The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-03-25
ORIGIN OF THE AzTECs.
A Recent Explorer Thinks They
Canne from Scandinavia.
eress nsrm Dsue by the wAntoa De-
strustioa OF iiistcrtc Records Of ehe
-seisntists Hnvo Not im-
proved Matters.

Rnce-Seientieta hfnvn Not Inn
proved Matters
II am glad to note that scientists,
and particularly philologists, are AZ
last making good Roadway in decipher-
ing the hicTnFlyphics Of the Aztecs,N
said DR.. Wonaall Mees, Of Ithaca, N.
Y, to writer Of tho St. Louis Globo-
Democrat. a have Just returned from
an extended visit to eur sister republic.
during which | made the most careful
researches, with results whicharc high
ly gratifying to me. There remains no
doubt In my mind that the warlikc and
highly civilized tribes which Cortes
found in Mexico were OF Scandinavian
origin and very closely allied to our
own Saxon forefathers believe we
shall soon be able 70 establish this facs
beyond question OF doubt. Indica,
ton point to the Seandinavisns having
come over from lie great northern
peninsula as early as the fourth cen
tnry B. O.
"Speaking OF Corses and the Spanish
conuuerors raises pe-fect storm OF
pent-up indignation within me every
time l hear the name, for the world
will never be able to fully realize the
harm they have done by their wnnton
destruction Of the records they found
and the stumbling hlociSs they have put
in tho way Of scientific researchers.
There are not enough Of the hieroglyh'
ic records OF the Aztccs remaining to
ever complete our knowledge OF their
civilization, but, In my opinion. tho
worst barriors hnve been successfully
passed. Many OF cur sciea.ists have
befogged very plain question concern
ing Mexican hieroslyphics. Therenever
was uniform system Of written or
printed records anywhere They all
contained the principles Of several dis
tinct systems This is true of Egypt az
well rs Mexico, A majority Of the
hieroglyphica OF nomenclature in
Egypt were based on the rcbas, or sym
monograph, where the pictures give
the sound, but not the sense, This i'm
niles tho existence OF two languages in
that country, one which gavc the
meaning and the other to which the
picture belonged.
"The Same system was used m Mex
ico. The hieoroglyph for Huaseyacac,
pronounced Washyca, Is 0 twig Of tho
huase fruit coming out Of the nose, or
yacae, OF human facs,
THE meaning, however, is quite
different. Wash or Washu must have
been the name Of the god Of war, and,
as Kak, or Gao, means red, and the
Gulwas were red men, Huaseyacac
must have meant the Red God OF War.
The peculiarity Of the word is that 10
presents what we may call the Scandi-
navian dialectic formula Of name OF
great antiquity found in many coun,
cries and not originally belonging to
the red men Of Europe and northern
Africa. In these peoples, who can be
directly tracsd to the rlingling OF the
three primitive savage races with the
prehistoric white rsees OF northern Flu.
rope, the Azes. or Asar, wo have tho
root Wash, as In Washington NashOe
aud like words. The older form waa
Bas, as in Basinghall, Bashjnal5Aa Bass,
Basqueses, ETC. in actual nomenclai
ture, and Bcs, Bessaria, Iiosng, in
ancient times. Huitzilipoctli was a
sitle and not d nause, and the lolling
tongue is hlsoroglyphic fer she word
Lap. showing that Iluitzillppahs!l was
She demon Lap, OF the gcc gar, as
viewed bg the red races Th: hero
glyphie IA based upon The Saxon word
Lap. to take up Yatar With The tongap
and il proof positive ot the Saudina.
vian origin Of she Aztees.
''Going further into this we have
found that the hiaroglyph for Lap waf
the rabbit, because Lepus REFUSES
with Lap, and we infer from that that
the rabbit god Of the Algonquius ia 0
proof that the Asteoa must have had in
. tercourse by some means with the civ
ilized races from whom the Romans goi
their word lepus. In every nation thnt
refused to eat the hare there muJt have
been similar intercourse, no matte,
under what pretext it was declined Al
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