For instance, those top sheets you shelled away and spoiled, contained probably an absolutely unique account of the ancient civilisation of Yucatan.”
Formally, I had delivered up the reins of my government; formally, Tatho had seated himself on the snake-throne, and had put over his neck the chain of gems which symbolised the supreme office; and then, whilst the drums and the trumpets made their proclamation of clamour, he had risen to his feet, for his first state progress round that gilded council chamber as Viceroy of the Province of Yucatan.
I had no home now in any of those wondrous cities of Yucatan, and I could not help feeling a bitterness, though in sooth I should have been thankful enough to return to the Continent of Atlantis with my head still in its proper station.
For twenty years now have I ruled this country of Yucatan, and Mexico beyond, first under the old King, and then as minister to this new Empress.
And besides, here in Yucatan, we have not the niceties of your old world diplomacy, and do not listen, because we count it shame to do so.”
Yucatan is another world, my dear Tatho, as you in the course of your government will learn, with new interests, new people, new everything.
It is for this new world of Yucatan that I have striven through all these years.”
“I am speaking,” I said, “not to the new Viceroy of Yucatan, but to my old friend Tatho, a member of the Priests’ Clan, like myself, with whom I worked side by side in a score of the smaller home governments, in hamlets, in villages, in smaller towns, in greater towns, as we gained experience in war and knowledge in the art of ruling people, and so tediously won our promotion.
I dare swear that your ladies here in Yucatan are not so provincial to-day as ours were then.
I began to think that I had made somewhat a mistake in wrapping myself up so entirely in my government of Yucatan, and not contriving to keep more in touch with events that were passing at home in Atlantis.
That navy belongs to Yucatan.”
“Well, Deucalion, you are Yucatan; or, rather, you were yesterday, and have been these twenty years.”
For my maintenance during my years of service, here, I have bled the State of a soldier’s ration and nothing beyond; and if in my name any man has mulcted a creature in Yucatan of so much as an ounce of bronze, I request you as a last service to have that man hanged for me as a liar and a thief.”
I shall govern Yucatan wisely and well to the best of my ability; but I shall govern it also for the good of Tatho, the viceroy.
During all time beasts have disputed with man the mastery of the earth, and it is only in Atlantis and Egypt and Yucatan that man has dared to hold his own, and fight them with a mind made strong by many previous victories.
From the moment that I was deposed in Yucatan, despite Tatho’s assurances, there had been doubts in my mind as to what nature would be my reception in Atlantis.
“We took no treasure or merchandise on board in Yucatan.
We had a score of men remaining out of all those that manned the navy when it sailed from Yucatan, and the enemy had boarded us and made the decks of the “Bear” the field of battle.
I could imagine myself taken a formal prisoner on landing, and set on a formal trial to answer for my cure of the colony of Yucatan; I could imagine myself stepping ashore unknown and unnoticed, and after a due lapse, being sent for by the Empress to take up new duties; but the manner of my real welcome was a thing I did not even guess at.
Its greatness and magnificence impressed me more strongly even than usual, returning to it as I did from such a distance of time and space, for, though the many cities of Yucatan might each of them be princely, this great capital was a place not to be compared with any of them.
The old King that was gone had come this far of his complaisance when he bade me farewell as I set out twenty years before for my vice-royalty in Yucatan.
“You will not deny you came back from Yucatan for a purpose.”
Over yonder in Yucatan we were too well wrapped up in our own parochial needs and policies to have leisure to ponder much over the slim news which drifted out to us from Atlantis—and, in truth, little enough came.
But every ship that came from the West said that there was a stronger man than any of these in Yucatan, and at last the Empress changed the wording of her vow.
They had not suspected my name, it was clear, for my stature and garb were nothing out of the ordinary; but if my bodily strength and fighting power had been sufficient to raise me to a vice-royalty like that of Yucatan, and let me endure alive in that government throughout twenty hard-battling years, why, it was likely that this rabble of savages would see something that was new and admirable in the practice of arms before the crude weight of their numbers could drag me down.
According to the Law of the Priests, each ship from Yucatan will have carried home its sworn report to lay at the feet of their council, and before I went to that vice-royalty, what I did was written plain here on the face of Atlantis.”
She has sent for you from Yucatan as a husband, and as one who (so she thinks, poor human conqueror) has the weight of arm necessary to prolong her tyrannies.
all that packet of drugs which were my sole spoil from the vice-royalty of Yucatan were lost in the sea-fight with Dason’s navy, and since landing in Atlantis there had been little enough time to think for the refinements of medicine.
Deucalion, the man who had left Atlantis twenty years before to rule Yucatan, they might know little enough about, but Deucalion, who rode not many days back beside the Empress in the golden castle beneath the canopy of snakes, was a person they remembered; and when they weighed up his possible ability for vengeance, the shouts died away from them limply.
“I had always heard,” she said, “that you colonists in Yucatan were far ahead of those in Egypt in all the arts and graces.
I had thought to myself that a man who makes his life sufficiently busy will find no leisure for these pains which assault frailer folk; but a philosophy like this, which carried one well in Yucatan, showed poorly enough when one tried it here at home.
I have been viceroy of Yucatan, Ylga, and know somewhat of making a foothold in these new countries.
And I tell you, a kingdom will not be so hard to carve out as it was in Egypt, or as you found in Yucatan.
During that voyage home from Yucatan I had communed with them with growing insight; but now my mind was not my own.
Who followed him as viceroy of Yucatan?”
“There is no Yucatan.
“They came to each of the cities of Yucatan in turn, and though the colonists slew them in thousands, the weight of numbers always prevailed.
But within myself I was bitterly grieved at the fate of that fine colony of Yucatan, in which I had expended such an infinity of pains to do my share of the building.
But it did not suit my purpose to have my name and quality blazoned abroad till the time was full, and so I said nothing to the nymph about Yucatan, but let the talk continue upon other matters.
Deucalion when he landed here new from Yucatan was a strong man.
You shall have again your vice-royalty in Yucatan.”
“But, man, there is no Yucatan.
As a result to-day, there is no Yucatan.”
“I would not take seven Egypts and ten Yucatans.
THE forests of Yucatan and Central America are to-day, for the majority of the people of the United States, even those who call themselves scientific and well informed, as much a terra incognita, as America was to the inhabitants of Europe before its discovery by Cristobal Colon in 1498, when for the first time hecame in sight of the northern coast of South America, and navigated along it from the mouth of the river Orinoco to Porto Cabello in the Golfo Triste.
A premium of 25,000 francs has been offered for the discovery of an alphabet or key to the inscriptions carved on the walls of the monuments in Yucatan and Central America.
We "shall soon be as they are in India, hunting "everywhere for things which were easily to be "had a few years ago." My correspondent has visited the ruined cities of Yucatan; he knows the value ofmy collections.
Le Plongeon lectured on the monuments of Yucatan on the 2nd of March last, at Columbia Col-
Le Plongeon and I have written two works on Yucatan.
One is: "Monuments of Mayax, and their historical teachings." The other: "Yucatan, its ancient palaces and modern cities; life and customs of the Aborigines." We have offered them to several publishing houses, but the same answer has been given by all.
I have discovered such stones, last year, in themausoleum of high pontiff Cay, in the city of Chichen-Itza, in Yucatan.
arevocables, of the language of the ancient inhabitants of Yucatan, still spoken by their descendants, the aborigines of that country.
Strange as it may appear, this language presents many affinities with the Maya, which is still the vernacular of the aborigines of Yucatan and other countries south of the Peninsula.
At Uxmal, one of these ancient great metropolis in Yucatan, there exists an artificialmound of peculiar construction.
From there the learned priests and astronomers, elevated above the mists of the plains below, could without hindrance follow the course of the celestial bodies, in the clear cloudless skies of Yucatan, where at times the atmosphere is so pure and transparent that stars are clearly visible to the naked eye, that require the aid of the telescope to be seen in other countries.
The ceilings, like those of all the apartments in the monuments of Yucatan and Central America, form a triangular arch.
Judging from the numerous devices and emblems that formed the ornamentation of the temples and palaces in the ancient ruined cities of Yucatan, the priests of Mayax seem to have been as addicted to
Yucatan divides the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea.
It is usualwith the aboriginesof Yucatan, that yet retain many of the customs of their forefathers, when a young man wishes to propose marriage toa girl to sendbya friend as a present, a fruit, or flower, orsweetmeat.
On the fagade of the building at Chichen Itza called by the natives Kuna, the house of God, to which Stephens, in his work on Yucatan, gives the name of Iglesia, is a tableau representing the worship of that great pachyderm, whose head, with its trunk, forms the principal ornament of the temples and palaces built by the members of king Can's family.
But the imprint of the red hand, so commonly seen on the walls of the temples of Mayax and India, has never been observed in the temples of Egypt; neither did the Egyptianwomen carry their children astride on their hip, as do still those of India and Yucatan, although many other customs were common to the people of these countries.
XVII., Part II.), at other times as a serpent with part of the bodybent in the shape of the Yucatan peninsula,* and the artists who executed the * An interpretation of the Maya legend explanatory of the illustration may not be amiss, inasmuch as it shows that the serpeant was thesymbol of the country.
peninsula of Yucatan, that seems as if standing erect between them as the serpent in the Egyptian sign.
There the peak was worn in front; in Egypt at the back: may be as a mark of respect on the part of the Egyptians toward their mother country, to signify that as the child, Egypt must stand behind its parent, as it iscustomary for children to do among the aborigines of Yucatan.
115.), the head being the peninsula of Yucatan, anciently the seat of the government; and that the southern continent would he the dart of its tail, as pictured by the Maya artists.
Only one image of a perfect cross have I ever met with in the ancient edifices of Yucatan besides the ground plan of the sanctuary at Uxmal.
In May and April in the countries like Yucatan, where there is no water on the surface of the ground,, all things become parched; the trees and shrubs lose their leaves, nature looks desolate, all living beings thirst for a drop of moisture, the birds and other wild creatures, mad with thirst, lose their characteristic shyness and venture near the haunts of man, imperil-ing their lives in search of water; death, for want of it, seems to threaten all creation.
We see it in Mayax in the three platforms on which are raised the most ancient edifices ; in the three rooms that formed the temple where the mysteries were performed ; in the three steps that led to the first or lower platform in all sacred edifices ; in the 21 metres (3x7) of all the principal pyramids in Yucatan; in the three concentric circles of the Zodiac.
The author of the Troano MS., informs us that the members of the family of king Can were deified after their death, and worshiped in temples, the ruins of which still exist buried in the depths of the forests of Yucatan undera shroud of verdure.
We have seen that the family of king Can was composed of seven members, who became rulers of the seven cities that bear their names, the ruins of which still exist in the forests of Yucatan, andby thebeautyand richnessof theornamentation, the massiveness and finish of the walls of their temples and palaces, excite the admiration of the beholder.
In these pages I have presented, without commentaries, a few of the facts that twelve years researches among the ruins of the antique temples and palaces of the Mayas, a knowledge of their language (still spoken by their descendants, and in some places, as in the vicinity of Peten, in all its pristine purity); the deciphering of certain mural inscriptions; the study of the sacred book of the Quiches, and the interpretation of passages in the Troano MS., have disclosed to me concerning the history, civilization, cosmogonical conceptions, religious tenets and practices of the ancient inhabitants of Yucatan.
Why then not found in Yucatan, in the midst of the ruins of the temples and colleges of the learned priesthood of Mayax, a school where students of American archaeologycan learnwith theirlanguage, what the Maya sages knew of man's origin, of his intellectual development, of the past of their people, of the coloniststhey sent to other parts of the world, where they carried the arts, sciences, and religion of the mother country and its civilization from which ourown is descended ?
Circular buildings in Yucatan, their use, 64.
I will not treat Yucatan, the Canaries, the Tin Islands, or the sinking as a dig.
In that story Deucalion has ruled Yucatan and Mexico for twenty years.
Yucatan, as the story spells it.
Coppinger calls Yucatan a place in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, all ruins in his own day, and once a very prosperous colony of the Atlanteans.
Deucalion later says he ruled "this country of Yucatan, and Mexico beyond" for twenty years, first under the old King and then as minister to the Empress.
For twenty years now have I ruled this country of Yucatan, and Mexico beyond, first under the old King, and then as minister to this new Empress.
Deucalion says that only in Atlantis, Egypt, and Yucatan has man dared to hold his own against the beasts.
Yucatan's end, still inside the story.
Years later a nymph tells Deucalion there is no Yucatan.
There is no Yucatan.
He says the spoiled top sheets probably held a unique account of the ancient civilisation of Yucatan.
The ceremony is in a gilded council chamber under a pyramid in Yucatan.
Yucatan, he tells Tatho, does not listen at doors, because it counts that shame.
He is in love with her, and he calls Yucatan a detestable exile.
The ladies of Yucatan are less provincial now than the ladies of Atlantis were then.
If anyone has mulcted a creature in Yucatan of an ounce of bronze in his name, he asks Tatho to hang that man as a liar and a thief.
They had heard of his coming from Yucatan.
Every ship from the West said there was a stronger man in Yucatan.
In the sacred tongue, which the common people do not know, Zaemon says the ships from Yucatan have carried sworn reports to the council, and that Deucalion's record has found approval.
The drugs he brought from Yucatan were lost in the fight with Dason.
She had heard that Yucatan was far ahead of Egypt in the arts and graces, and that he does the viceroyalty small credit.
From her he hears that Yucatan is gone, and that Tatho has been husband for three years, with twin sons.
Tatho will not take Yucatan back, because there is no Yucatan, and he will not take Egypt.
The matter, he says, is newer than anyone would think even after his introduction to Landa's Relation des choses de Yucatan.
The Popol Vuh, the grammar of the Quiche language, and the Relation of the things of Yucatan were printed entirely at his own cost, from small savings.
A letter full of details on Yucatan, written to him from Brussels by George Catlin and dated 6 May, complains of the Louvre's indifference to Catlin's collection.
Nahuatl, which he has studied with more ardor than ever since his last voyage to Mexico, Maya, which he had the chance to go into deeply in Yucatan, and Quiche and its dialects, extended his reach.
Those appreciations led him to give the introduction of the Yucatan relation its title, which seemed strange: the sources of the primitive history of Mexico in the Egyptian monuments, and of the primitive history of Egypt in the American monuments.
The son he buried in a gourd is called Igiël in Pané's account, at the end of the Yucatan relation, p.
Catlin then speaks of his own voyages and of the remarks he has made on the monuments of Yucatan.
Catlin was but five days in Merida, the capital of Yucatan, and thirteen at Uxmal, years since, and of course learned and saw only a little.
Yucatan lies between 17° 30' and 21° 50' north, and between 88° and 91° west of Greenwich, 260 miles north to south and 180 miles east to west.
The forests of Yucatan and Central America are, for most people in the United States, as much a terra incognita as America was to Europe before Cristobal Colon.
Against that he sets the Societe des Americanistes in Paris, a premium of 25,000 francs for an alphabet or key to the Yucatan and Central American inscriptions, and Desire Charnay sent for molds.
Le Plongeon have written, Monuments of Mayax, and their historical teachings and Yucatan, its ancient palaces and modern cities, have been refused by publishers.
The essay opens on the origin of modern Free Masonry, before he reaches Yucatan.
are vocables, of the language of the ancient inhabitants of Yucatan, still spoken by their descendants, the aborigines of that country.
The Mayas chose the oblong square because it is the figure nearest the contours of the Yucatan peninsula (p.
Its door faced west and a small stair led to the roof of the sanctuary, where priests and astronomers could watch the stars in the clear skies of Yucatan.
Landa's Relation of the things of Yucatan is quoted for the priesthood.
Among the aborigines of Yucatan who keep the old custom, a young man sends by a friend a fruit, a flower, or a sweetmeat.
The Troano author sometimes pictures Mayax as a serpent with an inflated breast, plate XVII, part II, and sometimes as a serpent with part of the body bent in the shape of the Yucatan peninsula.
In Egypt it is at the back, perhaps, he says, as a mark of respect, the child standing behind its parent, as children do among the aborigines of Yucatan (p.
The head is the peninsula of Yucatan, anciently the seat of government.
The reward was a delectable place, no pain, delicious food, eternal repose in the cool shade of the yaxche, the ceiba, still planted in front of the main entrance of churches throughout Yucatan and Central America.
The Maya empire was of old, according to the Troano author, figured as a tree planted in the continent known today as South America, its principal branch the Yucatan peninsula.
Only one image of a perfect cross has he met in the ancient edifices of Yucatan, besides the ground plan of the sanctuary at Uxmal.
In May and April, in a country like Yucatan with no water on the surface, everything is parched.
In Mayax he sees it in the three platforms of the most ancient edifices, the three rooms of the temple of the mysteries, the three steps to the first platform, the 21 metres, 3 times 7, of all the principal pyramids in Yucatan, and the three concentric circles of the zodiac.
The family of king Can was seven members, rulers of the seven cities that bear their names, whose ruins still exist in the forests of Yucatan.
He has presented, without commentaries, a few of the facts that twelve years of research among the ruins, a knowledge of the language still spoken by the descendants and, in the vicinity of Peten, in all its pristine purity, the deciphering of certain mural inscriptions, the study of the sacred book of the Quiches, and the interpretation of passages in the Troano have disclosed to him concerning the history, civilization, cosmogony, and religious practices of the ancient inhabitants of Yucatan (p.
Why not found, in Yucatan, in the ruins of the temples and colleges of the learned priesthood of Mayax, a school where students can learn, with the language, what the Maya sages knew of man's origin, of his intellectual development, of the past of their people, and of the colonists they sent out with the arts, sciences, and religion of the mother country, the civilization from which our own is descended (p.
Colonies carried the learning to India, Egypt, Yucatan, and the rest of the world.
In the Yucatan chapter he adds Solon's visit at 600 B.C.
The white builders of Yucatan were wiped out, on his caption, in 9,500 B.C.
The civilizations of India, Babylonia, Persia, Egypt, and Yucatan were the dying embers of that older civilization.
A Yucatan Nahuatl sentence says the particles of atmosphere, hit by the divine arrows, became animated, and that heat, which determines the movement of matter, was developed in it (p.
The Troano Manuscript, a Maya book written in Yucatan, now in the British Museum, speaks of the Land of Mu with the same symbols used in India, Burma, and Egypt.
At Uxmal in Yucatan, a ruined temple with inscriptions commemorative of the Lands of the West, whence we came.
The Troano Manuscript is an ancient Maya book written in Yucatan.
Le Plongeon found records in Yucatan stating that the hieratic head of the Land of Mu prophesied the destruction, and that some, heeding the prophecy, left for the colonies and were saved.
The Mayas of Yucatan regarded the west as the region of darkness, the place where the souls of the dead returned to the bosoms of their ancestors, as shown in the Codex Cortesianus (p.
Temple inscriptions in Yucatan say they came from lands to the west of America.
The Greek cross, found especially in Yucatan and Central America, and noted by Winter in Guatemala, page 156, on the stones of Quirigua and Copan, was the central figure of the royal escutcheon of Mu.
Cliff writings in Nevada, New Mexico, Niven's cities, and Yucatan carry the same symbols (pp.
A great forest covers the southern half of Yucatan and runs into Guatemala, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Honduras.
Records in Yucatan say they came from Mu.
A vignette from a Maya manuscript in the British Museum, number 9,789, represents the arrival of the rain in Yucatan.
All the ancient nations copied it: the Mayas of Yucatan, the Naga-Mayas of India, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Egyptians, and the Pueblo Indians of southwestern North America.
Only the Yucatan Mayas retained its simple character and its original meanings.
In the Yucatan Maya it is Ah-ac-chapat.
The Yucatan PPeu dynasty adopted him, claiming they were the lords and owners of the land.
They spoke the Yucatan-Maya language, shown by the Maya hieratic alphabet he has found in Nevada.
Through Yucatan and the inland parts of Central America a white race predominated.
North of the peninsula of Yucatan every record points to Mongoloids as the great bulk, and possibly all, of the original settlers.
Other cities of the First Civilization lie in heaps on the ground: Baalbek, the old Maya ruins in Yucatan, and the South Sea ruins.
Yucatan is the southeastern part of Mexico, a peninsula bounded on the north by the Gulf of Mexico and on the east and southeast by the Caribbean.
Central America and Yucatan formed one of the first colonies from the motherland.
It was the volcanic working when the great central gas belt was forging under Yucatan.
Le Plongeon, very dear friends of the writer, were the first archaeological explorers to delve among the buried parts of the Yucatan ruins.
During the forging of the great central gas belt under Central America and Yucatan, 11,500 years ago, huge cataclysmic waves were formed.
The waves blotted out all life, including the white Mayas of Yucatan.
The brown races of Central America and Yucatan today are a mixture of the three, mostly Mongol.
The present natives of Yucatan are not pure-blooded.
When Cortez invaded Yucatan, Bishop Landa asked who built the old ruins.
The forefathers of the white Polynesians, of the white Mayas of Yucatan, and of all the white races were one and the same (p.
It originated in the motherland and was carried to Burma, India, and Babylonia, and from the motherland to Yucatan, Central America, Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt.
Le Plongeon, in Central America, says that even today the aborigines of Yucatan, Peten, and other countries where the Maya language is spoken, at the beginning of November hang from the branches of certain trees, in clearings, at crossroads, and in isolated nooks, cakes of the best corn and meal they can procure, for the souls of the departed.
The oldest account is among the Mayas of Yucatan, and it came from the motherland.
It is constantly found among the temple carvings of Yucatan.
The Mayas of Yucatan erected a pyramid as a monument, which stands to this day, and they erected temples to her memory.
The Maya of Guatemala and Chiapas journeyed south into the almost waterless peninsula of Yucatan and raised settlements again.
In Yucatan the art is less free and more conventional, and the city-states are more tumultuous.
The monuments stand in Yucatan, the uplands of Guatemala, Tabasco, Chiapas, and a portion of Honduras.
Many of these tribes, especially the Caribs, flattened the head, as the Maya of Guatemala, Chiapas, and Yucatan did, and they built large wooden houses.
Cities of southern Yucatan were modelled on older Guatemala.
Phelon adds that Aztec tradition confirms it, and he asks where the people of South America came from, and who built the forest-covered cities of Yucatan and Central America.
He writes Yucatan as Yucatain.
There is nothing here, he says, to warrant the glowing descriptions of their art and refinement given by some of the earlier as well as more modern writers, nor even to correspond with what might be inferred from the architectural remains in some parts of Yucatan.
This period is often linked to migrations to Egypt, the Yucatan, and the Pyrenees, and in some readings associated with the biblical flood account.
Evidences of this lost civilization are to be found in the Pyrenees and Morocco on the one hand, British Honduras, Yucatan and America upon the other.
And therefore you moved geographically to new areas to colonize what you now know as the Yucatan, Peru, Egypt, and Judea.
And therefore you moved geographically to new areas to colonize what you now know as the Yucatan, Peru, Egypt, and Judea.
The vast remains of cities and temples in Mexico and Yucatan also strangely resemble those of Egypt, the ruins of Teotihuacan having frequently been compared to those of Karnak.
Warnings were given; many from the Law of One group escaped or preserved records (e.g., in Egypt, Yucatan, and under the Sphinx).
The Troano MS., which appears to have been written about 3,500 years ago, among the Mayas of Yucatan, translated by Le Plongeon, gives the following description of the submergence of Poseidonis: 'In the year 6 Kan, on the 11th Muluc in the month Zac, there occurred terrible earthquakes, which continued without interruption until the 13th Chuen.
The readings further document a period in the Yucatan followed by northward migration into North America by Atlantean descendants.
The entity was among those of the second generation of Atlanteans who struggled northward from Yucatan, settling in what is now a portion of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio being among those of the earlier period known as Mound Builders.
Atlantis had four primary eras of development, Atlantis began in Yucatan
appears to have been written about 3,500 years ago, among the Mayas of Yucatan
However, any native from Yucatan or Guatemala translates the phrase “heli, heli, lamah zabactani” for you, because it turns out that it is Mayan, not Hebrew.
appears to have been written about 3,500 years ago, among the Mayas of Yucatan
Pyramids came from Yucatan, not Atlantis, and reached Egypt via exiles.
It differed from Yucatan's peaceful tribes.
Then, with the leavings of the civilization in Atlantis (in Poseidia, more specific), Iltar – with a group of followers that had been of the household of Atlan, the followers of the worship of the ONE with some ten individuals – left this land Poseidia, and came westward, entering what would now be a portion of Yucatan.
Schliemann is making known his discoveries an expedition is setting out from England to recover treasure from sunken cities in the Bay of Campeche, off Yucatan.
Le Plongeon, the great French archeologist, recovered at Chichen-Itza in Yucatan the figure of a god who was club-footed and bore in every way the attributes of the great god Thoth, of the Egyptians!
We are but beginning to understand the past: one hundred years ago the world knew nothing of Pompeii or Herculaneum; nothing of the lingual tie that binds together the Indo-European nations; nothing of the significance of the vast volume of inscriptions upon the tombs and temples of Egypt; nothing of the meaning of the arrow-headed inscriptions of Babylon; nothing of the marvellous civilizations revealed in the remains of Yucatan, Mexico, and Peru.
"In the ruined cities of Cambodia, which lies farther to the east of Burmah, recent research has discovered teocallis like those in Mexico, and the remains of temples of the same type and pattern as those of Yucatan.
We can therefore readily believe that commercial intercourse between Atlantis and Yucatan, Honduras and Mexico, created colonies along the shores of the Gulf which gradually spread into the interior, and to the high table-lands of Mexico.
Le Plongeon, who spent four years exploring Yucatan, says:
The Red Hand of Ulster, a symbol found on Irish sculptures, corresponds to red handprints in the ruins of Yucatan, Central America.
Mayo, a region in Ireland, is linked to the Maya of Yucatan, suggesting migration from America.
He mentions Atlantis, known as "Atl" which has connections to both the Atlantic and Yucatan regions, and references other sunken lands in the Pacific, like Kashkara, which is noted in Hopi traditions.