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Ancient Consciousness #2

After I wrote the earlier commentary and wentSo, when were the original maps drawn that
back and read it several "other thoughts"Reis  copied?
came to mind regarding the Piri Ries map that
I spoke of in the Ancient ConsciousnessCharles Hutchins Hapgood (1904-1982) was an
commentary. And while this youngAmerican academician who developed the theory
twenty-something Admiral copied his map fromthat there was an advanced civilization, long
a source we're not familiar with, other mapsbefore 4,000BCE, believes that the Venetians
affirm that there's been knowledge and travelfound one of the maps when Constantiople was
in  our  world  that  goes beyond myth! Âsacked during the Crusade of 1204. His futher
theorizes that an advanced civilization,
The Piri Reis map was discovered on my"explored Antartica when its coasts were free
birthday in 1929 by Malil Edhim, director ofof ice and that they travelled from pole to
the Turkish National Museum in the oldpole  with  ease  and  sophistication."
Imperial Palace at Constantinople. To add
further intrigue and romance to the find, theThe last ice age ended about 13,000 years
map was painted on a gazelle skin and rolledago, give or take a century or two. Isn't
up  on  a  dusty  shelf.that  half  of  26,000?
What we now know is the such preciseThe Piri Reis map doesn't stand alone though.
information, coming out of the 1500's (whenThe Orontius Fineus map discovered in 1531
he copied it), had to use sphericalshowed Antartica with flowing rivers where
trigonometry in their mathematicalnow mile thick glaciers flow. The HadjiÂ
measurements as well as use ultra modernAhmed map of 1559 showed the ice age land
cartographical projections.But how? How didbridge between Siberia and Alaska. The Andrea
they (whomever they were-are) know theBeinicasa map of 1508 showed most of Northern
correct  size  of  the  earth.Europe in the grasp of ice. And so on. Our
history  isn't  what  we're  being  taught!
And if this information was available
pre-1500's when Reis copied it, how brave wasAnd can you believe there are Christians who
Christopher Columbus anyway in 1492 when hebelieve (as James Ussher proclaimed) the
sailed the oceans blue. Was he really afraidearth was created in seven days on October
of falling off the end of the earth as he set23,  4004  BCE?
sail  for  lands  unknown?  Talk about myths!
I can't!



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