A True Aztec Treasure Hunt

"Chicomoztoc" (or "The Seven Caves of Chicomoztoc") is the name for the mythical origin place of the Aztec people of central Mexico, "the place of the ancestors". This was a prestigious and revered place by the Aztex and Mexica people. In Aztec codical writing, the symbol representing "Culhuacan" took the form of a "curved mountain".

According to the author R.G. Babcock, there is an explanation for all these tales about a curse and lost gold in Arizona and New-Mexico. Somewhere in the 19th century two men from the Midwest and an old Indian Chief were in an Arizona cave filled with treasure... A hundred years later R.G. Babcock received a letter, describing a first-hand account of the lost gold of the Aztec Empire... R.G. Babcock wrote a book about it: "Chicomoztoc, a search for the Aztec Treasure and the missing history of the Aztec Empire".

"No one denies that the Aztec Indians had gold," Babcock says. "Chicomoztoc (the seven caves) is the legendary place from which the Aztec Indians believe they originally came. (...) It is conceivable, according to what we know of Aztec legend, that each of the sibling tribes had been conceived in the womb of Mother Earth (a cave) and when each tribe was sufficiently developed and had boys, girls, moms, dads, warriors, priests, and a chief, the cave was opened and they were thrust into the world somewhere north of Mexico."

The Aztecs ended up in Mexico and were crushed by Cortez, but what if the seven caves were in reality seven cities? The legend of Chicomoztoc also incorporates the thought that the several tribes returned to the seven caves somewhere in the north - and disappeared. It is commonly believed that the Aztec were conquered in 1519-21, and that they were decimated by disease, scattered by the Spaniards, and then absorbed by surrounding Indian tribes.

"I think this conclusion is in error," Babcock says. "Legend implies the Aztec returned to the place of seven caves taken their ceremonial and religious artifacts and treasures with them."

Everywhere, from western Texas to the Sierras of California, and from Chihuahua to Colorado, there are stories of treasure. Thousands of treasure hunters have been mesmerized by the stories coming out of there and hundreds of them have mysteriously disappeared in the mountains there in the last century alone. A hundred more have gone there only to be found murdered or murdered and mutilated, and to this day no one has been able to solve this strange mystery.

Babcock is perfectly clear about what he wants to prove: "I say the Aztec have a ceremonial cave there and it is still stuffed with the treasure that Cortez had - and lost - in Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)."

And this cave has to be somewhere in the Superstition Mountains and is now known as the famous Lost Dutchman Gold Mine...

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