| Show discoveries IN YUCATAN highly in interesting creating and important discoveries have bare been made according to recent rev reports orts io in central america indicating it if we mistake not that hat science at last laet is ia on the road to solve the mysteries connected with the aborigines of this coo chotiner tiner t dr au guatta is ie Plon geon geso the eminent arel arc feolo Kiat has baa devoted twelve years yean to the tody study of the monuments monn mento of the ancient race of that country and has baa at last succeeded to in deciphering many of inscriptions the found in tb the ruins eruine according to the account in the july number of the review of reviews review dr Plon geon surmised aed that the join jan still spoken by the aborigines of yucatan would bear some resemble pos to that of the first inhabitants inh abitanta and acting on tola this supposition he soon oon found founis that by giving to the mysterious characters character on the ruin the same phonetic value they possess in the language lao guage of the quiches Quio beB they formed intelligible words worda and phrases thence then he discovered that the modern language or of the native natives was not materially different from that hat of the be inscriptions the arol wid ogist by this means obtained a key to the formerly former lj incomprehensible ben hen aible sible hieroglyphics hieroglyphic what way may be regarded as ae a still more startling discovery Is ia the fact that the bie hieratic ratio or sacred alphabet of the mayas may as on comparison was found to be practically identical with that of the egyptians bud and that the grammatical of the two tongues is IB strikingly similar many words worde and charko me some same in both the initial letters of the tb mays may names for the objects which constitute th tha egyptian alphabet are the very characters so BO represented the conclusion from this is that both these them people deorle acquired the art of writing from a common source or one ot of them taught it to the other dr Pion eoD WO we are informed has bas succeeded in translating the the british museum a record dealing with geol geology olzy and his big tory Acco according to this the peninsula eula of yucatan was called maysa Ma 11 which is ia said to mean the fleet first or primitive lont laiu it comprised the whole of central america the two chief cities were uxmal urmal and atza the latter of which was waa the center ot of civilization this place was vit visited sited by learned ulen men from all parts of the world and the me in the manuscript man it show traveler with un assyrian features feature fea tur As A a a further jur ther proof ot of the that must have existed between he ahe dlf terent parts parte of the globe is tm that the word dayel mayel maya to 1 found in ID asia africa and europe and always alway meaning power or wisdom wi adom 11 the following ia 16 an 60 account of a terrible cataclysm recorded in the T manuscript and translated by mr jor Plon geon in the year 6 kan on the lath alth of maine in the mouth month zao there occurred terrible earthquakes which continued without interruption entil the chheu the country of the hills hilla of mud tho the land of mu was sacrificed being twice up heaved it suddenly disappeared disappear od durin the night the basin basili being continually shaken by volcanic forces being confined these caused the land to sink ink and to rise several times and in various places at last the surface gave way and ten countries were torn aann 1111 ier der and scattered unable to withstand of the convulsions they sank with their of inhabitants years rears before the writing of this book it is ie supposed that this terrible cataclysm ts to the same memo as that referred to by plato to in his bi atlantis At laotis and that we the letten at 01 the greek alphart i are a record ot of the event I 1 the story of the creation the she mayas opted carved over the of the be east facade dwade of the palace at catchin itza the beliefs hold held by the mayas concerning ning the creation as therein recorded dod are identical it to is claimed with the she ideas ideal concern ift toe the first ortirio of things arrived at by abe inhabitants of india and of egypt and are re expressed in nearly the same flame worie wor this identity or of ideas expressed in 10 identical language cannot be attributed jt it Is justly argued to were mere neither to la it conceivable that mat the people of these different countries arrived sit at the same memo conclusions independently of one another the idea and its explanation must undoubtedly baa originated among one people and by them have been taught to the c then dr Plon geon overthrows the generally accepted vie we on tb this Is subject and argues for the opinions advocated by the believers in the book of mormon he be contends that the cosmogony originated on this continent and was transferred to the eastern eastok n hemis hemisphere phom fie ee shows that the legends connected with fth the of el egyptian deities deltie fl when interpreted by means means of the may maj linguai point directly to td cayax as their birthplace he dotes the identity or v the egyptian with the mayon mayan alphabet alo habet and he reminds u no bat atiat the egyptians themselves looked upon the lands of the west 1 am aa being the motherland mother land of their gods eoda and their ancestor ance sod adl the fountain head from which they had originally derived their knowledge prom from these theae and other promises prem iaea he be deduces the con elusion that the egyptians and other eastern nations acquired their oos COB mogo mcgonical oal from maysia from all this it is evident that the study of the maya inscriptions has baa thrown a now new the of the past handed down by the his ble of egypt india babylonia babelonia Baby lonia and Pat palestine estine |
