Earth history is controversial and subject to wide speculation. Without critical thinking and its application of intellectual honesty, virtually all history is an agreed upon set of lies. However, there have been people who have provided various sorts of records for us to determine what is true.
Was the Earth once a Pangaea? There is a great deal of evidence to claim that this was true. When I was studying about the Bushmen, now relegated to the Kalahari, I was enthralled by their genetic comparisons to the Aborigines of Australia. How is this possible, since they ruled most of Africa before the darker-skinned denizens of today migrated from the area known today as the Middle East?
Then there is DNA linking a former place called, Beringia to the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans. Regardless of many folks’ opinions of the Bible, it is a history book and an enigma. Superficial readers need not apply. The Bible heavily suggests that there was a Pangaea. There are different schools of thought as to how the continents of today came into being. The Great Flood would seem to be logical. However, we have: “To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.” (Genesis 10: 25) Now, this may not mean what we might think it to mean.
Let us come to a simpler subject. Three great civilizations were based in modern-day Latin America. These civilizations, like many around the earth, worshipped the sun and winged serpents/dragons. The name, Amaruca, appeared in the region. It literally means Land of the [Great] Plumed/Winged Serpents. The Mayans chief god was Quetzalcoatl /Kukulkan (Plumed/Feathered Serpent). In the area of modern-day Peru, it was Amaru and the territory, Amaruca.
The only known surviving copy of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world wall map was purchased, in 2003, by the Library of Congress for $10 million. In 2005, this treasured map was inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, and is the first document in the United States to be so honored. In 2007, the House of Representatives honored it in a resolution (see floor consideration in House) to celebrate the quincentenary of the name.
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The name America (applied to present-day Brazil) appeared for what is believed the first time on Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map, known as the Baptismal Certificate of the New World, and also America's Birth Certificate.
This first article in the series is to whet your appetite for the rest of the story.