One of my more speculative conjectures happens to be that the Atlantean collapse plausibly sent dependent populations in the Mississippi Basin south into the coastal plains of southern Mexico. This would be particularly likely if severe tsunamis scoured those coasts first. This would have happened about 1159 BC.
Prior to that we have evidence of a culturally dominated civilization all over the Mississippi basin that coincides i suspect with the thousand year plus Bronze age epoch of the Atlanteans from 2500 BC through 1159BC.
The new evidence been unearthed by the work of Robert Thornton smacks of the shifts back and forth of successor societies following that collapse.
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Are the Muskogee Creeks, the descendants of the Olmec Civilization?
The
Creek Confederacy was formed from numerous indigenous ethnic groups,
but there is no doubt about it . . . certain branches have the three
types of facial features portrayed in Olmec art over 2,500 years ago.
In fact there are people in the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, who look far
more like Olmec art than any indigenous tribe in Mexico today. As can
been seen above, there is a 100% match in facial features between BIA
Administrator Kelly Harjo and the famous stone portrayal of an ancient
Olmec king. Brother Harjo could be his direct descendant.
Did
you know that Thlopthlocco Tribal Town was originally located in Lee
County, Alabama (Auburn-Opelika)? The town of Waverly was originally
named Thloblocco. The descendants of Creeks, who elected to stay on
their allotments rather than move to the Indian Territory, still live
there. Several have served on its city council.
As mentioned in an earlier article in The Mayas Today
series, the Creek Migration Legend began in the same part of Mexico
where the Olmec Civilization once thrived. In Part Four, we saw a
drawing of a Muskogee Creek town in Middle Georgia, sketched by William
Bartram in 1776, that had every architectural element of the great Olmec
city of La Venta in 600 BC! The Olmec Civilization was really just
the first phase of the Maya Civilization.
There is much more to
the story than shared regal looks. At the same time that I was doing
the research for building the Etowah Mounds model, which is on display
in the Creek Capital in Okmulgee, OK, archaeologists announced the
discovered of the earliest known writing system in the Americas. It was
found in an Olmec town site that was once a suburb of the Maya city,
now called San Lorenzo.
I was astounded to see that the symbols
in this writing system could be found in the art of Etowah Mounds and
the Ortona town site on Lake Okeechobee, Florida. There must be a
direct cultural connection. You will learn about that connection in
Part Five of the series.
The Itsate-speaking (Hitchiti) branches
of the Creek Confederacy do not resemble Olmec statuary at all. We look
like the Highland Mayas of Chipas, Guatamala and Belize. A few months
ago a Creek friend sent me a photo of a Kekchi Maya man from the Belize
Highlands, who was a “spitting image” of me when I was in my thirties.
Also, the architecture and town planning of the Itsate Creeks were
different than those of the Muskogees. Nevertheless, variety is the
spice of life.
There will be many OMG moments in Part Five of The Mayas Today.
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