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Niven’s Tablet Discoveries – An Update

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My research has always been about uncovering the truth.
Earlier this week I read that an archaeologist had come across four of Niven’s tablets from the Valley of Mexico and was interviewed in a podcast.
The name of the podcast is ArchyFantasies and the particular show is titled, “Jeb Card and the Mu Stones Pt 1 Episode 24.”

One of the questions that always arises in interviews where I discuss my latest book, The Stone Tablets of Mu, is ‘where are the tablets now?’ The implication that some of the tablets had been found and would undergo rigorous scientific testing, as well as an evaluation of the meaning of the symbols, was one of the reasons that I wrote the book and continued to update the “William Niven’s Tablet Discoveries in the Valley of Mexico” website. I make the point in my book that it is quite possible that the tablets were never taken seriously due to the association with my great-grandfather, James Churchward. I had hoped that eventually we could learn their real meaning and decipher more of our ancient past.

Allow me to reiterate, from the information I have read, I do not believe that William Niven was a charlatan or was engaged in any hoax with James Churchward. From William Niven’s biography, “Buried Cities and Forgotten Gods,” the tablets were discovered prior to the publication of James’ first book or when they first started their correspondence.
As to the veracity of the finds, to quote ‘Buried Cities, Forgotten Gods [page 218],’ “(archaeologist Sylvanus) Morley was convinced it would have been impossible to “hoax” the Old Man.”

Dr. Card, in studying the four tablets in his care, described them as being made of pumice, a very low density, soft volcanic rock. He is analyzing them, but sets forth the assertion that he believes that they were/are a hoax.

As further information is made available, I will provide updates and even hope to interview Dr. Card to describe what he has found from his investigations to get to the truth of the matter.

“Jade is Not A Mexican Mineral…”

Contained within the pages of both the 1926 Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men and the 1931 Lost Continent of Mu are the following statements:

Illustration of the "Little Chinaman" from Lost Continent of Mu page 234

The “Little Chinaman” from Lost Continent of Mu page 234

The Little Chinaman.
“This image proves with indisputable evidence that the people who lived ages ago in the Valley of Mexico knew and were familiar with the Mongolian type. The ruin in which I found the Chinese image was in the remains of the third or lowest civilization thirty feet down from the surface in the pit which I had dug at San Miguel Amantla, near Halue-pantla, nineteen miles from the national palace in Mexico City. The first (upper) civilization, marked by a cement floor, and walls of a concrete building I found at a depth of eight feet. Eleven feet below this was the second (middle) civilization of about the same grade of development as the first, and 30 feet 3 inches from the surface of the ground I came on a bed chamber, or tomb, I do not know which, in the third stratum of ruins, which contain the finest artefacts I have ever seen in Mexico. I am inclined to think the room was thirty feet square, its walls were made of concrete and crushed down to within a foot of their bases. Below was a tomb. In the center, on a raised rectangular platform, also of concrete, lay the skull and some of the bones of a man who could not have been more than five feet in height. His arms were very long, reaching almost to the knees, and his skull was decidedly of a Mongolian type. Around his neck had been a string of green jade beads. Green jade is not a Mexican mineral.
Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men; pages 215-216; 1926
Lost Continent of Mu; pages 235-236; 1931

Niven appears astonished that he found images of all the southern Asiatic races. It would have been more astounding if he had not, because the people of southern Asia and the people who built these now buried cities both came from the same Motherland.
Niven notes that he found green jade beads and that green jade was not a Mexican mineral. Le Plongeon discovered in the tomb of Queen Moo of Mayax a green jade ornament which he called “Queen Moo’s Talisman.” I have examined this ornament and can safely say it is not New Zealand jade, so that the green jade found in Mexico must have come there either from China or from the Motherland.
Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men; pages 219; 1926
Lost Continent of Mu; page 239; 1931

The Calakmul Mask was found in Tomb 1 in Structure VII, in the archaeological zone of the same name, in the state of Campeche, whose antiquity goes back to 660 and 750 AD [Credit: MNA-INAH]

On the other hand, coverage of a recent display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City shows the burial mask of a Mayan ruler from the 7th century A.D. with the following quote from the curator:

The curator, Pilar Cuairan, indicated that given its beauty and sacred connotation, jade was the most important component of funerary masks of Mayan sovereigns, whose funerary attire gave them the identity they needed in order to travel to the underworld, and the mask gave them the face of the god of corn. She added that jade was a Stone associated with water and it was related to the sky and the sea as principal elements of creation, as symbols of breath, fertility and rebirth.

Further exploring the subject, included in one of James’ scrapbooks are two articles labeled “Niven’s Buried Cities.” Both articles are reproduced in full in Lifting the Veil on the Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Men. The second of these articles contains the following text:

Now comes the curious Chinaman. Buried for at least fifteen hundred years, possibly more, to prove to the world that the Mongol was known in Mexico when the Wise Men followed the star to Bethlehem. The image is not an idol; nine-tenths of the figurines which are called idols in Mexico were, indeed, never intended as objects of worship. It is an ornament for the house of some prehistoric noble, probably the same man whose crumbling skull, shell money, jade ornaments and flower vase were found scattered round the Chinese images. (entire paragraph lined out on original)

“This image,” says Professor Niven, “proves with indisputable evidence that the people who lived in the Valley of Mexico ten or fifteen centuries ago knew and were familiar with the Mongol type. The ruin in which I found it was in the remains of the third civilization in the pit which I had dug at San Miguel Amantla, near Tlalnepantla, nineteen miles from the National Palace in Mexico City. The first civilization, marked by a cement floor and the walls of a concrete buildings, I found at a depth of eight feet. Eleven feet below it was the second civilization, of about the same grade of development as the first, and, thirty feet and three inches from the surface of the ground I came upon a bedchamber, or tomb, I do not know which, in a third stratum of ruins, which contained the finest artefacts I have ever seen in Mexico.

“I am inclined to think the room, which was thirty feet square, its walls made of concrete and crushed down to within about a foot of their bases was a tomb. In the centre on a raised, rectangular platform, also of concrete, lay the skull and some bones of the skeleton of a man, who could not have been more than five feet height. His arms were very long, reaching almost to his knees, and his skull was of a decidedly Mongoloid type. Around his neck had been a string of green jade beads, another link which binds Mexico to China, for real jade has never been found in Mexico in a natural state. (the last sentence underlined in red on original)

Have a great day.

Is There a Cache of Mayan Codices Hidden Away?

Recently I was reading ‘The Vestiges of the Mayas’ (1881) by Augustus Le Plongeon and I found on page 10 the following passage that implies that he knew the location of a repository of Mayan Codices:

If we are to judge by the great number of ruined cities scattered everywhere through the forests of the peninsula; by the architectural beauty of the monuments still extant, the specimens of their artistic attainments in drawing and sculpture which have reached us in the bas—reliefs, statues and mural paintings of Uxmal and Chichen Itza; by their knowledge in mathematical and astronomical sciences, as manifested in the construction of the gnomon found by me in the ruins of Mayapan; by the complexity of the grammatical form and syntaxis of their language, still spoken today by the majority of the inhabitants of Yucatan; by their mode of expressing their thoughts on paper, made from the bark of certain trees, with alphabetical and phonetical characters, we must of necessity believe that, at some time or other, the country was not only densely populated, but that the inhabitants had reached a high degree of civilization. Today we can conceive of very few of their attainments by the scanty remains of their handiwork, as they have come‘ to us injured by the hand of time, and, more so yet, by that of man, during the wars, the invasions, the social and religious convulsions which have taken place among these people, as among all other nations. Only the opening of the buildings which contain the libraries of their learned men, and the reading of their works, could solve the mystery, and cause us to know how much they had advanced in the discovery and explanation of Nature’s arcana; how much they knew of mankind’s past history, and of the nations with which they held intercourse. Let us hope that the day may yet come when the Mexican government will grant to me the requisite permission, in order that I may bring forth, from the edifices where they are hidden, the precious volumes, without opposition from the owners of the property where the monuments exist. Until then we must content ourselves with the study of the inscriptions carved on the walls, and becoming acquainted with the history of their builders, and continue to conjecture what knowledge they possessed in order to be able to rear such enduring structures, besides the art of designing the plans and ornaments, and the manner of carving them on stone.

If Le Plongeon did actually know where a cache of ancient Mayan codices that escaped the fanatical Bishop Diego de Landa Calderón, it would be a great boon to our understanding of the Maya.

These now-hidden manuscripts could assist in the interpretation of the Niven’s Stone Tablet discoveries from the Valley of Mexico.