The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-14
MAY BE lSRAEEl'S LOST TRIBES "
80.
BELIEVED AFTER THEY LEFT THEM OWN COUNTRY THEY
LANDED ON SHORES OF AMERICA.

that country. Eve the barbaric Toll
tees left undeniable evidences that
they were perfectly c~onversant with
the biblical history Of the creation
and Of the Garden Of Eden, and, Of
course, the two illustrious personages
who inhabited 1t.
In the ruins of Copan DR.. LIE Plon-
geon discovered a crude painting rep
resenting a woman seated beneath a
tree and a serpent entwined around
the base of it. In the passage Of
brated temptation Of the mother Of
the race took on a more poetic form
than the one contained in the bible.
The Toltecs had 1t that the woman
"Suchiquecal" they called her
plucked a forbidden rose from a tree
and by that act brought death upon
the human family.
These same Toltecs had the legend
Of the Tower Of Babel. Their version
Of it did not vary from hat Of the
bible in any essential feature. They
understood that this tower was built
for a refuge in the event of another
deluge. This, of course, also indi-
Gates their familiarity with the bibli-
cal story Of the deluge. They even
had the particulars.
Their legend speaks Of the man
who built a boat from a fir tree and
that after the flood had subsided he
became intoxicated on wine and al
lowed one Of his sons to disgrace him.
As late as 1919 the Shawnee In
dams. according to Black Hoop, one
of their chiefs. had a tradition that
their f~orefathers had come to this
country Gro a great body Of water.
and up until the latter part Of the
1 -@~.,, .~,, vnoa> nv ~-
nual sacrifice to celebrate In thank
Offering their safe arrival on this
land.
In his 'History Of the Indians
Camara publishes a statement made
by several of the early missionaries
telling Of their experiences with an
old chief of a Nicaraguan 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.
Client Hebrews as were the mission.
aries themselves.
II n is sufficiently interested In
this subject to 90 into 1t deeper and
more thoroughly than I car take him
in the small space at my disposal, lei
him read Paul de Roo's work or
Mexican Antiquities."
These authors clearly establish tina,
the Aztecs were familiar with He.
brew history as contained In the bible
And their man named Zelua led
colony across a great body Of land
and then Of water to h new world
About the only feature Of the new
country from which this colony came
that remained in the Aztec tradition
was that a high temple had beer
built in 1t.
BY the time Of which De Roo write.
the Aztecs had lost the connection
between the country from which thei,
ancestors came and the legend of thu
Garden OF Eden. the Hood and thu
Tower Of Babel. They supposed
those things had happened in thu
new country.
The Aztecs have left the most In
teresting ruins perhaps Of any natior
that fourished in America in the IA,
past. But I have no doubt that II
the near future the many buried cit
les and others submerged under tn.
sea, recently discovered of the coas
Of Yucatan. with their records and
histories. will have been unearthet
and that the true origin Of America'i
anoient races will be made known b,
the discovery Of ON key to theil
hieroglyphics. an Aztec "Rosetts
Stone"
! These people committed the rec,
ord Of their travels ana s%ubseauen,
history In America TO painting. Thes,
paintings have been gathered. or y