The following is somewhat critical of the Spanish. However, I suspect there is some legitimate debate over whether the Spanish acted appropriately in their conquest of the Incas and Aztecs. That debate aside, the purpose of the following is to argue that there was a connection between the white, bearded, reed ship riding, and pyramid building Egyptians and the Central and South Amerindian civilisations.
Please note: Caucasian mummies have been found in the Americas.
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No one can ever deprive Columbus of the glory of having flung open the doors of America to all these peoples who had not already struggled in across the Arctic ice. But we Europeans easily forget that there were thousands of non-European people waiting to receive him on land. And on the mainland, behind the islands where he had landed, great empires with high cultural achievements were seemingly prepared for a visit from across the sea. Their scholars told the Spaniards that white-skinned, bearded men had come over the sea once before, bringing with them all the secrets of civilization. The arrival of the Spaniards caused surprise neither in Mexico nor in Peru; they were not received as “discoverers” but as voyagers repeating an ocean crossing held to have been achieved long before by culture bearers who had come to their forefathers at the dawn of traditional history.
And it was certainly true that this part of America was no longer inhabited by primitive hunters and fishermen, such as those who had originally made their way down from the ice fields of Siberia. In those far from stimulating tropical zones, where the trade winds and the mighty ocean current from Africa had carried the Spaniards themselves ashore, they were met by learned men who themselves produced paper books and taught history, astronomy and medicine. Among the natives who received them were true scholars who could read and write, with a system of their own. They had organized schools and astronomical observatories. Their mathematical, astronomical, and geographical knowledge was so astonishing that they had worked out the movements of important celestial bodies with maximum accuracy, calculated the positions of the equator, the ecliptic and the tropics, and were able to distinguish between the fixed stars and the planets. Their complicated calendar system was more accurate than the one used in Europe in Columbus’ day and they began their precise chronology, the Mayan year 0, with the year 3113 B.C., by our calendar. Their physicians mummified eminent people with professional skill where the climate allowed preservation, and like the ancient Egyptians they performed trepanning, or true cranial surgery, without killing the patient, an operation unknown to European surgeons until several generations after Columbus.
Scribe and layman lived together in planned urban societies, with streets, paved roads, aqueducts and sewers, market places, sports grounds, schools and palaces. The urban population lived neither in tents, nor in leaf huts; they manufactured bricks of sun-dried clay mixed with straw, using the same formula as in the adobe of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and built proper houses of two or more stories lined out in regular city plan. The grander structures had halls with colonnades to support the roof, and the walls were decorated with reliefs and artistic frescoes painted in beautiful and durable colors. The loom was in common use and spinning and weaving had reached such a perfection that the Spaniards were shown tapestries and cloaks which in technical accomplishment and skillful composition surpassed anything to be seen in Europe. Professional potters made jars and dishes, jugs and mugs and ceramic models of people and animals involved in all sorts of activities, with an expertise equal to, if not surpassing, the best that the classical cultures of the Old World had been able to produce. And the gold and silver work of the local jewelers, with filigree and inlay, was so highly developed, both technically and artistically, that the Spaniards drew their swords, losing all self-control and conscience in their ecstasy at what they had “discovered.” Stepped pyramids of breathtaking magnitude, pillared temples, and the gigantic monolithic monuments of priest-kings towered over the adobe roofs, while regular roads, man-made waterways, and large suspension bridges set their stamp on the landscape. Countless artificially irrigated and terraced fields bulged with varieties of root crops, cereals, vegetables, fruit, medicinal herbs and other cultivated plants. Even the cotton plant had been refined from its lintless and unusable wild state and was professionally cultivated on a vast scale as a lint-bearing species. Both wool and cotton were spun, dyed and woven, and sometimes with thinner thread and finer mesh than any fabric ever produced in Europe prior to the twentieth century.
The Ra Expeditions. pg 21-25.
Informed of the Spaniards’ arrival by his organized scouts and messengers, the priest-king was carried to receive the newcomers in his elegant litter with fan and parasol. He, too, like the arriving Spaniards, had bewildered preconceived ideas as to whom he was to meet. The mighty priest-king, like his entire people, was convinced that he himself was descended from the sun through bearded white men, just like those who were now repeating their visit to his country. The occasion called for celebration. His musicians played on flute and trumpet, beat drums and rang silver bells. He came with his bodyguard and a standing army of many thousands of men. his scouts had found a handful of Spaniards coming ashore and making their way across country toward the capital.
Precisely the same thing happened in the Aztec’s mighty kingdom of Mexico as subsequently in the gigantic empire of the Incas in South America. A small handful of Spaniards with white skins and beards vanquished those huge empires virtually without firing a shot, simply because the scribes and priests on the shores where they landed had either hieroglyphic records or verbal religious traditions which stated that white men with beards had brought the gifts of civilization to their forefathers before they eventually passed on to foreign regions with their teaching, promising to return. All American Indian tribes were beardless. They could not grow hair on their chin. This peculiar feature was common to all descendants of the golden-brown stock who had filtered in from the Arctic north. But the Spaniards, when they were “discovered” by the Indians on land, were bearded and white-skinned like the culture heroes of all local tradition. Although a mere handful, they were therefore warmly welcomed back both to Mexico and Peru by the mightiest absolute monarchs of medieval time.
Cont. shortly…
