How to Spot an Aztec: Who Has Einstein's Brain?

Well let’s see, there are the Aztec, the Inca, the Teotihuacan (Toltec), the Maya, the Zapotec, the Huasteca, the Olmec, the Chavin, Zapotec (Monte Alban, Mixtla), the Nazca, the Palenque, Huari and Tiahuanaco cultures or empires. There is also that head-hunting Jívaro culture of Ecuador.

How can we ever keep all of this stuff straight? Who were or are these people? Where did they live? When did they live if they have gone the way of the earth?

Let’s get the Jívaro out of the way first. They are the Ecuadorian head hunters. Here is how you shrink a head according to http://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/galleries/first/latin.html:

”Shrunken Heads (tsantas)

“The skin is cut and removed from the skull which is discarded, the lips and eyes are pinned or sewed together, and the skin is boiled with an astringent plant that shrinks it and fixes the hair. It is further reduced to about the size of an orange by successively placing hot stones and sand inside it; then it is packed, smoked, resewn, polished, and kept in a jar.” (Note: Don’t throw the skin away. It’s the skull that gets dumped.)

My favorite book when I was a kid was I Was a Head-hunter by Lewis V. Cummings (The Riverside Press Cambridge 1941). Over the years I’ve tried to get a copy of this book. Finally I found one for $25.00. Now that I’ve found my copy I see that there are suddenly a “plethora” of them on the Internet. You better grab your copy now!

Anyway, right after The Great War (WW I), Cummings dropped in on the Jívaro and married several Jívaro women. He became a polygamist! He learned the ways of the Jívaro before he was “sent packing” down the river! In the Appendix of his book he tells all about the Jívaro and their quaint customs.

Here is the good thing about taking another persons head and I quote Cummings: “…the spiritual, mental, and moral qualities of the dead automatically transfer to the slayer and taker of the head.”

What could be better than that?

Now that takes us to Albert Einstein. He left his brain to science when he died in 1955. His brain was not larger than yours or mine. What was different was the development of the area that handles mathematical and spacial functions. Also, a groove in this area was missing so that perhaps neuron signals were better communicated to different areas of the brain. Take a look at Einstein’s brain at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/371698.stm.

Nice, huh?

Here’s my point! The person who cut Einstein’s brain from his skull could have instantly obtained his spiritual, mental, and moral qualities! We’ve got another Einstein amongst us, right?

Well, that was 1955 so the person removing the brain may have died without us noticing it. That possibility IS NOT interesting.

We must find the cut-out-the-brain person. He (or she) may not know that he is another Einstein.

Here is my offer: I will give $5.00 U.S. to the person that finds the brain-cutter-outer and tells him (or her) that he is a genius and should start saying things like E equals m times c squared.

While you are looking for the brain-cutter-outer let’s get back to the subject at hand.

There is a summary of everything you want to know about Mexican and Central and South American Cultures at: http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/Americas/Americas.html.

That should answer your questions about Mexican, Central American, and South American Cultures.

Good Hunting!

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