Book of Mormon Evidences From Ancient Aztec and Mayan Writings

are called who first made it fruitful, when the sky was in suspense, and the earth was submergedin the water.So it was that they made perfect the work, when they did it after thinking and meditating upon it.”Title of the Lords of TotonicapanTitle of the Lords of Totonicapan was written in the Quiche language in 1554. Themanuscript was first published in French and Spanish in 1885.The writers wrote their account in 1554 in the village of Totonicapan, Guatemala.Their small book claimed that the Quiche Maya were “descendants of Israel, of the samelanguage and the same customs. . . . They were sons of Abraham and Jacob.”The Totonicapans claims that the ancestors of the Quiche Mayas.…came from the other part of the ocean, from where the sun rises, a place called Pa Tulan, PaCivan [meaning Bountiful) . . and they came from where the sun rises, descendants of Israel, ofthe samc language and the same customs… They were sons of Abraham and Jacob.”And then the authors of Totonicapan close their account as. follows:“Now on the twenty-eighth of September of 1554 we sign this attestation in whichwe have written that which by tradition our ancestors told us, who came from the other partof the sea, from Civân-Tulan, bordering . on Babylonia.Title of the Lords of Totonicapanp.164, pp. 169-170p."...This said manuscript consists of 31 quarto pages; but translation of the first page is omittedbecause they are on the creation of the world, of Adam, the Earthly Paradise in which Eve wasdeceived not by a serpent but by Lucifer himself, as an Angel of Light. It deals with the posterityof Adam, following in every respect the same order as in Genesis & the sacred books as far as thecaptivity of Babylonia. The manuscript assumes that the three great Quiche nations with which itparticularly deals are descendants of the 10 Tribes of the Kingdom of Israel, whom Shalmaneserreduced to perpetual captivity & who, finding themselves on the border of Assyria, resolved toemigrate..." Some of the different native americans' ancestors were believed to have come from"...the other part of the sea, from the East,...These then, were the 3 nations of Quiches & theycame from where the sun rises, descendants of Israel, of the same language & the samecustoms." (The Title of the Lords of Totonicapan, pp.163-170).The Annals of the CakehiquelsThe writers, the Cakchir 1 uel Indians were a. branch of the Quiche Mayas. The followingis quoted from their writings:“I shall write the stories of our first fathers and grandfathers that from the other side of thesea we came to the place called Tulan [Bountiful]”“Thus, then we were four families who arrived at Tulan, we the Cakehiquel people, oh, oursons! So they told us.”