The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-03
ORIGIN OF AZTECS
A Recent Explorer Thinks They
Came from Scandinavia.
Great Harm Done BY the Wanton De-
struetion OF Historic Records OF the
Raee-Scientists Have Not Inn
proved Matters.

II am glad to note that scientists.
and particularly philologists. are at
last making good Roadway in decipher-
ing the hieroglyphics of the Aztecs,'
said DR.. Wendall Mees, of Ithaca, n.
Y, to a writer OF the St Louis Globe
Democrat. Il have just returned from
an extended visit to our sister republic,
during which ! made the most careful
researches, with results which are high
ly gratifying to me. There remains no
doubt in my mind that the warlike ard
highly civilized tribes which Cortes
found in Mexico were of Scandinavian
origin and very closely allied to our
OWE Saxon forefathers l believe we
shall soon be able TO establish this fact
beyond question of doubt. Indica-
ton point to the Scandinayians having
come over from the great northern
peninsula as early Is the fourth GEN.
fury 3. c..
Speaking of Cortes and the Spanish
eonquerors raises a perfect storm of
pent-up indignation within me every
time I hear the name, for the world
will never be able to fully realize the
harm they have done by their wanton
destruction of the records they found
and the stumbling blocks they have put
in the way of scientific researchers.
There are not enough of the hieroglyh-
ic records of the Aztscs remaining to
ever complete our knowledge Of their
civilization, but. in my opinion. the
worst barriers have been successfully
passed. Many of our scientists have
befo9ged very plain question concern
ing Mexican hieroglyphics. There never
was a uniform system Of written or
printed records anywhere. They all
contained the principles of several dis
tinct systems. This is true of Egypt as
well as Mexico. A majority of the
hieroglyphics of nomenclature In
Egypt were based on the rebus, or SIM
photograph, where the pictures give
the sound, but not the sense. This i'm
plies the existence of two languages In
that country, one which gave the
meaning and the other to which the
picture belonged.
"The same system was used in Mex
leo. The hieoroglyph for Huaseyacac,
pIOuOuuCCA w doA1y CO.. ~ wig VI VIC
huase fruit coming out Of the nose, or
yacac, of q human face.
THE meaning, however. 10 quite
different. Wash or Washu must have
been the name Of the god of war, and,
as kak, or Gao, means red, and the
Culwas were red men, Huaseyacac
must have meant the Red God of War.
The popularity Of the word is that it
presents what we may call the Scandi
navian dialectic formula of name of
great antiquity found in many coun-
tries and not originally belonging to
the red men of Europe and northern
Africa. In these peoples, who can be
directly traced TO the mingling Of the
three primitive savage races with the
prehistoric white races of northern Eu
rope, the Axes, or Asar, we have the
root Wash, as in Washington, Washoe
and like words. The older form was
Bas, as in Basinghall, Bashinstoke, Bass,
ETC., in actual nomencla-
ture, and Bes, Bessaria, Bosnia, in |
ancient times. Huitzilipoctli was
title and not a name, and the lolling |
tongue is hieoroglyphic for the word |
Lap. showing that Huitzilipochtli was
the demon Lap, or the god of war, as !
viewed by the red races. Tais hero /
glyphic is based upon the Seson word
Lap, to take up water with tie tongue,
and is proof positive of thai Scandina-
Wan origin of the Aztecs-
''Going further into this we have
found that the hieroglyph FOR Lap was J
the rabbit, because Lepus refuses
with Lap, and we infer from that that
the rabbit god of the Algonquins Is
proof that the Aztecs must have had in
tercourse by some means with the civ
ilized races from whom the Romans got
their word lepus. In every nation that
refused to eat the bare there must have
been similar intercourse, no matter
under what pretext it was declined as
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