Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-08-15
ORIGIN or THE AzTECS.
risasihi" ecaiastoas-turtous re.
hatous Traditions ot the Dctuge.

Cruffut's Mexico letter.
Noiody can walk through the silent streets
~ tbs fulnei cities IL th. ToltccS at Han
Juan and other places. or evan look upon ,he
grea, Images ~ their gosi. which the Aztecs
ieft IN this city, without asking over
ani over sgain. Whence came those old
civiliEatiunsr Tho problem Is not ~ difil-
cult ~ u once was. when 70 was supposed
that the tnrrii snne was the crad.'of the race
aud that Columbus was the first discoveror Of
this continent Science teaches Us that the
human race probably originated at the poles
- the earth. which wer. tho earliest portions
20 the planet Ia lpcum. cool enough to sup
port NE. that tho uniform migration II for
ever toward tho equator. AMI that aioEg that
telt, when all the rc-t Of the earth has, become
frusen up. the las, ~ our kind will finally
i.eflsh Prom tho original birthplace the
Nericanz may have come southwark and
fingered VA this cul de ssc under the tropic OF
tanc'r
HIT that they have been constantly visited
Nv f"ppl" from scr,,~s N. SEA. IL now obvious.
Even II the Atlantis % Plato. Aristotle and
iEna,iu. Donneily should be- only brilliant
sni plausible myth, the early Mexicans were
by no msans lonesome. During this very
generation Chinese junk has been blown
''ff-N itif NJ tit'U ~ bttF III nNo
years. and stranded with uhipwrrckssi sailors
on ihe c"ast ~ California OF Oregon. II
this wsre equally tr.s In the past. hundreds
~ shipwrerk"i harks must have landed on
"ur Pacific cosst. manned by Oriental
people. who constantly modified the
blooi tho laws, the language, the
religion ani tho manners II the
natives When Cort.z arrived here he
found that Asiec- bowed before the great
latin cs,-- q granite on tho face of which
they hal scuiptnr'~i IN. grotesgue image Of
their gssi. h. same cro~. Ia now exhibited
in the Iaise ~ ~. mus-ym hrr-. They had
q resuri ~ ihe delnge. which only ono man
sni uue woman survivei Coxcox and his
wife, 18th Ast.A When the waters had
sulsiiei they ssnt out dove to distribute
the language
Another tritse, 400 miles west 81 here. had
q similar tradition. Their Noah was named
1csri. ani he escapsi with boat fllel with
sninals ite sant oui humming bird,
which rr,ufnsi with . twg la its mouth
The building ~ ths great pyramid Of
'h"lula. i,n mila- south 81 this
cty, IN. abandoned because the
Ar,-s's soi ~snt flre aud thuuderb bolts upon
u b. punish them f,r their biasphemy 50
they -sy, In the Ayt.c religion the goddess
tnuaeostl was the first 10 ts.sr children, "and
therefore says the tradition. "by her came
ain inla "a. wufli" The Axtecs practice ei
the Fits. n c,mfrsAion AMI romance, and
even heli the important dogmas II the trinity
AMI incarnation for communion, before the
Spanish rsnie they made n wafer of corn
n'sai miss~i With hlo'si, which the people
NJ" la sprrnw and humiliation, declaring IL
ihs nesh q Deity They baptixs-i infants
t"iirhing them with water on the forehead
snJ tI~. after an invocation
Never sra-. bsa,uia- % ~ osssau
Nj. Iow,rd o. Gillette, of the
Nassa'huso 4 lar tells an amusing bit
II aisi'e given him by MIR huate.
Let me give YOU NY dying advice"
sa'i tie great lawyer. Never cross.
'shm.nr "a Woman. II i of no ne
lh,t Unu"t Il migrate the story they
have "n,o tol thcy caunot elm mate
ih' patt ihut IL int ,ou from that which
i- agul 4 Nou hey can nett er com.
l.u' h"t Lat" nor quality III y go for
~" whole tang, aud the u on,nt Won
i'Fin :" 'rp 'Nnmiue ono II them.
o. to of bong hiit n by "a single atile
rob" 'on aIe litt"n hy whole barrel.
nl nv =. except ~ ~ ease ab.o-
lui'l9 ',a ,iat" lar,i urru~s cAnin nc
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