Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-09-09
INTERESTING RUINS.
An Americans Discoveries In Peru
and Bolivia.
Thought to BE the Most .incient Remains
of Lower Ciyili,tttpn to BE Pound
Upon t:ic Western
ucni moro.

Thought to BE the Most ancient Remains
of Lower Civilization to BE Pound
Upon t:ic Western
Hemisphere.
Maj. William Suliy. lieebe, a retired
army officer living at Thompson,
tnI.n.. !, about IL send to the leading
arciI.prl. lists Of this country and
Europe hat he considers, proofs of
some yer, remarkable discoveries that
hc la, made during researches that
have rnat HIM twenty years of study
and Il large SUN of ulunry expended III
novel line, OF investigation. lie be-
Iieves = - the New York sun. that
his tindingS will convince scientists
/ that America is the seat of an older
! source of occidental civilization than
either AsSyria or Egypt. Maj. Beebe
/ claims that the races that tlouriShed
around the Mcditcrranean-the Acca-
lian, the A>~yridn. the Egyptian. the
Roman and the Grrrk-provc them
selves to have been the borrowers
| from an earlier people on this CONT
nrnt. because in the parallels that
occur in the early traces of both civili-
cations tn" greater purity is found in
| the American examples. Myths and
symbol, and folklore tales that Euro
pran students have not been able to
make clear are sinpli;icd when read
by the li.rht of his American discov-
cries. In the Journey t. distant lands
they have been altered. copied blindly
| or repeated isnorantly. h. thinks, 50
| that they have obtained altered or
| modified meanings on the other side.
To give only one example: Maj. Beebe
| asserts that the 2oiiacal sign of
Sag;ttariuS was at first an armadillo,
| the name of which III Peru meant an
armorcd hare or rabbit. The sign and
/ name remained the same wherever the
armadillo was known. but by the time
| the symbol reached northern Mexico
and the region of our states it became
| changed to an armed rabbit-a rab-
bit carrying bow and arrow. 1t is
the same sign, Maj. Becbc says. and
stands for the same constellation in
the heavens as the European symbol OF
q man with bow'and arrow, Sa%ittar-
JUS
! Mai Beebc declares the most ancient
remains of former civili.at ton on this
| continent to be those ruins OF temples
and of cities that are found il the
| neighborfood of Lake Titicaca. on the
Bolivia-Peru border. These relics are
| scattered over a great extent of cOun-
| try and reveal remarkable skill in
| stone cutting. lin architecture and in or
nament. This region is fourteen thou
sand feet above the sea level and too
| cold to provide sustenance for more
than a sparse population, but there is
little doubt that it's climate and its
population were once very different.
1t once supported thousands of stone
cutters who could neither live nor
work there now. The Aymara tribe
| Of Indians, the present inhabitants,
| have retained i'll great purity the Ian
| guagc they spoke when the Spaniards
conquered the country, and at that
time the Spaniards took down their
fables and legends in great numbers
Maj. Beebe sent a capable man there
to verify the old observations and
make new ones, and, after a study of
eight other American tongues and
people to the north of the Aymaras,
he is convinced that they are the rel
| les of the oldest American semicivil-
| ization. and that their influence spread
over North America. Proofs Of this
| he claims to have found as far away as
Iowa and New Jersey. lie asserts
that there are in Egypt, and, for that
matter, all around the Mediterranean,
the most evident Implications of the
work of these Aymaras in dials like
that at Stonehenge, in Assyrian and
Egyptian buildings, in the folklore and
in the languages of many peoples.
OF almost equal interest to Ameri-
cans is Maj. Beebe's discovery with re-
gard to the Photographic tablet found
at Davenport. Ia, and declared by
Smithsonian experts to be spurious
and worse than valueless. Maj. Bee.
be declares that he is able to read it.
He says that it reproduces the SYM
bols and myths Of the Aymara Indians.
and tells the same stories that are
conveyed by means of the great dial
temple at Tia Huanacu in their coun-
try-the same that Mr.. Inwards, of Lon
don, found to correspond SO nearly in
appearance with a miniature temple
left in Assyria. Maj. Beebe has re-
duced all his proofs to writing, and ar.
ranged the vast number of analogies
that he claims to have discovered be-
tween old and new world beginnings
in such a manner that when all are
collected and presented in print and
sent out, the scholars of the world
may, with the least possible trouble,
examine his work and judge his claims.
He is a man of leisure and of means,
who in taking up the study of Hebrew
had his attention directed to those
similarities between the Israelites
and our North American Indians
which have been often and generally
| diScuSSad