Show RACE CE OF f GIANTS i D i MEXICO professor of L D S Farm Formel P Writes of Re Recent Recent cent Discoveries BOyEs ARE DISCOVERED thed Showing of Gt at t Very i Early Body Date Dale Paul A E Be fire ter 1 connoted with lIh tI L U I IX Do 8 B ud 1181 u l in jn this thle elt elty eity and sew new newTY engaged p pI ty TY t l r work ia le iaB I I In B p I A JP s al aa er sad i account acc of of ot what his nia tN a linC brought to light In I an a ar art urns tiun t 1 u 01 hue here r printed la in tug theN the M N H e Tb article in ID part is re ro dt d below BY Bt PAUL A E B HENNING of fossil r remains reMi a b be bew beh beto T TI Tee j to 10 the Quaternary perl w giliC s the that t nun man existed i In j I aa Tesi h pro proves prOM JI this P part rt of ot the um Ume Umea Eth sd cea by aide le With wIth the B n als crac of ot that asre ought not Dot to be some e red a ai a it H It c in hi an al a s me extraordinary g very wy enough discoveries of this kindis kind True America Americ haw a been comparatively In is l rare ye re but butt ee they y have hae ha been rare raN ran chiefly compared compare with Europe the ae a k au mount of to b be covered J Jer is Ia much mud lai laj larger ser er and the number Duber ever v er Investigators r so engage t engaged in the work werk hat bee of cf been much smaller And again in moat most cases canoe when It would tt f been b possible to secure an aD a abuD abundance h he da dante dance nce of ot valuable data deta nobody hap happ to b ba n the ground capable cable ef of p pee value vahe or r heir importance real g For tile the reason mentioned lJ nUO the amount of rt information that it has hu been poe pos I aible ibid to 10 gather on thin thU U is some somewhat what limited yet there eta can an be he no DO doubt I that Mt man existed on nn this thia cortin continent at in ini inthe i the eary early star tapS stages f the quaternary per period pern i iod n 0 new st Brt of data ao so far tar aa as a i itile I tM tile solution of this thia question In a gen reft rat way it is concerned eon could do hardly more mo than confirm an already well ea es establish fact Information Needed This Thu Th doea does not mean that additional ad information would not Dot be very desira deira bie hie in the tf matter On the contrary it our easily ily be Inferred interred that much Is la I needed to dear clear leal up the detail details of so dark lark and complex a problem However I Ia a new discovery would be of real un only nl If besides beside confirming the general geReral result obtained ao so far It should help to to te light certain circumstances fwd and relation ao eo 0 tar far unknown or doubt al JI to us ua IlLIf If for tor together with the re to of ot some animal or animals be being ben ing n me to 10 the fore part of the quater a H human remains should be found L f t me tie t e Indi India aring a ing that the race of man to which say i r belonged was waa plainly prehistoric hat but instead of the metamorphous type snowing showing that to have belonged to toi i moil tuch more moro recent times U e and aDd In la all to have hare been the borer bearer f r a certain civilisation so go far tar unknown 1 hen i en a II most valuable v addition to the the knowledge extant would nave have been ni nude made de A find of t this thle description would tend lend it t t prove that particular animal Imal and aad companions lived together with man an not only In days daya geologically very remote but from there en down dowa to t corn com very recent resent and even historical cal al times time R It Benin MM af sf Penen t ot f t this thia kind kiDd and d moaning meaning mI DC is the Ute Pe Fe Fein Peron in ron lIun m find of bones made mads a e few tow weeks ago alio by two of my Illy friends a and aad d myself It does doe not prove no so much the great groat ago age I f man on this thia continent as It U does doe d the fact f el that the elephant was waa mans cent oom i anion anlon on thia thlu hemisphere In days daS not Bot noto o 0 very remote and that whatever the thene ne he e of the human race In ht America may maybe IDa be 1 the persistence in America Am of the animal referred to was waa much greater than ball t is generally supposed Thus looked at from this thia stand standpoint standpoint point an entirely now new situation has haade de developed developed while wall at the same me time there thereas 1 has as been brought to light a fact of at ut nut moet no t importance to the student of ef an aR ancient Int American Amerlean history bl tory This Is la the themore themore themore more remarkable as a certain chain of ot oti data i ta i la Is only oDly waiting for this the tile last lat I missing link to complete It U sad and make maket I tt t available Not very ery often otteR do all aU cir circumstances work so eo happily together as ae they tho no Ao here her That hat chain of ot data referred to 0 runs runa as follows The Tile Missing Link Unit When the th Spaniards first came CIUllO to I America they were ware told among other things hinge of a tae of giants that at one tae ire I was waa a said to have peopled the North forth N Ith American continent Traditions relating to those these th people are recorded n s the works of all authors who In days d I I I past put undertook to treat of ot the antiquity of this continent According to some these giants had landed at one time on the northwest coast of ot North America which would indicate a migration from north to south According to others the and whose names a people of ot southern origin evidently of ot the tree worshipers nailed called in the Tub Pub coming from the theother theother other direction and trying to the lands landa in is th the valley of ot the not lot far tar from where today toda stand stands ln Pu Puebla bla rather unexpectedly found them themselves themselves selves face tace to face tace with a remnant of ot these tb giants plants from whom subsequently they should have much to suffer A Ac 11 a consequence they seem kem to have hay handed down d WD to 10 posterity a 11 lot of disagreeable di things about bout their heir oppressors In par particular particular particular I everything relating to the giants bodily bodUy sUe sine habits and appetite is Ia not a little exaggerated One On should think that even for fOt the tile Spaniards It would have b been en len a hard bard matter sometimes to believe all they the were told about the first ot of this continent 8 but It seems that Just Justas as aa soon as they showed any signs signa of Incredulity the natives presented to them for tor inspection some huge fossil bon boas or molar and therewith allayed their scruples Subsequently the Spar Spa Sh h writers re Ii remembering remembering the efficacy of the tile pro procedure procedure I lure employed the same kind of ar I to l convince their readers We Vo Ve VoJt I Jt may y be he sure lure this was waa as taken at full value so to long lone as U It was supposed that those thelia largo large hones bones belonged to man However just as soon as it was die dis discovered covered that they did not but to some Eama rie animal the arguments failed to produce the customary cu tomary result moult I Dissolved i Having arrived at this point it was wasa a small matter to take another step at p and declare that the giants had never been n human beings but were simply simpI these same animals To 10 Todo Todo do so 80 was wu no doubt rather rash and unwarranted but from the th logical standpoint it was perhaps ex excusable excusable The real trouble Is that the archaeologists archaeologists also allowed themselves to be carried earned away by the tho plausibility of this argument thinking perhaps per aps that what was waa true from the pla standpoint must be true from the tho archaeological cal one aa as well welt That Tbt was wasa a mistake of course aa as cally eally speaking the giants can be called as u animals animal belonging to former geo geological geological geological logical periods only after atter certain his historical historical historical Indications regarding them have been disposed of Before these have been boon proved to have been a matter of ot fiction and to be devoid of ot any Mm sem semblance blance of probability no such course Bourse as aa the one indicated can be taken A little closer Inspection of the matter would nave have revealed this fact long ago alfo It would have shown also alo that instead of ot of the solution resorted to quite another ther is in order lInn and Elephant If It as a matter of ot fact man roan and historic man had never lived side aide by side lIide with the elephant el then it la is true that all stories regarding gi gl giants ants aRts can caD be explained only as aa relating the latter But If man and andas andas I as the Fenon PeROn find shows Historical Ii man at one time lived together to ether with the elephant on this continent then the t e aspect of the matter changes vastly Both of them becoming extinct no notices tices regarding them thorn might later on onea easily ea Oy have bave been mixed especially if neither happened to leave very grate grateful ful memories behind them This was waa evidently the case here The name given those giants la quin amet n or bad people of ot great bodily size Knowing now that man did exist on this continent to together gether with animals gud gudt and t taking g Into consideration the arguments ments resorted to by b means mean ef of their fossil bones banes the great bodily size Is explained In other Miter words In later days after both animals and these particular men had become extinct e large bones were ware and were vote erroneously classed as a the remains of an extinct rae of ot men This Thi dl po of the or giant part of the term There remains to be explained the meaning bad people Jt Ottle regarding which wl ch It is not dif dU difficult at all aft to bring together quite a bit tit of Information of at a kind by b the way makes it only too plain that they must have been mean and not animals animal for tor animals never exhibit the treats attributed to these beings Giants of History In the first place we find that ac according according i cording to the Codex Ramirez the giants lived in the Aztec Sun or era called caned or This places place them directly before the who from the end of ot this era on throughout the following ones oc occupied occupied occupied this continent On the hand we sew saw before that tbt according to toI the T historian ti Ue tle e and met a last I remnant of ot the giants in the valley vaney of the Atoyac While this may appear to tobe toI tobe be b a In reality there Is la lanone I none aa ag there are abundant linguistic I reasons for tor believing them a group of the Toltec race a fact tact which is I indicated In the names themselves Thus different historical sources are In accord as to the place In history I occupied by the giants Turning now t to the details about the bad people of ot those tho e days daya we find In the I seurre first mentioned the following Returning to the giants who were created at the time when i poca Roca was waa the sun it is said that when he h ceased ed to bo he the sun they nil all per perished perIshed and tigers tI ers made an end of them and ate them up so that no one remained re remained and these tigers tiger were created in this fashion that after atter thirteen times years had passed Quetzalcoatl became beame the sun aun and to be it because he gave him a blow with a great stick and andI threw him over into the water and I there he was waa metamorphosed into a tiger and Issued forth thence theace to slay the giants And Anti this appeared In n the I heavens for it is Ie said that the tile Ursa I Mayor came ante ca down own to the water tel be because because cause cau e he is i and MIld was on high in memory of him I Supreme Sun in this relation stands for re regent regent regent gent of ot the era so 0 that saying that ca was waa the sun Bun during a certain era means that he was the supreme deity delt and ruler during that period Now In American mythology there ia is a constant contant struggle going on for this supremacy between and The latter is the teacher of ot purity and godliness of life the greatest benefactor of or mankind mankin 1 The former is la the protector tor of all evil and wicked practises immorality sorcery witchcraft In short of all that leads people down to death and net destruction For this reason we find osei hereunto Ji h f a tiger or ocelot which animal in na native native native tive Ideology waa was associated with these very Ideas In reading therefore that I the giants perished victims to the ti tl tiger tiger I understand that ger gel we I Ithe the evil influences referred to before were at the bottom of ot their I tion Identically the same ideas may mo be In Inferred Interred inferred from the term bad people which as aa we e saw forms part of tie the name the giants were known knowl by the historian historian historIan ian for tor Instance calls a certain kind of destroyed later on the oc occasion casion of the zin xin evidently not because he wished to say that they were the same people we are discussing but rather because according to the the Tol tees then living did not think any anymore anymore more nor speak to their creator their master muter who had made them and caused them to be born In other words like the giants they had become wicked and nd thereby drew the wrath of deity dotty down upon their heads Brasseur de Bourbourg discussing In his History of the Civilised Nations the causes that led to the downfall of these same of ot the first Toltec empire gives as one of the principal reasons the pernicious influence exerted by a certain certain certain tain of people called and whom he describes as follows Under these circumstances refer reter referring referring ring to the factions and the immoral immorality ity It that th t tore the Toltec empire asun asunder asunder asunder der all Innovations tending to foment disorder and to clothe the passions of ot ofrain rain man with more attractive forms torm fur furnishing furnishing the means of ot satisfying them with more refined sensuality could not but find partisans The sect of ot the which arose in filled these conditions It had taken the or origin origin at a region that at all aU times before the conquest has been no notorious notorIous because of the extreme moral laxity of its inhabitants inhabitant and the fail fa Il fly ily with people there might Ir in indulge all nil sorts aorta of ot pleasures A solemn cult was rendered there to the symbol of generation which was exhibited in all the temples and on the public squares In monstrous shape surround surrounded ed by figures and statues In the last Jast stages of ot In In addition to that the were looked upon as given given given en over to magic all of whose artifices they thoy knew thoroughly I Further Testimony of Historians III The same organization that Bras Brasseur sour describes de in his History of the Civilized Nations we meet with In other oth other other er authors under the name of ot tin sorcerers the tho partisans of nahual ism and bitter enemies s of Quetzal coati his hili people and institutions This Thir for instance is II the case cuse with Sahagun who in his writings assigns to these sorcerers the same role that Bras sour does to the Like LUte these they the are made responsible for tor the driving driving driving ing out of and the ruin of the of the first Toltec empire Historical difference between name and there ther is therefore none Judging these two terms by their linguistic characteristics the latter re refers reters refers fers more to the magical side of the secret institutions thus called the former torm r more to the gross of ot which they were the centers At times we may suppose they would develop more of the one at others more ot of 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