Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, by Augustus Le Plongeon, presents the ancient esoteric mysteries as rooted in South America, "Lands of the West", and not India, Chaldea, or Egypt as most scholars speculate. Augustus Le Plongeon pinpoints the Yucatan region as the origins and the Mayan people as the originators. Augustus Le Plongeon, an expert of the Mayan language, arrives at this conclusion after spending twelve...