When the Spanish conquistadors and the Catholic fathers first arrived on the shores of Mexico, and in South America, and when the English and French colonizers and missionaries first penetrated Canada and United States, they received from the native Indians tribes scattered in the western hemisphere several versions of a tradition of a “Bearded God” who had in the distant past visited their ancestors, taught them their culture, and mysteriously disappeared, but who would eventually return to them.
Amerindians do NOT normally have beards at all, being descended at least partly from Mongoloid-Asian peoples. Screenshots from Mel Gibson’s movie “Apocalypto” about the Mayans (and the cruelty of their culture many centuries after the blond people had left). The first photo shows Gibson giving instruction to two actors from the Mayan people who still exist and speak and look Mayan today. They have no beards.
Although the traditions from the different Indian groups regarding the “Bearded God” do not agree in every detail, there being a variety of versions, yet in the principal points these Indian traditions, from Canada to Chile, have a close resemblance to one another.
The Feathered Serpent God is one of the great mysteries of many ancient cultures. He was called Quetzalcoatl by the Aztecs, Viracocha by the Incas, Kukulkan by the Mayas, Gucumatz in Central America, Votan in Palenque, and Zamna in Izamal. He and his ‘men’ were described as being tall, bearded, with white skin in some writings and as someone of stature with hair on the face and beautiful emerald blue eyes in others.
Legends all seem to agree that Quetzalcoatl was tall and light-skinned, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a beard. His name translates to “plumed serpent”. Fray Juan Torquemada, the Franciscan missioner, who collected traditions about Quetzalcoatl from the natives of Old Mexico, says:
“Quetzalcoatl had blonde hair, and wore a black robe sewn with little crosses of red color.”
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Image of Quetzalcoatl from a public school textbook in Mexico (Secretaria de Educación Publica Mexico)
(JdN) The Mexicans do not like most “gringos,” but they make an exception, at least, for the
founder of their civilization. 😉
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Mexico’s legendary and precolonial past is represented here with the central focus on Quetzalcoatl, god of the Toltecs, Mayans, and Aztecs. He wears a headdress of quetzal feathers and a conch on his chest, a symbol of the wind god; he carries a curved baton, the scepter of the seven stars or constellations. Behind him are the pyramids of the Sun and Moon in the city of Teotihuacan, the great political and religious center of pre-Hispanic Mexico.
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Mural: The Legend of Quetzalcoatl, Palacio Nacional de Mexico, Diego Rivera 1929-30 |
The image below is of another mural, this time in Cholula Puebla Mexico, of a blond-bearded Quetzalcoatl.
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This is a mural in Cholula Puebla of a blond-bearded Quetzalcoatl |
The world famous explorer Thor Heyerdahl claimed that in ancient Incan legend there was a sun-god named Kon-Tiki Viracocha, who was the supreme head of the mythical fair-skinned people in Peru.
The original name for Viracocha was Kon-Tiki or Illa-Tiki, which means Sun-Tiki or Fire-Tiki. Kon-Tiki was high priest and sun-king of these legendary “white men” who left enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
The legend continues with the mysterious bearded white men being attacked by a chief named Cari who came from the Coquimbo Valley. They had a battle on an island in Lake Titicaca, and the fair race was massacred. However, Kon-Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived on the Pacific coast. The legend ends with Kon-Tiki and his companions disappearing westward out to sea.
When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers.
The Incas described these “white gods” as wise, peaceful instructors who had originally come from the north in the “morning of time” and taught the Incas’ primitive forefathers architecture as well as manners and customs. They were unlike other Native Americans in that they had “white skins and long beards” and were taller than the Incas. The Incas said that the “white gods” had then left as suddenly as they had come and fled westward across the Pacific. After they had left, the Incas themselves took over power in the country.
wonderful
Well equipped in your last photo John hahah
Nice work.
http://www.stangrist.com/Akakor.pdf
Dear Mr. de Nugent,
A few words about the Mayan Civilization: It seems that at its beginning, the Mayan Culture was indeed rather peaceful and highly advanced. The original Mayans had astonishing knowledge in astronomical science. They had successfully predicted the exact duration of the terrestrial year with a precision of A FEW SECONDS!!! Furthermore, their measurement of time included cosmic cycles with enormous time spans, lasting tens, even hundreds of MILLIONS of years, a characteristic remarkably similar to Ancient Hindu/Vedic Culture! A point which today’s Hindu historians very rightly insist about.(Hindu historians are VERY MUCH MORE open-minded than their “Western” counterparts!)
According to their own records, the Mayans dated the foundation of their civilization to exactly 3102 BC, when a “God” coming from the SKY (Nordic Aliens again??) descended to earth in order to teach them all the basics of culture, science, agriculture, architecture, etc…
QUETZALCOATL may very well be one of these cosmic instructors… He was a noble, gentle man, a stanch opponent of war and of ANY kind of blood/hHuman sacrifice!! (That was a horrible characteristic of much later Mayan and Aztec cultures….)
One of the very last dignified Mayan rulers was PAKAL, whose remains were buried in the famous pyramid of PALENQUE. His skeleton, to the astonishment of the archeologists who discovered his grave, shown distinct Caucasian-like features, such as a high stature of over 1.70 meter [ = 5 ft 6 inches], and cranial shape of clearly European origins! I do not have the exact references about all this. All this is from readings I made when I was 10 or 11, and was already very interested in Ancient Civilizations and UFOs…
The horrible mass sacrifices shown in Mel Gibson’s film “APOCALYPTO” are clearly the hallmarks of an utterly DECADENT, DYING CULTURE! As you rightly point out elsewhere, the ancient White rulers of Mayan Yucatan and Guatemala were then long gone, probably exterminated in a bitter internal racial war inside Mayan society itself! The same can be said about the evil AZTECS, who ruthlessly EXTERMINATED their highly advanced, civilized predecessors: the TOLTECS. ALL of “Aztec” architecture (such as the magnificent Sun Pyramid near Mexico city), Astronomical knowledge, Agriculture, etc… was STOLEN from the Toltecs… All of this is of course for us Whites a lesson for all times!
Sincerely Yours!
Marc de Logères