And did you happen to notice this in that “Olmec Elephant” search …
Here you’ve got legs/trunk/ears consistent with that of an elephant. Also, difficult to tell, there appears to be tusks there. Still South America. “Pre-Inca” aka Olmec. Still no elephants to be seen for 5000+ years on this side of the planet.
Relevant Wikipedia articles …
I do want to reiterate that the whole connection between Asia and the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica is really an insignificant aspect of this piece of my proposal. There’s another piece that further expands on what I’m laying out here that will involve this, but for this thread I’d like to focus specifically on what’s been laid out.
This originally came up as a challenge to my claim that “Polytheism is a localized phenomenon”. It later became apparent that “polytheism” is too broad a term as it just means anything with more than one god, of which there are many examples. What I’m calling ‘polytheism’ is more along the lines of what’s generally thought of as polytheistic mythologies of pantheons of gods. Spoken of as actual historical figures. A race of them. All inter-related, as what’s found in Sumer/Egypt/Greece/Rome.
So, in the interest of this claim, Mayan/Incan/Olmec mythology does not apply. They are “polytheistic”, but they are different. And as I’ll attempt to lay out, they’re different for a reason.
Thank you for sharing these Ron.
One point of interest where the elephant/opossum figure is concerned @Roy
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" Contemporary archaeologists suggested that the depictions were almost certainly based on the (indigenous) tapir" - Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories - Wikipedia
