Willie Martin
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 Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:57 am Post subject: Japheth and Ham - 17 |
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Now back to where we left off in our story, as related in National
Geographics.
"Early map makers and explorers gave credence to the legend. Place-names
from the Navigatio appear on later charts, and early navigators sought
vainly for 'St. Brendan's Isle.' Fact or fantasy, the Navigatio had
incalculable impact on the great European voyages of discovery, including
that of Columbus.
"According to the legend, St. Brendan and his fellow monks set sail from
Ireland in a leather-hulled curragh; this same type of boat, now covered
with tarred canvas, is still used by Irish fishermen.
"The voyage lasted seven years and introduced the monks to such wonders as
demons who hurled fire at them, a floating crystal column, and a sea
creature as great as an island. Scholars wonder today: Might they have been
volcanic eruptions...an iceberg...a whale? Finally, Brendan and his
shipmates reached the Promised Land, a huge, lush island divided by a mighty
river.
"Soon afterward they sailed home to Ireland, where Brendan died. There the
legend of St. Brendan ends, to be given new vitality in the 1970's by a
real-life sequel. In the following article, British author and explorer
Timothy Severin recounts his epic Atlantic crossing aboard a leather boat.
In proving that such a long-ago voyage could have been made, Tim Severin and
his crew have brought one of history's most intriguing takes a giant step
closer to the realm of possibility. -- THE EDITOR." (National Geographic,
Vol. 152, No. 6, December 1977. p. 769)
When David died as the world emperor, he was ruling over the Mediterranean
Sea in conjunction with the Phoenicians; he ruled over conquered territory
from Egypt somewhere in the interior of Asia. And Israelites were present in
Britain and America.
During the reign of King Solomon he inherited a huge domain, great power
and he devoted himself to wisdom and good rule during the first part of his
reign.
1 Kings 4:20-25 related that Israel dwelt safely all the days of Solomon,
indeed, how could they not, there was no one left in that area to challenge
them.
1 Kings 5:12 show King Hiram and the Phoenicians were allied to Israel.
"And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace
between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together."
1 Kings 4:31-34 makes some statements which the world's historians hate. It
states that Solomons' wisdom was known to all the nations of the earth.
"For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and
Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round
about. And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand
and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even
unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and
of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. And there came of all people
to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard
of his wisdom."
2 Chronicles states all the kings of the earth sought the presence of
Solomon and brought their tributes year by year and presents to hear his
wisdom.
"And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the
vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were
of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. For the
king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years
once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes,
and peacocks. And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches
and wisdom. And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon,
to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart." (2 Chronicles 9:20-23)
Is this just some imagination exaggeration of some Hebrew writer? He
couldn't actually mean it could he? Well 2 Chronicles 8, 18:9-10 and 1 Kings
9 also show that Israel and Phoenicia joined their navies into one navy, and
it mentions they mingled the crews on the same ship.
Berry Fells book "America B.C." has some remarkable revelations of the real
extent of just how much the Israelites and the Phoenician alliance was in
the area which consists of the United States today. He states in his book
"America B.C." that the Phoenicians had a regular port of call of the coast
of Maine. Where an old inscription was found which he translates: "Ships of
Phoenicia cargo platform."
Fell states:
"It is obvious that the flat topped island would not have been set aside
for the loading and unloading of Phoenician ships were they not regular
visitors to America, with a predictable time table of ports of arrival and
departure and expected dates."
He adds:
"These inscriptions suggest that international maritime commerce was well
established in what he calls the late bronze age. That North American ports
were listed on a sailing timetable of the overseas vessels of the principle
Phoenician shipping companies. And that the same information was circulated
to customers in America."
This, along with the above information, gives us an entirely different
perspective on just how wide spread was international commerce in the
ancient world, and just how intelligent these people were.
These people were not cavemen or neanderthals or some people evolutionary
revolving from some primitive background, they were intelligent. How
permanent were these settlements in the new world?
The book "America B.C." also shows the evidence that the Phoenicians had a
twenty acre temple site to Baal and pagan deities in New Hampshire. This is
not the evidence of people who were just coming for just a few years to
trade with the Indians and go. They had very substantial settlements here. |
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