The name of Kali, one of the most prominent of Hindu goddesses, is seen in the Yucatan city named Culiakan ( a name which combines the names of Kali and Cain) and in the southern part of Turtle Island, that is North America, as well.  In the travels of De Soto described in Discoverers of America by Charles Norman, De Soto receives a letter describing a provence called Cale in what is now called Florida (a Cale exists to this day in Guatemala, home of Maya) and he and his troops march to a place called Caliquen, which may simply be a more northern transliteration of Culiacan to the south.  California, which was previously the possession of Mexico, contains the name of Cali or Kali.
 

   Kundalini is the name of a female vegetation goddess among the Aztecs.  Kundalini is an Aztec mother goddess in Mexico from the classical Mesoamerican period. She is the spirit of the earth in human form and responsible for the production of food from the earth. The earth is regarded as sacred by her, and not to be owned by any one person, but to be utilized for the entire community. She is regarded as the mother of vegetation deities. [ A Periphrasis of page 139, Encyclopedia of Gods, by Michael Jordan, Facts on File Books, Facts On File, Inc. 11 Penn Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10001].

  Students of Yoga know that the word Kundalini refers to the serpent power that travels up the chakras. Yoga was, tradition has it, the invention of Shiva.

 The twin kundalini serpents are powerfully portrayed in the statue of the beheaded Coatlique of the Yucatan. Out of her neck come two serpents, the Ida and Pingala serpents of the Kundalini power. Coatlique is Kali with the typical Aztec accretions of the t and the que sounds.  Adding the T sound to words was commonly done in the Yucatan: for example, Isa became Itzas and Isana became Itzamma.

     The name Kali is also used to name locales in Florida, the Carolinas, Mexico.  And once one understands that the vegetarian plumed serpent culture extended northward even to the serpent mounds of Adenas Ohio, as well as into Baja California, that Mexico once owned California, and that the Maya were a dominant people in the Yucatan, then one can more easily understand that the name of Cali of the Hindu and Maya pantheon is seen also in the naming of Cali-fornia.  Remembering that the Sabean/Vaisnava/Sakti religion was literally universal, here is a list of place and people names that show that universality:

   We see the profound influence of Cali's name in histories of the European invasion of Turtle Island, that is, North America, such as in Charles Norman's Discoverers of North America, which describes in Florida a province called Calles, and a place called Caliquen.  Coligua as well was a village in Florida. Pillars were erected to the main deity in Florida and in the area around Fort Caroline as well in the Yucatan.  The totem pole and the carved posts of the natives are themselves but a plant based variation on what was done in stone in the serpent garlanded columns of the Yucatan. In both places they signified the kundalini power of Sui va or Zuiva, both of which names are easily seen as transliterations of Shiva.

     Sui va was also addressed as Itzamma, an obvious transliteration of Isana, and well as Itzas, which is a transliteration of Isa.  Shiva, like his consort Parvati,  was like other Hindu deities, addressed by numerous names. Culiacan, a well known city in Mexico during the European invasion of their area, combines Kali's name with that of Cain or Can.  The Cali in California, a state once owned by Mexico, home of the Maya, is derived from this female Deity.

   Frank Waters in Mexico Mystique lets us know that the Plumed Serpent culture was well known in Turtle Island, i.e. North America, as well as in the Yucatan, and that its influence can be seen also farther north in the Adenas Serpent Mound in Ohio.  The Plumed Serpent is also a symbol found in Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma, and in Baja California, which has a 16 foot long rock painting of the Plumed Serpent.  One must always be reminded, because we have been taught such a distorted view of the religious history of the Yucatan by our JudeoChristian culture, that the Plumed Serpent Culture was one which forbid animal sacrifices as well as human sacrifices, and which was therefore overthrown by an Aztec culture which practiced both. The teocallis were the temples of sacrifice of the Aztecs.  And Chichilticalli means Red House in Aztec.  The influence of India was not only pervasive in the Eastern hemisphere, but in the Western hemisphere as well, as is affirmed by Matlock, by scholars of India, as well as by Theosophist historians.
 

        Zuiva means seven to the Maya just as sabbath, saba, Sheba and Shiva mean seven among the Hebrews.  Zuiva is the Lord of Seven Worlds. Tulan-Zuiva means the "seven caves."  Tola is a Hebrew name mentioned in Gen. 46: 13, Nu. 26: 23, Judges, 10: 1, and 1 Chron. 7: 1-2.

     The "kopavi" among the Hopis is the open door chakra at the top of the head in the Hopi chakra system, which has only five centers, instead of seven like the Hindu system.  The top chakra in the Hindu system like the kopavi of the Hopis is the center through which the spirit goes to divinity.  There is a female goddess named Kundalini among the ancient Aztec Deities.  One may add the conjecture that the Yamaka worn at the top of the head is a dim reminder of that seventh chakra, just as the seven minora candles are reminders of the seven chakra system.  The Yamaka no doubt derived its name from Yama, the god of death among the Hindus.

   The Serpent Mounds of Ohio by the Adenas has been linked by Frank Waters, author of Book of the Hopi, to the plumed serpent cult of Mesoamerica. A native woman named Rita Laws from Oklahoma now (I believe) says that indigenous people have been stereotyped as carnivorous hunters when in fact many were vegetarian.  The Otomi in Mexico and the natives of Villacambamba, Ecuador are primarily vegetarian, though I've heard that U.S. fast foods have successfully infiltrated the latter area.
 
 

     Kali Yuga of the Hindus corresponds to the Mayan beginning of this age of 5200 years. Hindu kalpas and yugas correspond to the eras of Nahuatl and Mayan mythology. Waters remarks on the similarity of Hindu, Mayan and Jewish time tables regarding ages. Various stone stelae are of course simply variations of the stone pillars to Shiva. The fact that many of the columns in the Yucatan are garlanded with serpents reinforces the Shiva imagery and the kundalini power iconography that attends the Hindu Buddhist Way. Mandala imagery representing the four quarters of the Earth, typically Buddhist, is found throughout Mayan art. The Blowing on the Conch imagery of the Mayans is typically Hindu, Kana or Krishna being the conch blower. Serpent imagery pervades south and middle America, as do the imagery of bulls and elephants neither of which lived in those areas in ancient times, but both of which are part of the Hindu, now Maya-Hindu iconography. Sometimes the serpents are paired just as they are in the ida-pingala imagery of the chakras used by Hindus and Buddhists.
 

   The western hemisphere was a place where Hindus mined for copper, silver and gold, but it was also a dumping ground for their undesirables, the carnivorous and cannibalistic element that worshipped the terrible aspects of Kali and Shiva, in contrast to the mainstream Hindus who saw Kali and Shiva as destroyers of evil, and in their function of destruction as the creators of new cycles.  The Aztecs named their temples of sacrifice Teocallis. The Aztecs also chased Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent, out of Tolan. Some versions of the account say that Quetzalcoatl and the Maya abandoned their Mayan cities. The Maya expect the coming of Quetzalcoatl, just as other natives in Meso and South America expect Viracocha, much as Hindus expect Kalki, Buddhists Maitreya, Jews their Messiah, Muslims the Imam and Christians Jesus.
 

    Hawaiku is a place in the southwest U.S. named after Hawaii where Cain was known as Kane, agriculturist, who brought new plants and seeds to Hawaii, and as a deity who inspired a devotion in the Hawaiians and Polynesians that has been muted and suppressed by the Christian conquest of the Hawaiians but which has not entirely died out. Hawaii received its name no doubt from Cain who named it after his mother Eve, which is Hawwah or havvah in ancient Hebrew, and which relates to the hovah in Jehovah. The seemingly ubiquitous Cain or Cain lineage was there in the Yucatan as well, as we can see from the numerous cities which bear remnants of his name.  The British Isles knew Cali as Calleach. Many indigenous people of Turtle Island, North America, were devotees of the Plumed Serpent, whom the oral indigenous traditions portray as one who forbid animal sacrifices as well as human sacrifices.
 

   I advise the reader to go to Viewzone.com. and the nationalist Hindu sites, Sword of Truth, and Hinduism Today as well as to Theosophical writers on the internet, who is their glossaries and articles have articles that relate to ancient Sabean and Hindu history in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.  The Edgar Cayce readings on the migrations from Atlantis to the Yucatan and Egypt may be found in Edgar Cayce on Atlantis, or by searching A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment) on the net.

   The culture of the Maya is one of the wonders of the world. And though there is an abundance of historical information showing that the ancient Hindus travelled to the western hemisphere, there is also evidence that the ancestors of the Maya were another group who escaped Atlantis before the deluge. Therefore, the name of the goddess Maya could just as well have had an indigenous source from those who arrived from Atlantis.

   A greater matter is at issue here, namely, the fact that ancient civilizations of both the Western and Eastern hemispheres derived their impetus from those who arrived from Atlantis.
Moreover, since there is abundant and growing evidence for vegetarianism having been the "original diet" of these civilizations, there is good reason to understand that the fall of Atlantis, said by Plato via Solon to have occurred because of the "mingling with mortality," had to do with the eating of other creatures. Carnivorism is precisely "mingling with mortality." This is the reason Isaias gives for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. And this is one of the reasons Enoch (in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch) gives for the Deluge. The matter is simple. The Creator desired all creatures to live peacefully together--and they did not. Instead, they killed other beings and ate them. The Book of the Hopi says that all creatures lived peacefully together in the beginning.  Frank Waters' material in the above book as well as in his Mexico Mystique collaborates this view, though Waters himself does not deal with the topic of diet as such.