It is well known that the Brahmins, in many of their religious ceremonies, make use of words that are not Sanscrit, but are said to belong to a very ancient form of speech—now dead—the _Akkadian_, spoken by the inhabitants of the countries situated along the banks of the Euphrates, near its mouth. Strange as it may appear, this language presents many affinities with the Maya, which is still the vernacular of the aborigines of Yucatan and other countries south of the Peninsula. The fact is that the words _con-x—om—pan-x_, mean nothing in Greek, but, as we have said, are pure Maya vocables, that have the same meaning as that given to _can-sha—om—Pansha_ by Captain Wilford. That is not all. We are also told that the place or temple where the initiated assembled to perform their ceremonies, had the form of a rectangle, [Symbol: long hollow rectangle] and that it represented the "Universe." Modern Masons have wrongly translated that idea by the Sanscrit word _loga_, from which the word _lodge_ has been derived, and the form of M⸫ lodges adopted. The shape of the temples was that of the Egyptian letter _M_ called "_ma_", a word that also means place, country and, by extension, the Universe. The Egyptians adopted it, therefore, not because they believed, as Dr. Fanton suggests, that the earth was square or _oblong_, for they knew full well it was spherical, but because the sign of the word _ma'_, conveyed to their mind the idea of the Earth, as the word _earth_ represents it to ours. But _ma_ is also the radical of Mayax; and likewise, in the Maya language, it means the country, the Earth. The Mayas selected the oblong square [Symbol: long hollow rectangle] to represent it, because it is the geometrical figure that is nearest in shape to the contours of the Yucatean peninsula. So we have found a bridge to cross the vast expanse of water that lies between the Eastern and Western Continents—a clue that may lead us to the birth-place of the ancient sacred mysteries in those [Symbol: two signs with roofs] "Lands of the West," [Symbol: sign with hills] that "Land of _Kui_," the mother-land of the gods and of the ancestors of the Egyptians, where the god Osiris reigned supreme over the souls emancipated from the trammels of matter. In the depths of the forests that cover the soil of Central America, lie hidden, under a cloak of verdure, the ruins of ancient cities. There, are to be seen the crumbling, awe-inspiring remains of grand old monuments; mementos of the power and civilization, of the scientific and intellectual attainments of the mighty races that erected them, and have disappeared forever in the abyss of time. At Uxmal, one of these ancient great metropolis in Yucatan, there exists an artificial mound of peculiar construction. [Illustration]