Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-10
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

Four new-old cities discovered in one
day in terra incogniti by Col. Lind
bergh!
Can any one imagine a more incon-
gruous combination than that of search
ing the habitations of the ancients OF
Yucatan with a modern airplane and
beholding from the clouds the ruins Of
city so buried in vegetation that it
had never before been seen by white
man? That was yesterdays report by
radio, broadcast from the skies over the
interior of the Yucatan Peninsula by a
party of explorers, headed by Col. Charles
Lindbergh and wife and including GER
tain scientists. incidentally, when the
great winged airplane monster swooped
over the savage region the natives were
as frightened as we would be upon the
planet Mars soaring in comet with
a tail entwining the moon.
The fascinating nature Of the Yucca
tan wonders lies in the unlimited scope
they give to imagination. There is
nothing that is impossible in the his
tory of the civilization of the race
which outshone all other races in the
Western Hemisphere and dazzled the
civilization of Europe with its early
achievements in science, architecture
and organ Zation.
It Is the style to underrate the story
of queen Moo" by DR.. lie Plongeon:
he was not a technical scientist and
many of his deductions as to the loca-
ton of the Garden of Eden in the Maya
country are scoffed at in the universe
ties and museums. The romantic story
of the reigning Queen who married her
brother is discounted by the modern
psychologists. That spouse was slain
by another brother in jealousy and
envy. Then Queen Moo was driven
into flight by that murderer, so that
she barely escaped with small follow
ing to the great empire of Atlantis, and
subsequently passed on to Egypt, where
she was recognized as Queen and
made the first Queen ruler over Egypt.
Then Atlantis blew up or was flooded
by the Atlantic Ocean and Queen Moo
never returned to Yucatan.
Before her flight she had embalmed
the heart of her er-husband, and
DR.. LIE Plongeon found it "as is" and
sent it to Harvard University to prove
his story. Harvard analysed 1t and
found it flesh. But lie Plongeon is not
Endorsed, even when he discovers Maya
hieroglyphics in the isles of the Pacific
| and around the world, proving" the
location of the Garden of Eden in Maya
| and the former existence of Atlantis
What If Col. Lindbergh now discovers
the original snake and apple tree, as he
looks down from his ubiquitous air.
plane? This is a great age of dis
covery. Nothing he tells us can beat
his first noted stunt with I'VE" and the
/ sandwiches.
Getting down to plain facts, take the
story by our own highly credited DR..
William H. Holmes of the National Mu-
scum, who, with a company of noted
scientists, including DR.. LIE Plongeon,
visited that region more than three
decades ago, and explored its wonders;
what he then wrote Of it remains clas-
sic to this day.
In an Introductory paragraph, DR..
| Holmes wrote:
I'VE are told by the early Greek his
| torians that broad continent, known
| as Atlantis once spread over what is
| now the middle Of the Atlantic Ocean;
that this land was inhabited by a Wig
orous and cultured race OF people, who
/ carried their arms eastward to the
! farthest limits Of the Mediterranean,
and that the Greek gods, righteously
angered by these encroachments, re-
taliated by sending Atlantis to the bot
| tom of the sea. 1t has been fayorite
| theory of many students that the
| American races may have been derived
| from this source, inheriting therefrom
! the germs Of that strange culture now
represented by 80 many ruined cities.
Whatever may be the truth with respect
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