God only knows what answers to questions we are asking today went up in smoke when the Spanish put the Mayan and other Meso American text records to the fire.
Several Codex's survive..allong with the Dominican and Franscican Monk lang trans and mythology redactl that occured.
One Codex has a picture of a Mayan paddling in a Canoe..with a Volcano errupting in the background.
This accompanied by a text record of the peoples transit from accross the waters to the new land[Home].
Atl Appears several times in the narrative as a descriptor...much like the Ancient Hebrew narrative form..of using dualist re-enforcement to give authentication which would be noted by later period Authority as legitimate...a form of code which was looked for to seperate *actual event ..from Hyperbola.
ie..."In the days of Jared...they descended upon the mountains of Hermon"
Jared[Yared in Hebrew]..means to descend downard from above.
Just a Noah was probably not the name of the individual in the flood story...his name becomes Noah...as redactl is used to convey an important point.
Noahs name means *Silent/quiet....no struggle
in other words...the end...acceptance...awe...submission.
From the Hebrew writers perspective....the Ancient of Days did infact act,
afterward...Mankind was silent...no more noise of rebellion.
There is a migration story in the Mayan/Meso-American account.
Then the adjoining theme of *Teachers/helpers who come from afar..to help mankind in *Reconstruction.
question now is...is this a one time reality?..or has it happened several times..in relation to Catastrophism>
Can we say with assurance..that *all mankind was at a Neolithic social state in average from 15,000 BCE- to early Bronze age.?
Yeah, the Aztec national myth included interesting details -- their ancestors fled Atzlan during a cataclysm, wandered under cloudy skies for generations, until they came across the portent foretold -- that they should settle when they found an eagle perched on a cactus devouring a snake. Tantalizing.