Show I r I t vi e b a rt II yi y I or t A hiking view of I all aD that re re- re remain ti r ar rf mains main of the great Temple of 1 wr the Dwarf in the ruined city Q r of Uxmal a building that must r st a e s P t have been DS as imposing and andas anda a as Y remarkable from artistic ra ie an m w e and engineering standpoint x f an of these thOle reared by the F Y w b sue a- a a any ancient a r L r f a ap aa p a ra T 3 k ke J Jk Jr JK Je k K a e T TyS yS e r x ce j v 3 v rise r rr r a rr rrt t a r rr r R Rk k y rv d x p c f ry N 4 i t 4 1 4 I rC t f a I Ruins of El the wo round t tower y at Ilza Chichen-Ilza Chichen Itza a piece of architecture whose exact exact r purpose arches arch can only guess guessA at A Why Science Thinks I 1 open vessel Chemical analysis con con- cont conat con confirmed w firmed my opinion opinion From the e position of E t the urn I made up m my mind d that Its That Ad Adam and d Eve at am an ve contents w were re the heart and viscera of the personages represented by the theM theay r r rk statue while the dust found m in the a first firsta M a ay y H Have a v ve e Le Lived Led IV e d In i in ya r fir P tv r rr r k brains urn must have e a been the residue n na of the Feeling sorry for having mg thus die die- dis disturbed the remains of Mool Chac so care care- carew carefully Y Yucatan uca t an Where there II the w fully concealed by his friends and rela rela- relays relatives Try F b tives many centuries ago in order to ys c 4 save them from further desecration I I M Mayas ayas Built B Ul t Th Their elf S burned part u ts the reserving geater Mysterious y S Sonly v only y a sma a small m a 11 1 1 f quantity its for fu fUr tu- Mysterious C Cities f turn turc analysis a This last state state- j 1 TAB AS the Garden of Eden where WAS 9 Adam and Eve first lived right 1 here in America and not m in away far away Asia Minor or India or Egypt or any of the numerous other places I where the guesswork of scientists has placed It Was the cradle of the human race as descrIbed in the tho Bible on the peninsula of Yucatan where the mysterious and lonz since Bince vanished Mayas later bUilt up one of the most moat remarkable civilizations civilizations the world has ever seen This Is a theory which some Bomo sCIentists have long entertained and the deeper they delve Into tho the crumbling ruins left by to the tho Mayas the more evidence they dIS- dIS dIScover die dis discover cover to make mako it seem quite plausible The Tho most complete and painstaking el ec- ex exploration of the Maya country yet vet et made mads is Boon soon to be begun and one chief alma aims will be bo to determine whether or not this really was the site of the Garden of o the Eden Eden the scene of the dramatic events described in the Book of Genesis A distinguished French arch the tho late Dr Augusto Auguste Le was the first to advance the tho theory that the Garden of Eden was in Yucatan ho hofelt felt sure that this was none other than the beautiful land described in tn the second sec sec- second sec second ond chapter of Genesis where the gold goldIs ls Is good and where there thero is bdellium amber and the on onyx X stone His theory was based very largely on his discovery of an extraordinary ry statue of Mool Chac-Mool a hero of the Mayas whose history according to Dr Lo Is curiously like that of the Old Testa Testament's ments ment's the Abel Abel the son of Adam and Eve who was murdered by his elder brother Cain And now this interesting theory gains gams new strength through the discovery by a Yucatan artist Miguel Angel Fernandez of still another statue of Mool Chac-Mool The statue found by Dr Le Lo is sculpture a huge reclining figure whose whoso ture bythe strongly suggests the work done by the ancient Egyptians on the other side of the tho world The newly discovered statue is also a reclining figure carved can out of a single block of stone The figure of Mool Chac-Mool found by Dr Lo Le was buried in an elaborate underground underground tomb in the ruined city of Itza Itza Chichen-Itza In the same vicinity the French scientist claimed he found carved mural pictures and hieroglyphics telling I the tho ancient story of how Chac Mool was as murdered in the beginning of time by his brother I Was Mool Chac-Mool the eon son of a Mayan MayanI MayanA Adam and Eve Eva and nd was Yucatan the I cradle of the human buman race The ers ans A to these questions may rest in in the ancient stone stono tablets in m the ruins of Chichen- Chichen i Itza the Itza the tablets which Dr Le I claimed to have havo read i I I iI I 1 y s J ment o 0 of f the t h e eFrench F French r e n c h savant Y has mado made it seem The Th first statue found of Chac Mol Chac Mool the Tiger King whose life story is is so sow w v 1 F probable recently that discovered the much like LLe that of Abel in the Old Testament that many think they were r v v d ered eyed Chac Mool is isone isono and the s one same sames had which he one Raising the statue of Chac Chac- Sia from its brought Mool from the under under- underground tomb also abo al o and de- de de decided ground tomb toab in if t tided to bury It which it was wa 5 i ift t q E i again agam The artIst buried h fl x xE xi round it in m a n mass massof massof X sj of debris which w yR 4 cwt i Ufa x P seems to indicate ft I f tift f that it was not 11 ti fr fri rs y I s sv sk k w vv her h e r e it had v 1 i p plaid originally boo b o o n laid away by the theMa Ma Mayas as As fori fort for far the hiero hiero- hieroglyphic t in i inscriptions inscriptions Jr Ar 3 x t d 7 tf f s v which tell h h lr z the story of the theman i I f Sl tie x Y c t 4 a ti P r a Cam Cain and n r sw Mayan an Abel ns as described 1 t s riA i x by the man they are so A very curious sculptured figure found in the Mayan far a rIddle to ruins on the tha peninsula of Yucatan arch Of his suc Sue Sue- r t S Ss s In these m mazes a z e s of w strange characters the savant said he 1 found lound the tragic story of how Mool Chac-Mool met death at his brothers brother's hand and even such d detailed incidents as the vain effort of Ake Ale the high priest to save cave his life and then the grief of Moo Mool's Chac-Mool's wife de over his slain slam body That the Abelof Abel of the Mayans was a areal areal areal real realand and not a mythological character he was convinced since his image had been carved after his remains were ere burned as in 1 the tho case of all Mayan per per- personages per personages after death I The Mool Chac-Mool Dr Le wrote shortly before ho he died forms a single piece with the slab on which It reclines as if about to rise on his el- el elbows el elbows bows the legs being drawn up so that the feet rest flat fiat on the tho slab dab I consider this attitude given to the statues of dead personages that I have discovered m in Itza Itza Chichen-Itza where they are still to bo bo symbolical of their belief in reincarnation tion The Mayas however destroying the tho body by fire made statues in ID the sem- sem semblance sem sem- semblance semblance blance of the deceased so that being in- in 4 f l f jt kF destructible pr the spIrit might find andani and ani animate mate them on its re- re return re return turn to earth The opinion of the French savant ant was vas that Egypt recel received ed the light of civilization civilization tion abou about years ago from Yuca Yuca- Yucatan Yucatan tan tan and ho he also substantiates through llis discoveries in Yucatan the ancient belief of Herodotus in the Lost Atlan- Atlan Atlantis Atlan the mysterious body of land in the Atlantic seen by ancient voyagers but once and never found again agam His Ibis argument was that the Egyptian night might easily have conic come to AtlantIs the undiscovered continent of America thousands of years ago and there found n a culture vastly superior to their own m in the cradle of the human race Yu race Yu Yucatan catan ratan Among his strongest proofs were the th Cg looking Egyptian Mool Chac-Mool of which the Sphinx and the statues of the kings of Egypt might be the offspring th the Mayans belief 11 ir in reincarnation so BO like liko that of the ancient Egyptians and traces of many other othel similar customs and belief The nc newly ly discovered figure of Chao- Chao Mool Chao-Mool Mool is some somewhat hat different In its positIon position position tion from flom the older one but it has the tho same Egyptian cast and also strongly suggests the tha reincarnation idea Meas Mens- Measuring Measuring slightly over a yard ard in m length and two feet in height tho the figure reclines on Its right side Instead of on its back as asIn asin asin In the other statue and it holds a hol- hol hollow bollow hol hollow low cup in the right hand designed probably for the ashes of the person It represents Something of the jealous guarding of the Egyptian personage after death can be seen seed in the elaborate entombment of the Chac Mool and also some some- something something thing of the tha reverence in which ho was held The original statue statute was found In a att tt tomb mb deep In the interior of a mound about feet distant from the famous ball court of the Mayan city It was only after penetrating through three level floors painted with yellow ochre that Le Lo came within sight eight of a large largo stone urn um It contained a small heap of grayish dust over which lay the cover of a terr tern i cotta pot also painted yellow a few small ornaments of made macro that crumbled to dust upon being touched and a large ball of Jade with a hole pierced in the tho middle Near and lower than the urn was discovered the head of the colossal statue Close to the statue was another stone urn much larger than the first first he writes in his own description of the dis- dis discovery discovery dis discovery covery of the mysterious Mool Chac-Mool On being uncovered it was found to contain a large quantity of reddish substance and some jade ornaments On closely examining this substance I pronounced it organic matter that had been heen subjected to a very great heat beat in ann an n cess case in making out the story of the Garden of Eden the writes rites At first the tho maze maza of these d do- do de designs signs seemed a very difficult riddle to solve Yet we believed that if human intelligence had devised it another human intelligence would certainly be beable beable beable able to unravel el It it taking as the start start- starting starting ing mg point that the human mind and human inclinations and wants are arc the same samo in m all times in 1 all countries in m all races when civilized and cultured At present expeditions are being sent by the Carnegie Institute to ex excavate cava to tomoro moro of the ruins rums of the ancient Mayan cities in the hope of revealing even more Important secrets of the civil which so curiously resembles that of an- an ancient ancient an ancient Egypt and which is known to have ben been en remarkably advanced long before the coming of Christ Just what the explorers c will find no noman noman noman man can predict The recent dIscovery of the new Mool Chac-Mool has however re- re revived revived re revived speculation as ns to whether hether the se- se secret se- se secret se secret cret of the tho beginning of man may not be revealed at last in the records of per per- perhaps perhaps per perhaps haps the oldest of all one which reached an ama amazingly high state of intellectual culture long ago and then disappeared with completeness h a ss that has hils baffled science science Treasures rivaling rl those of ot Tut ankh Tutankhamen's Tut-anU-amen's Tut amens amen's tomb in Egypt aro are expected to tobo tobe tobo bo be found but nothing will be bo so 50 inter Inter- interesting esting as the er Cl to t the tho riddle of the Mool Chac-Mool the Sphinx Off df f Yucatan and the tho question of where vre vv v ere re the he e human race had its beginning y- y This question has always ys of of course 1 q hinged in m its various vanous aspects upon the beautIful picture ghen given In the Bible m in inthe inthe the second chapter of Genesis One Ono of the main difficulties in coming to any on the question of where mention of v was as situated is the tho four our rl users rivers ers ersA A The Bible says of Eden Eden- And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Cd Eden n and there he put the man whom horn he had formed And out outlet of the ground made the Lord Go to grow every tree that is pleasant t the sight and good goodlor for lor food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil And then the mysterious rivers that havo puzzled science so long are describes In very Cry certain terms And terms And a river lI ent went ent out of Eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and be- be became became be became came into four lour heads The name of the first is Pison that is it v which compass compass- compass eth eth the whole hole land of Havilah where here there is gold and the gold of that land landIS landis landis IS good there is bdellium and the on ony-c ony stone And the name of the second river riveris IS GIhon the tho same game is it that the whole hole land of Ethiopia And the name of the third river is 15 that is it which goeth toward the east cast of AssyrIa And the tho fourth river is Eu- Eu Euphrates Euphrates Eu Euphrates That Eden might have been situated between the tho Tigris and Euphrates rIvers there thero being a river still called by the name Euphrates used in the Bible is possible The two great rivers and several other streams near by do not however answer to the description of one river dividing into four heads To another very interesting theory that Eden was on the plain of Baby Baby- Baby lonia Ionia loma a probable location and the four joining rivers wore were the Tigris and Euphrates the Kercha and the Palla- Palla Palla-kopas Palla kopas Canal all flowing flo into the Per Per- PerSIan Persian Persian sian Gulf near the plain there Is Isa isa Isa a senous sellOUS objection Nothing in the lan Ian language guage of Babylonia ancient or modern accounts fo for the names Pison and Gihon the rivers named in the Bible DIble that would correspond to the rh rivers eu in Babylonia should Eden have ha been there Of course courso there are other probable locatIOns for Eden which answer er very well ell to the description de in the Bible in 1 some ways aya The Nile Nilo and some neigh neigh- boring neighboring rivers have boon been thought to be bethe bethe bethe the probable group of four encircling streams and oven the Indus River But Butin Butin Butin in none of these countries does the lan lan- language lan Ian language guage offer any explanation for the peculiar names so definitely referred to tom m in Genesis nor is there found anything an corresponding to the peculiar bra of the rivers into four These baffling discrepancies in the l e evi evidence dence Bence of Edens Eden's situation and in all nil the theother theother theother other attempted explanations leave lea the questIon an open one at least until the ancient tablets of Mayac have been de- de deciphered deciphered de deciphered ciphered and the secret of Cha Mool Chac-Mool Mool re- re re revealed And then If it La Le was right In his Interpretation o of the stone In Itza Chichen-Itza perhaps not only the so- so secrets se secrets crets of Mayac will be revealed but also the tho mystery of the similar carvings in Egypt and the reason why hy so 80 many of civilizations the customs of the tv two 0 ancient cl v were ere so remarkably alike tian T The To o secret of the Sphinx In the tian desert and that of the Chac Moot Chac WIll then be the the sane same the story story of Eden ln in Yucatan and Yucatan and we will Ill bo to VISit tho herein cradle of the human race right here In our own country as well as seeing the ruins of oJ the marvelous city of the Mayes Maas |