New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-26
VOL. III. no. 24s.

Chinese calendar is founded upon precisely he
same principles as this of the Mexicans. hey
had two sets Of hie:oglyphics the first consisted
oe ten stems and the CHER OF twelve branches. as
they were called and the oniy difference between
their scheme and that of the Mexicans vas IN tie
length Of the Tlapilli and of the cycle. ne pm
cipe in both cases IS the same-but the Cn'nese
cycle contained so years The same fac. eS's''
with reference to the arrangement: il IS 'mposs,.
bic for any name to occur tscice IN connection
nth Ike sane mineral.
In making ntercalationo. We take the shortest
possible period since it requires four years a,
least for the six sueeriuous hours to amount TO
whole day. At the end Of eight years we might
evidently intercaatc two days:-at the end of
twelve three days-and the ultimate result would
be still the same. Iii no mater how long the
cycle is, provided we know how many days 70 In
tercalate. In the old Persian calendar we find
The year to have consisted OF u months of 80
days each. This would give but 500 days to the
year. They made their iqtercalatons at the end
Of still longer period-l20 years. The principle
is evidently the same, and this method of cyclical
calculation shows beyond all doub, an identity OF
origin, the only difference being in the length of
the periods chosen, some taking longer and others
shorter cycles.
There are several minor resemb!ances to which
a hasty ausion must suffice. We find likeness
in their symbols of days; and we find moreover
four of their signs corresponding exactly with the
zodiacal signs of India; eghtwith those of Thibet,
others with the Chinese and Mogul, three with the
Tartar and some six with those of Siam and Japan.
| The flint which marks the sign known as Saggit-
arus, i. always in the shape Of an arrow head and
Aquarius is denoted by the symbol for water. They
also wrote the years Of the arch in the form of q
| circle and divided it into Quarters.
Now all this astronomical knowledge must have
| been attained by long series OF observations-no
| matter when they were made and whence they
came. Are they not evidently the remains Of a
| primitive systcm Of astronomy, reaching back to
he earliest times? They are found not only in
Nexico but in YucataR also; and from their mani
Test resemblance to the most ancient system in the
world of which VIC have any knowledge, we are
forced to conclude that both had common origin.
No matter whether it was here there: take
! which you please the fact that it was common to
both cannot be doubted If we suppose 1t to have
been here, We must go back to most remote an
Equity find the people in situation where Oh
servalions of this sort could have been made. This
at least not probable, and we are constrained to
believe that they were invented there, and brought
There is another branch of the general subject
from which the same important conclusion may be
drawn. The point was first suggested by Mr..
GALLA11S, whose long and ardent devotion to the
subject has led to most interesting and important
results, which are already before the world. The
principle on which he reaches this same conclusion
is this: 1t is known that all the different Ian
guages Of this Continent only different dialects,
springipg from a common source; and as we know
what length of time is usually required tor u Ian
guage to become thus divided into dialects, we are
furnished with some ground for Inference as to
the time which has elapsed since this common
original existed. Upon this basis Mr. GALLArlN
has thought it likely that this Hemisphere was
peopled only 500 or 800 years later than the other.
In reviewing the testimony which he bad thus
accumulated during the present course of Lectures
Dr. Hawks said he would commence with the
subject at which there had been the strongest dis
position to cavil-lhat of Symbolic writing.
/. This fact is indisputable that these SYM
bols-(let them mean what they willy upon the
edihces here ale the same with those upon the
most ancient buildings in the other hemisphere.
If those are Of great antiquity these are aiso-so
lar az the representation Is concerned. IL Is not
Of the antiquity of the buildings that speak
but the antiquity of the race. not who
erected these buildings; | only say that those who
furnished thc type for them must have been very
ancientndeed We see the same symbols indicatii
the same idolalrous notions in both heEIlsPacres.
.. We see on both Continents the same mys-
FERROUS reverence for the one grea, unknown invis-
ible aad unrepresen,ed God for in all these sys-
TENS, rs we have seen there is one Being to whom
no idol has been raised.
g. We have found the same belief there and
here concerning the TRANSPORTATION of souls.
a. We have found exactly the same sbelef con-
corning perfect succession of words--n their u!-
innate destruction and renovation.
S. There existed both here and there the same
practice of offering human victims in sacrifices TO
their idols.
g. The religious professions here were identi-
cal with those there. The same implements were
used, associates with the same Offices lhe Idol
god was. here as there, placed in boat or ark
and carried upon the shoulders Of the priests, and
was believed 10 direct them where to carry 1t,
what 10 do and where to build their cities he
same rites attended the worship of Mexitli IN Mex
leo as of Osiris in Egypt.
=. We find here. as there the same duplication
Of their Leading divinities-and we find evidence
of this even in our own fields where their idols
have been found.
s. We have seen that in the East prevailed the
worship of the heavenly host. Peru tells the same
story; the Mexican temples to the Sun and Moon
tell the same story, and go where We will evil
dences of the same worship continually meet the
eye.
g. We are not confined to the orbs above in our
evidence, for if we look for moment at their
symbols we find worship paid in both hemisphsres
TO the same revolving, disgusting oblect-the Ser
pent. Nor do we stop at this fact-ior in the edi-
hces consecra,ed to the worship of the Serpent we
find the same resemblance; the cavern temples
of Nuba are also found herewith the same three
en,.ances-and dark, admitting ray of light
g.. ha .rorsL in hotn Wa s, only 70 be paid in