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9, THE PRE-AZTEC AMERICAN SOCIETY
The earliest immigrants, in point of time, to America were the Quatzalcoatl people. Quatzalcoatls mean "feather
Quatzalcoatl ed serpents” or “bird-serpents'. They came
Immigrants from the East and departed eastward. Quatzalcoatl was the leader of these first immigrants, the earliest inhabitants of the land.
What was the ethnie stock that they belonged to ? Votan was, like Quatzalcoatl, the first historian of his people, and wrote a book on the origin of the race, in which he declares himself a snake, a descendant of Imos, of the line of Chan, of the race of Chivim. 'Chan' signifies snake. Chivim refers to Tripoli, and that is the same as Hivim or Givim, the Phænician word for snake, which again refers to Hivites, the descendants of Heth, son of Canaan. Votan expression means 'I am a Hiviti from Tripoli.' Votan peoples were the sea faring people and expert international traders.
Mackenzie rejects the theory that Semites or Celts or Norsemen or any other people first discovered America,
Original Scholars, Mackenzie including, hold the view
Home that the Phoenicians were the first immigrants to America. The question remained debatable for pretty long time whether Phoenicians reached America via Atlantic Ocean or via Pacific Ocean. The latest view is that the Phoenician navigators reached America through Polynesia via Pacific Ocean. Phoenicians were the original Paņiss of Bhārata who belonged to the Ahi or Nāga race of Bhārata. The inseparable association of the Quatzalcoatl people with Snakes clearly identifies them with the Paņis of the Ahi race.
The Quatzalcoatl people believed in peace, penance, chaste life and ordered progress. Thy introduced agricul
Their ture, industry, and art of Government. They Beliefs
were opposed to war and human sacrifice. Their leader Quatzalcoatl lived a chaste life, practised
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