DNA: Are Native Americans, Mexicans Asian?

Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Dhr.Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Scott Neuman (All Things Considered, NPR.org, 5-16-14), "Ancient skeleton in Mexico sheds light on Americas settlement"

In this June 2013 photo provided by National Geographic, diver Susan Bird, working at the bottom of Hoyo Negro, a large dome-shaped underwater cave in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, brushes Naia's skull found at the site (Paul Nicklen/AP).

 

A nearly complete skeleton of a teenage girl (called "Naia") has yielded DNA clues linking her to Native Americans living today. She died 12,000-13,000 years ago in a cave in the Yucatan Peninsula (modern Mexico). 

 

The connection bolsters the prevailing theory that the sole route of human migration into North America took place over a Siberia-Alaska land bridge known as Beringia, starting 15,000-20,000 years ago.

 

NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca says the skeleton of the girl, who died at age 15 to 16, was discovered in 2007 amid a complex of flooded caverns in Mexico known as Hoyo Negro, or "Black Hole."

 

Meditating Mayan figurine (MT)

Scientific American says, "She lies in a collapsed chamber together with the remains of 26 other large mammals, including a saber-toothed tiger, 600 meters from the nearest sinkhole. Most of the mammals became extinct around 13,000 years ago."

 

"It was impossible to safely recover the body from the cave location, so the research team dove to the cave and made bone measurements [on site]. They placed Naia's skull on a rotating tripod and set a camera on a second tripod next to it. Turning the skull slowly, they snapped pictures every 20 degrees. Later the team used the photographs to reconstruct a three-dimensional image."

 

Aztec Kwan Yin, Queen of Devas (LTG)

James Chatters of Applied Paleoscience in Bothell, Washington, led the study and published the results in the journal Science.

 

Chatters says the skeleton, known as Naia after the water nymphs (naiads) of Greek mythology, doesn't look much like modern Native Americans, who have narrower faces, different teeth, and a different palate.

 

"I could tell from the shape of the palette and some other aspects of the skull that she was similar to some of the other earliest Americans I'd seen," Chatters says. "So many differences that it seemed they must come from somewhere else." But the DNA told a different story. 

Taos Pueblo like Tibet, Southwest USA (NM)

The University of Texas at Austin's Deborah Bolnick, an expert in extracting ancient DNA from fossilized teeth and bones, got a sample of Naia's mitochondrial DNA [slower changing genetic information], which is inherited exclusively from the mother.

 

Bolnick found a lineage known as D-1 that's found in Northeast Asia (including Siberia, which is North Aisa) and also very common in Native Americans.

What that suggests, Bolnick says, is that the girl is indeed descended from the first humans to cross the land bridge and not some later migration from somewhere else.

 

That means the physical differences between the first "Paleoamericans" and Native Americans of today are the result of evolution since the great migration out of Asia.

 

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• Buddhism exists in Mexico today [Not so] surprisingly, one of six Tibet Houses in the world -- Casa Tibet México -- is located in Mexico City. It is used by the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Vajrayana leaders of Tibetan Buddhism to preserve and share Tibetan culture and spirituality [with Native Americans and modern European-invaded Mexicans]. There is a Thai Theravada Buddhist temple in Tamaulipas, in the Gulf of Mexico, where there are three monks from Thailand who teach the Dharma, as well as one monk from Cambodia (the former Khmer Empire most famous for building Angkor Wat).
• Buddhism in Mongolia (Vajrayana, shamanism)
• VIDEO: "Mysteries of Lost Temples, the City of Angkor and its Temple or Wat (National Geographic) A former naga-worshipping empire, once the greatest in Southeast Asia with a million urban and suburban inhabitants living in and around stone monuments in the jungle united by a sophisticated water distribution system.
• It existed in Mexico long ago: How the Swan Came to the Lake (Rick Fields)
• Ancient Mysteries (Nat Geo): "Lost City of Angkor Wat" - In 1860 Christian missionaries came across Buddhist ruins in the Cambodian jungle -- splendor right out of fairy tales, discovering a lost city twice as large as Manhattan. More

Commentary

Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

From Asia (China and Afghanistan) to California and Mexico (Int'l History Channel)

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World's most famous Pueblo, Potala, Tibet

As we have noted repeatedly, the Buddhism practiced in Siberia, Russia (as well as Kalmykia, Europe) is Mongolian and Tibetan, with strong native animist and shamanistic influences, deriving from the Buddha's shramana movement in and around India.

 

It traveled up from Central Asia, modern day Afghanistan (part of ancient Gandhara, see the pioneering work of Dr. Ranajit Pal), into ancient Greece and Northern Asia. It is startlingly similar to Native American beliefs and practices, enhanced by visits from Afghan and Chinese Buddhist missionaries to Mexico and California long before the arrival of Columbus, as documented by Edward P. Vining, Hendon M. Harris, and our research on Puebloan Peoples in America. 

 

China's Fusang, our CA, Mexico

The Bering Strait land bridge is not the only route of spiritual ideas, DNA, and Asiatic culture. A great deal of it came directly and intact. 

 

One amazing "coincidence" is the similarity between the megalithic jungle cultures of Buddhist Angkor and other ancient city-states, part of the enormously successful Khmer Empire in modern Cambodia and Thailand, and the megalithic jungle empires of the Maya, Aztecs, Toltecs (see also Toltec Mounds State Archaeological Park), Olmecs, and Incas in Mexico (Mesoamerica) and South America.

Traces of it also existed in the modern "mound building" cultures in the United States, whose enormous size and sophistication (as well as being gigantic as individuals) make them part of "forbidden archaeology" as exposed by Dr. Michael Cremo.

Ancient Mesoamerica (pre-Spanish invasion) included parts of California, the USA, Mexico, Belize, the Mayan Empire, Guatemala (named after Gautama Buddha, according Rick Fields' accounts, Swans)... See detail

Were Anasazi [Native Americans] Buddhists?

Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly; Hendon Harris (chinesediscoveramerica.com)

The most famous building in the entire Tibetan plateau, Potala Pueblo, Lhasa (HCC)

Tibetan store (Aaron Berkovich/flickr)

Were the Anasazi, who are known to many as the Native Americans of the Southwest, Buddhists? 

 

Buddhism began in the sixth century BCE in India [although the Buddha was from neighboring Afghanistan -- the ancient northwestern frontier of Gandhara and to points west -- where the Dharma quickly took hold among his familial clan simultaneous with its spread in Magadha/modern Bihar, India].

It soon spread to ancient Greece and parts of its empire in Central Asia [Bactria, Sogdiana, etc., where Alexander the Great left yet another "Alexandria" in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when it was part of the Hellenic Empire], the geopolitical Middle East, and some believe to Europe (Kalmykia) as far north as Scandinavia and even North America, which was partly ancient Mexico, a spread Rick Fields documented in How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America and Edward P. Vining's Inglorious Columbus, which recounts how a group of Afghan Buddhist monks led by Chinese Buddhist missionary Hwui Shan  "discovered" America and therefore interacted with the Native Americans long before the genocidal, Polish, Jewish Christopher Columbus].

This is where the Native Anasazi (or Ancestral Puebloan people, such as the Hopi, Hisatsinom, and others) come in.

• Did they leave temples and treasures here?

One piece of evidence is the ancient Buddhist proclivity for carving building and shrines into mountains and creating distinctive rock formations. They are now found all over the world and bear a likeness to that favored by Vedic Hinduism/Buddhism. Buddhism ultimately reached China in the first century ACE, after it had made a grand impact on Greece bringing in many Eastern philosophical idea -- the atom (kalapa), democratic voting and rudimentary parliamentary rules of order (Sangha organization according to the Vinaya), and so on.

 

The Anasazi culture mysteriously appeared in North America at an undetermined time and disappeared about 1300 ACE. Where did these incredibly advanced people come from? How and why did they just as mysteriously disappear? We know they were astronomers because we have found some of their observatories. We know they were road builders because we have found their roads. We know they were incredibly proficient at stone carving and masonry because we have found evidence of their work and architectural styles in the Four Corners area of the Southwest.

 

Native American indigenous Apache, remnant Anasazi spirit dancers, 1887 (Native Skeptic)

 
These architectural styles and art carved in stone provide the best evidence that the source of the Anasazi culture with its advanced knowledge and artistry was Vedic Asia.

 

This is a provocative statement likely to offend a few scholars. However, if one takes the time to examine the art and architecture, compare examples from each culture side by side, it will provide clear evidence of their connection.

 

Rock cliffs of the Grand Canyon, Arizona

If one were to start by using the image search terms “Were the Anasazi people Buddhist?” one would find that the architectural styles of the Puebloan people (Anasazi) and Chinese Buddhists are so similar that they show up interchangeably on the image page clearly demonstrating that they used the same techniques for carving out rock caves. (See examples of rock caves carved high on the cliffs of Bandelier National Park, New Mexico. They bear an incredible likeness to Asian Buddhist caves). 

Further search “Architecture-Pueblo complexes and Great Houses” or “Bandelier National Park Rock Cave Images” to see more). Compare these to the Caves of Dunhuang and the Longmen Caves in China or to the recently discovered Shangri-la Buddhist Caves of Nepal all of which are carved high up on rock faces.
 

Luoyang Shaolin Buddhist temple (G-W-H)

For evidence of IDENTICAL construction techniques used in ancient China and in ancient North America “zoom in” on these pictures of the rock-cut caves at Bandelier National Monument, USA and the Caves at Dunhuang, China.  Both locations, separated by the vast Pacific Ocean, show identical horizontal rows of small bored holes cut into the cliff faces perhaps to insert wooden pole frames for shade canopies for each location thousands of miles apart.

 

Tibetan structures are like Puebloan dwellings of the Southwest. This American adobe complex was likely built between 1000-1450 AD near Taos, New Mexico, USA (wiki).

  

Rock-cut remains, Bandelier, NM, USA

Ancient Buddhists seem to have been fascinated by rocks shaped a particular way. Here is a very unusually shaped rock in Thailand and an almost identically shaped rock in the Bisti Badlands, New Mexico. 
 
The Bisti Badlands are an interesting place in the Four Corners region, where the Anasazi people lived. However, the common opinion is that “The Canadian Goose Bisti,” “The Sleeping Lizard Bisti,” “The Flying Turtle Bisti,” and so on are simply random acts of erosion. A more plausible explanation is that these rock formations are ruins of a people exhibiting a Vedic cultural heritage because of at least three different types of rock formations there.

1. Mushroom rocks like the ones found at Mushroom State Park, Kansas are found throughout these 45,000 acres of badlands. “Mushroom Rocks” are the chattra symbols of ancient Buddhism. Chattra is the Sanskrit word for “mushroom,” which is also the word for the Parasol, one of the Eight Auspicious Symbols of Buddhism. More