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13th April 2021 00:03
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Professor de Mahieu: The Viking/Templar Presence in South America from c.1150 AD.
Professor de Mahieu: The Viking/Templar Presence in South America from c 1150 AD.
These abbreviated passages are taken from El Imperio Vikingo de Tihuanacu (America before Columbus), Ediciones de la Casa de Tharsis, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2013, p.88 to 105, reprinted from the original of 1978.
"Towards the end of the 12th century the Atlantic held no other interest for the Vikings in South America than being a way enabling them to re-establish contact with Europe. The best port for such a voyage would have been in the delta of the Amazon. There is no trace of one having been there unless it was used by the Portuguese colonizers as the foundation for their port at Bélem. Ports generally remain in the same places during the course of history.
"What testifies to the Viking presence in that region are the countless bits and pieces of ceramic disinterred on the great island of Marajó, some with runic symbols or crosses of Malta. The island, as large as Denmark, does not flood and is not suitable as a maritime base, but was useful as a transit stopover.
"On the north-east coast of Brazil between the Amazon and Cape San Roque the Vikings had a chain of ports each 300 to 500 kilometres apart with safe anchorages as in the home fjords and equipped with boat repair yards. The chain continued farther south along the coast to Santa Catarina.
"If one day a Viking boat would put to sea for Europe, it was guaranteed that its destination would be Dieppe in Normandy, opposite from where the ancestors sailed in 987 AD from the Danelaw. Many things would have changed over the intervening two centuries. The Danes had been thrown out by the Anglo-Saxons, but in 1066 the Normans had captured the region under Norman the Conqueror, Duke of Rouen.
"Paradoxically then, the Vikings of Tiahuanacu would find themselves in a known country. Certainly by now the Normans would speak only French but the people would use a patois of Danish and Anglo-Saxon probably not much different from the Schleswig dialect spoken by recent Viking arrivals in Brazil. Both England and Normandy had the same king and so the Viking boat would have headed for the Norman coast closest to the English coast, and a port which would be maintaining links to Denmark with no shortage of interpreters. We know that it arrived for the following reasons.
"The Vikings of coastal South America had no reason to hide their knowledge from their European cousins, and so they allowed the authorities at Dieppe to copy their famed map of the South American coasts. They also spoke of the riches in gold, silver and timber to be found in the immense Viking Empire.
"In the 12th century, the Knights Templar Order was all powerful, having developed surprisingly rapidly. In less than a century it had funded a large number of immense cathdrals and churches. Where was the money coming from next? Roman coins had now been used up, the crusaders brought some silver coins from Palestine where they had more value than gold, but not much. There was no silver mine in operation in Europe. Those in Germany were not yet open, those in Russia as yet unknown. The small quantity of silver that the Templars were managing to mint was a "Secret of the Temple" and came from North America.
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13th April 2021 16:32
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Re: Professor de Mahieu: The Viking/Templar Presence in South America from c.1150 AD.
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A few kilometres south of Dieppe at Saint-Valery-en-Caux, the Temple had a port of special importance used for a large part of their communications with Britain. Around the year 1150 AD, news came of an unexpected arrival there, the crew being strangely attired. The Templars investigated without much enthusiasm, thinking they would probably have come from Byzantium or some such place in the "New World". But here was something completely out of the blue. They were being visited by a Viking chieftain from South America.
The Templar fleet was better prepared than simple fishermen to exploit the information received from the other side of the Atlantic. Soon the shipbuilders of Dieppe were ready to engage in commerce with South America, and they took care to ensure that no word slipped out that they were going there in search of precious metals. They announced instead that they would be importing brazilwood, not known by that name at the time but probably under the Muslim term "baqqam", a commodity of no interest for their neighbours.
The Temple set up the port of La Rochelle to handle the organization. (Since modern historians are not allowed to believe in any Europeans being in South America prior to Columbus, the purpose behind the development of La Rochelle continues to puzzle historians to the present day. Amongst seals of the Secretum Templi seized by the French king in 1307 and discovered recently was one which depicts a characteristic Amerindian.)
The contact established at Dieppe with the Templars allows us to fix the approximate date for the Viking voyage. Work on building the first Gothic churches began around 1140 AD, and twenty years later, once funds became available, on the first cathedrals. Founded in 1128 the Order required several decades to establish its principal command houses, including that at Saint-Valery-en-Caux, and more years yet were still needed before they could set off for South America to begin the exploitation of minerals there, and in particular silver. Therefore it will have been around 1150 that the Tiahuanacu boat arrived at Normandy.
The most important silver mines in South America were to be found in the area of Porco on the eastern slopes of the Bolivian Andes, operated by the Incas using the most primitive methods of smelting. This area, later called Sierra de la Plata by the Spaniards, was not far from the uplands of Potosí where incalculably rich veins of silver ore would be found in the 16th century. Since the industrial production of silver for export was called for, probably the Temple sent a ship with the first mining engineers and technicians to escort the Viking chieftain on his return voyage. Such personnel would have been extremely difficult to find in France where there were no silver mines. It appears that the recruitment of miners and smelters was carried out in Germany, these being brought to Les Charbonnieres in the Tolosa region under the pretext of rehabilitating an ancient Roman mine, depleted and abandoned for centuries. There the specialists were selected for Peru and separated off under strict security. A local training foundry was set up near the command houses of La Coune Sourdre and Ermitage to work a metal of mysterious origin. This set-up would last for 150 years protected by an impregnable fortress which rose up along the Templar road from Portugal.
In South America soon the first galleries would be opened at Porco in Bolivia and the ore begin to mount up in the mine entrances. Probably using herdes of llamas, caravans of Indians began transporting along the northern Peaviru - permanent soft road - large quantities of ore or partially refined metal whose immediate destination was Cerro Corá in Paraguay. Here, 32 kilometres from the modern town of Pedro Juan Caballero, there rose up the Itaguambypé - Guarani word for fortress - which dominated the road at a point of vital importance. This was a hollowed out low mountain protected by sheer sides of masonry, blocks of stone slotted together in the anti-earthquake style of Tiahuanacu. The effective length of this mountain is 300 metres by ten high and three wide. Along its crest runs a path at the centre of which is the narrow entrance. The ruins of a lookout post can be found at one end.
Nearby is a stream, Aquidaban-Nigui. Its course is interrupted by a small waterfall at the side of which are the ruins of a building 16.80 metres in length. Here the Templars built their foundry. A mould found amongst the fallen blocks of stone which formed its walls leaves no doubt as to its purpose. From this mould came ingots of silver all identical as to form just as are those to be found in our banks nowadays.
Some twenty kilometres from the foundry within the crest of the ridge Cerro Kysé, near a sacred wood of Nordic type and a mount, Yvyty Pero, there is an enormous subterranean cavity, to which it has remained impossible to gain access, which appears to be a Viking necropolis. One can make out chiselled into the stone amongst runic characters a number of esoteric symbols of Templar origin. There are no silver mines in Paraguay and the Guarani Indians did not know how to mine and work metals. (If a single Viking skeleton were to be found here and upon analysis carbon dated by DNA to the 13th century, the Columbus myth would be exposed to all academic historians at last and for ever.)
Converted into ingots, permanent units easy to audit, the silver - and possibly gold too, though in much smaller quantities - would be taken from here to the Atlantic for loading aboard Templar ships for Europe.
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13th April 2021 23:54
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