Did our species have several different origins?
Posted: 24 Jun 2025, 23:16
In the cultures of the Americas, we see a series of accounts of people emerging from underground regions, caves, and from there, spreading throughout the world known to them, which was the American continent. In pagan myths from northern Europe, there are some who argue that white people came from a land beyond the North Pole. Of course, there are mythologies and false stories, but when an entire people claims an origin and this can be traced, as in the pilgrimages of the Amerindian peoples, we should pay attention. The Lienzo de Jucutacato, for example, is a document from the 16th century that narrates the origin of a Nahua people, who lived in the state of Michoacan in Mexico, at the hands of Father Tezcatlipoca, who took them from a cave somewhere beyond the Gulf of Mexico and made them migrate until they reached the east coast of that country, the state of Michoacan, on the west coast. This story is interesting because these people were created after the existence of several peoples such as the Olmecs and others in the region, which is a document that narrates the creation of a people with no known human ancestry.
Is it possible that different human population groups came from different places?
Is it possible that different human population groups came from different places?