These traditions concerning the Toltecs, reflecting as they do the state of their civilization, which so nearly resembles that of the Nephites in so many particulars; as also all the traditions and mythologies dealt with in this and the preceding chapter respecting the creation, the flood, the great tower, the confusion of language, the dispersion of the people, the migrations to a new home, the strife for power among the leaders of these colonies—usually brothers, and most strikingly "four brothers," as also the status and nature of their civilization—all these things constitute strong testimony to the truth of the Book of Mormon.
Footnotes
[1]. Gen. 6:4.
[2]. Gen. 11.
[3]. Gen. 11:9.
[4]. Gen. 11:8.
[5]. See Book of Ether, chs. 1, 2, 3, 4.
[6]. Conquest of Mexico, vol. II, pp. 386, 387, Prescott.
[7]. Conquest of Mexico, vol. II, p. 187, note, Prescott.
[8]. The suggestion of Nadaillac in this clause in parenthesis to the effect that this tradition of the Tower of Babel had its origin in the Christian teachings imparted to Ixtlilxochitl, will receive consideration at the conclusion of this series of quotations on the subject of the Tower of Babel, etc.