and, from India, extended their
trade and carried their form of social organization and religious cult
first to the Euphratean kingdoms and afterwards to Egypt and Syria, where
they were known by the Greeks as the Phoenicians.

The subjoined detached passages, which open out new fields of inquiry, not
only appear to me to establish conclusively this view, but certainly
afford most interesting information concerning the ancient race of
pole-star worshippers, seafarers, builders and handicraftsmen who,
according to Hewitt (p. 25), extended their emigrations not only to Europe
but also to America.(153) Hewitt bases the latter assertion upon the
identity be perceived "between Akkadian and American mythological
traditions."

As the limit of the present inquiry excludes mythology, I cannot discuss
here the evidences of similarity produced by Hewitt. I must express
regret, however, that he designates a tribe of Pueblo Indians (the Sias,
related to the Zunis), as "Mexican" (see vol. II, p. 243, etc.), a term
which, in this case, is decidedly misleading. His identification of the
truly Mexican, "teo-cipactli" as a "fish-god" is unfortunate, as
numberless conventionalized drawings in the Codices prove that cipactli
signifies alligator. If the somewhat limited and vague evidence, produced
by Mr. Hewitt, appeared to justify his conclusion, how much more must an
identity of social organization and cult such as I have traced, not only
authorize but also render it imperative, that the possibility of
pre-Columbian contact should be thoroughly looked into. Disclaiming any
desire to formulate hasty conclusions, and merely for the sake of gaining
information by looking squarely at facts, I shall now rapidly enumerate
some of these which undoubtedly appear to corroborate Hewitt's further
assertion that "the Mayas and Nahuas of Yucatan and Mexico were emigrants
of the Magha and Nahusha tribes, who pertained to the race of navigators
known by the Greeks as the Phoenicians ... and who continued in their new
land, America, the worship of the rain god, to whom, as their fathers in
central Asia, they dedicated the sign of the cross" (Hewitt, p. 492).

"The Maghas were the Finnic long-haired race of star- and fire-worshippers
who, starting from Phrygia, as the Takkas conquered northern India ... who
called themselves the sons of the Northern pine tree, called in Phrygia,
as by the Northern Finns, Ma=the mother; also the sons of the
mother-godd