White Indians of the Americas

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

What did the indigenous population of the Americas actually look like? What basis did the legends of the White Gods have in Indian civilizations?

South America

The newspaper Pravda wrote on June 4, 1975:

An unknown Indian tribe was discovered by an expedition of the Brazilian National Indian Fund (FUNAI) in the state of Para in northern Brazil. The white-skinned blue-eyed Indians of this tribe, who live in a dense rainforest, are skilled fishermen and fearless hunters. To further study the way of life of the new tribe, the members of the expedition, led by the expert on the problems of the Brazilian Indians, Raimundo Alves, intend to conduct a detailed study of the life of this tribe.

In 1976 the famous traveler Thor Heyerdahl wrote: “The question of white and bearded people in pre-Columbian America has not yet been resolved, and it is on this that I am concentrating my attention now. For the sake of clarifying this problem, I crossed the Atlantic on the papyrus boat "Ra-II". I believe that here we are dealing with one of the early cultural impulses from the African-Asian region of the Mediterranean. The most likely candidates for this role, I consider the mysterious "Sea Peoples."

Certificate Percival Harrison Fawcett(1867 - 1925) - British surveyor and traveler, lieutenant colonel. Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances with his son in 1925 during an expedition to discover a lost city in the Brazilian selva.

White Indians live on Kari,”the manager told me. “My brother once took a longboat up the Tauman, and at the very head of the river he was told that there were white Indians living nearby. He did not believe it and only laughed at the people who said this, but nevertheless went on a boat and found unmistakable traces of their stay. Then he and his men were attacked by tall, handsome, well-built savages with clear white skin, red hair, and blue eyes. They fought like devils, and when my brother killed one of them, the rest took the body and fled. " Another passage: “I knew a man who met such an Indian,” the British consul told me. “These Indians are quite wild, and it is believed that they only go out at night. Therefore they are called "bats". “Where do they live? I asked. “Somewhere in the area of the lost gold mines, either north or northwest of the Diamantinou River. Nobody knows their exact location. Mato Grosso is a very poorly explored country; no one has yet penetrated the mountainous regions in the north. Perhaps, in a hundred years from now, flying machines will be able to do this, who knows?

Here is what Columbus wrote about the Indians on November 6, 1492:

My messengers report that after a long march they have found a village with a thousand inhabitants. The locals greeted them with honors, settled them in the most beautiful houses, took care of their weapons, kissed their hands and feet, trying to make them understand in any way that they (the Spaniards) are white people who came from God. About fifty residents asked my messengers to take them to heaven to the star gods.

This is the first mention of the worship of white gods among the American Indians. “They (the Spaniards) could do whatever they liked and no one hindered them; they cut jade, smelted gold, and Quetzalcoatl was behind it all, wrote one Spanish chronicler after Columbus.

In both Americas, there are countless legends that have survived practically unchanged to this day, which tell of the landing of white bearded people on the shores of Indians in time immemorial. They brought the Indians the basics of knowledge, laws, civilization … They arrived on large strange ships with swan wings and a luminous body. Having approached the coast, the ships disembarked people - blue-eyed and fair-haired - in robes of rough black material, in short gloves. They wore snake-shaped ornaments on their foreheads. The Aztecs and Toltecs called the white god Quetzalcoatl, the Incas - Kon-Tiki Viracocha, the Mayans - Kukulkai, the Chibcha Indians - Bochica.

Francisco Pizarro on the Incas: “The ruling class in the Peruvian kingdom was light-skinned, the color of ripe wheat. Most of the nobles were remarkably like the Spaniards. In this country I met an Indian woman so fair skinned that I was amazed. Neighbors call these people "children of the gods." At the time of the arrival of the Spaniards, there were about five hundred such representatives of the elite of the Peruvian society and they spoke a special language. Chroniclers also report that the eight rulers of the Inca dynasty were white and bearded, and their wives were "white as an egg." One of the chroniclers, Garcillaso de la Vega, told of a burial in which he saw a mummy with hair as white as snow. But the man died young, so it wasn't gray. De la Vega was told that it was the mummy of the White Inca, the 8th ruler of the Sun.

In 1926, the American ethnographer Harris studied the San Blas Indians and wrote that their hair was the color of flax and straw and the complexion of a white man.

The French explorer Homé described an encounter with the Vaika Indian tribe, whose hair was brown. "The so-called white race," he wrote, "even on a superficial examination has a mass of representatives among the Amazonian Indians."

On Easter Island, legends have been preserved that the ancestors of the islanders came from a desert country in the East and reached the island after sailing sixty days towards the setting sun. Today's islanders claim that some of their ancestors had white skin and red hair, while others had dark skin and hair. This was also attested by the first Europeans who visited the island. When in 1722 Fr. Easter was first visited by a Dutch frigate, then a white man went aboard, among other inhabitants, and the Dutch wrote the following about the rest of the islanders: as if the sun was burning her."

Thompson's notes (1880) are also very curious in this regard, which speaks of a country located, according to legend, sixty days east of Fr. Easter. It was also called "the land of burials": the climate there was so hot that people died and plants dried up. From about. Easter to the west, all the way to Southeast Asia, there is nothing that could fit this description: the shores of all the islands are covered with tropical rainforest. But to the east lies the coastal deserts of Peru, and nowhere else in the Pacific is there an area that better matches the descriptions of the legend than the Peruvian coast - both in name and in climate. There, along the deserted coast of the Pacific Ocean, numerous burials are located. Because the climate is very dry, it allowed modern scientists to study in detail the bodies buried there, which turned practically into mummies.

In theory, these mummies were supposed to give researchers an exhaustive answer to the question: what was the type of the ancient pre-Incan population of Peru? But the mummies only posed new mysteries: the types of buried people were identified by anthropologists as not found hitherto in ancient America. In 1925, archaeologists discovered two more large necropolises - on the Paracas Peninsula (south of the Peruvian coast). There were hundreds of mummies. Radiocarbon analysis determined their age to be 2,200 years. Near the graves were found in large quantities debris of hardwood, which was usually used to build rafts. These bodies also differed in their structure from the main physical type of the ancient Peruvian population. American anthropologist Stewart wrote about this then: "It was a selected group of large people, absolutely not typical for the population of Peru."

While Stewart was studying the bones, M. Trotter analyzed the hair of nine mummies. Their color is mainly red-brown, but in some cases it is very light, almost golden. The hair of the two mummies was generally different from the rest - they were curly. The shape of the hair cut is different for different mummies, and almost all forms are found in the burial. As for the thickness, "it is here less than that of the rest of the Indians, but not as small as that of the average European population (for example, the Dutch)," Trotter wrote in the conclusion. As you know, human hair does not undergo changes after death. They may become brittle, but neither color nor structure changes.

A superficial acquaintance with the vast and different genres of literature on the history of Peru is enough to find there many references to bearded and white-skinned Indian gods.

Images of these deities stood in the Inca temples. In the temple of Cuzco, wiped off the face of the earth, there was a huge statue depicting a man in a long robe and sandals, "exactly the same as that painted by Spanish artists in our home," wrote the Spanish conquistador Pizarro. In the temple, built in honor of Viracocha, there was also the great god Kon-Tiki Viracocha - a man with a long beard and proud bearing, in a long robe. The chronicler wrote that when the Spaniards saw this statue, they thought that Saint Bartholomew had reached Peru and the Indians created a monument in memory of this event. The conquistadors were so struck by the strange statue that they did not destroy it right away, and the temple for a while passed the fate of other similar structures. But soon its fragments were taken away.

While exploring Peru, the Spaniards also stumbled upon huge megalithic structures from pre-Inca times, also lying in ruins. “When I asked the local Indians who built these ancient monuments,” wrote the chronicler Cieza de Leon in 1553, “they replied that it was done by another people, bearded and white-skinned, like us Spaniards. Those people arrived long before the Incas and settled here. " How strong and tenacious this legend is, is confirmed by the testimony of the modern Peruvian archaeologist Valcarcel, who heard from the Indians who lived near the ruins that "these structures were created by a foreign people, white as Europeans."

At the very center of the "activity" of the white god Viracocha was Lake Titicaca, for all the evidences agree on one thing - there, on the lake, and in the neighboring city of Tiahuanaco, was the residence of the god. “They also told,” writes de Leon, “that in the past centuries there lived a people white like us, and one local leader named Kari with his people came to this island and waged a war against this people and killed many” … The white people left their buildings on the lake. “I asked the locals,” de Leon writes further, “if these buildings were created during the time of the Incas. They laughed at my question and said that they knew for certain that all this was done long before the rule of the Incas. They saw bearded men on the island of Titicaca. These were people of a subtle mind who came from an unknown country, and there were few of them, and many of them were killed in the war."

The Frenchman Bandelier at the end of the 19th century was also inspired by these legends. and began excavations at Lake Titicaca. He was told that in ancient times people similar to Europeans came to the island, they married local women, and their children became Incas. The tribes before them lived the life of savages, but “a white man came and he had great authority. In many villages, he taught people to live normally. Everywhere they called him the same - Tikki Viracocha. And in honor of him they built temples and erected statues in them. When the chronicler Betanzos, who took part in the first Peruvian campaigns of the Spaniards, asked the Indians what Viracocha looked like, they replied that he was tall, in a white robe up to his heels, his hair was fixed on his head with something like tonsure (?), He walked important and in his hands he was holding something like a prayer book (?). Where did Viracocha come from? There is no single answer to this question. “Many people think that his name is Inga Viracocha, which means 'sea foam',” notes the chronicler Zarate. According to the stories of the old Indians, he took his people across the sea.

The legends of the Chimu Indians tell that the white deity came from the north, from the side of the sea, and then ascended to Lake Titicaca. The "humanization" of Viracocha is most clearly manifested in those legends where various purely earthly qualities are attributed to him: they call him smart, cunning, kind, but at the same time they call him the Son of the Sun. The Indians claim that he sailed on reed boats to the shores of Lake Titicaca and created the megalithic city of Tiahuanaco. From here he sent bearded ambassadors to all parts of Peru to teach people and say that he was their creator. But, in the end, dissatisfied with the behavior of the inhabitants, he left their lands - he went down with his companions to the Pacific coast and went west along the sea along with the sun. As you can see, they left in the direction of Polynesia, and came from the north.

Another mysterious people lived in the mountains of Colombia - the Chibcha, who reached a high level of culture by the arrival of the Spaniards. His legends also contain information about the white teacher Bochica with the same description as that of the Incas. He ruled over it for many years and was also called Sua, that is, "the sun". He came to them from the east.

In Venezuela and neighboring regions, there are also legends about the stay there of a mysterious wanderer who taught local agriculture. There he was called Tsuma (or Sumy). According to legend, he ordered all people to gather around a high rock, stood on it and told them the laws and instructions. Having lived with people, he left them.

The Kuna Indians live in the area of today's Panama Canal. In their legends, there is also someone who, after a severe flood, came and taught them crafts. In Mexico, at the time of the Spanish invasion, the high civilization of the Aztecs was flourishing. From Anahuac (Texas) to Yukotan, the Aztecs spoke of the white god Quetzalcoatl. According to legend, he was the fifth ruler of the Toltecs, came from the Land of the Rising Sun (of course, the Aztecs did not mean Japan) and wore a long cape. He ruled in Tollan for a long time, forbidding human sacrifice, preaching peace and vegetarianism. But this did not last long: the devil made Quetzalcoatl indulge in vanity and wallow in sins. However, he soon felt ashamed of his weaknesses and left the country southward.

In the "Card of the Segunda" by Cortes there is an excerpt from Montezuma's speech: “We know from the writings inherited from our ancestors that neither I nor anyone else inhabiting this country are its indigenous inhabitants. We came from other lands. We also know that we trace our lineage from the ruler, whose subordinates we were. He came to this country, he again wanted to leave and take his people with him. But they had already married local women, built houses and did not want to go with him. And he left. Since then, we have been waiting for him to return someday. Right from the side you came from, Cortez. " It is known what price the Aztecs paid for their "come true" dream …

As scientists have proved, the neighbors of the Aztecs - the Mayans - also did not always live in today's places, but migrated from other regions. The Maya themselves say that their ancestors came twice. The first time was the largest migration - from overseas, from the east, from where 12 thread-paths were laid, and Itzamna led them. Another group, a smaller one, came from the west, and among them was Kukulkan. They all had flowing robes, sandals, long beards, and bare heads. Kukulcan is remembered as the builder of the pyramids and the founder of the city of Mayapaca and Chichen Itza. He also taught the Maya to use weapons. And again, as in Peru, he leaves the country and goes towards the setting sun.

Similar legends exist among the Indians who lived in the Tabasco jungle. They store information about Wotan, who came from the regions of Yucatan. In ancient times, Wotan came from the East. He was sent by the gods to divide the earth, distribute it to the human races and give each of them their own language. The country from which he came was called Valum Votan. The myth ends very strangely: "When the time of the sad departure finally came, he did not leave through the valley of death, like all mortals, but went through a cave into the underworld."

Yes, there is evidence that the medieval Spaniards did not destroy all the statues, and the Indians managed to hide some things. When in 1932 the archaeologist Bennett was excavating at Tiahuanaco, he came across a red stone figurine depicting the god Kon-Tiki Viracocha in a long robe with a beard. His robe was decorated with horned snakes and two pumas - symbols of the highest deity in Mexico and Peru. This statuette was identical to that found on the shores of Lake Titicaca, just on the peninsula closest to the island of the fruit of the same name. Other similar sculptures were found around the lake. On the Peruvian coast, Viracocha was immortalized in ceramics and drawings. The authors of these drawings are early Chimu and Mochika. Similar finds are found in Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador. (Note that the bearded images were noted by A. Humboldt, looking at the drawings of ancient manuscripts kept in the Imperial Library of Vienna in 1810) Colored fragments of frescoes of Chichen Itza temples, telling about the sea battle of black and white people, have come down to us. These drawings have not yet been solved.

North America

Recently, geneticists have found that among the "Indians" of America there are representatives of the DNA haplogroup R1a. They, without any hesitation, were called the descendants of European Jews, Ashkenazi-Levites, the remnants of the ten lost tribes of Israel … However, for some reason, the lost tribes - "Indians" still live on reservations, in fact, in concentration camps of a modern type, and defenders of Jewish rights are quite is not alarming, as is their destruction in earlier history.

There is every reason to believe that the representatives of this haplogroup are the remnants of the indigenous population of the American continent.

Traditionally, North American "Indians" are considered to be naked, red-skinned, beardless and beardless savages. However, if you look at these photographs of 19th century North American "Indians", the generally accepted picture changes somewhat.

Don't you recognize anyone?

Film on the topic: Amazing Artifacts of America (Andrey Zhukov):