Editing Tower of Babel (section)

=== Mexico ===
Various traditions similar to that of the tower of Babel are found in Latin America. Some writers{{Who|date=October 2017}} connected the [[Great Pyramid of Cholula]] to the Tower of Babel. The [[Dominican friar]] [[Diego Durán]] (1537–1588) reported hearing an account about the pyramid from a hundred-year-old priest at Cholula, shortly after the [[conquest of the Aztec Empire]]. He wrote that he was told when the light of the Sun first appeared upon the land, giants appeared and set off in search of the Sun. Not finding it, they built a tower to reach the sky. An angered God of the Heavens called upon the inhabitants of the sky, who destroyed the tower and scattered its inhabitants. The story was not related to either a flood or the confusion of languages, although Frazer connects its construction and the scattering of the giants with the Tower of Babel.<ref name="Frazer, 1918 p. 5">{{cite book |last1=Frazer |first1=James George |author-link1=James George Frazer |url=https://archive.org/stream/folkloreinoldte00frazgoog#page/n380/mode/2up |title=Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law |date=1919 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |pages=362–387}}</ref>

Another story, attributed by the native historian [[Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl]] (c. 1565–1648) to the ancient [[Toltecs]], states that after men had multiplied following a great deluge, they erected a tall ''zacuali'' or tower, to preserve themselves in the event of a second deluge. However, their languages were confounded and they went to separate parts of the Earth.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl |url=http://letras-uruguay.espaciolatino.com/aaa/cervantes_javier/fernando_de_alva.htm#_ftnref4 |access-date=2018-10-24 |website=letras-uruguay.espaciolatino.com}}</ref>