ron-like immovability in
which their whole social frame was cast, bring before us _Japan_--as it
was a very few years ago. In fact, there is something strangely Japanese
in the entire cultus of Peru as described by all writers.[537:2]

The dress and costume of the Mexicans, and their sandals, resemble the
apparel and sandals worn in early ages in the East.[537:3]

Mexican priests were represented with a Serpent twined around their
heads, so were Oriental kings.[537:4] The Mexicans had the head of a
rhinoceros among their paintings,[537:5] and also the head of an
elephant on the body of a man.[537:6] Now, these animals were unknown in
America, but well known in Asia; and what is more striking still is the
fact that the man with the elephant's head is none other than the Ganesa
of India; the God of Wisdom. Humboldt, who copied a Mexican painting of
a man with an elephant's head, remarks that "it presents some remarkable
and apparently _not accidental_ resemblances with the Hindoo Ganesa."

The horse and the ass, although natives of America,[537:7] became
extinct on the Western Continent in an early period of the earth's
history, yet the Mexicans had, among their hieroglyphics,
representations of both these animals, which show that it must have been
seen in the old world by the author of the hieroglyph. When the Mexicans
saw the horses which the Spaniards brought over, they were greatly
astonished, and when they saw the Spaniards on horseback, they imagined
man and horse to be _one_.

Certain of the temples of _India_ abound with sculptural representations
of the symbols of _Phallic Worship_. Turning now to the temples of
_Central America_, which in many respects exhibit a strict
correspondence with those in India, _we find precisely the same symbols,
separate and in combination_.[537:8]

We have seen that many of the religious conceptions of _America_ are
identical with those of the _Old World_, and that they are embodied or
symbolized under the same or cognate forms; and it is confidently
asserted that a comparison and analysis of her primitive systems, in
connection with those of other parts of the globe, philosophically
conducted, would establish the grand fact, that in ALL their leading
elements, and in many of their details, they are essentially the
same.[538:1]

The _architecture_ of many of the most ancient buildings in South
America resembles the Asiatic. Around Lake Titicaca are massive
monuments, which sp