Mirror stories: overwrites, claims and parallels between the land's stories and the Old World's

SUMMARYMirror stories: overwrites, claims and parallels between the land's stories and the Old World's (Nov 6, 2026; Tito: "Find overwrites and duplications of American mythologies... and the eastern ones / I feel like there's so many"). Dataset myth_parallels (23 rows) and the Mirror Stories page. OVERWRITES, Record, with the writer named: (1) the Cholula pyramid built by giants and struck down by the sky, recorded by Pedro de los Ríos (before 1565) and then Durán, who made it scatter the builders like Babel, after nearly a century of missionary teaching; Boturini pushed the Babel link in the 1700s. (2) Moctezuma taking Cortés for Quetzalcoatl appears only in post-conquest sources, mostly Spanish (Townsend, American Historical Review 2003). (3) Viracocha as a "white bearded god" starts with Cieza de León (1553); early chroniclers don't say it. (4) Tepeyac: Sahagún complained that people came to the Virgin's hill still calling her Tonantzin. (5) The Nahua festivals for the dead were moved onto All Saints and All Souls. CLAIMS, Record: Quetzalcoatl as Saint Thomas (Sigüenza y Góngora; Fray Servando's 1794 sermon, which got him exiled for 10 years); Quetzalcoatl as Christ (Book of Mormon; John Taylor); the nations as the Lost Tribes (Menasseh ben Israel 1650; Adair 1775); the Palenque world-tree cross read as Christian. PARALLELS, Record: virgin conception (Coatlicue and the feather ball); people made from earth (Popol Vuh mud, wood and maize; Genesis clay; Enki); the world flood (Popol Vuh resin flood; Noah; Utnapishtim; Manu); world ages (Five Suns; Hesiod; yugas); the hero twins; the nine-level underworld with a river and a dog; the earth-diver (North America and Siberia); Thunderbird and Garuda; the feathered serpent (Teotihuacan temple, about 200 CE); Spider Grandmother and Neith; the tricksters (Anansi became "Aunt Nancy"); the ouroboros and the anaconda ring; the Taíno gourd that became the sea (Pané 1498)

PATTERNthe "duplications" that look like copies were often made by the friars who wrote them down (Babel, the white god, Guadalupe), and the deep parallels run both ways and are old on this land

LENS (Tito)the land's stories came first, and the East's versions are the duplicates

OPENCoxcox, the "Aztec Noah": how much comes from the codices and how much from Humboldt and 19th-century writers, needs deep research.