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Nefertiti in Mexico (AI-generated image).
Journey with Moses to Mexico!!!
Feathered Serpent statue at Chichén Itzá.
Moses, the ancient Hebrew Lawgiver, is certainly never associated with Mexico in any traditional texts, either religious or not, in either the Old or New Worlds. So when a Vermont pastor named Ethan Smith proposed in an 1825 book that Moses may have provided the basis for the Mexican legends of Quetzalcóatl, the famous “Feathered Serpent”, it seemed a radical theory to say the least.
He writes: “Though their ancient ‘legislator’ is called by a name importing the serpent of green feathers; yet he was an ancient man, a white man and bearded; called by Montezuma, a saint, who led them to this country, and taught them many things … Who could this be but Moses, the ancient legislator in Israel?”
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The Jewish prayer shawl, the tallit, is as mysterious as it is iconic. Worn by Jews each morning when they pray to God, it connects them to the divine realm, their history, and their culture. However, its origins are generally unknown. This article will argue that the seeds of the Jewish prayer shawl lie in a royal robe worn by Pharaohs since the beginning of Egyptian civilization, over five millennia ago.
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My name is Jonathon Perrin, and I love the lost secrets of the past.
In 2016, I began writing about those lost secrets, and have never looked back.
I am a geologist by trade, but I am also an archaeologist, and have helped excavate over a dozen prehistoric sites in Canada.
This site is your portal to a new way of looking at the past. Whether a billion years ago or a hundred, we will explore it together.
Welcome to a world of ancient mysteries, past puzzles, and cryptic clues to forgotten histories.
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Inside the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV62, Valley of the Kings, Egypt
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