How many people know of a city called Chetumal, (spelled Setumal) en el estado de Quintana Roo, Mexico? Would it surprise you if it was located, instead, near a major port where large ships were built: from 6 to 800 tons each? This l came from a letter to the King of Portugal from Lisbon, dated September 26, 1502.and the postscript claimed it was under the auspices of a treaty of peace between the King of Portugal and the King of Calichut. [sic] (Chapter cxxvi; pages 166-67-68).
An island with sandbar was a port of one island with a fortress on the river Cuchin near the mouth of the Red Sea. There was a massacre there by the ruler of Cuchin [sic] against Calichut [sic] where Arreschorva was killed and many men died.The king of Portugal was to send his navy to Calichut [sic] within 26 years.[p. 166]
[An awkward translation from a manuscript called: Rodeur, (Montabaddo) (1917) Follows the New World. Reprint of 1517 manuscript.]
An island with sandbar was a port of one island with a fortress on the river Cuchin near the mouth of the Red Sea. There was a massacre there by the ruler of Cuchin [sic] against Calichut [sic] where Arreschorva was killed and many men died.The king of Portugal was to send his navy to Calichut [sic] within 26 years.[p. 166]
[An awkward translation from a manuscript called: Rodeur, (Montabaddo) (1917) Follows the New World. Reprint of 1517 manuscript.]
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"Let us permit our calendar year to gain on the true year as fast as it will. We will allow our calendar to function without change, but when we erect a monument, we will engrave upon it, in addition to the official calendar date of its dedication, a calendar correction for that particular date. In this way, no matter what month our calendar may register, we shall always know, whenever we erect a monument, the position of its corresponding date in the true year"
The most interesting part of that crude translation was that there were Portuguese ships going from place to place, in the vicinity of the coast of Belize. And many more men and ships than was reported for the Columbus fleet of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Columbus seems to have gone to the Lake now called Lake Isabella in Guatemala. The Admiral is the only one who could have named that lake on his first journey. Just like he may have named Port Isabella in Texas on the Gulf of Mexico.
Farfetched, I am just reading and translating (albeit crudely) what is in the above mentioned 1917 manuscript copy of a book. A book that Samuel Morison mentioned in his Southern Voyages tome, as being. . . . not of the four voyages of Vespucci, . . . . . but the SEVEN voyages of the Vespucci.
Oh, I think I should mention that between Portugal and Spain, there was a 38-year difference. It seems the Church decided that the Caesarian calendar in Spain was bad for the country and changed their year to the Christian year. . . . . 38-years in advance. So Columbus and Portugal sailed together at the same time.
It seems this is what the Distance numbers are doing to the Maya Calendar system. The original date is in glyphs for the church version while the Distance number is the same date were written according to Maya older dating systems. Sylvanus Morley, in his third edition of the "Ancient Maya" on pages229-230. The MAYA priests did it differently:
Oh, I think I should mention that between Portugal and Spain, there was a 38-year difference. It seems the Church decided that the Caesarian calendar in Spain was bad for the country and changed their year to the Christian year. . . . . 38-years in advance. So Columbus and Portugal sailed together at the same time.
It seems this is what the Distance numbers are doing to the Maya Calendar system. The original date is in glyphs for the church version while the Distance number is the same date were written according to Maya older dating systems. Sylvanus Morley, in his third edition of the "Ancient Maya" on pages229-230. The MAYA priests did it differently:
"Let us permit our calendar year to gain on the true year as fast as it will. We will allow our calendar to function without change, but when we erect a monument, we will engrave upon it, in addition to the official calendar date of its dedication, a calendar correction for that particular date. In this way, no matter what month our calendar may register, we shall always know, whenever we erect a monument, the position of its corresponding date in the true year"
I wonder how true or false it is? Or how wrong I might be in translating such a tome?
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