Ancient Charts Part II

ZENO CHART OF THE NORTH

When the Templar’s set sail for Nova Scotia in 1398 they apparently had a chart of very precise detail. It was assembled by Antonio Zeno the Venetian Navigator, after a voyage that Antonio and his brother Niccolo took to Iceland, Greenland, and by some accounts to Nova Scotia in 1380. They drew a chart of the North Atlantic which was lost for two centuries before being discovered by a descendant in 1550.

This chart was studied by Professor Hapgood in great detail who stated that it was copied from a highly accurate chart that was drawn with a conic projection. Antonio was not familiar with this projection because it was not invented until three hundred years after his death. He also made improvements to the chart based on his own knowledge where he could.

It detailed with precision and accurate latitude and longitude of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Baltic Sea and her coastline. An interesting detail on the chart is the legendary land of Thor so prominently detailed in Roman and Greek mythology. It was

thought to be in northern waters about six days sail from the Orkney Islands.

It was said to be north of the lost kingdom of Atlantis. The land of Thor was said to be covered with forests,and had several civilizations some very indigenous tribes and some more advanced civilization. When you take into account that the sea level then was 300 feet lower than today, so there were probably several sunken islands today that once supported civilizations.

Baffin Islands seems to meet many of these requirements laying in the arctic circle between Greenland and Labrador. It is covered today in a petrified forest and would have had a land bridge to Labrador a thousand years ago. Today Greenland is covered by glaciers but under, these glaciers are mountains and rivers flowing to the sea and farmlands below.

There was a time When the Mythological land of Atlantis existed before the Ice age brought glaciers to cover vast areas of Canada and Michigan and Wisconsin. It is where the ten thousand lakes of Minnesota come from. The Red River Valley of North Dakota

is a glacier lake bed with some of the most fertile farm land in the world. It has a river called the Red River of the North. It flows north to Canada and empty’s into Lake Winnipeg, which in turn flows north and empties into Hudson Bay.

It is interesting to note that of the thirty four rivers that flow north, in the world, only eight of them are in southerly areas, the rest are in areas where glaciers once existed.

MAGELLAN'S CHART

The Knights of Christ and the Royalty of Portugal through their association with the Knight Templar’s, had very accurate and detailed charts, that showed areas of discovery before the ships set sail.

Henry the Navigator had charts of Brazil and the Amazon basin before he set sail. The mouth of the amazon is 250 miles wide today. I hate to think how wide it was when the sea level was two hundred and fifty feet lower.

In 1519 when Magellan set sail, his navigator Pigafetta commented on a mysterious chart in Magellan’s possession, which was copied from the King of Portugal’s Master chart. With this chart Magellan was able to seek a passage through a difficult and unknown strait which had never been used before.

Columbus also had a copy of the same chart from the King of Portugal, which clearly showed the coast of the America’s and did not confuse the continent with that of Asia. Professor Hapgood stated that Columbus probably didn't know how to interpret the conical projection of many of the Ancient Charts, but would have recognized the Mediterranean and European coastal area to the point where he would be able to work out

distances.

The thought is that the Royalty of Portugal and the Sinclair’s of Scotland obtained these charts from the Templar’s after the Templar Fleet went missing and they reorganized into the fleet of the Knights of Christ and the Sinclair Masonic Fleet of Scotland.