An important aspect to the spread of the Bronze Age was the
development of a written language. First in Mesopotamia, with the Sumerians,
using “Cuneiform” and this knowledge passed to the Egyptians using “hieroglyphs
and from Egypt into North Africa and the Mediterranean with the Mycenaean (
Linear B) script, most commonly associated with early Greek which pre-dated the
Greek alphabet by several centuries.
Tin is a very rare element in the world. There were areas in Asia
but it was primarily mined in Great
Briton, in Devon and Cornwall, and South America .
It was also to a lesser
degree mined in Brittany France, Germany, Spain and Portugal. The primary production area of Copper came from Indonesia, Chile,
North America, and in ancient times Cyprus.
The word Phoenician means “Red Hair”. They built their cities on the
coast of the eastern Mediterranean. They had two main colonies Phoenicia and
Carthage. They became known as Carthaginians THEY WERE THE ORIGINAL CELTS.
After the end of the Trojan war they began to expand their horizons
with voyages into the Atlantic . In 1972 off the coast of
Honduras a Carthaginian ship wreck was discovered containing a cargo of
amphorae.
Some believe that the Toltec Indians were Carthaginians who after
being defeated in the Tunic wars by the Romans left the Mediterranean for North
Africa, West Africa, the Iberian Peninsula.
The group that went to West
Africa, either on purpose or by being blown out to sea during a storm, by way of
Trade Wind route, made their way to South America, the Caribbean and Central
America.
They were conquered by the Aztec Indians and their leader Montezuma
acquired their cargo of gold, precious metals, and scripts and other cultural
items. This became part of Montezuma's
treasure which was later discovered by Cortez in present day Mexico City.
Montezuma was confused when the conquistadors arrived. He didn't
know weather to associate them with the feathered serpent sun god Quetzalcoatl, which the legend stated
that one day the god would return to the land of the Aztecs, to claim his throne
and he would be recognized by his shiny hair and white skin.
The Phoenicians were also called Sidonians, which were one and the
same. They were considered masters of
sorcery and magic. They were the
original occultists. They came to
possess a civilization that goes back 30,000 years.
Sidonian navigators were in great demand by Babylonians, Persians,
Greeks and Egyptians. Navigation, mathematics,and the sciences were considered
the occult and all religions of that time were its enemy. The Greek alphabet
was taken directly from Sidonian script and applied to the sounds of the Greek
Language, hence the word phonetic.
Now that I am done digressing lets return to the Carthaginians
expanding their horizons. One group went to Africa and eventually to central
and South America. Another group went to the Iberian Peninsula, they founded
Cadiz Spain. This group became known as “Celtiberians” by archaeologist's.
They migrated to the British Isles, where they were just referred to
as Celts. In their migration through the
Mediterranean, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula they accumulated many
languages and alphabets. In 1200 AD, The “Book of Ballymore,” was written at a
monastery in Ireland using African Script.
In 1960 this script was shown to be an ancient North African script
used in the time frame of 1000 A.D. The Celts of Ireland, England and Wales the
“Ancient Britons” used many different writing systems which they preserved in
monasteries.
The Celts went from Ireland to the Shetland Islands then on to
Iceland where they started some settlements, on to Greenland where they also
started settlements. They always seemed to be one step ahead of the Vikings but
by generations.
They were well established in Greenland when Eric the Red arrived in 982 A.D. From there to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia,
and several points on the eastern seaboard of North America. There is
unquestionable Celtiberian influence in the Algonquian writing system.
If the Celtiberian's brought African script to Ireland, which was
used in the Book of Ballymore, it wouldn't be unheard of to bring North African
hieroglyphic's to Nova Scotia.
Algonquin legends state that some of the their Ancestors came from
across the Atlantic, and that white men
lived among them in times long past.
Celtic contact seems to have been massive
and long standing. It makes one wonder about the legends of the white Indians
of Narraganset Bay.
Carthaginian began moving out of the Mediterranean starting around
700 BC Saint Brendan was suppose to have
traveled to North America in the times of King Arthur.
When Viking explorer's arrived in North
America, they reported natives with auburn or lite brown hair. They were told of a “white mans land” inland
from the coast. Part of this groups
customs were to walk as a group in a procession chanting. Sounds like Irish
Monks to me!
There is a Norse legend concerning an Icelander from around the year
1000 A.D., his name was Ari Marson. He was an explorer who was shipwrecked in the
lands to the west, he was also baptized there.
There have been several discoveries in the New England Area, of
Phoenicia sites, with writing in a Celtiberian script known as Ogam. They are
possible Temples to the Phonetician Sun God Baal.
