By now I guess many people are familiar with the myth of Aztlan, the alleged ancestral home of the Aztec, and other Indian groups, of Central America. Since they really came from Siberia and Mongolia have they thought about going there?

So the story goes, their god, Huizilopochtli, told them to migrate south. Has he ever told them to go back north? Do the Israelites try to migrate back to Egypt? Fortunately, Cortes organized the other indigenous tribes that the Aztecs had been slaughtering in their human sacrifice rites, and kicked some Aztec butt.

So where did they come up with this Aztlan name? If the "indigenous people" of the Americas had been such a great success there would have been a whole lot more of them since they have had at least ten thousand years to build a civilization. I don't know much about the European setlement of S. America, but I know that N. American Indians were intrigued by the artifacts, culture and religion of the palefaces, and willingly accepted most incursions into lands which they inhabited. It is a sorry commentary that a number of whites were heartless in their treatment of the Natives. Nowadays, only the crazy Indians seriously advocate going back to the old days. Indians probably didn't even have bows and arrows until about 1500, let alone horses, as seen in the movies.

So do we want to go back to Aztec customs? Any volunteers for human sacrifice---just to make the sun rise?