Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-08
me of his sons TO disgrace him.

piit ol HIS SOILS disgrace him.
As late as 1919 the Shawnee Indians.
according to Black Hoop. one of their
chiefs, had tradition that their fore
fathers bad come To- ibis. country
fserross a great body of Water, and up
u1htff the. latter part OF the eighteenth
century they made an annual saeri-
flee TO Celebrate in thank offering their
safe arrival on this land.
In his History of the Indians Ca
mara publishes a statement made by
several of the early missionaries tell
ing of their experiences with an old
chief of a Niearaguan tribe. They
discovered in their conversation with
this old Indian that he was as con-
versant with the Biblical version of
the creation. the fall, the deluge. and
other notable experiences of the an
cient Hebrews as We're the mission
aries themselves.
If one is sufficiently interested in
this subject to go into it deeper and
more thoroughly than l can take him
IN the small space at my disposal let
him read Paul de Roofs work on
Mexican Antiquities.
These authors clearly establish that
the Aztecs were familiar with Hebrew
history as contained in the Bible. And
their man named Zelula led a colony
across great body of land and then
Of water to the New World. About
the only feature of the new country
from which this colony came that re-
rhained in the Aztec tradition was that
Il high temple has been built in 1t.
BY the time of which. De Roo writes
the Aztecs had lost the connection be-
tween the country from which their
ancestors came and the legend OF the
Garden of Eden. the flood and the
Tower of Babel They supposed those
things had happened in the new conn-
try.
The Aztecs have left the most inter-
esting ruins perhaps of any nation that
fiourished in America in the far past.
But | have no doubt that in the near
future the many buried cities and 9TH
ers submerged under the sea, recent
ly discovered off the coast of Yucca
tan. with their records and histories.
viii have been unearthed and that the
true origin of Americas ancient races
will be made known by the discovery
of some key to their hiereglyphics an
Aztec Rosetta Stone
These people committed the record
of their travels and subsequent his
tory of America to painting. These
paintings have been gathered. or at
least most of them have, and are con-
tanned in the Boturni collection and
published by CameIh Carei and 9TH
ers.
Here we have in these paintings, al
most lunimpeachable evidences of the
fact that so far assthe Azteos We're
concerned, they knew alb about5the BIZ
bicai version of the erea tien. and those
other events of which II hayebspoken.
All these records We're made hundreds
Of Years before Columbus was born.
All Americans should take active in
sterest an tive history. of-tlleir country
and of all the races that have ever in
habited IL. AS / said before, ii does
not natter what ones religious belief
is. or his lack of a belief, the subject
is one that should interest all; purely
for scientific and historic reasons. il
for no other.
If it can be established so clearly as
to leave no room for doubt that a
great branch of the ancient Hebrew
race came of America and are really
the progenitors of the Indian tribes, it
would be a discovery of tremendous
Importance.
To my mind the Hebrew origin of
the Indian is already established.
Ever since l can remember | have
had great curiosity to know about
the ancient people of America. And
there was one race that captivated my
imagination. This was the Aztecs. |
read everything | could get my hands
on that dealt with them in any way.
and The more l read and investigated
their history the more impressed !
became with their essentially drama
tic Observation-Disclosures York World.
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