ATLANTIS/AZTLAN: The Deepest Of Historical Mysteries
By Will Hart
The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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This is one of the most difficult segments of human history to write about. Why? That is where the difficulty starts. It is all but impossible to summarize, the history extends from Atlantis to the Conquest of Mexico.
Just examining the images above should give you a hint that something very strange, even inexplicable is going on. On the left, is an artist’s rendition based upon Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis found in his Critias Dialogue.
On the right is what the Spanish Conquistadors actually saw when they arrived in the Valley Mexico in 1519. They were, in fact, spellbound by the sight of the city the Aztec capitol, Tenhochtitlan. The Aztecs had to first construct an artificial island in the shallow lake to proceed and build this amazing city on that island.
The first foreshadowing that something outside of normalcy is going on here comes with the Aztec description of it to the Spaniards. The priests told Cortez they built Tenochtitlan to commemorate their lost homeland, Aztlan.
Hold on a minute. They constructed a city on an artificial island, in a lake, to pay tribute to their point of origin…their lost homeland that just happens to have the name Aztlan?
The odd thing about this history is that the more details you learn, the more you become convinced that the edge is here. By edge I mean the rift that separates this reality from the other dimension. This is where the typical realities of the physical earth and the transcendental mystical realm of spirit, run along parallel courses but almost never touch.
The normal rules of logic; the laws of physics; the chronology of history, whatever words we use…just slip away and don’t apply. You can try to bend and shape the events, characters & artifacts, to fit into the expected norms…well, good luck!
A few have taken up the challenge and failed. A very rare phenomenon occurred, one we have yet to fully assimilate, comprehend and accept. More than that I cannot say.
First mystery: the Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico in 1325 AD. that is according to their history, after leaving Aztlan and wandering as aimless nomads for two centuries. This is the history you will find in all history books as well.
But then you will also find these allegations in the record: a) Aztlan was not a real place, it was the mythical homeland of the Aztecs and b) the Aztecs left no trace of their existence, during that nomadic history, not anywhere.
Nonetheless, the tribe was surely somewhere during that wandering period, just as they had to be somewhere if Aztlan was in fact a myth.
But where? The mixed up history is contradictory, illogical and full of holes.
Next big problem, the Aztec priests pointed to the north as where Aztlan had been. But nothing resembling their description of it has ever been found in northern Mexico or the southwestern U.S. Many serious researchers have tried everything to find it.
The twist that historians seem to ignore is glaringly obvious.
Once you dismiss Aztlan as an imaginary place, you cannot account for Tenochtitlan and the latter cannot be discounted as a myth! They actually had plans that the city was laid out on and the city becomes a historical reality in 1519!
Once the Aztecs are in central Mexico they not only quickly build a sophisticated city they rise to become the dominant regional power in less than 200 years. This raises a host of complicated, inter-related issues.
Where did these nomads gain the knowledge, skills to build this exceptional city that rivaled the most sophisticated in Europe? This is a very serious issue. From nomadic zeros to heroes within such a short time is really not possible in the real world
Here I quote a letter Cortez sent to the King of Spain:
This Province is in the form of a circle, surrounded on all sides by lofty and rugged mountains'; its level surface comprises an area of about seventy leagues in circumference, including two lakes that overspread nearly the whole valley, being navigated by boats more than fifty leagues round.
…There are four avenues or entrances to the city, all of which are formed by artificial causeways, two spears' length in width. The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, All the streets at intervals have openings, through which the water flows, crossing from one street to another; and at these openings, some of which are very wide, there are also very wide bridges,..
As big as the largest cities in Europe, it is obvious that Cortez was greatly impressed with Tenochtitlan. It rather sounds like he was describing Venice. Now here is where things get even more interesting and indeed stranger yet.
We can believe that Aztlan, was just a mythical point of origin, if we wish and historians do. However, they cannot do so with Tenochtitlan! It was absolutely real. So where did the blueprints originate, in a myth?
Did the Aztecs also emerge out of this same Aztlan myth that Tenochtitlan apparently came from? The nomadic Aztecs left no traces of their civilized skills anywhere on the earth during their nomadic period. There is only one city that matches Tenochtitlan, Plato’s capitol of Atlantis…
Critias: First of all they bridged over the zones of sea which surrounded the ancient metropolis, making a road to and from the royal palace. And beginning from the sea they bored a canal of three hundred and fifty stadia in length, which they carried through to the outermost zone, making a passage from the sea up to this…
Maybe we need to close with one more look at Aztlan and Atlantis…and come back to read the rest of this mystery….
