There is a lost city in Honduras which is considered mysterious, and this is Ciudad Blanca. It has been the focus of many expeditions searching for this lost city.
The Pech people moved to the Rio Platano area, settling in Chilmecca, near Casa Blanca. This according to a native was a city carved in white stones. Casa Blanca was apparently the same place as Cuidad Blanca, made by the gods with giant stones carved in various shapes, wild animals and giant grinding stones.
The Cuuidad Blanca is said to be the birthplace of gods, filled with golden idols.
According to legend among the Pech lived a Tawaka Indian man. After being mistreated by the community he left, cursing the city and ever after disease and other disasters occurred. The Pech were forced as a result to leave Ciudad Blanca, they felt that they had no choice.
The tribe ended up at Sakorska Uya, the big written stone, the site of a large petroglyph which is still there. The Pech lived there for several harvests and moved downriver to Buena Vista in the early 1900s. It is unclear why the Pech moved here but from here they moved downriver again to Quiaquimina, returning to Buena Vista. The Pech moved to Las Marias about forty years ago.
The legend of the lost city, Cuidad Blanca, was based on historical fact. Created by lightning and thunder by the Pech god Wata the large stones sculpted into statues of animals, traditional musical instruments and grinding stones. The city is believed to be the city of Patatahua, the primitive ancestors of the Pech.
The myth of the Ciudad Blanca is known as the Cuidad de los Antigues or Cerro de la Palmera. It is called Wahia-Patatahua in Pech, the village of the ancestors, or primitives. However Las Marias was the last Pech community.
According to ancient writings Ciudad Blanca is the origin of the human deity Quetzalcoatl of the Toltecs and Kukulkan by the Mayas and worshipped for their knowledge and wisdom.
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