What do you think about this?
The Aztecs believed that the world has been destroyed four times already, and we are living in the fifth age.
Each of the previous worlds, what they called Suns, lasted thousands of years before ending in catastrophe. The first Sun was destroyed by jaguars, the wild animals of the earth turning on the people. The second was unmade by winds, hurricanes so violent they erased everything. The third ended in a rain of fire. The fourth ended in a flood that drowned the planet and turned the survivors into fish. Each time, the gods rebuilt and tried again.
The cycle is preserved in the Codex Boturini and the Codex Vaticanus A, both painted before the Spanish destruction of the Aztec libraries. It is carved into the Sun Stone, the twenty four ton basalt monolith dug up under the Zocalo in 1790 and now in the National Museum in Mexico City. The five ages stare back from the center of that disk in symbols Aztec priests still recognized when the Spanish arrived.
We are in the Fifth Sun, Ollintonatiuh, the Sun of Movement. The Aztecs predicted it would end in earthquakes.
The strange part is who else carries this story. The Hopi tradition describes four prior worlds and a current fifth age. The Maya Long Count tracks vast cycles of destruction and renewal. The Mesopotamian flood myth, the biblical flood, the Hindu yugas, all describe a planet that has been wiped clean before, sometimes more than once, by water and by fire.
Is it possible the people of the ancient world were not making any of this up, but trying to tell us about something that actually happened?
What do you think about this? In 1715 a hurricane sank eleven Spanish treasure ships off Florida. In 2015 divers pulled up $4.5 million in gold coins from just 15 feet of water. The Queen’s jewels have never been found. Gone forever, or waiting for the right storm?
What do you think about this? Today is the equinox, and at Chichén Itzá a serpent of light will crawl down a pyramid built with 365 steps. Clap at its base and the echo chirps like the sacred quetzal bird. Brilliant engineering, or knowledge from somewhere older?
What do you think about this? Scans of Gunung Padang in Indonesia show hidden chambers deep inside the hill, and one team dated its oldest layers to 25,000 years ago. The study was retracted in 2024. The chambers have never been opened. Natural hill, or the oldest pyramid on Earth?
What do you think about this? Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 trance readings, all written down and still on file. He said proof of Atlantis would rise near Bimini in 1968. That year divers found a half mile road of giant stone blocks there. True seer, or lucky guess?
What do you think about this? Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky built a 500 foot tunnel just to move its dead out of sight of the living. It closed in 1961. Visitors still report a boy rolling a ball across empty floors. Restless spirits, or a dark building playing tricks on the mind?
What do you think about this? In 1891, a poor French priest named Bérenger Saunière began tearing up his church floor, then spent the next two decades funding lavish buildings on a stipend that should not have covered it. Real treasure, or a secret about how he ran his church?
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