The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-31

and Rome were born. Egypt will an ! swer. and the Mexican pyramid of Cholula the largest in the world, with Central American examples of such structures offer themselves as proof. The writer known as Count Johannes speaks for the Tyrians and 1sraelites, showing a similarity in their arts and
 customs and those of early Americans. He declares that Christianity was brought over by St. Thomas. Crosses from petroglyphs and in crude metal work are shown in proof of his the ory. though it is known that the cross represented to the MeXicans the points of the compass, that when Thorwald,
 the Norseman, died on the coast of New England 900 years ago, he or
 dered that crosses be set at his grave, that when St. Drendan led his Irish followers here he set up a cross, and that when Prince Nadoc of Wales
 pierced the inland rivers century later he also left this symbol among
 the Indians The Book of Mormon claims that the ancestors of the Indians were none other than the Lost Tribes
 of IsraeI' scattered from the Tower of Babel to wander over sea to the South American coast, and later to take their civilization into North America
 The Buddhists will point to the Mex ican images so like their own to the elephant faced god of the Aztecs which they claim Is an imitation of their god Ganesha and tell you that China ana Korea helped colonize America. Old Chinese records refer to this land as Fusang or Fusu locate it as $500 miles to their east, and describe another sea on the eastern side of Fusang. The records of Hui Shen tell that in the fifth century five Buddhist priests first came over and ordained missionaries among people they found. taught them their arts and later brought set tiers to mingle with them, Tor lminl- grafton was practicable by way of the Aleutian Islands and the friendly Japan current The Buddhists claim the Mex ican calendar. the Chinese game Of patolli common among the Aztecs, and the finding of jade ornaments In NICK | leo all bear out their theories
 A recent writer nas spken much pains to show that the Ptoiemaic Zodiac. was at first a terrestrial map
 in early mythologicaI ages, and was later used for the purposes of astron- omv. He places the map so that Lyra falls over Ireland, the land Of the harpers. Taurus over Spain, ancient
 Terraconnensis, and so on until Flu rope. Asia and Africa have ecah been | assigned certain signs of the zodiac | and then he argues that those which
  meant for America He claims that the map had been made in early days hv people who knew of this continent 1 existence but that through wars ana | migrations this knowledge was lost l and the Zodiac became merely an aux
 Hilary to astronomy with it's first sig 1 nificance lost.
 1 The value of existing things IS be- l nt hR nlIhllr
 bureau of American thnology whose
 members have found no tribe too small l to study. no weapon that has not an
 historic value, no bit of picture Writ ing that has not a bearing on the his
 tory of the continent, and no modern
 hut or ancient ruin that does not em-
 bodv A lesson. But back of the He'd
 Man still lies the mystery or ms oe-
 ginning, mystery that hung there
 before Gallileo was thrown in prison
 because he had a theory that the earth
 was round, and before an Aragon prln-
 cess pledged her jewels that Genoese
 soldier of fortune might prove this theory.
 The secret Is hard to unravsl, Tor
 with the rise and fall of Central Amer
 ican and Mexican governments, Jealous
 Snanish priests destroyed invaluable manuscripts, and carvings of tie an
 cient Aztecs. and have made the les
 son more difficult with no Rosetta
 stone to give the key to the remain
 ing ones. American men of science, however. are made of grit that Will
 some day win, and a believing people
 is waiting for that day that research
 will lead them back to the origin or
 the Red Mans ancestors. whether that ! research lead to Buddhist shrine the | Tower of Babel, or an Egyptian Tenn ple. or prove that America herself was the cradle of the whole world, the "ul-
 tima Thule" of which Virgil wrote
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