Book of Mormon Evidences From Ancient Aztec and Mayan Writings

* ... a very curious agreement in the name which the Jews and the Mexicans applied to the polesof the earth. The Mexicans, as we are informed by Sahgun, in the third and eighth chapters of hisninth book of History of New Spain, named the north and south poles the left and right hand ofearth, and the leatned Capellus, in his dissertation on the ground plan and architecture of theTemple of Jerusalem, which Bishop Walton has prefixed to the first volume of his polyglot Bible,affirms that the Jews gave the same name to the poles. VIII 256 Supplement* And Malvenda says, that the natives of St. Michael had tombstones, which the Spaniards diggedup, with several ancient Hebrew characters upon them, as, "Why is God gone away?" and "He isdead, God, knows." VIII 373 Supplement* (Chronicle of the Order of Saint Agustine in Peru) ... Two other stones containing inscriptionsin Hebrew and Greek letters, are stated by Colancha, on the authority of Brother Raymond Urtadoto have existed in the neighborhood. VIII 25* The strongest argument, however, ... is the confession of Montezuma and his nobles, one and allto Cortes - that their ancestors had come from the same part of the globe as the Spaniards,situated towards the rising sun. VI 53* The interpretter of the paintings contained in the larger Vatican M.S. ... instancing this andother traits of resemblance between the Mexicans and Jews ... adds, "From all thesecircumstances the fact is plain and probable, that this nation descended from the Jews ... VI 65