Re: has montezuma's tomb been found ...?
Blindbowman, I have one more question for you, and if you can answer this one with a good logical answer, it will go some ways to helping to explain how you identify the Superstition mountains of Arizona as Aztlan.
Here is a panel from the first page of the Boturini Codex, which includes a version of the origin of the Aztecs as leaving Aztlan:
"
The Boturini Codex was painted by an unknown Aztec author some time between 1530 and 1541, roughly a decade after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Pictorial in nature, it tells the story of the legendary Aztec journey from Aztlán to the Valley of Mexico."
If we study this pictogram from the Codex,
we can see the mythical land of Aztlan as an ISLAND in the middle of a great sea. The Aztec people are depicted as
leaving Aztlan in a canoe (or some kind of boat)
and crossing to the mainland. Now some authors have theorized that this is simply another version of the old Atlantis legend, and I lean toward agreeing with that idea. There are other factors that are tantalizingly similar to legends from Old World cultures, such as the Aztec idea that they were the "chosen people" of a great god (Huitzilpocatl, if my spelling is close) and that they were searching out a "promised land" which parallels the ancient Hebrew epic of being a "chosen people of God" and being led to a "promised land". Now this primordial Island where the Aztecs lived prior to coming to the mainland (Mexico) has been proposed as being quite a number of locations, including such far-distant points as Florida and Wisconsin, while others have identified San Felipe Aztlan, Nayarit (Mexico) as THE site of Aztlan.
None of these locations is an ISLAND, which (in my view) is a huge problem with making them Aztlan.
So how can we hope to identify the Superstition Mountains of Arizona as Aztlan?
Are we to say that the Superstitions were an ISLAND and that there was a great SEA in Arizona at the time? Now I realize that the time period cited by Plato for the end of Atlantis is around the end of the last Ice Age and that sea levels were considerably lower, so the boundaries of the various land masses were notably different from what they are today - however it seems unlikely that the Superstitions were an island at that time.
That is my question in a nutshell -
how can we fit the Superstition mountains as Aztlan, when the Aztecs described Aztlan as an ISLAND and there seems to be no "Island Superstitions" at least not at the time period? I know that some sources place Aztlan to the north, which helps to point to the Superstitions (again let us not forget that it is a considerable distance away from Tenochtitlan, over 1200 miles) but
other sources put Aztlan as off in the EAST which would
NOT fit at all with the Arizona location.
Wish I were not being such a "
wet blanket" on things here buddy, I really hate to discourage anyone from seeking treasures, just that
I would like to understand your theory as best as possible - even if I am
not yet convinced it is correct. I have similar problems with folks who have proposed various locations for Atlantis, including Thera in the Mediterranean, Greenland, Ireland, Cyprus, Peru, etc as they have serious problems with these proposed locations as they do not fit with Plato's descriptions on
several points at least. My disagreeing with these folks sure doesn't prevent them from selling
millions of books and who knows maybe they have it right - but in my view, if you have to change such a serious detail as an ISLAND versus an inland mountain chain,
then you need some serious and undeniable proof to show that it is reasonable to ignore such an important detail. Doesn't the fact that the Superstitions are not an island give you reason to suspect that it is not the location of Aztlan? You must have a good reason to ignore this important point, which is why I am asking.
I look forward to your explanation of how this Aztlan=Superstitions works, and thank you in advance,
your friend,
Roy ~ Oroblanco