Creation Myths

   Olmec - Maya - Toltec - Mixtec - Aztec
   (mingled because groups are said to have mutual inheritance from Olmec)

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   The creation myth said that there have been five attempts by the gods to
   create a "human" race. The first four have been destroyed as unworthy
   after each had been allowed a `long count' period of days (about 5,000
   years) to prove themselves, but failed.

   The fifth try, using maize, flour and water to create present "humans",
   is said to have taken place around 3133 BCE.

   Or, in another version, the god Quetzalcoatl's recipe for the new
   `humanity' was the ground up bones of the previous race - who had all
   been killed by an end-time Flood.  

   E.G. Richards - below - has updated or pinpointed the event to Wednesday,
   8th Sept. 3114 BCE (Julian cal.

   That `long count' is almost through. The gods' fifth Judgment Day is
   calculated to fall on 23rd - 24th December 2012 CE

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   note: the correlation of that Mayan `long count' was successfully
   unravelled by Joseph Goodman, a Californian newspaper editor in 1905,
   by painstaking cross-checking of the Mayan codices and the Spanish
   colonial records.

    from `Lost Languages' by Andrew Robinson, 2002, CN 106839

   And it is now thought that the `long count' system of date definition
   was `invented' sometime before first century BCE, and by the Olmecs
   rather than Mayans
   see www.perceptions.couk.com/westward.html#olmec

   That last snippet came from E.G. Richards' fact filled book "Mapping
   Time - the Calendar and its History" ISBN 0-19-286205-7

   Richards also notes interesting matches between the names of days of 20
   day series of the Maya / Aztecs, called the tzolkin or veintena - and
   those used across the Pacific.

   I.e one Mayan / Aztec `veintena' series of animal day-names is the same
   list as used for a lunar zodiac in South East Asia,

   Also Richards points to fact that some longer calendrical cycles, of both
   Chinese and Mayans, had the same number of years.         

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   After the Greek `dark age' (1150 BCE to 850 BCE?) Hesiod had to rewrite
   Greek mythology / religion and found a myth of "Four Great Ages" - of gold,
   silver, bronze, and iron, each Age inhabited by a separate "human" type.

   Either Hesiod or someone else added another "Age" - of Greek Heroes - but
   we'll discount that.

   The Sanskrit `Mahabharata', along with Celts (Irish & Welsh) identically
   describe only Four Great Ages.

   As does the Persian Avestan story of the "Dream of Zoro-Aster" which gives
   "Gold, Silver, Steel & Iron Ages" - as did the "Dream of Nebuchadnezzar"

   Some historians think these are derived from a Mesopotamian pre-historic
   source. They probably haven't linked them with Meso-America, which could
   have received immigrants from Europe, Middle-East and Africa as result of
   a catastrophe, either post- or pre-Ice Age.

   see "disasters" / "catastrophes" / "deluges" at

   www.perceptions.couk.com/westward.html#treering
 
   www.perceptions.couk.com/subindex.html#dark

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   also maybe check `Maya' at "Alien Rulers"

   www.perceptions.couk.com/authority.html#Mayan

   www.perceptions.couk.com/authority4.html

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