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[Quoted by Immanuel Velikovsky in Worlds in Collision, 1950].
32. The Aztecs related: 'There had been no sun in existence for many years ..[The Chiefs] began to peer through the gloom in all directions for the expected sight, and to make bets as to what part of heaven [the sun] should first appear ... but when the sun rose, they were all proved wrong, for not one of them had fixed upon the east.'" [Worlds in Collision, p.131]
33. Similarly the Mayan legend tells that 'it was not known from where the new sun would appear.' 'They looked in al directions, but they were unable to say where the sun would rise. Some thought it might take place in the north and their glances were turned in that direction. Others thought it would be in the south. Actually, their guess included all directions because dawn shone all around. Some, however, fixed their attention of the orient, and maintained that the sun would come from there. It was their opinion that proved to be correct. [Worlds in Collision, p.131 ]
34. On the Andaman Islands the natives are afraid that a natural catastrophe will cause the world to turn over. [Worlds in Collision, p.132]
35. In Greenland also the Eskimos fear that the earth will turn over. [ Worlds in Collision, p.132 ]
36. "In Menin (Flanders) the peasants say, on seeing a comet: 'The sky is going to fall; the earth is turning over!'" [Worlds in Collision, p.132]
