Knowledge of the Tower of Babel in the Americas.
“Which Jared came forth with his brother and their families, with some others and their families, from the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people, and swore in his wrath that they should be scattered upon all the face of the earth; and according to the word of the Lord the people were scattered.” (Ether 1:33)
Diego Durán (c. 1537–1588) was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest books on the history and culture of the Aztecs, The History of the Indies of New Spain, a book that was much criticized in his lifetime for helping the Also known as the Durán Codex, The History of the Indies of New Spain was published c. 1581.
He was fluent in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and was therefore able to consult natives and Aztec codices as well as work done by earlier friars. His empathetic nature allowed him to gain the confidence of many native people who would not share their stories with Europeans, and was able to document many previously unknown folktales and legends that make his work unique. (Wikipedia)
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"...men of monstrous stature...took possession of this country. These giants...[decided] to build a tower so high that its summit would reach unto heaven. And gathering materials for this building, the giants found clay for bricks and an excellent mortar with which they began to build the tower...it seemed to reach to heaven-the Lord of the Heights became angry and said to the inhabitants of the heavens "Have you seen that the men of the earth have built a proud and lofty tower in order to come up here...Come, let us confound them...then those who dwell in the heavens...tore down the tower that had been constructed. And the giants, bewildered and filled with terror, separated and fled in all directions." (The History of the Indies of New Spain By Fray Diego Durán P. 8-9)
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EL PASO HERALD
By Rene Bache
According to the Maya legend. Xelhuc, one of the seven giants who survived the Deluge, [Flood], erected a pyramidal tower of enormous height for the purpose of storming Heaven. But the offended gods destroyed it with lightnings and confounded the languages of the builders. This evidently gives strong confirmation to the theory that the prehistoric inhabitants of Yucatan brought the tradition of the tower and the story of the Flood with them from Assyria. Certainly nobody anywhere else in the world, save the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, ever built temple-covered towers like those found today in ruins all over Yucatan.
In as much as these people certainly did not originate in America, they must have brought their notions of architecture from somewhere else. There are many well-known reasons for believing they were Asiatic by origin. Such being the case, this close similarity of their pyramids to those of ancient Babylon would seem obviously to indicate Assyria as the earlier home of their race. People’s descendants today still possess traditions of a Deluge and a Tower of Babel the story of which is substantially the same as that which has come down to us In the Bible. (By Rene Bache, (EL Pasco Herald copyright 1912)
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