Christopher Columbus is largely credited with discovering
America, and rightfully so - he opened it up for exploration and
development by the Western powers of recorded history.
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However, before Columbus, many others found themselves in the
Americas. Some, such as the Vikings , were here by choice. While
others such as Ancient Phoenicians and Romans found themselves
shipwrecked on an inhospitable faraway shore. The "The
Life And Voyages Of Christopher Columbus ." states that while on
the deck of the Santa Maria, Columbus and Pedro Gutierrez
observed, "a light glimmering at a great distance." It vanished
and reappeared several times during the night, moving up and
down, "in sudden and passing gleams." It was sighted 4 hours
before land was sighted, and taken by Columbus as a sign they
would soon come to land.
This light that vanished and reappeared several times during
the night has been taken by some to be a UFO, however most
likely it was simply a light from another ship sailing on
the Horizon. Probably a fishing vessel , Fisherman may
have been coming to Americas shores for Centuries thinking
it just an out of the way uncivilized waste land.
Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution states that he
examined the skeletal remains of Portuguese fishermen who
reached Canada in Pre-Columbian times{No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons
}. One of the
First Indians the Plymouth Pilgrims met was "Samoset"
who spoke English, he had learned from a fisherman. On
Columbus's second voyage to the new World , he wrote of having found
the wreckage of a European ship on Guadalupe in the West Indies. |
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A
letter an English merchant, John Day, wrote to Columbus
circa 1498 about John Cabot's discovery of North
America, states that the land found by Cabot was "discovered
in the past by the men from Bristol who found 'Brasil' {1}
as your lordship knows"{The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, ca. A.D. 1000-1500
}. {There may
be records of expeditions from Bristol to find the "isle of
Brazil" in 1480 and 1481.}
Establishment archeologists proposed that the native cultures of
the Americas had been isolated from Eurasia and Africa after the
closing of the Bering land route, when they were still in the
hunter-gatherer stage; and had developed without any external
influences until the arrival of Columbus. Mounting evidence in
recent years tends to suggest that at times in the remote past there
was extensive contact not only from stray Fishermen , but extensive
trade between The Americas And the old world. Egyptians ,
Hebrews, Phoenicians, Romans, Vikings, Welsh ,Orientals as well as
Africans.
Researcher
Barry Fell
states that there are startling similarities between Ancient
Egyptian languages and those of Amerindians that inhabited the
areas around the Gulf Coast and Mississippi delta about 2,000
years ago. Could these Indians have been the cross
bred descendants of Long ago Egyptian Colonists or shipwreck
survivors ?
There is a text in a Buddhist Monastery in China which tells
of monks who voyaged many miles east to a new continent. The
text describes them making landfall on a coast with mountains
and rivers, (California?) then traveling inland to the east
where they discover a large canyon with stratified colors and a
great river at the bottom (Grand Canyon?) They then travel south
over a great desert with strange trees that have many thorns,
(cactus?) and find a civilization far to the south.
Cherokee Indians have a legend of the TsunilŽ kaluŽ, "the
Slant-eyed people," that lived far away in the direction in
which the sun goes down.
History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore
A Roman expedition led by Theodorus the Renowned landed
somewhere in Gulf Of Mexico Region and made their way inland to
present day Arizona, founding a settlement called
Terra Calalus. The remains of
one of their craft may well be the Roman ship found in
Galveston Harbor in 1886 {See
Romans in Texas}. The city of Terra Calalus was said
to have lasted over a Century, But eventually was destroyed by
the local Amerindians . The survivors of the last massacre
inscribed their story on two lead crosses bonded together and
covered up by calcium deposits, until it was found in
1923. Calalus: A Roman Jewish colony in America from the time of Charlemagne through Alfred the Great
