Paintings found in Brasil and Mexico challenge Bering Strait theory

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some status of ancient america kind of do resemble some asia statues. perhaps they were both here at the same time interacting

http://www.chinese.tcu.edu/www_chinese3_tcu_edu.htm

 

[wr]

lol this was a response to @Wr
 . didnt quote but it was something idiotic. 

It was sarcasm, but i deleted t because I didn't think the thread needed that.

For those that didn't catch it, I was making a jab about the illegal immigrant post. I said how could European settlers be the firt illegal immigrants, when God promised them the land through the doctrine of manifest destiny.

If you are unfamiliar:

This painting (circa 1872) by John Gast called American Progress, is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a school book. The different stages of economic activity of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation.

This was a propaganda campaign...

 

[Jordan8]

Wasn't California named after a black woman?

 

[Sir San Diego]

Khalifa? (sp?)

 

[water]

P4L 

 

[wr]

Wasn't California named after a black woman?

Yes

View media item 614320http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calafia
Mural of Queen Calafia and her Amazons in the Room of the Dons at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California

Calafia is a fictional warrior queen who ruled over a kingdom of Black women living on the mythical Island of California. The character of Queen Calafia was created by Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo who first introduced her in his popular novel entitled Las sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián), written around 1500.[1]
In the novel, Calafia is a pagan who is convinced to raise an army of women warriors and sail away from California with a large flock of trained griffins so that she can join a Muslim battle against Christians who are defending Constantinople. In the siege, the griffins harm enemy and friendly forces, so they are withdrawn. Calafia and her ally Radiaro fight in single combat against the Christian leaders, a king and his son the knight Esplandián. Calafia is bested and taken prisoner, and she converts to Christianity. She marries a cousin of Esplandián and returns with her army to California for further adventures.[2]
The name of Calafia was likely formed from the Arabic word khalifa (religious state leader) which is known as caliph in English and califa in Spanish. Similarly, the name of Calafia's monarchy, California, likely originated from the same root, fabricated by the author to remind the 16th-century Spanish reader of the reconquista, a centuries-long fight between Christians and Moslems which had recently concluded in Spain. The character of Calafia is used by Rodríguez de Montalvo to portray the superiority of chivalry in which the attractive virgin queen is conquered, converted to Christian beliefs and married off. The book was very popular for many decades—Hernán Cortés read it—and it was selected by author Miguel de Cervantes as the first of many popular and assumed harmful books to be burnt by characters in his famous novel Don Quixote.[2]
Calafia, also called Califia, has been depicted as the Spirit of California, and has been the subject of modern-day sculpture, paintings, stories and films; she often figures in the myth of California's origin, symbolizing an untamed and bountiful land prior to European settlement

When studying these "mythical accounts", one must keep in mind, the trend amongst weatlhy elite scholars of the time were to take and remix and combine mythology and historical facts and a practice of codices and cryptology. Such as the Bible

 

[smangalang]

 

[wr]

Khalifa? (sp?)

both Calafia and California most likely came from the Arabic word khalifa which means ruler or leader. The same word in Spanish was califa, easily made into California to stand for "land of the caliph", or Calafia to stand for "female caliph"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calafia

 

[andycrazn]

some status of ancient america kind of do resemble some asia statues. perhaps they were both here at the same time interacting

we stay not giving a damb about copyrights

 

[wr]

We could argue over individual incidents everyday. Fact remains that evidence points to cultures already having extensive cultural trade prior to Columbus. To the un informed this myth of finding savages and bringing them into christendom is the same way we invade countries to bring them democracy.

We for get the text and tone of people of Columbus era. When they say they "discover" something, they are speaking on behalf of their king, queen who operate under the nomenclature of conquest and corporate speak.

Much like today when politicians use words like "trust" they could be talking about trust between people in the interpersonal relation ship sense, trust as far as a third party holding entity, a building support feature etc.

This is why business communications flourish off of ambiguous speech. You can make the dumb think you care about them while the people your message was truly meant for understand clearly without alerting the masses to the true operation.

Anybody with an grain of sense can tell you there was no way Columbus discovered the Americas because people were already there. But the common man cannot tell you what it means on paper for Columbus to "discover" the Americas in the sense of conquest and land grabs by monarchies and churches.