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G4XNH > MAORI 05.03.04 11:00l 90 Lines 5032 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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VK2AAB wrote:-
> If I remember correctly a documentary about Easter Island.
> It was the proof that Easter Island people came from Polynesia and ultimately
> Asia, and not South America.
I believe that I saw that documentary. The spread of individuals across
the globe is an extremely interesting one. For instance,
When the Spanish Conquistadores invaded South America, the indigent
natives not only did not fight them, but indeed welcomed them as they
allegedly saw in the bearded white man a fulfilment of their age-old
prophecy that Quetzacoatal ("The Feathered Serpent") would reapear from
the east in such form. Hence a mere (Alleged) 600 mounted Spaniards
defeated much larger forces. One also hears the peculiar tale that the
Indians allegedly thought that the "mounted Spaniard" was a single entity,
a strange form of six-legged horse with a man attached, although I feel
that this is entirely ridiculous. The form of the man would be obvious
enough when he dismounted and so would kill that idea still-born. One also
wonders where this "white man returning from the sea" idea sprang from in
a non-white environment where such a thing as a "white man" was supposedly
unknown and hard to envisage. How could they come up with such an unusual
idea. I wonder if the Vikings, who were excellent seamen and got as far as
India and Newfoundland in their Knorrs, or dragon-ships, might be the
origin of this strange legnd of of South America.
Reading an excellent book nearly 40 years ago on South America, another
thought emerges. This was the "Biography" of Colonel Harry Fawcett (?). He
disappeared in the jungle and his son Brian (?) published his memoirs
which he had left behind. It told the tale of his being in the military as
a cartographer and being seconded to Brazil and other South American
countries to survey their borders, previously never investigated. He spent
years trekking through jungles and up the Amazon etc. and mapping out the
boundaries as he saw fit. he met many strange tribes and was eventually
killed by one. A TV documentary later interviewed the tribe which executed
him. He was also alleged to have had "jungle offspring". The description
in his notes of huge abandoned cities with enormous, cavernous communal
"halls", far larger than any white man's edifices were particularly
enthralling to read about. It was not known at the time to which tribe
their construction should have been attributed. None capable of such
construction lived in the vicinity, indeed anywhere nearby. His
descriptions of giant anacondas was enlightening and his descriptions of a
prehistoric "lizard" (Dinosaur) skull sticking out of the bend where a
meander had cut away the bank, and another some feet below the water on
the river he used was extremely interesting.
He also described a strange substance which was able to be used by birds.
He asked a guide on the river how birds could drill holes in the cliffs
above as they were rock. The guide told him that a special plant was
chewed by the birds and stuck to the cliff where it slowly "ate" a hole as
acid would. The birds were unafeected by this substance. He was also told
the tale of a white man who had lost his horse and had plodded through the
jungle to his plantation where he found thathis spurs had been eaten away.
A native had told him that he had walked through these plants. Other tales
told of this peculiar substance. Whether or not this was\is fact or fairy
tales I know not, but his telling of it in his professional capacity as a
cartographer, with nothing to gain by the telling of it is something to
consider. This was in the 1920's I believe. A very good book to read. I
was tired just reading of his exploits.
One thing that he said which made an impression at the time was the fact
that he considered horses and mules as useless creatures and that none
could take what a man could take in the jungle. According to his account,
none could be permanently relied on. I was a little surprised at that as I
had considered such transport at least as strong as man. Regards.
Later, when archaeological investigations were carried out in South
America, huge black, distinctly negroid heads around 6 feet high were
found half buried in the ground. These were a mystery apparently as no
negroes were supposed to have been in SA before the time suggested. I
never saw any further stories about these heads and wonder still what
became of them and where they had actually came from. Is it possible that
before the world split like an egg-shell and the Americans departed from
the African continent, whites had been somehow "left" on the South
American continent? Hardly likely as little life was apparent, and no
white man, until the Spanish invasion. Did Africans arrive in South
America much earlier too.
73 - Jeff, G4XNH @ GB7YKS
Brightraven94@Hotmail.com
Interests. Historical research, dowsing and reading.
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