Latest News
NEWS October 2024
OCTOBER 2024 The recent cyber attack on the Internet Archive is deplorable and can be reasonably compared with the repeated burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. I have used the Wayback Machine extensively, but, until the full extent of the permanent damage is clear, I am unable to assess its effect on Atlantipedia. At […]Read More »
Joining The Dots
I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
Moctezuma
Aztecs
The Aztecs of Mexico are believed by many writers to have originated as refugees from Atlantis. Their own traditions claim that they came from Aztlan, a land to the east. Francisco López de Gómara was the first European to suggest this link with Atlantis in 1551[332]. Ignatius Donnelly wrote at length on the subject and had his views frequently reflected in the work of writers at the beginning of the 20th century. Even today, some still associate Atlantis with the Aztecs(b), while others think that the Olmecs, predecessors of the Aztecs and Maya were Atlantean refugees(c).
Tenochtitlan was the capital the Aztec Empire and at the time it was captured by the Spanish it was probably one of the largest cities in the world with an estimated population of 200,000.
It is remarkable that the descendants of Moctezuma, the last Aztec emperor are alive and well and living in Spain today as the noble house of Grau-Moctezuma de Toleriu(a).
The Aztec drawing on the left is interpreted as representing the migration of the Aztecs from an island in the Atlantic to the mainland of America. The assumption is that the island in question was Atlantis! The case for a clear Aztec-Atlantis connection is far from proven.
The first Latin writer of Aztec history was Ixitilxochill, himself of Aztec lineage, who maintained that the Olmecs had come to Eastern Mexico from the Antilles via Florida.
>In 1913, Thomas Crawford Johnston claimed that the Aztecs were Phoenician in origin – The civilisation of the Aztecs, using the name as a generic term, came from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean [1902.248].
Aztec Calendar Stone
A few years later, George H. Cooper, an American, proposed that the Aztec Calendar Stone (see right) “is a miniature, in another and advanced form of art, of Stonehenge [236.30]! Additionally, he claimed [p58]that the Pillars of Herakles mentioned by Plato is a reference to the monoliths of Stonehenge! Cooper goes further and nominates Salisbury Plain, where Stonehenge is located, as the site of the Garden of Eden [p105]!<
(a) The House of Moctezuma | andrewcusack.com
(b) Tenochtitlan: The Atlantis of the Ancient Aztec Empire – Pyramidomania
(c) Ancient Olmecs: Survivors of the city-continent of Atlantis (archive.org)