Did He Walk the Americas?

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In her book, "He Walked the America's," Lucile Taylor Hansen explores the idea that He had indeed walked the Americas.

An Anthropologist, Archaeologist and Geologist with Masters Degree's from Stanford University, Taylor-Hansen had a passion. For more then 40 years she collected and compiled a plethora of Native American oral histories recalling a fair-skinned bearded prophet who spoke 1,000 languages, healed the sick, raised the dead and taught in the same words as Jesus.

Remembered by such names as Viracocha in ancient Peru, Kate-Zahl to the Toltec, Tlazoma (Tacoma) to the tribes of the Pacific Northwest, Azoma, Mahnt Azoma and the Morning Star in North American and Mexico, the same legend is recalled throughout the Americas according to tribal lore. Known as the Healer, the Prophet, the Miracle Worker, God of the Dawn Light, the Wind God, the Teacher, and the White-Robed Master, although the names were different, the legends are sung the same: In Polynesia they tell of three great ships that sailed from the West. Moving across the water there appeared a fair-skinned man in a long white garment, brown hair and golden beard. When He reached land the people saw that His robe was dry. Thus they knew He was a God. Scholars ascribe this legend to the 1st century AD. Among the Toltec of central Mexico there lived a Prophet with gray-green eyes and golden sandals. With 12 disciples He taught the people His religion of peace. The Mound Builders of North America told of a great Healer who could raise the dead and heal the sick. He walked among the people, hands raised in blessing. A mysterious cross graced each palm. Such are the stories whispered by the Holy Men and Keepers of the Legend for nearly 2,000 years.

"When He came to the Yakima people they called him Tacoma, and so greatly did they pay him reverence that they renamed their highest mountain in honor of his coming." (Washington State's Mount Rainier, formerly was known as Tahoma.)

Almost two thousand years ago a mysterious white man walked from tribe to tribe among the American Nations. He came to Peru from the Pacific, he travelled through South and Central America, among the Mayans, into Mexico and all of North America, then back to ancient Tula, from whence he departed across the Atlantic to the land of his origin.

Who was this white Prophet who spoke a thousand languages, healed the sick, raised the dead, and taught in the same words as Jesus?

These are true Indian legends gathered during twenty-five years of research by L. (Lucile) Taylor Hansen, archaeologist, from many different tribes across the Americas. By consulting museums, libraries and experts on folk-lore, and transcribing legends from the elders of the tribes, she correlated her findings into a fascinating book, backed up by the spades of the diggers into ancient ruins, and by all the sciences with which L. Taylor Hansen was familiar.

BIOGRAPHY
Lucile Taylor Hansen (1887 - 1976)

The late L. Taylor Hansen was the daughter of Professor Frank Bursley Taylor (1860 – 1938), an American geologist best known for his Theory of Continental Drift (a region in the Atlantic marking where Africa and South America were once joined and that the collisions of continents could uplift mountains), now universally accepted, and which she wrote about in "Some considerations of and additions to the Taylor-Wegener hypothesis of continental displacement" (1946).

She was also author of The Ancient Altantic ("The Ancient Atlantic"), a scholarly history of that ocean and the peoples and lands around it including the legends of Atlantis. She held her Masters Degree in Archaeology, Anthropology and Geology from Stanford University and was an authority on the Indians of North and South America, having studied among them for thirty years, as well as an expert Egyptologist, having researched many years in North Africa. From 1941 through 1948 she wrote 57 works of science fiction for Amazing Stories magazine, published by Ray Palmer.

Please note: some websites and articles inaccurately list her name as Louise Taylor Hansen.


HE WALKED THE AMERICAS
Lucile Taylor Hansen



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Lucile Taylor Hansen and the Katezahl Legend
An Autobiographical Memoir

[Archival Research Transcribed and Edited by Kathy Doore, from the original "hand-written" journal of L. Taylor Hansen, entrusted to me by her late Publisher.]

I, Lucile Taylor Hansen, was born just before the turn of the century to a young west-Pointer and his wife in a small broken-down fort left over from the Indian Wars, his first assignment after leaving the academy. Could that have been an omen of my later interest? My father would have answered in the negative, after pointing out that my first nurse, a maiden of the Sioux, tried to get rid of a crying baby by tossing it down a winding flight of stairs. What the girl did not know is that my father, just entering the front door, had been on the football team at the Point, and was adept at catching forward passes. Perhaps that was an omen of a life of travel with overtones of adventure.

My second contact with the American Indian occurred in 1919 when I was taken into the Ojibway (Chippewa) tribe with blood-rites because I had suggested that a group of orators be sent to Washington DC to protest the tenure of an agency doctor (who gave them whiskey instead of medicine) rather then just killing the offender. I was drawn into this discussion. The fact is that I had to write a paper for a college class, and since I was about to spend my vacation on Lake Superior in Michigan with a group of students, the subject of Indian Legends seemed an excellent linking of pleasure and duty.

It was here that I first heard the Legend of The White Prophet and regarded it with amusement as a garbled memory of early missionary instruction. My teacher agreed. Incidentally, I gained no great knowledge, merely the repetition of some amusingly brer-rabbit type of talking animal stories which meant nothing. But I did learn that I had a talent for getting into adventurous situations.

My next contact with the Red Men occurred ten years later, after I had a B.A. degree and some business experience, as well as some graduate study in geology and Anthropology at University of California at Los Angeles. A great uncle had left me some two thousand dollars. My parents both being dead by now, I shook off all family proposals of various business ventures and took a grand circle tour of the far north, ending up with a thousand miles by dog-team. During this never-to-be forgotten year, I had contact with many tribes and once more the recurring White Prophet Legend. I regarded this flood of white men with various names as most confusing, but I was becoming much interested in the migration legends of various tribes.

Returning to more study in Anthropology and now also Archaeology as well as Geology, I also began to write Science-fiction to pay my way, gaining recognition until the great Depression began to bury the magazines which had been my outlet. Then after a spell of illness, I went to Mexico to recover, and there met Sedillio, Chief of the Yaquis.

With all due apology to the many brilliant scientists and other learned men I have worked with and trained under at five Universities, this red-skinned wild leader of his people was the most learned and the most brilliant. For the first time I began to understand the symbolism of the legends, and to guess the vastness and magnificence of “The Serpent Empire” Atlantic in origin, of whom he was one of the Great-Suns, or hereditary leaders.

He also straightened me out on the Kate-Zahl Legend, while his description of the Chihuahua Valley and the Toltec Empire before the Chichimec and Nahua Invasions made me suspect that he had a decided flair for science-fiction. I countered in amazement, and perhaps with a touch of irony: “Massive irrigation systems and Dams in that desert?”

“My people – The Serpents” have always used dams and irrigation from long beyond the dawn of recorded history. Look at South America and the Andes. At any rate, they are still in the desert. Also to be found in ruins are the massive mounds of the Puans, whom you call the Mound Builders.

After this encounter with the mind of one of The Serpent’s Great-Suns, so soon to die, I returned again to writing and now began to publish with the Ziff-Davis Company and their Chief-Editor Ray Palmer. With the knowledge of Sedillio as a tremendous tool, I began searching out the chiefs of other tribes who now became willing enough to confer when they discovered I could add to their understanding, as well as they could help mine. Thus giant parts of the Jig-saw puzzle which was the past of the Americas began to fall into place. In my Scientific Mysteries Series, published for years by Ray Palmer, I began the description of this puzzle and how the parts might be interlocked into a logical sequence.

Then an interesting news item struck the papers. Pilots flying high above the American and Mexican deserts were discovering the ruins of giant human and animal mounds, as well as dams and a vast system of what must have one been tremendous irrigation projects. Sedillio was right!

Now I began an earnest pursuit of the Katezahl Legend, and for the first time began to realize its tremendous extent. A reflection of that amazement is mirrored in my article, “The White Prophet” published by Ray Palmer during the 1940’s. Now I recognized that it is too vast for all the parts to be picked up in one lifetime by one student, and this book will perhaps become the first edition of other volumes written by other authors through future years. Yet this is the cream of the story gathered in a lifetime of pursuit, a research which ended in a long trip through Southern Mexico and a season of study on Archaeology and Calendar Systems at the University of Mexico. Thus has this book grown from a beginning of little knowledge and amused indifference, to a larger knowledge marked by skepticism and finally into a greater knowledge of developing amazement, legend by legend, even as he traveled, thus has been compiled through the years – The Legend of Kate-Zahl, The Prophet.

~ Lucile Taylor Hansen, Author
He Walked the Americas, The Ancient Atlantic

Photo: L. Taylor Hansen, author "He Walked the Americas", 1942



HE WALKED THE AMERICAS
Lucile Taylor Hansen



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