The Lost Continent of Pan: The Oceanic Civilization at the Origin of World Culture by Martinez Ph.D. Susan B

Author:Martinez Ph.D., Susan B. [Martinez Ph.D., Susan B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781591432685
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2016-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

Pac as in Pachacamac

The actual dispersal of Noah and his sons from a common homeland comes into focus with Viracocha’s alternate name: Pac hacamac or Tuapac a. This Pac is also seen in Pac-hamama, Peru’s Mother Earth. (Pac-ha, according to Aflredo Gamarra, also indicates “a world age.”) I submit that Pac (var. Pak ) originally meant “pure, clean, white.” In Peru, for example, tu-pac meant “bright, shiny.” This resonates with Pak-in (in the far-off Caroline Islands) and with New Zealand’s Pak-eha (“white man”), representative of their tradition of Pak-ehakeha, a white race who “live in the sea.” Meanwhile, North America’s Pah-ana (like the Maori Pakeha) means “white person” in Hopi, just as South America’s Pak-oyoc designates the white ruling class of the Incas. In southern Hawaiian dialects Pak-ao is a priestly name, and Pak-aalana was the temple (heiau ) whose taboos were the most sacred on Hawaii. The religious value of Pak names appears again in Peru’s Pac-hacamac, ancient oracle and mecca for pilgrims throughout the Incan empire. The remarkable resemblance of Japan’s underwater structures off Okinawa to Peru’s ancient city of Pachacamac (as discussed in chapter 11, “Yonaguni ,”) gives us all the more reason to suspect that the Pac name is both universal and prediluvial. After all, Pac turns up again in Unu Pac-hacuti, which means the deluge after which Peru was populated. A flood figure, Manco Ca-pac, was Peru’s ancestor of the Emergence.

Manco Capac is Cuzco’s heavenly founder who arrived in Peru after a great flood; as leader of the Emergence, he is a Noah who instructed the indigenous people in all the arts of civilized life. Pac-ari Cave is known as Lodging of the Dawn, out of which the first people emerged. Probably related is U-pac-a, a five-thousand-year-old archaeological site in Peru, while Pac-cai-casa is the name of that country’s earliest tool site. I was struck by William Ellis’s mention of a Manco Capac in the mythology of the Polynesians (!), quoted as he who sired “the father and mother of mankind” (1931, 112).

Manco Capac is said to have come to Peru from Old Mexico, and here Zi-pac-na is a hero in the Popol Vuh, while Pac-al (“shield”) was the royal ruler entombed at Palenque. In southeastern Mexico is the famous archaeological site at Bonam-pak, while Xtam-pak is a major site in the Mayan lowlands. There is also Mexico’s Oxtotic-pak.

Western Asia is also in the mix; the Brahmans called their predecessors Pak-handi. It is also interesting that Pak-istan is named after Pak, in this case meaning “pure, clean.” Is Ca-pak-cur, the Kurdish place of healing waters, related to this idea of purity? Also in the Mideast, Shuri-pak on the Euphrates is part of the Babylonian flood story, for it was from there that their own Noah was saved. Also, Ar-pac- hiyah, north of Nineveh, is a very old and sacred (i.e., pure) spot (as seen in chapter 8, under Tholoi ”; also see Ar-pak-sad of Shem, in Genesis 11:12).

Pacha means “sacred vessel” in both Sumerian and Quechua.

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