The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-06

though they had fallen there by some
sudden calamity. The foreheads of the
skulls are broad and high.
The Chiapenese of Central America
claim to be the first people who came to
that country They came from the east.
IL the legends of Chibechas of Bogota,
Bochica was the leading divinity; during
two thousand years he employed himself
in eleyating his subjects. a del
uge came which destroyed the people"
Festivities in the month Izcalh We're in
stitUted to commemorate the frghtful
destruction of land and people, in which
the sacred books say, princes and people
BUNDLED themselves before the divinity
and besought him to Withhold return of
such calamities."
The Popul Vuh tells us that three sons
of the King of the CLUTCHES, after their
father had died, went to the east on the
shores of the sea, whence their fathers
had come, and received the royalty, and
the art of painting, system of writing,
they said, for the things to be recorded in
their histories" Travelling eastward along
the shore of the sea, they would come to
Florida!
Quetzlalcoat was the leader and civilizer
Of the Nahua family; from the distant
east he came to Tula, he condemned
sacrifices, except OF fruits and flowers.
He was skilled in many arts; he originated
letters anu 4liN tllNf- tllt -t1tA4ItAh NfAAIL4-
dar; - he sailed away into the east"
no Florida0
The Cakchiquel NJ S. says, -four per-
sons came from Tulan; from the direction
of the rising sun-that is one Tulan
H1loridaD; there is another Tulan in Ii
balbay"
The most important of the predecessors
of the great races of Mexico We're the
&icalancans; according to lzlilOchiI they
came from the east in ships. CFrom Flor
ida0
THE culture hero Gamma. the author
of all civilization i'll Yucatan. the teacher
of letters, and the leader Of the people
from their ancient home, brought the
colony from the east"-Tulan? (Florida0
The Egyptian civilization had no begin
ming in Egypt; it was at its highest stage
when the colony reached that country;
they came from the west; their rulers
claimed domionion over the west; the
obelsk in Central Park, New York, claims
this. (By-theway, that same obelisl1 may
have a cypher concealed in its hero
glyph.cs that might be read by one skilled
IN an ancient art which ignores modern
science.) The Egyptian colony appears
to have been composed of men at the apex
of civilization, skilled in every art useful
or Ornamental, that could in any way con-
tribute to their comfort or pleasure. They
came from the wests not with tale of
woe, uylng from disaster nut from
happy country, to the memory of which
they fondly chung to their. latest dynasty.
uBpdGS4 9Ul 10 EIolsIQ uslllIM sVL
priests dated back 14,G00 years prior to this
time. Florida certainly must have occu-
pied a very central position in ancient
day; must have been very near the great
center of civilization; the west to which
Egypt looked back with pride. and the
east to which the Central Americans and
their highly civilized ne.ghbors looked for
information, help and authority, or-was
this center Florida itself?
That some very old traces of a race of
former inhabitants should be found, and
these should indicate a far advanced skin
in engineering mathematics, agriculture,
astronomy, and commerce, becomes a nat
ural expectation. Possibly Florida may
contain records which might be the means
of restoring to use some long lost useful
arts; for in those ancient days there were
hid:ngs In the earth Of things held sacred
or valuable, in forms considered indie
structable by FIRE or flood.
The recent BabylOnian finds may be the
originals in the subterranean library. the
duplicates for ordinary use having been
long since destroyed. There is a Chaldean
story taken from sacred books Of Babylon