For instance, the Maya referred to the great Mesoamerican metropolis of Teotihuacan as Puh which means “reeds.” The great Toltec capital of Tula was also known as a “place of reeds.” “Place of Reeds” served as a metaphor relating the masses of reeds in a marsh to the masses of people in a metropolis thus a metropolis became a “place of reeds.” More importantly, this legend states that the Hitchiti’s ancestors came out of a “reed thicket.” The actual Hitchiti word recorded in the legend is utski which translates literally as “reeds.” In the Mayan language, “reeds” or “place of reeds” is a metaphor for a large city. Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan in Mexico. The fact they arrived at the sea coast suggests they arrived in Florida by boat. Following this legend in reverse, the only place south or “down stream” from Georgia with a lake large enough to be confused with the sea is Lake Okeechobee. Some thought it was the sea, but it was a lake they set out again, traveled up stream and settled there for a permanencyĪt the time this legend was recorded, the Hitchiti lived in Georgia. They sunned and dried their children during four days, then set out, arrived at a lake and stopped there. Their ancestors first appeared in the country by coming out of a canebrake or reed thicket near the sea coast. The Hitchiti migration legend as recorded in the book Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians seems to place them in the Lake Okeechobee area after arriving on the coast of Florida: The migration legend of one Native American tribe, the Hitchiti, suggests this is the case. Could the Maya have been responsible for bringing corn to Florida? When the Spanish first reached the Yucatan in Mexico they encountered a tribe called Maia (Maya) living in a province called Maiam. Another nearby tribe recorded by the Spanish was the Mayaka. In nearby Cape Canaveral the Spanish recorded that a tribe named the Mayayuaca lived. So in the same place where the first evidence of corn agriculture was discovered we find a tribe named Mayaimi. This is where the city of Miami gets its name. It took its name from a tribe of Indians named the Mayaimi who lived around the lake. Interestingly, Lake Okeechobee was originally named Lake Mayaimi. The archaeologist who excavated the site, William Sears, asserted in his book/archaeological report, Fort Center: An Archaeological Site in the Lake Okeechobee Basin, that this is precisely how corn came to be at this site. The logical conclusion, then, is that it was brought by people who arrived by boat. If it came by land you would expect to see evidence of its cultivation in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama long before it arrived in south central Florida. The question naturally arises as to how corn, a Mexican plant, showed up in Florida before it showed up elsewhere in the southeast. Maya in Florida and Georgia?Ī site in Florida called Fort Center near Lake Okeechobee offers the earliest evidence of corn agriculture in the eastern United States. Is there evidence that the Maya were in Georgia and Florida? If so, why were they there? Were they mining gold and shipping it back to Mexico? Does a gold artifact discovered in a Florida mound in the 1800s offer positive proof of this? Let’s look at the evidence and see what it suggests about the true goings-on in the southeastern U.S.
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