Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Miscellaneous Myths: The Journey Of Ra" video.

  1. The following heresies are my own. Anyone see a resonance between the Egyptian and Mexican supernatural/metaphysical/allegorical use of snakes as portals between Earth and the Underworld? I wonder if that's part of Thor Heydedahl's reasoning. I've already written a novel (c2012) based on a supposed Japan/Yucatan connection . . . which, BTW is why Tengu. Again, the guys who draw them heard about them third hand. Bird headed men. Oh yeah . . . the way I see it both bc/ad Egypt and Muromachi or, perhaps, mid to late Ashikaga Japan must've known about the Central American City States built by the Olmec, Toltec, and Maya. In my Conversations with a Dragon (the aforementioned novel) I suggest that a thriving trade in goods of gems and gold on the one side for sword blades and spear heads* and other manufactured goods on the other, drove a series of gambits by the monks at Takao (who do have a convenient tradition of sending their senior monks to sea packed into a boat stocked full of "offerings to the gods"). Now we can properly re-imagine Tengu; they're Mayan Ambassadors and diplomatic staff living on mount Takao during the times in question. And, we can re--imagine the Egyoptian fascination with bird-headed 'gods". *I know what that sounds like, but I also know how quickly iron rusts to nothing in that climate. That's why the Americans didn't use the stuff. It was too frail for longevity. In short term, however, like in spears or sword blades, it would be game unbalancing . . . like a mandate from the gods of war. When trade broke down, so did Maya's material superiority and, well, the empire collapsed.
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