The Mayan Connections of the Celtic Church
Pyramids at Glastonbury
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Evidence of Christians in Mayan Cities
from Adrian Gilbert's The Mayan Prophecies, pages 152 and 153
In his fascinating book America B.C., first published in 1976 and revised in 1989, Harvard Professor Barry Fell presented startling evidence that America has indeed been repeatedly visited and settled by peoples from Continental Europe and Africa from as far back as 5000 BC until relatively recent times (some 100 years before Columbus). Unfortunately, many archaeologists and historians, for reasons more to do with national pride than with science, refuse to acknowledge the mounting evidence that this is indeed the case. For example, although Roman amphorae have been discovered at Guanabara Bay, on the sea-bed off the coast of Brazil, the authorities have refused to allow a full investigation to take place.3 Similarly, Roman coins dated to around AD 375 have been found on a beach at Beverly, Massachusetts4 but archaeologists continue to insist these must have belonged to an unknown, modern collector who, if they are to be believed, must have been exceptionally careless. In 1972 further Punic (that is, Carthaginian) amphorae were found off the coast of Honduras in Central America.5 Permission to investigate the wreck from which they came was again refused, this time because it was felt that to acknowledge such a thing would be an affront to the memory and reputation of Christopher Columbus. Given this kind of attitude in academic circles, it is little wonder that our knowledge of ancient contacts between the Old and New Worlds is so scant.
Equally contentious are finds of Carthaginian and Celtic inscriptions in America. According to Professor Fell (who is an acknowledged expert on epigraphy, the study of inscriptions) there are writings in Punic to be found at quite a number of sites in the United States. He and his friends of the Epigraphic Society have identified numerous tombstones, cairns and stone-built 'root cellars' as dating from the Bronze Age and as having been constructed by European seafarers. As well as Punic inscriptions there are also short texts in Ogham, the written language of the Celts. In pre-Roman times these people inhabited France and Spain. It is Fell's contention that, as Julius Caesar himself reports in his writings, the Atlantic Celts were first-class mariners, with vessels capable of withstanding the pounding of the Atlantic rollers. Fell has found American inscriptions that seem to confirm this, including records concerning ships from Tarshish. In America B.C., Fell translates one of these, from the Taressian Punic in which the original was written. Under the outline carving of a ship's hull the text says: 'Voyagers from Tarshish this stone proclaims.'6 The stone in question apparently marked the spot where ships from Tarshish would regularly dock to exchange cargoes with settlers who either worked silver mines further inland or trapped animals for their pelts.
What was of greater interest to me was that in 1976 another important find was made, this time in Mexico itself. While excavating the ruins of the Mayan city of Comalco on the Caribbean coast, archaeologists discovered that many of the bricks used to build the city carried inscriptions. Though most of the inscriptions found on these bricks were (as one might have expected) Mayan, two were found to be written in a neo-Punic script in ancient Libyan. One of the bricks shows a rough calendar, with the months marked by their initial letters. The other shows a figure with the inscription 'Yaswa Hamin', meaning 'Jesus protect'. They could therefore be dated as coming from some period between the time of Christ and the 3rd century AD, and added some support to the Votan legend.7
The White Brother and the Argument Between Red Brother and White Brother
Some American tribal members believe that the White Brother's tribe were Tibetan Buddhist monks. We find this ludicrous for several reasons:
1) Tibetans are hardly white-skinned.
2) To our the best of our knowledge, Tibetan Buddhists were not militantly evangelistic like the Celtic Christians. This we would naturally expect, as so much of pagan preBuddhistic native practices are central to Tibetan Mahahayana Buddhism.
3) The modern Tibetan Buddhists have made no serious claims in this regard.
4) The Tibetan Buddhists until recently didn't experience the persecutions and raids the Celtic missionaries had, so they wouldn't have needed to travel.
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