The St. Johns herald., 1895-07-18
INTERESTING RUINS.
Aa Aner;oan's Discoveries ia Palr
 Gui GoIVia-
Thought to Bc t:lc Host Ancient Remains oi Lower Civilization to Eo Found
 Upon Inc ,:eEocra
 Hemisphere.

Upon Inc y:aEscra
 Jien.z7.,erc.
 Maj. William Sully Dee5e, retired errly officer living at Thompson.
 3aa.. i about to send to the leading i..-c.,c21lorists of t.Iii country 2Ed
 izro?c rhat hc cona;.lc-5 proofs ot
 c:1c vc--- re--lar,.a5l9 discoveries that
 ,o ,-l.a raadc dEri1g researches that
 .a-e cost k::n twcn>y years of study mi 2: lc:'Fc s,l-1 of money expended in
 lov.l Ines Of invcs.: :.5a1ion. lLe be- icvcG. c2--3 the E2v lIr:: Sun. that
 :ia iia a]in-5 will c32v:lIcc scientists 5;3at A.ae:ica is t;ic ac2S of in older .0-;rcn O. occidental civilization t:,an .itacG issyr:a CT Er-,r2t. Maj. Becbc
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 so-.al aaI th9 G-czt1-prov3 ten .cl-oj to hare tcea tAe borrowers
 ro.zi "2 earlier people ol this cont
 .z1:, b4e3asc i2 Inc parallels tha5 occ.,r II t.lc early traces q both civili-
 ;2tions tie greater plrity i5 found in t3la American examples. Myths and
 ,yrabOl5 and foll5lora tales that Euro ocan students haze not been able to
 liIlc clear are siInplilicl when read
 y thc light of his American discov- cries. h the journey to distant lands 5hcy have been alGcre1, coQiel blindiy or r324a53l iynorGltly, he thinks, So 5Aot they have obtained altered or modified meanings on the other side. Co give only one example: Maj. Bcebe asserts that the zoiiacal sign of 5agittarius was at first an armadillo, the name of which in Peru meant an armorcd hare or rabbit. The sign and name remained the samc wherever the armadillo was known, but by the time tho symbol reached northern Mexico and tho region of our states it became changed to an armed rabbit''-a rab- bit carrying 0 bow and arrow. It is the same sign, Maj. Deebe says, and stands for the same constellation in the heavens as the European symbol of man with a bow'and arrow, Sagittar- ias.
 Maj. Beebe declares the most ancient remains of former civilization on this continent % be those ruins Of temples and of cities that are found in the lcighborhood of Lake Titicaca, on the Bolivia-Peru border. These relies are scattered ever great c2,tcrt of coun- try ard reveal remarkable skill in stone cutting in architecture and in or nament. This region is fourteen thou sand feet above the sea level and too cold to provide sustenancc for more shan sparse population, but there-is ittlo doubt that it's climate and its population were onco vcrT different. t once supported thousands Of stone cutters who couid neither live nor work thero now. The AyE1ara tribe If Indians, thc present inhabitants, hare retained in great purity the Ian suage ,thay 6Po,.efwhen thc Spaniaras conquerc,. t2e country, and at that time tho S)2a;2rdS took down their fables anI legends il great numbers. Maj. Becbe sent a capable man there 60 verify tsQ-. old observations and make now ones, and; after 9 study of eight othc- American tongues and people to tho north Of the Aymaras, ac is convinced that they arc the rel. ics Of tho ollest American scmiciyil. iEat:on, ani tlat cAcir influence epreGd over North Aucric2. Proofs of this lc cl2iu5 to have found as far away as Iowa an3 New Jersey. He asserts hat there arc in Egypt, and, for that na ..cg, ali around tho Mediterranean 51c most evident dup!ications of the work or these Ayn2r2s in dials like shat at 6tonchenGc, in Assyrian and Egyptian buildings, in the folklore and n the languages of many peoples.
 or almost equal interest to Ameri- cans i5 Maj. Bcebe's discovery with re gard to the photographic tablet iound at Davenport, la, and declared by experts to be spurious and worse than valucless. Mai. Bee )e declares that he is able to read it. lie says that it rcproduce3 the sym 0ols and myths Of the Ay:nara Indians, md tells the same stories that are by means of the great dial temple at Tia uua1acu in their coun- same that Mr. Inwards, of Lon lon, found to correspond so nearly in with q miniature temple ett in Assyria. Maj. Bcebe has re- iUced all his proofs to writing, and ar -angcd the vast number Of analogies hat he claims to have discovered be- tween old and new world beginnings n such manner that when all are collected and presented in print and sent ont, the scholars of the world nay, with the least possible trouble, ,xaminc his work and judge his claims. !e is q man of leisure and of means. vho in taxing up the study of Hebrew al his attention directed to those .smilarities between the Israelites nd our North American Indians which have been often aud generally | discussed.
 Grand Duchess Serge.
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