The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-02-15

tfsc- -scithcf 8t uVt tut4 C&u UHu d1l ft senlblance in the construction of dwelling
 places or in the arrangement of building
 towns, streets, walls and burying grounds The ancient graves are placed in regular
 order, lying east and west, neatly covered with small rocks, in the form of sn ellipsis Following the original off-shoot eastward from Arizona, we find extensive traces o their mound works in New Mexico, Utah Colorado and Texas; and also in Arkansas When they reached the valleys of the Mis- sissippi, finding no natural mounds, they from necessity, built artificial ones. The fair quantities of obsidian and chalce. dony foend there, was evidently taken from
 is observed in workmanship, design, and the use of copper instruments, and burned
 bricks, The dmentions of their bricks and all we'll built structures conforming to right lines; their doorways, steps and windows show that the foot of twelve inches was the standard of measure then as now, from which we might infer that the average hu- man foot was somewhat larger formerly than now. No relic in Arizona indicates the return of the same people from the east, or the influx of any eastern tribes here, as all antiquities here are peculiar to the Pa cifc Slope.
 After the mound works of the Mississippi, the next in antiquity seem to be the ruins of Central America and Peru. The same mound, or temple system is found greatly improved in the ruins of Yucatan and Guat- amala, and still another modification of the same appears among the ruins of Tiahuan- aca, and others in South America. When the Spaniards conquered those countries, they were told by the Aztecs, and also the Incas that those ruins were constructed by a race of giants who passed away before the sun shown in heaven, and with the countless ages that had since elapsed, all ac- count of them was lost.
 If, according to the order of nature, the mound-builders did pass away, and other races followed on the eve of their decline, their mythology was perpetuated, as the Teocallas of Mexico at the time of the con quest, only presented another modification of natural and artificial mounds made into | pyramids, artisticaIly grand, with temples on their summits, where Idols were placed, facing the rising sun, and before whom hu- man sacrifices were offered upon altars.
 There were forty thousand Teocalles in Mexico at the time of the conquest, and during the year of the conquest twenty thousand human beings were offered 10 Huitslopatoihi, (the War God as many more to Tezcatlepoca, and less number to others, amounting in all, to one hundred thousand,-a rich harvest for that year. For victims thus offered they preferred war cap tives-a summary way of disposing of pris- oners-they were Qike the gladiatnrs of Home, stall.fed or iatted for their fate, and even then the dainty Gods accept of. no DOT ton but the heart The victim for the offer jag was bound-face downward to a tablet of black jasper-a scallop taken out of the stone so that the priest could cut out the heart of the living man.
 That sun worship may have originated here is very probable. There Is perhaps no country where the gun always rises clear as it does to the people along the Colorado River | though it storms at midday. The wind of early morning always comes from the north, over the dry deserts of Utah, where mist or fog is never generated, As the valleys of this nyor tie at least four thousand feet be.
 meath the general surface following right line from north to south noar four hundred | miles, the aerial currents throughout the year sweep down from the north in the morning, and return from the south in the evening, and this has ever been so, as the
 natives have but one name (muthakl north, | (muthakl wind. They seem ta think that
 all winds are born in the north, where, after the toll of the day, they go back to rest al night And for the same reason their name
 for south and rain are related, as the rain
 comes from the gulf with the south wind. I This climatic peculiarity is only ore of l the many evidences that mark Arizona as the probable birth-place of sun worship, and
 only one of many evidences of the local origia of the native languages.
 Il If the American origin of the system ap
 pear reasonable, it is easily traced from the crude mound-works of Arizona to those of
 the Atlantic Slope, thence to the ancient ruins of Yucatan, thence to the Teocalles of Mexico, from these to the Pyramids of Egypt, the temples of India, and subse- quently the temple system of Greece and
 Rome, iD which 1t appears that these are all connecting links in one grand chain of re-
 lated things subject only to such changes
 as human progress, and the advance of time
 would dictate; and that sun and also sacri- flee worship may have originated on the Pa cifc Slope of central North America, among
 a race of people who existed at 8 time vast
 ly anterior to the birth or development of
 the white race of Europe and Asia.
 I More than two thousand years ago the clay colored races passed the zenith of their ! development, and we see them in their de- cline toward certain nonenity.
 Though the pprposes for winch the Pyra- mids of Egypt were constructed Is still a | question of debate, the Coptic- -rira-sthe sun and the Celtic mid enclosure or place seems to connect the pyramids with sun worship.
 I The Mexicans worship the great Supreme Ruler of the Universe, under the name of
 4eott. Being purely spiritual, and filling all space. he could not be represented by T any image or likeness, but his rule was ad- ministered by thirteen principal deities; all of whom were represented by images as ob- jects of worship. To the charge of this panthe.stic thereby, the whole world, with all sub.deities were consigned by Teott, as through all subsequent ages, the number of Iprincipal deities composing the supreme Staff was made to correspond to chronology I cal divisions. It Is highly probable that the purposes for which the thirteen deities were instituted, had some connection with
 chronology and astronomy; as thls number corresponds with the thirteen lunar periods in one year. It is probable that each deity in turn. presided oyer bis respectiFe lHnsl Il cycle. One of the thirteen deifies iQuitzal. cot feathered serpent was banisHed by Pezcatlepoco tshining mirror as Saturn was
 halished by 1upitef. Quitxaleot took ref Il uge in Cholulu where he became a greaI .f ..l ~-l.~x a--s.