According to the Phoenicians, the art of writing was invented by Taautus, known to the Egyptians as Thoth, or "the first Hermes." This figure is associated with Maia, a daughter of Atlas, and the Maya of Central America (Baldwin's "Prehistoric Nations," p.
Surprisingly, Central America had its own phonetic alphabet, as demonstrated by the Maya alphabet.
Evidence points to a Copper Age in America, particularly around Lake Superior, where ancient mines suggest extensive copper extraction long before the development of bronze.
Cultural and Technological Connections: Many European Bronze Age artifacts share designs and motifs with those found in America, such as the spiral patterns and specific forms of tools and weapons.
Its geographical position and described capabilities in trade and metallurgy align with the archaeological findings in Europe and the Americas.
The civilization and influence of Atlantis extended to Europe, Africa, and America.
The Atlanteans resided on a large island surrounded by smaller islands, forming a network towards Europe, Africa, the West Indies, and America.
For instance, the Western world's use of domestic cattle and major cereals, which were not indigenous to America, implies a closer historical connection between Atlantis and Europe.
The Atlantean civilization's influence extended to Europe, Africa, and America, shaping the development of subsequent cultures.
The Iron Age in America also predates European contact.
in the great temple at Mitzla, 'the City of the Moon,' in Ojaaca, Central America.
When the Spanish missionaries first set foot upon the soil of America, in the fifteenth century, they were amazed to find the Cross was as devoutly worshipped by the red Indians as by themselves, and were in doubt whether to ascribe the fact to the pious labors of St.
well as that of the rain-deities respectively of the mixed population in America.
"In Egypt, Assyria, and Britain it was emblematical of creative power and eternity; in India, China, and Scandinavia, of heaven and immortality; in the two Americas, of rejuvenescence and freedom from physical suffering; while in both hemispheres it was the common symbol of the resurrection, or 'the sign of the life to come;' and, finally, in all heathen communities, without exception, it was the emphatic type, the sole enduring evidence, of the Divine Unity.
And not only do we find this tradition of the Garden of Eden in the Old World, but it meets us also among the civilized races of America.
Squier, in his "Notes on Central America," p.
Were not the pyramids of Egypt and America imitations of similar structures in Atlantis?
Why should these extraordinary structures crop out on the banks of the Nile, and amid the forests and plains of America?
There is also some reason to believe that perfect pyramids have been found in America.
In both America and Egypt the pyramids were used as places of sepulture; and it is a remarkable fact that the system of earthworks and mounds, kindred to the pyramids, is found even in England.
There can be no doubt that the pyramid was a developed and perfected mound, and that the parent form of these curious structures is to be found in Silsbury Hill, and in the mounds of earth of Central America and the Mississippi Valley.
The Lord ordered him to people America.
He had been preceded in America by two others, Igh and Imox.
He built a great city in America called “Nachan,” City of the Serpents … from his own race, which was named Chan, a serpent.
The Chiapenese are the people of Chiapas in Central America.
He is ordered to people America.
The custom of skull deformation was not limited to the Americas:
Central American Skulls: Heads from Palenque monuments indicate a natural receding forehead characteristic among the ancient people of Central America.
Lund discovered ancient human skulls with excessive deformation, indicating a long-standing practice in South America.
After his time in the Americas, he supposedly returned to the East by sea.
These images could indicate either that the monuments date back to when mammoths roamed North America or that there was contact with civilizations familiar with elephants.
The existence of an Atlan city in Darien, Central America, supports this connection, and Plato's account names Atlas, the son of Poseidon, as the namesake of Atlantis and the Atlantic Ocean.
Plato's description of the Atlantic geography, including the islands beyond Atlantis and the surrounding continent, suggests knowledge of the Americas.
The idea of a "real sea" contrasting with the Mediterranean aligns with the vast Atlantic Ocean and the surrounding landmasses of the Americas, knowledge that seems unlikely for Plato to have guessed without some historical basis.
The Carians, ancient navigators and pirates of the Mediterranean, share a name and cultural similarities with the Caribs of the West Indies and Central America.
In America, the notion that all Indians are "red men" of the same hue is incorrect.
In America, the original population included red, white, black, and yellow men.
Désiré Charnay, and others, this unreal people continue to be set forth as the civilizers of Central America.
Besides the bow and arrow, ha, they used a lance, achcayupil, and especially the blow-pipe, pub, a potent weapon in the hands of an expert, the knowledge of which was widely extended over tropical America.
The most esteemed precious stones were the ual, translated “diamond,” and the xit, which was the impure jade or green stone, so much the favorite with the nations of Mexico and Central America.
I propose, in a future work, to discuss the methods of reckoning time in use in Central America; but a brief explanation of that adopted by the Cakchiquels is essential to a comprehension of their Annals.
In the first volume of this series I have discussed their appearance in the legends of Central America, and need not refer to them here more than to say that those who have founded on these names theories of the derivation of the Maya tribes or their ruling families from the Toltecs, a purely imaginary people, have perpetrated the common error of mistaking myth for history.
In both Egypt and the Americas (Peru, Mexico, Central America), architectural structures share striking similarities.
Obelisks covered with hieroglyphics in Egypt find their counterparts in the round columns of Central America, both possibly originating from phallic worship.
Similarities extend to burial practices, with mounds constructed in Europe and Asia for burial purposes mirroring those in America.
Homer, Herodotus, and accounts of Alexander the Great describe symmetrical mounds over graves, paralleling the burial rites of the Mound Builders in America.
The age of bronze in America, preceded by an age of copper, suggests the working of metals may have originated there.
Similar rituals are found in cultural groups in Thailand, Albania, Russia, China, India, and among many indigenous groups in South America.
If neither China, Japan, America, Northern Europe, nor Australia were depopulated by the Deluge, the Deluge could not have been universal.
But as it is alleged that it did destroy a country, and drowned all the people thereof except Noah and his family, the country so destroyed could not have been Europe, Asia, Africa, America, or Australia, for there has been no universal destruction of the people of those regions; or, if there had been, how can we account for the existence to-day of people on all of those continents whose descent Genesis does not trace back to Noah, and, in fact, about whom the writer of Genesis seems to have known nothing?
Deluge legends of America
In Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, Ignatius Donnelly gathers the flood stories of the Americas and reads them as memories of Atlantis.
"It is a very remarkable fact," says Alfred Maury, "that we find in America traditions of the Deluge coming infinitely nearer to that of the Bible and the Chaldean religion than among any people of the Old World.
It is difficult to suppose that the emigration that certainly took place from Asia into North America by the Kourile and Aleutian Islands, and still does so in our day, should have brought in these memories, since no trace is found of them among those Mongol or Siberian populations which were fused with the natives of the New World....
Besides, had Buddhism, which we doubt, made its way into America, it could not have introduced a myth not found in its own scriptures.
Donnelly's answer is that the legends did not come by the Aleutian Islands or with Buddhists from Asia but from "an actual knowledge of Atlantis possessed by the people of America." In his view the great nations of America were "simply colonies from Atlantis".
Following the Central American books translated by De Bourbourg, Donnelly describes a part of America that once reached far into the Atlantic and was destroyed by "a succession of frightful convulsions".
C., which left as remnants of the great continent which had joined Europe and Africa to America the huge islands of Ruta and Daitya.
They write that Atlantis peopled Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and the Americas, and built empires there.
The Spanish expeditions came up from the south after they had looted Central and South America.
The migration of indigenous peoples from what you call North and South America across the continents from west to east eventually created the colony of Atlantis in the islands now recognized as the Bahamas and Cuba.
However, remember that in those days, great ice shelves came down from the north, covering much of North America, and the oceans were much lower, revealing the outlines of islands as they used to be.
The Atlanteans spread into North, Central, and South America, and even crossed the oceans into Europe, the Mediterranean, and northern and western Africa.
Despite their vast empire, the main islands were off the coasts of North, Central, and South America.
Many people on your planet today imagine Atlantis with Grecian architecture due to ancient stories from Egypt passed to Greece, but the closest representation of Atlantean architecture is Aztec architecture: large stone blocks and pyramids like those in Central and South America.
A greater chunk of the comet eventually struck the Atlantic Ocean, causing massive tsunamis and the final obliteration of Atlantean culture on the eastern seaboards of the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Before the final destruction, the Atlanteans, observing the comet and understanding their time was running out, migrated to preserve their culture, knowledge, and civilization in South America, Africa, Europe, and eventually Egypt.
Though the island has sunk, Atlantis may rise again in a new form in the Americas.
Listen to the preserved knowledge of the indigenous tribes of the Americas, for they hold the information of Atlantis rising once more.
Seventh Sub-Race: Future race evolving in the Americas
The Caribs of South America relate that Luoguo, the first man and god, created the earth and the sea, and made the earth as fair as the beautiful garden in the heaven where dwell the gods.
The people of Southern America suppose it was the banana, whose fibres form the cross, and they say that thus, in it, Adam discovered the mystery of the Redemption.
The entrance looks like a simple cave on the southern coast of America, but the tunnels stretch all the way to the northwest.
The ritual use of coca leaves, to which powdered lime is added with a spoon or spatula, has been a tradition in Andean South America for thousands of years.
Most of the area exposed in the initial excavations, directed by University of Kentucky archaeologist Tom Dillehay, dates to about 12,500 years ago, making Monte Verde the earliest known site in the Americas by some 1,300 years.
Radiocarbon determinations suggest the material is about 33,000 years old (32,840 and 33,900 years), far older than any reliably dated site in the Americas.
Ancient America: Cayce's readings included references to ancient civilizations in the Americas, particularly those that predated the known Native American cult
A biological link: A giant predatory bat, Desmodus draculae, was found in the Pleistocene fossil record of South America.