Sunday, September 20, 2009

Keltic Seafaring

Author: Robert Baird

Source: articleage.com



Many academics are clumsy to handle the achievability of ships that travelled the oceans as continued ago as the Franchithi Caves dig that showed 13,000 B.C. affiliation fishing fleets. It even was harder for a lot of to acquire the Kelts at the time of Caesar had this technology at that time admitting the words of Caesar. Some humans anticipate ability already acquired is never absent but that is far from true. Barry Fell was a Harvard Assistant of Oceanography afore he, calgary travel agencies
, got the bug to betrayal the truth. Some (Like Wiseman in Archaeology Annual of 'Camelot in Kentucky' commodity from 2001) badinage Fell as "self-taught" in affairs such as Ogham. Accuracy is, Fell took one of the alone baby courses accessible, calgary travel agencies
, at the time from Edinburgh University. Who can absolutely apprentice the accuracy from academics that adumbrate it? His name was fabricated clay by academics but his bequest from America B.C and Bronze Age America has been candied vindication.

Here is a little of the adventure of his travails, which is presented for added acumen than just the accessible charge to reinforce on the actuality and accident of Keltic seacraft technology. The acceleration and abatement of Celtic sea ability has been abnormally alone {Although the cine 'Spartacus' shows Kirk Douglas alignment access to Italy from the Kelts[Silesians and Galatians are Kelts aback to the time of Punt] who disqualified the Sea.} by a lot of historians and archaeologists as to alert abundant skepticism if aboriginal I began to address Celtic inscription in America. 'I can't say I've anytime heard that the Celts were seafarers,' was a archetypal comment. Those who anamnesis that Julius Caesar declared the Britons as mostly naked savages, cutting alone adamant torques about their necks, {A torquetum or tanawa is an age-old sextant accepted to accept existed in this aeon as Maui navigated for a able-bodied accepted Greek and was able to account longitude.} sometimes with the derma of a barbarian casting over the shoulders, anticipate, calgary travel agencies
, of the Britons as accepting annihilation bigger than one-man coracles for bridge water.

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, could be added from the truth. In fact, a lot of of Book III of Caesar's 'De Bello, calgary travel agencies
, Gallico' is adherent to the greatest argosy action he was anytime alleged aloft to mount. And his adversaries? None added than the Celts of Brittany, whose agile was swelled by the accession of a fleet they had summoned from their allies in Britain! The accumulated Gallic and British argosy ammunition, calgary travel agencies
, comprised an badly able force, numbering, so Caesar tells us, no beneath than 220 ships, all beyond, calgary travel agencies
, than and aloft in architecture to those of the opposing Roman fleet beneath Admiral Brutus. These Celtic ships, Caesar says, were so deeply complete that they could outride agitated or adverse apprehension aloft the actual ocean itself, calgary travel agencies
, afterwards comestible abrasion ('De Bello Gallico', books III,XIII,I.). It is bright that these accomplished vessels, which towered over the Roman galleys, had the adequacy of bridge the Atlantic Ocean 'vasto atque aperto mari', "upon the all-inclusive accessible sea," as Caesar indicates."(2)

Does it cantankerous your apperception that these ships were in actuality active in such voyages to the Americas? Why had Caesar never apparent their like before? The wind went down and the Roman corruption threw grappling hooks into the Celtic accouterment and sails again boarded them. Caesar fabricated a accord (as was his wont) with the cousins of his ancestors who were not in ascendancy of all. He gave them abounding citizenship of Rome, which they in actuality had, calgary travel agencies
, accustomed afterwards acquisition the Tarquin kings of Etruria. Thus the attributes of Catholicism and the Anglican abbey has a continued and abject accomplished association, as they banned the Druids and put a compensation, calgary travel agencies
, on their heads. Can you see why we anticipate the Toltecs or others in America ability accept Druidic roots? There is no added acknowledgment of British or Gaulish argosy argosy in Caesar's commentaries, nor does Tacitus in the aeon that followed accord any amplitude, calgary travel agencies
, or application to built-in argosy might. It seems that the action adjoin the Veneti was the end of Celtic sea ability in classical times. Except for the alternate animality by British chiefs like Queen Boadicaea.

NORMAN TOTTEN: - "The Eye of God and the Agricultural Grid

By Norman Totten

Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts

Impetus for this affectionate of analysis was the charge to accept the "atna-kuna" burden so accustomed in Celtic New England and Iberia, and frequently associated, calgary travel agencies
, with the "eye of Bel". James Whittall has been analysis examples of it in Portugal and Spain. Fell, Dix, and Oedel accept afresh appear observations about it.

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, sun god and the able acreage grid. Both accept occurred in abundant varieties, visually and phonetically. This cardboard should be apprehend as a advance report, abridged in, calgary travel agencies
, its application and somewhat acting in its abstracts apropos a all-inclusive and circuitous problem.

I. Morphology and Dissemination: Eye of the Sun

Though he afterwards equivocated about which administration the change had occurred, Sir Arthur Evans (1984, p. 303) set alternating the basal forms of the eye of Ra - - from one complete with lashes (rays) to a amphitheater (pupil) anchor a abate amphitheater or dot (iris)." (6)

This is important to compassionate the common cultures and the aristocratic accumulated traders. The amphitheater with a dot is the Mark of Qayin or Cain (Gardner's Genesis of the Grail Kings and added sources) and as such it is the accomplished ball or blame badge for the ancestors of Jesus and the 'arch-tectons' (Septuagint) of the Abundant Pyramid.

In 'Bel' we accept the Keltic God as able-bodied as the Mesopotamian (later) God. To acquisition them so carefully associated or affiliated in the Iberias that now backpack names like Spain, Ireland and Arctic America adds a abundant added clue to the Tartessian (source of the 'Biblical Ships of Tarshis') sites getting, calgary travel agencies
, biconcave or advised in Anatolia and Portugal. They all alpha with Iberia in the Caspian and the Atramentous Sea amphitheatre that is the abiogenetic citizenry of the Kelts some 30-35,000 years ago. Because we can genetically and forensically trace and clue these humans and ally them to dateable artifacts we accept a aboveboard history admirable by baronial or apostolic ability mongers.

Another ESOP extract from the plan of Totten deals with Moroccan monastics adopted to America in the 5th Aeon AD. "In Figuig the monks were aloof (monachos), but in common, calgary travel agencies
, activity (Koinos Bios) of brothers (fratres), a friary. Their anatomy of testifying (martyrium) beneath animality was not afterlife in an amphitheatre for the amusement of agnostic assemblage but exile, banishment to the wilderness of America." (7)

TERRACOTTA HEAD OF A ROMAN IN MEXICO: - "This year, Scandinavians bless the 1,000 years aback Leif Ericsson sailed to the New Apple from Greenland., calgary travel agencies
, Bjarni Herjolfsson was allegedly the aboriginal to footfall aground on the New World. Historians accept continued believed that Ericsson's antecedents at L'Anse aux Meadows, on the northern-most tip of Newfoundland, represented the aboriginal affirmation of Europeans on the abstemious {When Farley Mowat wrote about it in 'Westviking' he was ridiculed.}. However, a advanced array of archaeological affirmation credibility to beforehand contact.

A atramentous terracotta arch of a barbate man, about 2 in (5cm) tall, begin in the Toluca Valley about 40 afar (64km) west of Mexico City in 1933 and anachronous by thermoluminescence to about 200 AD, could be the aboriginal reliable affidavit that Roman sailors accomplished America. It is altered in appearance from any added accepted pre-Columbian artwork and has been articular as Roman by art experts. Although abundant was accounting about the arch aback its discovery, its abode were alien until 1994, if it was begin bound abroad in a Mexico City building by a US anthropologist appropriately called Dr Roman Hristov.

A analysis of the affairs surrounding the head's analysis accepted it was placed in its burying arena no afterwards than 1510 - a decade afore the Spanish accustomed in Meso-America. Crucially, the arch, calgary travel agencies
, was biconcave from the website by professionals, said David Kelley, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary, in Alberta {Professor Emeritus} Canada. 'This was closed beneath three floors, it's as abutting to archaeological authoritativeness as you can get.' {Emphasis and N.B.}

Archaeologist David Grove, of the University of Illinois, agreed that the arch was Roman, but acicular, calgary travel agencies
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, was no affirmation of Roman access on pre-Columbian cultures. He appropriate that the arch could accept been done aground from a Roman ambush in the Gulf of Mexico. Even so, there seems no abstinent that Roman sailors had accomplished American waters. 'Ancient Mesoamerica, v.10, p.207; Scotsman, Guardian, D. Mail, 10 Feb; New Scientist, 12 Feb 2000.'

Mark McManamin, assistant of, calgary travel agencies
, cartography and cartography at Arise Holyoke College, Massachusetts, is assertive that the Carthaginians apparent America amid 350 and 320 BC. In a contempo affair of 'The Numismatic' magazine, and at a affair of, calgary travel agencies
, the American Friends of Tunisia Affiliation in May 1999, he, calgary travel agencies
, interpreted a alternation of abstruse gold bill of that aeon as depictions of the accepted world,, calgary travel agencies
, including a acreage accumulation to the west of Spain. Experts on age-old barter routes accept that the Carthaginians about absolutely accomplished the bank, calgary travel agencies
, of Brazil, breadth Punic amphorae (containing olive oil and wine) accept been found; and Punic bill of the 4th aeon BC accept been biconcave at seven sites in the eastern United States, abominably not defined in our, calgary travel agencies
, antecedent ('Jeune Afrique', Paris,7, 1 Sept 1999).

According to the Xinhua Chinese columnist bureau endure August, similarities amid about 300 arrangement begin on pottery, afflict and rock at bearding age-old built-in sites in axial America carefully resemble 3,000-year-old Shang absolutism characters for the sun, sky, rain, water, crops, copse and stars inscribed on beastly basic or tortoise shells, accepted as Jiaguwen. American and Chinese pictographs in 56 analogous sets were apparent to chief academics at a appointment in Anyang, aloft basic of the Shang dynasty.

These absorbing similarities add ammunition to theories that Chinese accustomed in the Americas afore the end of the Shang absolutism in 221 BC. Shang legends accompaniment that a baron led his humans on a adventure to the east, with some advisers assertive, calgary travel agencies
, that it took them beyond the Bering Strait to Arctic America. The Chinese classic, the 'Shan Hai King' of about 2250 BC, contains, calgary travel agencies
, what seems to be an authentic description of the Grand Canyon. {We accept online writing anecdotic a massive circuitous getting begin dug into the walls of the Grand Canyon at a cogent acme up from breadth the river now flows. Pictures of a Buddha-like bronze that, calgary travel agencies
, is a lotus god from Egypt are in the article. The US government, calgary travel agencies
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, a address acceptance an beforehand address, calgary travel agencies
, from aboveboard humans aboriginal in the 20th century. You can't get to the breadth any simple way, even if you capital to go abaft the officials. The Grand Canyon was one of my accounts if I formed in the area.} Peanuts and maize accept been begin at age-old Chinese sites dating aback to 3000 BC. The accepted appearance is that neither of these plants larboard their built-in America afore their consign by European colonists in, calgary travel agencies
, the 16th aeon AD.

In AD 499, a Chinese Buddhist monk, Hui Shen, alternate to China claiming to accept spent 40 years in the acreage of Fu Sang. He larboard a almanac of the country he visited, which has been recorded in official histories - a acreage anticipation by some avant-garde advisers to be age-old Mexico.

Then there is the 3,000-year-old ceramics begin on the Valdivian bank of Ecuador, busy and incised in absolutely the aforementioned way as ceramics from the Jomon breadth of Japan {We affected on the Canadian Building of Civilization and a lie adage there was affirmation of beforehand bounded industry.}, and not preceded in Ecuador by plainer and simpler bowls, calgary travel agencies
, and urns, 'National Post (Toronto), 27 Aug; D. Telegraph, 28 Aug 1999'.

The bohemian historian Farley Mowat afresh brought out 'The Farfarers:, calgary travel agencies
, Afore the Norse', in which he argues that the aboriginal Europeans to ability America were 'Albans' {A website in axial America has a agnate name.} who set off from the arctic of Scotland in the 8th aeon AD in seek of walrus ivory (for centuries advised added admired than gold), sailing from Iceland to Greenland and arctic Labrador. The 78-year-old kilted Canadian columnist {Who my oldest brother's aboriginal wife's ancestor spent two years with as a missionary in the Arctic.} maintains, calgary travel agencies
, that the charcoal of continued, calgary travel agencies
, houses far aloft the tree-line in arctic Quebec were congenital by these immigrants {Yet I've apprehend online writing adage Mowat has no aboriginal duke acquaintance and added brainless animadversion about an conspicuously honest being who has annihilation, calgary travel agencies
, but antipathy for a lot of academics.}. His 36 books on the life, history and anatomy of Arctic America accept awash, calgary travel agencies
, 15 actor copies, and he shrugs off the contemptuousness of accepted historians. 'Times,, calgary travel agencies
, 9 Nov. 1999. For a accepted annular up of pre-Columbian discovery-of-America claims, see FT61:26-28.'" (3)

My contiguous examination of abounding sculpted or casting active at the Villas Archaeologique and the adorn of albino warriors at the Temple of Warriors there (Chichen Itza) is just one of a thousand added absolute things you'll see in this encyclopedia. Botany brings the American candied potato that assertive nay sayers in that discipline, which had been assertive they were right. Sociologists, geologists and map makers as able-bodied as historians and oceanographers and physicists are all included as every accessible breadth of abstraction has acceptable affirmation the liars had acceptable acumen to adumbrate their authentic purposes from humans they approved to abuse. 'Liars' is a actual affectionate word, and it was absolutely accommodating of the Amerindians to say the white man batten with a argot that is forked.

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