![]() ![]() ![]() 3 The Yaqui Indians spoke of a giant bird that lived on the hill of Otan Kawi. Stories of giant man-eating birds are common among many other Indian tribes of the American Southwest. We are told the bones of this creature were found during the pacification of Mexico by General Don Hernándo Cortés and were sent to Spain. The Pima recalled another story of killing a similar creature in the pueblo of Oposura by using the same strategy. The creature couldn’t escape and, growling fiercely, died as it was asphyxiated by the flames and smoke. When it was sound asleep they closed the entrance of the cave with wood collected for this occasion then set it on fire. One day, after the creature had eaten its fill, some Indians followed it back to its cave. There are many stories.suggesting that the American Indians may have a long history of encountering creatures reminiscent of pterosaurs. It was a menace to the Pima because it would fly around and catch as many Indians as it could eat. While exploring the Sonora Desert on 12 February 1699, Captain Juan Mateo Manje, accompanied by Jesuits Eusebio Francisco Kino and Adamo Gil, was told by the Pima Indians that a giant monster lived in a nearby cave in days past. The following stories, all on similar themes (even though they generally have obvious legendary aspects, presumably accumulated through retelling), raise the intriguing possibility of a common basis in historical reality. There are many stories and related lines of evidence suggesting that the American Indians may have a long history of encountering creatures reminiscent of pterosaurs, especially the huge Pteranodon or the even larger Quetzalcoatlus (see aside below). However, my research on the Indians of North and South America permits a different conclusion. Of course, the standard long-age scenario of our evolution-riddled culture says that such encounters between pterosaurs and man have never happened, because all flying reptiles, along with the dinosaurs, allegedly became extinct some 65 million years before man came on the scene. ![]()
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