>>4339797(start of part 3) * The Aztecs traced their earliest origins, not to America, but to a vanished island far away across the Sunrise Sea (their name for the Atlantic Ocean). Their founding fathers were culture-bearers from this far away island.
* Several Native American tribes, such as the Menominee of the Upper Great Lakes Region, recount in their oral traditions how a worldwide flood was precipitated by greedy foreigners, the light-skinned 'Marine Men', who dug into the ground to gain riches (especially copper). (end)
