Origin Theories — Indigenous Origin — Separate Creation Theory — Dr. Morton’s Theory — Agassiz’s Views — Dr. Morton’s Cranial Measurements — Dr. Morton’s Theory of Ethnic Unity Groundless — Ethnic Relationships — Typical Mound-skull — Crania from the River Rouge — Dr. Farquharson’s Measurements — Crania from Kentucky — Researches in Tennessee by Prof. Jones — Measurements — Prof. Putnam’s Collection of Crania from Tennessee Mounds — Low Type Crania from the Mounds — Development Observable in Mound Crania — Head-Flattening Derived from Asia — Diseases of the Mound-builders — Physiognomy of the Ancient Americans — Languages — Evolution and its Bearing on the Origin of the Americans — Darwin and Hæckel on the Indigenous American — The Autochthonic Hypothesis Groundless — Unity of the Human Family — Accepted Chronology Faulty. CHAPTER V. TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN OF THE MAYA NATIONS. Ancient Civilization of Tabasco and Chiapas — The Tradition of Votan — The First Immigrants to America — The City of Nachan — The Votanic Document — Ordoñez — Brasseur and Cabrera on the Tzendal Document — The Empire of the Chanes — The Oldest Civilization — The Earliest Home of the Mayas — The Quichés — Their Origin Tradition — The Quiché Cosmogony — The Creation of Man — The Quiché Migration — Tulan — Mt. Hacavitz — Human Sacrifices Instituted — Four Tulans — Association of the Mayas and Nahuas — Heroic Period of the Quichés — Xibalba and its Downfall — Exploits of the Quiché Chieftains — War of the Sects — Xibalba and Palenque the Same — Mayas of Yucatan and their Traditions — Culture-heroes — Zamna and Cukulcan — Christ Myth. CHAPTER VI. TRADITIONAL HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NAHUA NATIONS. The Early Inhabitants of Mexico — Quinames — Miztecs and Zapotecs — Totonacs and Huastecs — Olmecs and Xicalancas — The Nahuas — The Cholula Pyramid — Its Origin Explained by Duran — No Relation to a Flood — Ixtlilxochitl’s Deluge Tradition — The first Toltecs — The Codex Chimalpopoca Account — The Discovery of Maize — Sahagun’s Origin of the Nahuas — They came from Florida — Their Settlement in Tamoanchan — Their Migrations — Hue Hue Tlapalan — Its location, according to the Sources — Not Identical with Tlapallan de Cortés — Not in Central America — Probably in the Mississippi Valley — Beginning of the Toltec Annals — The Chichimecs not Nahuas — The Nahuatlacas — The Aztecs — Aztlan — As Described by Early Writers — Aztec Migration — Aztec Maps — Señor Ramirez on Migration Maps — The seven Caves — Three Claims for the Location of Aztlan — The culture Hero, Quetzalcoatl.