Ephraim George Squier (1821-1888)
Ephraim George Squier (1821-1888) was United States Charge d'affaires to Central America in 1849 and author of Peru; Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas and The Serpent Symbol, and the Worship of the Reciprocal Principles of Nature in America.
Comparing the temples of India, Java and Mexico, he wrote nearly a hundred years ago:
"a proper examination of these monuments would disclose the fact that in their interior as well as their exterior form and obvious purposes, these buildings (temples in Palanque, Mexico) correspond with great exactness to those of Hindustan..."
Squier further wrote:
"The Buddhist temples of Southern India, and of the islands of the Indian Archipelago, as described to us by the learned members of the Asiatic Society and the numerous writers on the religious and antiquities of the Hindus, correspond with great exactness in all their essential and in many of their minor features with those of Central America."
(source: The serpent symbol, and the worship of the reciprocal principles of nature in America - By Ephraim George Squier and India: Mother of Us All - Edited by Chaman Lal p. 91).
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