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In the sacred book of southern Mexico, the Popul Vuh, there are many instances of parallelism between the culture of Old Mexico and of Old Egypt. Prescott states that the aristocracy of the Old Mexico was in many ways like the aristocracy of the Europeans in the middle Ages. They feasted, drank, danced, and enjoyed music in a very refined way; there was, however, a very sordid vestige of cannibalism that remained as though the high breeding of the nobility had been stained by the admixture of a baser influence. The gods of the Popul Vuh were a reasoning and thinking people. As in Egypt, they resorted to inbreeding to keep their blood strain pure. Apparently that was unsuccessful.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah view

In both instances [Mexico and Peru] the progress of the invaders was aided by the fact that the people expected the white men to come again as gods. The legends of these countries tell that the original conquerors who came centuries before the time of the Spaniards were bearded white men, who came in the ships from the north and that they were considered as gods. The white gods brought in a new way of living. Quexaquatal and Packacamac, the respective gods, taught the people agriculture, weaving, and masonry.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah view

Before Mexico and Peru fell into the hands of Cortez and Pizarro decay had so progressed that those empires resembled overripe fruit, ready to fall at the first slight disturbance. The conquests of those two empires were similar in most respects. The main impulse that urged the conquerors forward was gold. The wealth of gold in the empires was fabulous; the gold offered Pizarro filled a large room; more would have been added had not the flow been stopped.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah view