(TheGuardian.com, 2006); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Of course Columbus didn't discover America. But then nor did China
A map [shown below] supporting claims that Chinese Admiral Zheng He reached the New World in the early 15th century is [I say] a hoax.
We all know that a lie goes halfway round the world while truth is
putting on its boots. But what if the lie goes the whole way? What if it
claims to circumnavigate the globe?
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| Does map prove China discovered America 70 years before Columbus? (io9.gizmodo.com) |
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| This is a Eurocentric map of our world. |
[On Jan. 19, 2006 Simon Jenkins wrote:] Last
week came purported evidence that the Chinese Admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho) sailed
his great fleet of junks around the world a century before Columbus, Da Gama, and Magellan.
An 18th-century copy of a map dated 1418 has emerged
from a Shanghai, China bookshop, depicting North and South America, Australia
and Antarctica.
The map was bought by Chinese lawyer Liu Gang and
was reportedly to go on display on Tuesday in London's Maritime Museum.
(The museum denies all knowledge of it.)
The map challenges the
customary Euro-centric version of global discovery and can thus rely on a
weight of political correctness in support. It appears to stake China's
claim to have "discovered" America first.
This comes as a surprise to those of us who know for a fact that
America was discovered by Prince Madoc ab Owain Gwynedd in 1170. He
landed at Mobile, Alabama, on the orders of the family druid and
asserted Wales's claim to King Arthur's North Atlantic empire.
Making
his way across country [USA], he settled west of the Mississippi river, where the
Mandan tribe were encountered in the 18th century, fair-skinned and
speaking a dialect of Welsh.
Unfortunately Madoc's arrival had been forestalled by St. Brendan in
the seventh century. He sailed to America in a leather-bound coracle, as
Tim Severin proved in 1977.
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| 1421: The Year China Discovered America |
The survivors of this trip remain pickled
in a downtown Boston saloon to this day. Brendan and Madoc were followed
by a Scottish knight Templar, Henry Sinclair, seeking refuge from the
suppression of his order in 1398.
He and his Freemasons escaped with
assorted treasures and holy grails to settle in Nova Scotia with the
Micmac Indians (clearly a tribe of Hiberno-Scots [Irish] ancestry).
Sinclair's Masonic star, or "la merika," duly gave its name to the continent and
merits a Da Vinci saga all of its own.
The only blot on this glory is
that everyone knows America got its name from Glamorgan's Richard ap
Meurig (Amerik), a wealthy sponsor of John Cabot's search for the
north-west passage in the 1490s. More
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