Be Warry of the Events Now Unfolding In Mexico!

In the Spring of 1585 a plague suddenly appeared in the cool, green central Highlands of Mexico. It never affected the Tropical Lowlands of Mexico and Central Amerca. People would feel a ill in the morning and often by nightfall, would be dead. That year 80% of the indigenous population of the Mexican Highlands was killed by this plague - something like 10 million people! Its symptoms were similar to the Bubonic Plague, Ebola Fever or the strange influenza that swept the world in 1918 & 1919, killing at least 18 million people. The victims bled spontaneously before dying.

Perhaps carried by migratory birds or the Monarch butterflies, which spend the winter in the Mexican State of Michoacan, the 1585 plague soon appeared in the Southern Highlands of what is now the United States. There it quickly wiped out 95% of the population. At that time, the most advanced Native American societies north of Mexico were concentrated in eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, western North Carolina and Upland South Carolina. They had already been seriously hurt by diseases accompanying the first Spanish invaders to the region, but this second microbe attack wiped these civilizations off the map.

Large towns in northern Georgia such as Kusa (over 3000 houses) or Etalwa (second largest manmade structure north of Mexico) were apparently instantly depopulated. About a 100 years later when the Cherokees entered the region they found most of the towns to be abandoned, and only scattered hamlets of survivivors. Archaeologists have found evidence that the ground was strewn with unburied bodies in some towns. Again though, this plague did not seriously harm the warm, moist Coastal Plain of the Southeast. Apparently, its animal carrier only lived in cool, green places.

The Southern Highland version of this plague wiped out all the advanced native cultures, The few survivors went back to simpler hunting-gardening lifestyles. Thus, when the English arrived in the early 1600s, there was no one living in the big towns with earthen pyramids. Future settlers eventually concluded that the Indians were incapable of advanced culture, and that the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel built the mounds.