In Search of the Seven Grottoes of the Aztec Conclusion

Another presumed cave location according to the old petroglyph map mentioned earlier herein is not many miles North of the very Cave the Aztec came from having lived in it for 300 years. Nothing is known of its size or exact location and the entrance of it could very well be beneath Lake Powel.

Some years ago a very interesting document came my way. A local treasure hunter was contacted by a Mexican by the name of Ruben. Ruben was the descendant of an old Mexican by the name of Silvestre Prado and who had been looking for the treasure of his ancestor. He carried with him an old cloth written by his ancestor.

 The old cloth written in 1900, told the story of an old Mexican Indian named Pedro Jose Salazar who at one time was the possessor of the mountains in the mysterious place named in the old document as Las Murayas. Ruben carried with him the secret of where Las Murayas is handed down for generations. According to Ruben he had spent the last 15 years looking for the old coral where Salazar had once lived as he catered to the Spaniards on the many expeditions to the area in the past. The coral is used in the old document as a key point in finding the treasure left behind by Salazar but more importantly, the treasure of the Indigenous described in the old document as “an enormous cave that holds the highest amounts ever known to any man”

This cave location is shown on the old petroglyph map mentioned earlier herein and is in the same location shown on the old Latin Maps as the ancient city of Abacus Nuc Granada. This according to the traditions of the natives, who encountered the Spaniards of the past, was once the Capitol City of the Ancients the question arises however… Who were these ancients? To this day, you can still see the large array of presumed ancient irrigation canals and water collection system mixed in with the garden areas, how large? 600 acres of garden area, obvious signs of a civilization and yet there are no ruins any where nearby.

 The gardens or Chinampas (Floating Gardens) of Mexico City that existed when Cortez conquered the city are comparable to the gardens at the suspect Granada site. Mexico City at the time of the conquest is estimated at a population of 20,000 on the low side and 40,000 on the high but the gardens of Mexico also supplied up to 7 other nearby cities.

What ever it was that caused the Aztec, and the six other tribes or families to leave their paradise home of Aztlan and move into the long abandoned caves of the most ancient, we may never know. Leaving Aztlan in humility or the reason of it, I have my suspicions but it would be speculation… Is there a correlation in the names and or legends of Aztlan, Avalon, Atlan-tis? All of them are associated with an island in the middle of a sea… Where was or is this Island? Does it still exist or did it sink as in the legends of Atlan-tis, or does the Island still exist but it is the sea that has dispersed? Who were the people who built these cities in the mist of large natural caverns, carving their own tunnels and rooms from solid sandstone? Do they exist… these underground cities? 

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