: Cool! I like fun :-) (It's Yer-Ks, isn't it?)
No no no, much bigger, cooler, and completely off-topic for this forum.
: Wow, have you checked out the site I link at the end of
: every post?
I think I started to browse through it once but got pulled off to something else. I'll check it out again later.
: Supposédly, this would be their recreation of Paridise,
: which was an island in a river-ocean, which sank.
: I’m not sure about the Aztecs anymore, but the Maya claim
: to have come from the west, across the ocean, not
: north, as they should if they believed they were
: derived from the Bering Strait crossing.
Aye, and there's plenty of archaological evidence behind that. The Incas and Maya have strong South Pacific cultural influences, and we know that polynesians could sail well across the ocean to reach distant island like Hawaii (which, incidentally, was named after Hawai'iki, as they believed to have found a new paradise).
One of the most interesting indirect corraborations of this is the Mayan pyramids, the black native central Americans, and cocaine found in Egyptian mummies. What's the connection? Well, if polynesians sailed to South America, what's to keep their South American descendants from sailing to Africa? Say they sold coke to the Egyptians for slaves, and saw these cool stepped pyramids while they were there... BAM. Black people in South America, coke in Egypt (when it's only native to South America), and Mayan pyramids.
Hey - now that I think about it, that might even be where the Egyptians, and thus Greeks, got their Atlantis myths! Hawai'iki and Peng-lai could very well be the same island, somewhere in the western/southwestern Pacific (did I hear Sili mention Lemuria?). The polynesians came to South America, which is where the Incas and Mayans got their myths from. South Americans sailed to Egypt for trade, and told of the same myths while they were there.
Egypt reworked the myths, mutating them over time into a continent in the Atlantic (the south americans would speak of a continent far off to the west in their myths, since they had come from polynesia). Perhaps they thought it was South America. The polynesian naval abilities certainly fit, as do the Incas huge walled cities plated in gold! Then the Greeks learned of this from the Egyptians... and the whole world has this same myth now.
Of course each culture would twist it and mutate it with other myths - the Athenians probably had some war with an island culture in the Pacific which sunk from volcanic eruption (there were a whole lot of those, it seems), and crossed those records with the distorted polynesian myths they learned from the Egyptians. The Chinese obviously have their own cultural twist on it with Peng-lai. Hell, even the Christian creation myth seems to tie into it somehow, though I'm not sure how the migration of the mythology would work there.
