An Aztec chronicle of earliest Mesoamerican beginnings, from when the first
civilizers arrived on the eastern shores of Mexico after a destructive flood. “For
fifty two years the waters lasted,” it reports. “Thus, they [an ancestral people]
perished. They were swallowed by the waters, and their souls became fish. The
heavens collapsed upon them, and in a single day they perished. All the mountains
perished [under the sea].”
These “Annals” compare with the Babylonian deluge story of Ishtar (the
Sumerian Inanna), wherein the goddess laments how her people were “changed
into fish” by a great flood that overwhelmed a former kingdom. So too, the Aztecs
chose virtually the same words Plato used to describe the destruction of Atlantis
“in a single day and night.” That “the heavens collapsed upon them” also suggests
a celestial event as part of the Deluge.
(See Asteroid Theory, Berosus, Inanna)
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