Hopis and Mayans Hold the Keys
to the Origins of Our American Indians!
excerpt from Christianity--Mankind's
First Worldwide Religion!
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and Barnes & Noble)
Gene D. Matlock
Cologne Sanskrit dictionary meanings of the four italicized words in this
first paragraph led me to intuit that the Indo-Turkic (Kuru) Phoenicians
once governed both the eastern and the western hemispheres: Sanskrit Kashi
= "Descendants of Prince Kashi; the family of Bharata (India's true
name). Shikha = "chief; head; sheik; best of a kind."
Kashikha = "Chiefs or Sheiks of Kashi or Bharata."
The following is a list of many Amerindian leadership castes which I compiled
from studying the traditions of most American Indian tribes: Keshua
(Inca leadership caste); Kashitl; Kashikeh (Aztec, Toltec,
and Nahuatl chiefs); Kashikel; Kisheh (Mayan leaders); Kashekwa;
Kashikah (Caribbean and Florida Taino and Arawak chieftains); Kushuu
(Mexican Mixtec and Zapotec rulers); Kashonsee (Mexican Tarascan
leaders); Kais (Arizona O'odham word for "rich, wealthy people");
Katsina (Hopi and other Puebloan protective deities); Koshair
(Southwestern Puebloan sun priests); Koshikwe (Zuñi leadership
clan); Gasha (Seneca Indian chiefs); Kaddi (leaders of the
Caddoan tribe); etc., etc.
Notice the similarity of the Amerindian names for "leadership caste"
with their Old World equivalents: Kush (ancient rulers of Egypt,
Ethiopia, and other parts of Africa); Kais (hereditary leaders
of Afghanistan); Kish (hereditary leaders of Persia); Kassi
(Kassites; ancient rulers of Assyria and Mesopotamia); Kashu (Babylonian
leaders); Kastra (Roman hereditary leaders); Kish (Hereditary
leaders of Kishtawar, Kashmir); Kathay (China's ancient leadership
caste); Kshatriya; Hattiya (India's ruling caste); Kossoei
(Persian or Iranian aristocracy); Kshatrap (early Greek leaders);
Katholic (universal religion of mankind); Kashteel (a name
of Spain's first leadership caste); Kastro (another name of Spain's
leadership caste); Kaesar/Caesar (mispronounced as "Seezar";
title of Roman kings); Kushang (a fierce warrior tribe that once
left Eastern Siberia, moved across Mongolia, swept across China, and kept
on going to India); Kaiser (title of German kings); Kzar (title
of Russian rulers); Goths, Guti, Gades, Cadis,
etc., (ancient Rajput or Yadava warriors that once overran Europe); Kossaks;
Kazaks (hereditary warrior class of Russia); Castle (home
of hereditary leaders).
I have in my files enough information to provide a large volume about
the ancient Indo-Turkic (Kuru) Phoenicians' domination of every region
on earth. Various names of God Shiva also existed in every part of this
creator God is Yaiowa (Jehovah). Their great spirit
oracle is Massawa (Mahesvara or God Shiva). The wind god who
brought them to America was Yaponcha (Swift Phoenician). Those
who furnished the transportation to bring them here were the Bahanna,
a Sanskrit word for "mover; transporter:" Vahana. The
Hopis' tribal name derives from the Afghan and ancient Turkic (Kuru) ophiolaters
(snake worshippers) known as Khofis, Ophis, Hopis,
or L'Hopitai. Edward Pococke, author of India in Greece,
wrote that the word Afghanistan derives from Oph (Snake) + Gana
(Tribe) + S'Tan (of Dan): "Snake Tribe of Dan." Kiva
derives from the Sanskrit word Kiva, meaning "Anthill Residence."
The Greeks called the ancient Turkic (Kuru) non-Indo-European peoples
living in those Kivas, Muski, Mushki, Mousika, Mesech,
etc. The variations of this word mean "mouse; rat" because their
homes resembled mouse or rat burrows
to the Greeks. Even today, many Turkish villagers live in pit houses,
Puebloan style buildings entered from rooftops, and cliff dwellings. On
a recent trip to Turkey for research and stress
relief, my wife Sandy saw these dwellings personally. The arts, textiles,
and crafts of the Turkic villagers resemble their American Indian counterparts.
Turkish authorities told her that their ancestors were the primogenitors
of the American Indians. They also told her that in ancient times, a large
tribe of "snake people" once lived in Kurustan (the Turkic countries
and Northern India). During the summer of 2005, my wife and I traveled
throughout Southern Arizona. She took a purse she had bought in Turkey
with her. Both tourists and Indians thought that her purse had been made
The origin myths of the Hopis
mention Kiva and Muski. The Hopis and other Puebloan tribes' place of
origin was Sibapu (Sivabhu), meaning "Sacred Land of
God Shiva." The way of life of tribes of all the puebloan tribes
is Inday. The Hopi word for "money" is Siiva.
Its Sanskrit equivalent is Sva. Traditionally shells were sometimes
used as currency and worn as a sign of wealth. Also trades of different
furs and crops were used like modern day checks and cash. The Hopi word
for "people; humanity; group of people; the American Indian nations
collectively" is Sino, similar to the collective names of
the Indians on South America's west coast of Sinnar: Sinu. The
Sanskrit word for "group of people" is Sena.
Like the Hopis, the Mayans pinpointed their Old World origins accurately.
They claimed that their forefathers came from a western land lying 150
days' sailing time from Meso-America. They gave several names for this
Shilanka (Xilanca) - an ancient name of Ceylon (Zeilan-Ka).
Shikalanka (Xicalanca) - Ceylon. In Tamil, Shikalam.
Itzamna was one of their culture heroes. He claimed to have come
from a western country. Isham, meaning "Tiger," "Land of
Gold," was a Dravidian name of Ceylon. The Na in Isham-na
is an honorific.
Ishbalanka (Xbalanca), another culture hero. In Tamil, it
means "Shiva of Lanka." India's God Shiva was supposed to have
made the footprint on top of Adam's Peak in today's Sri Lanka.
Shibalba, the Mayan underworld. This word stems From the Sanskrit
Shivulba, meaning "from the fountainhead of God Shiva-Mt. Meru, in
Palenke (Palenque). This name derives from the Tamil Pal-Lanka,
meaning "Protectorate of Lanka." Ancient Lanka was India's "Atlantis."
Ceren, a name of Ceylon. Some Mayan ruins in El Salvador are called
Lacandon, a tribe of Yucatan. India's god Kubera banished the Laks,
a Tartarian Huna or Rakshasha tribe from Northern India to Ceylon, giving
the country one of its many names and becoming the Lakan or Lakam people.
The Don in Lacan-don derives from Dan. (See the online
Cologne Sanskrit and Tamil dictionaries for comparison of ancient Ceylon
names with those of Mayan tribes and places.)
Ancient Ceylon was divided into three provinces: Maya, the central
division of the island; Ruhuna, and Pihitee, the northernmost
of the three. The Ceylonese Maya were known for their impressive
architectural marvels, temples, and irrigation ponds. (Reference: The
History of Ceylon, by William Knighton, first published in Colombo
Ceylon, in 1845.)
One of the names of Ceylon's cult religions was Mayon. It still
exists among a few aboriginals living on the island.
About 4,000 BC, perhaps even earlier, Kubera or Khyber (Kheeber/Heber),
India's God of Good Luck, Gold, Riches, Merchants, Traders, Mariners and
Miners, tried to rid Northern India (Sivapuri; Sivabhu;
Shivulva) of its most barbarous tribes. These were mainly the Tartarian
Hunas, also called Rakshasas (barbarians). They came from
Huna-Bhu, meaning "Hunas (Tartars) from the Sacred Land around
Mt. Meru." Many of these tribes were cannibalistic, given to intertribal
fighting, practitioners of human sacrifice in their religious rites, flattened
the foreheads of their babies, took scalps in battle, and observed other
customs attributed to many Amerindian tribes.
The Ramayana tells us that Kubera (really a group) exiled
them to Lanka or Ceylon, taking along with him many of his Yaksha
or Yakkha subjects. These would be the Veddhas, considered
to be Ceylon's first inhabitants. In Ceylon, the Hunas (Huns) refused
to settle down and become peaceful. Therefore, Kubera took them to Patala
(Meso-America), along with his fellow Yakkhas. The Mayans remember
them as the culture hero, Hunapu (Huna-Bhu?).
Had the natives of Meso-America been able to pronounce the "ST"
combination, today's Yucatan would be Yucasthan. Even today, the
Mexican Indians and peasants cannot pronounce this combination. For example,
instead of Cómo está? (How are you?), they can only
say, "¿Cómo tá?"
Guatemala may derive from Gautemala, meaning "A Subsidiary
Land of Gautama Buddha."
Besides the Ceylonese and Tamil tribal names Yakkha, Maya,
and Lak in Maya country, there are also the Lenca and Rama
tribes. I want to add that no less than two-thirds of all the aboriginal
regional names of Mexico are either variations of the name of Lanka or
Tamil names of West Indian regions.
The architecture of ancient Ceylonese temples and buildings is also nearly
exactly like that of the Mayans.
Kubera even gave his name to North America. The Meso-Americans told the
Spaniards that North America was Quivira (Land of the Khyber People).
Most of us have heard of the Mayan holy book, Chilam Balam.
Chilan or Chilam is a title of Mayan priests. Balam
is the Mayan name for Jaguar. In Sanskrit, Cheilan = Ceylonese
and Vyalam = tiger; lion; hunting leopard. "Jaguar" probably
stems from the Sanskrit Higkara, meaning Tiger-like or "sounding
like a tiger."
Chak was the Mayan God of thunder, lightning, rain, and crops.
His equivalent in other parts of the world was Zeus, Dyaus,
Jupiter, Ca, Jah, Ju, Jahve, Jehova
Jeho, Sakh, Sagg, Sa-ga-ga, Sakko, Zagg,
Zax. a.k.a. Zeus, is often depicted holding a serpentine
thunderbolt and a grail, or someone is handing it to him. The Mayan Chak
is equally depicted. He, too, is God Shiva!
They claim to have been brought to Meso-America by a person or group called
Votan. This name means "Boat People" in Sanskrit.
A New Mexican Membreno Apache chief told me recently that at certain times
in human history, the past and the present snap back together as if they
were two ends of a gigantic rubber band. He told me, "The past is
now." The Hopi and Mayan origin stories, as well as those of the
Incas, Aztecs, Caddos, O'odhams, and many other Indian tribes are at last
telling us that all humans are inter-related. For me, that is a comforting
thought in a world that has been fragmenting almost beyond redemption.
Can Humpty Dumpty be put back together again?
D. Matlock © Copyright 2005-2012. All rights reserved.
D. Matlock, summer 2005
is a retired high school foreign language teacher who spends his retirement researching
the history and origins of mankind's religions, the origins of our Amerindian
tribes, and related subjects. His interest in Hindu philosophy started in Kansas
where he grew up in the 1930s and 1940s. His father, a staunch Christian fundamentalist,
disapproved of Gene's favorite reading materials. Gene had to hide his books in
the barn granary. One day his father found the books and destroyed them. But Gene
just went out and bought others. His father then relented.
from high school, he went to Mexico City College in Mexico City (now the University
of the Americas in Puebla) to get his B.A. degree in Spanish and Latin American
History. While there he noticed that there had to be a relationship between the
Nahuatl-speaking peoples and the Hindus. After getting out of the Marine Corps
in 1954, Gene traveled throughout Central America and then went to New Orleans
where he got his Master's degree in Spanish and Latin American Affairs from Tulane
University. After Tulane and a year of teaching in a rural Kansas high school,
he went to California and has been there ever since.
His latest book
entitled What Strange Mystery Unites the Turkish Nations, India, Catholicism,
and Mexico is available from Amazon.