The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-04-25
ORIGIN OF THE AZTECS,
A Recent Explorer Thinks Thoy
Came from Scandinavia.
Groat Harm Done by tho wanton Do
struction OF Historic Records OF tho
Raco-Soitntists Ilnvo Not I'm
proved Matters.

II am glad to uotc that scientists,
| and particularly philologists, are at
last making good Roadway in dccipher-
Ing tho hieroglyphics Of the Aztccs,"
said DR.. Wendall Mees, Of Ithaca, N
Y, to n writer Of the St Louis Globe
Democrat. II have just returned from
an extended visit to our sister republic,
during which / made the most careful
researches, with results which arc high
ly gratifying to mo. There remains no
doubt in my mind that the warlilSc and
highly civilized tribes which Cortes
found In Mexico were Of Scandinavian
origin and very closely allied to our
own Saxon forcfathcrs. l believe wo
shall soon be able to establish this fact
beyond question of doubt. Indica-
ton point TO tho Scandinavians having
como over from the great northern
peninsula as early rs the fourth cen
tury B. G.
"Spealsiug Of Cortcs and tho Spanish
conqucrors raises n perfect storm Of
pent-up indignation within mo every
time I hear tho name, for tho world
will never be able to fully rculize the
harm they have done by their wanton
destruction Of tho records they found
and the stumbling blocks they have put
In the way Of scientific researchers.
There arc not enough Of tho hieroglyh-
10 records Of the Aztccs remaining to
ever complete our knowledge Of their
civilization, but. In my opinion, tho
worst barriers have been successfully
passed. Many Of our scientists have
befogged a very plain question concern
ing Mexican hieroglyphics. There never
was a uniform system Of written or
printed records anywhere. They all
contained tho principles Of several dis.
tinct systems. This Is true Of Egypt as
we'll as Mexico A majority Of tho
lierOglyphics Of nomenclature In
Egypt were based on tho rcbus, Or sym
phonograph, where the pictures give
the sound, but not the sense. This i'm.
plies tho existence of two languages in
that country, one which gave tho
meaning and the other to which tho
picture belonged.
"The same system was used in Mex
leo. Tho hicoroSlyph forfHuaseyacac,
pronounced Washyca,zfs n twig Of The
huasc fruit comingsout Of the nose,ior
yacac, of Il human face. %
"Thc mcaning@ however, is.9luitc
| different Wash Or Wushu must have
been the name of the god ofsWar, and.
rs Kals, or Cac, means rcd and the
Culwas were rcdR mcn,% Huascyncac
must have meant tlic&Iecd God Of War.
The pcculiarity Of tho word is that it
| presents what wo may cnll tho Scnndi.
| nnvian dialectic, formula Of Il namo of
great antiquity found in many coun.
tries and not originally belonging to
the rcd%men Of Europe and northern
| Africa. In Nthesettpcoplcs, who can be
| 1trnotl,r frno II In % l>o
| three primitive savage races with the
prehistoric white races of northern Eu
rope, tho Axes, or Asnr, we hnvo the
root Wash, as in Washington, Washoe
and like words. The older form was
Bas, as in Basinghall, Bushinstolte, Bass
Basqueses, otc., In actual nomencla
ture, and Bes, Bessaria, Bosna, IN
ancient times. Huitzilipoctli was n
title and not hamo, and the lolling
tongue is hieoroglyphio for tho word
Lap, showing that Huitzilipochtli was
the demon Lap, or tho god Of war, rs
viewed By tho red races. This HERO
glyphic Is based upon tho Saxon word
Lap, to take up water with tho tongue,
and is proof positive of the Scandlna.
| Wan origin of the Aztecs
"Going further into this we have
found that the hieroglyph for Lap was
| tho rabbit, because Lcpus rebuses
with Lap, and we infer from that that
tho rabbit god Of the Algonquins is O
proof that the Aztccs must have had in
tercourse by some means with tho CIV
ilized races from whom the Romans got
their word lepus. In every nation that
refused to eat the hare there must have
been similar intercourse, no matter
under what pretext 1t was declined as
an article Of food"