Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1920 — MAY HAVE COME FROM ASIA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAY HAVE COME FROM ASIA

Recent Discovery of as Indicating Origin of the Primitive Races of America. “Are we descended from the (3bE nese?” E) Universal (Mexico) in big headlines in reporting some remarkable discoveries in an Aztec pyramid at Teotihuacan. There are great frescoes and an inscription In letters fliat have never before been found in Aztec remains, but which Fong Tsiang Kuang, Chinese charge d'affaires in Mexico City, identifies as old Chinese characters for “sun,” “eye" and “city.” The Illustrated London News, In printing a tracing of the characters and photographs of the newly discovered temple, says: . “The discovery has created a great sensation among archeologists as being the first linguistic corroboration of the theory (bused on physical re

Ancient Chinese Characters for “Sun," “Eye” and “City,” Found In an Aztec Pyramid in Mexico.

semblance) that the primitive races of America were of Asiatic origin. Prof. John Fryer of California has declared that Buddhist missionaries from China first visited America In the fifth century A. D., some thousand years before Columbus. Buddha himself lived in the fifth century B. C. Aztec theology and the Aztec calendar also have Asiatic features. The newly found pyramid at Teotihuacan is associated with the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, supposed to have come across the sea in the shape of a white man to teach the arts of civilization. His return was prophesied, and Oortes on Invading Mexico profited much by the popular belief that he was Quetzalcoatl.”