The Olmecs Arrived from Asia by Boat

Lately, many native North, Central and South Americans are getting their DNA tested and are surprised to see how much Asian blood they have.

However, that doesn't surprise me. Especially since the people who established the parent culture, the Olmecs, arrived in the Mexico area many thousands of years ago by boat from Asia - northern China to be specific. There are so many similarities between the Asian and the Olmec people that it should be obvious. 

The ocean currents would aid a seafaring flotilla to sail from East Asia to North America very easily. Let's start by looking at some Olmec portrait art (here), their architecture (below) and their written language (bottom).

The DNA of the people in Northern China, Mongolia and Siberia most closely match those of Alaska, Northern Canada and southern South America as well as the oldest human remains in Central America.

The emerging pattern is clear to me. These first peoples came by boat and eventually concentrated in Mesoamerica but scattered across both North and South America. Later influxes of peoples mingled with those original inhabitants and changed the bloodlines in Central America. So, that the current natives in the extreme north and south will have the more pure bloodline of the original inhabitants, as well as the DNA of the oldest remains in the Western Hemisphere.

The physical characteristics of the Olmec people, depicted in their figurines, and that of the Asian people are almost identical. However, the Olmec were not alone. Ancient America had diverse cultures. The Olmec's arrival by boat was not a one-off event. The collossal Olmec heads have a definite Polynesian or African look to them. So one or both of those cultures had contact or settled and mingled with the Olmecs.

It's silly for people to cling to simple black-and-white views of our complex world. Like the long-held belief that the inhabitants of the Americas came over the Bering Strait and slowly migrated south to populate the entire two continents. Really? And since that was the first theory put forward, we have to accept it as gospel truth now?

Surely this hemisphere didn't go unnoticed all that time. There is mounting evidence that points to a very diverse pool of people and cultures coming from all over the world.

Based on pottery styles and they way they spread throughout time, a unique group of people arrived in Guyana around 6000 BC and spread westward through the Amazon Basin into Andes, the pre-cursor people of the Andean cultures.

Also, a unique people arrived in the South Carolina area and spread throughout the American heartland and were the pre-cursor people of the mound builders of North America.

The Americas were "discovered" more than just twice (10,000 years ago and in 1492). More and more findings show that people arrived from all over the world and came at various points in history.

For example, another group arrived and made their stamp on things in Mexico around 600 years BCE. One clue to this new influx is that the residential dwellings in a certain set of ruins* changed from predominantly round foundations (early Olmec) to square foundations (late Olmec). And round dwellings are yet another similarity between Olmec and Asian culture. Mongolians still favor round houses today. Think yurts!


Now, look at this comparison of early Chinese (Shang) writing to Olmec writing. Both languages obviously share a common ancestry. Further, both the Chinese and the Olmec languages share the syllable of Xi, pronounced "sh" in both languages. The Book of Mormon has many instances of proper names with the "sh" sound. For example, Shiblom, Shiz, Shim, Shez, Shared, Shule, Shelem, Kish, Riplakish and Akish.

That sound made it's way into later Book of Mormon languages and survived the centuries until today. Joseph L. Allen pointed out in his book, "Exploring the Book of Mormon Lands," that a candidate for Hill Shim is found in southern Vera Cruz by the name of Cintepec. The name being a Nahuatl word meaning cin=corn and tepec=hill. The equivalent word for "cin" in the Mayan languages is "xim," pronounced Shim.

In case you haven't realized it, the Olmec and Jaredites are probably one and the same. The Lord instructed the brother of Jared to lead his people from the Tower of Babel, northeast, through Central Asia until they got to the ocean on the shores of the Yellow Sea. 

Ether 1:42 . . . thou shalt ago at the head of them down into the valley which is northward. And there will I meet thee, and I will go before thee into a land which is choice above all the lands of the earth.

Read more about that in this post: The Jaredite Route to the Promised Land

After 3 years, the Lord told him that they were not to stay there but build barges and sail to the promised land. If you know human nature, it seems plausible that some of his clan said, "I'm not getting in those contraptions!" and they stayed behind. This would explain the similarities between northeast Asians and the Olmecs. They are both descendent from the same parent culture.

Additional reading:

Mysteries of the ancient high cultures: The Olmecs and the Shang
Art and Ritual in Early Chinese and Mesoamerican Cultures: The Shang Dynasty and the Olmec
Olmec Shang Dynasty Linguistics Writing Script Origins Similarities
7,000-Year-Old Europeans in Florida, North America
The Transpacific Origin of Mesoamerican Civilization
Ancient Civilizations of North America
Lost Worlds of South America


* I learned this in a documentary years ago and now I can't find which one it was. If anyone knows and can tell me, I will forever be in your debt.