Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
COMETS HAVE STRUCK
And Entirely Changed the Geological
? Formation of Planets.
A REMARKABLE AZTEC PRAYER
Quoted in Full by Colorado Scientist in
Troof Of His Views.
A WONDERFUL PIECE OF LITERATURE

Fosters scientific notes, which accompanied
his weather forecasts this week in the
Rocky Mountain Ne,rs OF Denver In his let.
ters for the past five months, the professor
has maintained that the earth has several
times been struck by comets, which have
caused the different geological ages. The
letter is of intense interest at this time:
'It is claimed by many that the Aztecs
are the oldest race of people on earth, and
their records and traditions sound much
like those of Genesis and Job. Their his
toric legends divide the past time of their
race into four epochs, ages or suns. The
first of these ages terminated, according to
Cana, in destruction of the people of the
world by famine: the second in destruc-
tion by winds; in the third the human race
was swept away by fire, and the fourth was
q destruction BY water. The HiAdoo
legends are very similar.
''The Aztec prayer is most remarkable
piece of literature, and was evidently Of
fered and perfected during long continued
pestilence. 1t is sublime in thought and
language, and like the hymns of the Vedas
and prayers of the Hebrews has been
handed down for thousands of years AS
evidence that the human race on the West
ern Hemisphere was destroyed by a comet
I give the following extracts from this
ancient, wonderful and sublime Aztec
prayer as translated into the English Ian
guage:
The Prayer of the Aztecs.
go Lord, Thou hast held it good to for
sake us in these days according to the coun-
sci Thou hast as well in heaven as in hades.
Alas for US, in that Thine anger and indig-
nation have descended upon us in these DAYS;
alas in that the many and grevious aff1ic-
tions of Thy wrath have OVERCOME and
swallowed US up, coming down even as
stones, spears and arrows upon the wretches
that inhabit the earth. This is the sore
pestilence with which we are afflicted and
almost destroyed.
ga great destruction the rain and pesti-
lence already make in this nation and what
is most pitiful of all the little children that
are innocent and understand nothing, they
too, die, broken and dashed to pieces as
against stones and wall, and there re-
main of them not even those in their era
dies. Of young ard old, men and women,
there remain neither root nor branch: Thy
nation, Thy people. Thy wealth, are leveled
down and destroyed.
1.-THE fire of the pestilence, made ex-
ceedingly hot, is upon Thy nation, burning
and smaking as ire in hut, leaving moth
ing upright and sound. The grinders of
Thy teeth Calling stones?) are employed
and Thy bitter whips upon the miserable
people who have become lean. Has: Thou
altogether forsaken Thy nation and Thy
people? Hast Thou verify determined that
it perish and that there be no memory in
the world, that the peopled places become
wooded hill and wilderness of stones?
Serenity and Clearness Wanted.
"'Is it already fixed In Thy divine coun-
sci that there is to be no mercy nor pity for
us until the arrows of Thy fury are spent to
our utter perdition and destruction, that
the sun shall never more shine upon us,
but that we must remain in perpetual dark
ness and silence? O. our Lord, Thine
arrows and stones have sorely hurt this
poor people.
40 most strong Lord make an end of
this fog and smoke of Thy resentment,
quench also the burning and destroying fire
of Thy anger, let serenity and clearness
come, let the small birds of Thy people be-
gin to sing and approach the sun; give them
quiet weather, SO that they may cause their
voices to reach Thy Highness.
SIT may appear wonderful that the Aztec
priesthood CO I'D preserve and hand down
to US through the ages this cavern hymn,
but it could no more DE lost than could the
Lords Prayer. This hymn of the Aztecs
contain many passages, the meanings of
which their priests had lost ages before
America was discovered, just as our
learned theologians for more than 1000
years have not understood many passages
in Job and Genesis.
''These legends traditions, histories of
every tribe, race, nation, point to great
snd important event, cataclysm by which
the human race was almost destroyed, and
this cataclysm was followed by an i'm
mense period of darkness, then a great
cloud, and then the light returned to the
EARTH.
The Great Confagration.
s'The traditions of cave life always ac-
company those in reference to great fire
and all unerringly point to the comet as the |
cause.
Geological records prove that the sur
face rocks under the drift have been ex- |
posed to great heat, in many places from 80 |
to 100 feet deep, and this could come from |
no other cause than comet striking the |
earth.
"Our biologists contend that there was |
an age of thick clouds, of floods, SHOWS, |
glacier ice, during which the waters of the |
seas were lowered, and no other cause than |
q comet could do all these wondrous works
':From whence came the drift and the |
gravel and the clays? They are not in |
places to which nature would carry them |
unless we admit that great comet struck |
the earth aud deposited its water, its min
eral clays, its gravel and that which we
now call the dirt.
"There is no haTmony in the geological
record unless we admit that materials in |
great bulk came from outer space. The ris-
Ing and falling of the seas, hundreds of |
feet and suddenly, cannot be denied, nor |
can such be accounted for except by Access |
sions from without, such as might have |
belonged to our moon when it was a |
comet"