| Season 1 - Before The Egyptians Mexico - Show #12  Before
the eastern part of ancient Atl?tepec (Mexico) became the bottom of what
are now at least part of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, the
present narrow strip of swamps and the river Chimalap? connecting
Southern Veracruz and Oaxaca, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, was a wide
waterway uniting the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific.
About four thousand years ago, sailing vessels could and did easily
cross from the east coast of Mexico to the Pacific in a few hours. The pre-conquest Meso-Americans claimed that their primordial founding city was Toll?. The original name of the Toltec ruins of Tula, Hidago, on which the Mayan city of Chich? Itz?was modeled, is also Toll?. However, researchers point out similar place names omitting the "O" exist all over Mexico: Atl?, Autl?, Mazatl?, Cihuatl?, Cacatl?, Tecaltitl?, Tihuatl?, Atitl?, Zapotl?, Minititl?, Ocotl?, Miahuatl?, Tecaltitl?, Tepatitl?, Tihuatl?, and Texiutl? - and that the Nahuatl Tl? root of these place names is exactly like the Tlan in "Atlantis." |