New Mexico. It was pear-shaped, about three inches long with a hole at the top. On one side is the crowned figure of a man holding a crooked or serpent-like staff in his right hand, and seemingly climbing a slope while looking over his right shoulder. On the other side of the pendant is an inscription composed of an elephant head, a triangle, cross and circle, plus two six-pointed stars. These symbols or glyphs were commonly used in the archaic Sumerian linear scripts.

Early this century, Bernardo da Silva Ramos, was working in the Amazon jungle when he noted ancient scripts carved in stone. He found that they parallel the ancient writings of the Old World and compiled a catalogue of nearly 2000 scripts.

Jungle graffiti have been linked to the Semitic, Indus, Phoenician, and other peoples.

According to legend the first Inca, Manko-Kapak, appeared in Lake Titicaca and tradition held that the Incas were red or brown-haired an attribute unfamiliar to American Indians. Mummies discovered there confirm this fact.

Huge blocks of stone at Tiahuanaco were once held together by copper and even gold rivets. This was a method of building-construction almost identical to that used in Assyria and Eritrea thousands of years ago.

The tribes living around Lake Titicaca are called the Uru.The name immediately suggests Ut, which again is linked to the Sumerian civilisation.

The Incas practised mummification and placed metal discs in the mouth of a corpses. They built pyramids and obelisks, used cups, plates, spoons and goblets. For the Incas the rainbow was sacred. They carried their notables around in litters.

At a temple in Chavin, Peru, a system of air conduits carries fresh air to every room in the building. Similar systems have been discovered in Cretan, Roman and Celt houses.

Professor Marcel F Homet, an archaeologist from Algeria, visited the Amazon made amazing discoveries. From inscriptions found on the painted rock, the Pedra Pintada, Prof. Homet recorded symbols well known in the Old World, such as the swastika, the double axe, the spiral and also the sun symbol.

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