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The Nahuatl Myth of the Creation of Humankind: A Coastal Connection?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jean-Claude Delhalle  and
Albert Luykx
Jean-Claude Delhalle
Affiliation:
Delhalle and Albert Luykx, 22, Place du Congres, 4020 Liège, Belgium
Albert Luykx
Affiliation:
Delhalle and Albert Luykx, 22, Place du Congres, 4020 Liège, Belgium
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Abstract

Two engravings from the Gulf Coast seem to refer the origin of humankind to the Fifth Sun; consequently they raise again the hypothesis of the eastern position of Tamoanchan. This sacred place, at once mythical and historical, was the home of the gods; the cradle of humanity, the point of departure of the great ancestors from the Gulf (the Olmecs); it was also the paradise lost. One of these pictures predates the Nahuatl culture, and, hence, may indicate the antiquity of this myth.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , January 1986 , pp. 117 - 121
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1986

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