"The Aztec nation, located in southern Mexico, claimed they had lived somewhere in northwestern Mexico or the southwestern US for over 1,000 years before migrating south sometime in the 1000s or 1100s AD. Most of our knowledge of these people comes from the Aztec sacred books, known as "codices", which were kept in their temples and which the native Aztec historians used when they wrote their chronicles. In the first half of the 1500's, the Aztec chieftain Ixtlilxochitl, wrote "Ixtlilxochitl Relaciones", a history relating the archives of his family and the ancient writings of his Aztec nation. He claims they were descendants to the Toltecs, who had passed down the following tale. In this account, Ixtlilxochitl presents the most complete and accurate account of the flood and events at Babel that have ever been found in ANY ancient civilization other than the Biblical account:
"It is found in the histories of the Toltecs that this age and first world, as they call it, lasted 1716 years; that men were destroyed by tremendous rains and lightning from the sky, and even all the land without the exception of anything, and the highest mountains, were covered up and submerged in water "caxtolmolatli" (translated to read "fifteen cubits"); and here they added other fables of how men came to multiply from the few who escaped from this destruction in a "toptlipetlocali;" that this word nearly signifies a close chest; and how, after men had multiplied, they erected a very high "zacuali", which is to-day a tower of great height, in order to take refuge in it should the second world (age) be destroyed. Presently their languages were confused, and, not being able to understand each other, they went to different parts of the earth....
The Toltecs, consisting of seven friends, with their wives, who understood the same language, came to the parts, having first passed great land and seas, having lived in caves, and having endured great hardships in order to reach this land;... they wandered 104 years through different parts of the world before they reached Hue Hue Tlapalan, which was in Ce Tecpatl, 520 years after the Flood." (IR, vol. Ix, pp. 321,322.) "
Papago Indian Story of the Tower at Babel
In 1875 and 1876, Hubert Howe Bancroft wrote a 5 volume encyclopedia on the American west, the largest collection of information on this subject, entitled "The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America". In here, he relates another of the rare instances when the remembrance of the Tower at Babel lives on in the legends of an ancient people, the Papago Indians of Arizona: "The wild Apaches, `wild from their natal hour', have a legend that `the first days of the world were happy and peaceful days;' then came a great flood from which Montezuma became then very wicked, and attempted to build a house that would reach to heaven, but the Great Spirit destroyed it with thunderbolts." (Native Races... vol. iii, p. 76.) Also in this legend mention is made of the fact that the earth was warmer in "those days" (before the flood); that all men, as well as animals shared a common tongue; and that Montezuma and his friend, the coyote were saved from drowning in a boat.
http://www.wyattnewsletters.com/babel/ybabel50.htm
The Toltec account about seven men escaping from Babel and coming to America with their wives also coincides with this:
Study suggests most Native Americans can trace DNA back to 6 women
Read more at http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2845...yRtaSUQDDo2.99
What do you think about this? It is pretty amazing!
"It is found in the histories of the Toltecs that this age and first world, as they call it, lasted 1716 years; that men were destroyed by tremendous rains and lightning from the sky, and even all the land without the exception of anything, and the highest mountains, were covered up and submerged in water "caxtolmolatli" (translated to read "fifteen cubits"); and here they added other fables of how men came to multiply from the few who escaped from this destruction in a "toptlipetlocali;" that this word nearly signifies a close chest; and how, after men had multiplied, they erected a very high "zacuali", which is to-day a tower of great height, in order to take refuge in it should the second world (age) be destroyed. Presently their languages were confused, and, not being able to understand each other, they went to different parts of the earth....
The Toltecs, consisting of seven friends, with their wives, who understood the same language, came to the parts, having first passed great land and seas, having lived in caves, and having endured great hardships in order to reach this land;... they wandered 104 years through different parts of the world before they reached Hue Hue Tlapalan, which was in Ce Tecpatl, 520 years after the Flood." (IR, vol. Ix, pp. 321,322.) "
Papago Indian Story of the Tower at Babel
In 1875 and 1876, Hubert Howe Bancroft wrote a 5 volume encyclopedia on the American west, the largest collection of information on this subject, entitled "The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America". In here, he relates another of the rare instances when the remembrance of the Tower at Babel lives on in the legends of an ancient people, the Papago Indians of Arizona: "The wild Apaches, `wild from their natal hour', have a legend that `the first days of the world were happy and peaceful days;' then came a great flood from which Montezuma became then very wicked, and attempted to build a house that would reach to heaven, but the Great Spirit destroyed it with thunderbolts." (Native Races... vol. iii, p. 76.) Also in this legend mention is made of the fact that the earth was warmer in "those days" (before the flood); that all men, as well as animals shared a common tongue; and that Montezuma and his friend, the coyote were saved from drowning in a boat.
http://www.wyattnewsletters.com/babel/ybabel50.htm
The Toltec account about seven men escaping from Babel and coming to America with their wives also coincides with this:
Study suggests most Native Americans can trace DNA back to 6 women
Read more at http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2845...yRtaSUQDDo2.99
What do you think about this? It is pretty amazing!
