THE ORGINS OF THE PEOPLE OF MESOAMERICA
Origins
Where in the world did these early Americans come from? This was the huge question Europeans attempted to answer. Certainly, it is human nature to want to know some answers to some questions like: Why are we here? What are we here for? Where are we going after this life? This is the kind of curiosity which drives all people to organize, culturally, their responses.
There are these two great landmasses that have disappeared from the center of the Pacific Ocean and the center of the Atlantic Ocean. The people who inhabited these land masses were known as the Mu people from the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantean’s from Atlantis on the Atlantic Ocean. These two places have never been found.
Other people have suggested that the Phoenicians were the ones who brought civilization to the America’s, however, there is no proof of this culture on the American continent.
There are other people, scholars included, who suggest that the Africans brought culture to the America’s. One of the most significant proof they have organized for the argument are the “elephants” found on friezes (art) on the walls of buildings, for example the ones at Chichen Itza, Yucatan Mexico. While this is intriguing, archaeologists have learned that the art pieces claimed to be elephants by some people are truly Chaac masks – the Maya Rain god.
Another interesting origin of the Maya was Egypt. This argument has been organized via the pyramid shapes of the ancient Maya temples and the pyramids of the Egyptian kings. Impressively, there is a major difference that has been discovered between Maya pyramids and Egyptian pyramids. The Maya kings used their pyramids during their life times and eventually they were buried in the floors. The Egyptian pyramids were built for one purpose only – to bury their kings.
There are people who suggest that it was Jesus, the Christ who introduced civilizations to the Americans.
Eric von Daniken suggested that aliens came from outer space and interacted with humans. He believed that aliens were the creators of the beautiful architectural designs the ancient Maya had on their buildings; none more so convincing than the cover of King Pacal’s sarcophagus from the ancient city of Palenque in Chiapas Mexico.
The truth is, Native Americans developed their own culture. Whether you argue that the culture spread via diffusion (started at one place and from their spread to other places) or different places created their own cultural traits independent of other places, there is seemingly just not enough evidence of the origins of these Mesoamericans to have evolved from the suggested origins mentioned earlier in this essay.
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