C. Curious Coincidences and Connections
But if these
parallels are not coincidental, what might they imply? Obviously,
one answer would be that both the Enuma
Elish and the Okanagan Legend, stem from some common source
far in the mists of “prehistory,” a common “paleoancient Very High
Civilization.” If so, then there ought to be similar connections
between the classical Old World and the pre-Columbian New
World.
This is indeed the
case, but it presents even more difficulties. For example, there
are clear cases of Egyptian remains in
North America. As has been seen, in some few cases, the remains of
giants found in the Americas are also found surrounded by
hieroglyphs having similar characteristics to those of Egypt.
Former Harvard University professor Barry Fell even believes that
the Micmac Indians of Maine and Eastern Canada employed a script of
hieroglyphs actually derived from Egyptian and Libyan symbols. He
believes this because of the highly anomalous discovery of a tablet
on shell mound on Eagle Neck on Long Island, New York. The tablet
“is now stored at the Museum of the Americas in New York.”181
A deeper connection
is to be found in human mitochondrial DNA itself. The conventional
theory of the origin of the North and South American native Indian
populations is, of course, that they migrated long ago over the
“land bridge” across the Bering Straits between Asia and North
America. In 1994, a team of Emory University scientists surveyed
American Indian groups and their mitochondrial DNA, and found “four
major varieties, each of which had components associated with
groups in Asia.” Had the study stopped there it would have been a
resounding scientific confirmation of the standard version of
“prehistory.” But unfortunately for that version, the study also
found a fifth group of mitochondrial DNA among the Ojibway, the
Sioux, Navajo and other tribes, and “the only other place this
group shows up is among Europeans.”182
The connections
become even more amazing, if not perplexing. Consider the fact that
the capital of the Aztecs, the magnificent “Venice of the New
World,” Tenochtitlan, was situated “on an island in a large lake
surrounded by canals.” But why build such a city in such a
difficult place, one that required extraordinary engineering skills
and labor? The answer: The city “was apparently built as a
‘replica’ of the one” that, in Aztex myths of their origins, “lay
to the East of them and from which their ancestors came.” What
makes this intriguing is “that no such city has ever been found —
except in the description Plato gave of
Atlantis. ”183
While it would be
foolhardy to suggest that the Aztecs had read Plato, the
“coincidence” points to another “deep connection,” since Plato
claims to have derived his famous allegory of the lost planet from
Egyptian sources, and the parallels of Egyptian legends with some
of those in the New World’s indigenous populations has perplexed
many scholars of the subject, from alternative researchers to those
securely ensconced in the towers of academic
orthodoxy.
But there is one
other possibility to be considered, one
that, to my knowledge, has not ever been mentioned in connection
with the Aztec legends of their origins “in the east.” The Aztecs,
like the Mayans, were gifted astronomers and mathematicians.
Consequently, what if the reference to
“eastern origins” is an astronomical one? As I noted in
The Giza Death Star Destroyed, if one
follows Alan Alford’s prescient suggestion that “eastern”
references refer to planets lying outside the Earth’s orbit of the Sun — Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn — and “western” references to mean those bodies
inside the Earth’s orbit — Venus,
Mercury, and the Sun itself — then the Aztec legends of their
origins in the east, in this one instance at least, might be
preserving yet another residue shared in common with the classical
Old World of antiquity. It might be telling us that the Aztec’s
original ringed city of canals and islands in the middle of a lake,
was on another planet, if it was not the planet
itself.