What did the Hitchiti's look like? ----- Original Message ----- From: <TalliyaSoutheast@aol.com> To: <creek-southeast@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 5:45 PM Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Maya connection > During the past few months, we have identified numerous Chontal Maya > words and town names in the Hichiti language that don't appear in Mvskoke. > Both Chiaha and Altamaha are Chontal Maya words. The Chontal Mayas were > the > sailors and merchants of the Mesoamerican world. They built true sailing > ships, very similar in size and construction to Viking longships. They > also > did most of the slave raiding for the Classic Period Maya. We think that > the Chontal Maya slave raids are what depopulated the portions of Georgia > below the Fall Line between 600 AD and 750 AD. Later, between 900 AD and > 1000 AD, either Chontal merchants or escaped Maya slaves returned to the > lower Southeast and set up trading stations - resulting in their mixed > heritage offspring become the hereditary elite. Chontal and Highland > Mayas and > Hitchiti's look very much alike. The Yucateca Maya looked very different > than these peoples. The Chontal appear to be the descendants of the > Olmecs. I > have found everyone of the glyphs of the Olmec syllabary in art created > in > Etowah, but nothing that remotely looks like Maya from the northern > Yucatan. > > Well, that's where we are at now! > > Richard > Notes on the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm > > Early Creek History > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ > > Migration Legend of the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message