Quiriguá's Stela H
In the middle of Maya land, there is an extensive inscription on the stairs at Copan. It has been said that half of the stairs has Maya glyphs and the other half has gylphs associated with Teotihuacán and Tollan. In nearby Quiriguá is a monument identified as Stela H. This stela has a double bar with the Smoking Head of God K armed with a spear and shield, emerging from the mouths of the serpents on each side of the bar. As a mark of rulership, it is said that this is the only authority symbol that shows the god emerging from the serpent bar with weapons in his hands.
The pedestal of Stela H has a symbolic image that has been identified as that of a mountain. On top of this mountain image, there are two heads. One is indistinct and cannot be identified. But based on the head with sky bands in its mouth found on the left side, it can be suggested that these two heads are the same as the serpents which surround the Aztec Calendar Stone in Tenochtitlán.
The stepped headdress of this mountain appears to indicate the "ladder escarpment" of the Southern Rim of the Central Altiplano of Mexico, an accepted geological structure which separates Tenochtitlán, Tollan and Teotihuacán from the lower Balsas Valley. As if to confirm this mountain range identification, there is a mirror in the mouth of the god. This mirror reflected the moon and the stars once upon a time. Since Lake Texcoco was drained by the German engineer, Heinrich Martin, in the 1607-8 AD. (Wolfe, p. 6), there is little existing evidence of such a mirror-like lake in the area. It is for this reason we no longer see the connection between the Mexican polity and the Maya.
Geography is very important, but there are major changes in the terrain over the centuries; some are deliberate (as above) and some are created through earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. If the above geography is possible, then the little God K with his spear and shield might be the famous Huitzilopochtli who emerged from the Coatepec (= Mountain of Serpent) in Codex Azcatitlán as a full-grown warrior and attempted to defend his mother Coatlicue. He exterminated 400 Southern bodies at birth (southern stars???). The major problem with this suggestion is the date placed on the birth of Huitzilopochtli which is recorded as 1186 or 1194. Although, his mother is identified as Coatlicue, he, as the burning ball of feathers, apparently fell into the water of the reflector of the moon, Lake Texcoco, in order to reach the navel of the earth. At a later date, when the meteorites fell again, he was born as a warrior from the earth mountain, in time to defend his mother, the Earth Goddess, Coatlicue.
Although these suggestions are debatable, the stepped headdress appears to firm the symbolism of the geography, and as other word symbols found in the Maya glyphs, describe not only other locations, but also their histories.
Within these pages, I have referred to the meteorites falling to earth over and over again. But each culture within the Aztec/Maya/Inca/Meso-America and Native American groups have seen this event and recorded it in their own way. The art work is different, the story may be different, the names are definitely different, but the events are the same. Why do we not want to believe it occurred?