The Olmecs

I’ve seen a meme going around. It shows a Mexican Olmec statue, broad nosed, full lipped and almond eyed, in place in Mexico. Many of these have been found, many believe they provide proof that African people made it to North America LONG before Columbus, that maybe the original Americans were even West African sailors.

Then the meme shows an extremely similar statue in Ethiopia. WOW! I must admit, for a second that blew my mind, how damn cool is that! PROOF!!!!!! But, wait….

The meme has been shared so many times it can’t be counted, with people commenting that they knew all along and slapping down anyone who questions it as “trolls”, “racists” and “haters”!

And below is the meme:

BUT this is the internet and we need due diligence! RESEARCH EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON THE INTERNET! EVEN THE WORDS I AM WRITING NOW…..

It’s true, there is an Olmec statue in Ethiopia, in fact, the two statues in this above image are the same one, well one is a replica to be exact (Just one is squashed in the image)! You can see if you look closer.

So, what happened? Wikipedia says:

To commemorate Mexico’s assistance to Ethiopia during its occupation by Italy; Ethiopia named a center square in Addis Ababa “Mexico Square”. In 2010, the Mexican government donated a replica of an Olmec colossal head to Ethiopia where it was placed in Mexico Square.


NOW before you go hating on me, let’s be clear….. bear with me….

There were no identical Olmec statues found in Ethiopia so we need to stop spreading that fallacy.

Spreading fallacies makes for ignorant people and detracts from the real mysteries and wonder centered around the truth.

We don’t need to spread lies to make things seem amazing because the reality is amazing enough.

NOW, what do we know? We know that some giant heads were found in South and North America. These heads have features that could well be Polynesian, descendants of current native peoples of the Americas BUT absolutely they could be African too. They sure do look it and you can’t pass that off as a distinct possibility.

So what do we have?

Asides from the visual evidence, the Olmecs seem to have religious and linguistic links to West African people. This may have been part of a 100,000-year-old prehistoric trade network, it may have been sooner. There are fair amounts of evidence to show that African people could have made it to the continent and that some native populations still carry some of the bloodlines today!

AND THAT IS AMAZING!

It’s fascinating and a lot is theory but all well worth learning about and keeping up with current research.

This post has some theories that are an interesting read.

So, let’s double check what we share (yes, that goes for me too) and let’s research and use due diligence so we can all grow a stronger truth and base our foundation of knowledge on fact. Speculation should be stated as such!

Agree?