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@OMApproach Europeans, likely from today’s Italy and possibly other European countries, traveled to Brazilian “Fortunate Isles” between Belem and Sao Luis since the Juba II’s trip in 40 BCE. #europeans #southamerica #tamilagamsamerica #fortunateisles #brazil #king #Jubaii #Mauretania
@UNESCO Was the comet or the deity #Poseidon, the vengeful "earth shaker", responsible for burying under the sand this "second site of the Panhellenic #Olympiad" approx. 5,611 years ago? He probably had favored the #Ionian colonist (who left for 'Asia') over the natives. #Fortunateisles
Had Scylax come from Analha? We think so, but who else would care about his mythological origin? #Scylax #Analha #fire #FortunateIsles #IslesoftheBlest #Eden #Brazil #Antillia #Southamerica #Amazonriver #Aryan https://t.co/JBDtZow0Bw
Rhadamanthus, a wise king of Crete (the son of Zeus and Europa, a brother to Sarpedon & Minos); #Rhadamanthus had two sons, Gortys (associated with #Gortyn, Crete) and Erythrus (founder of #Erythrae); #Homer: he lived in #Elysianfields #Fortunateisles https://t.co/2CdqQMbGyY
There is a connection between Sir Arthur's story, the #AvalonIsland (which we've identified as the #FortunateIsles coast between #Belém and #SâoLuis, and finally the #IslandBrasil. #Arthur #SirArthur #Brazil #Celt #Celtic #bronzeage #Wikipedia https://t.co/vN1HHtve0i
The Irish saint Brendan of Clonfert of ~48 yrs was definitely the first #European to had reached c. 532 AD the #FortunateIsles #Blessed Isle #GardenofEden in #Brazil ~ a 1+ Ky before #Columbus & ~453 yrs before #Viking captain B. #Herjólfsson. #Irish #saint #BrendanofClonfert
Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 – c. 577); the #Irish saint & the #Apostle the #Navigator, known for his #legendary #voyage to reach the “Isle of the Blessed” #FortunateIsles #GardenofEden & "Saint Brendan’s Island” in #Brazil 1k yr b. #Columbus. #Brendan. https://t.co/7hm9ocWe5O
Brendan of Clonfert (c. AD 484 – c. 577); the #Irish saint & the #Apostle the #Navigator, known for his #legendary #voyage to reach the “Isle of the Blessed” #FortunateIsles #GardenofEden & "Saint Brendan’s Island” in #Brazil 1k yr b. #Columbus. #Brendan. https://t.co/7hm9ocWe5O
@anandaos Aristotle ascribed the invention of the quadrireme (Latin; GK: tetrērēs) to the #Carthaginians from todays #Tunis (w/geoglyphic representation of 10x10 km # others in #Africa before 3,587 BC). #Phoenician #PlinytheElder #Trinidad #Tobago #Venezuela #FortunateIsles #Senegal #Dakar
Just look. How blessed are these islands? How blessed are we who just have to walk outside to see this? Fuji and Japanese cherry blossom? No, Padre Teide in his own full Tenerife bloom.
#FortunateIsles
#IslesoftheBlessed
#μακάρωννῆσοι
@anandaos Was #JubaII protecting info about cross Atlantic #Roman trade w/#Brazil? Cargo in #Dakar after processing in #African factories, was being sent to #Europe after 40 BC; before, trade w/#FortunateIsles probably was done by #Phoenicia. #ancientship #worldtrade #JoalFadiout #Senegal
@AlexanderQuote Alexander facing the entrance of the Garden of Eden called out: “Open the gate for me!” sentry of the #GardenofEden responded: “This is the gate of the #Lord, only the #righteous shall enter here....you may not enter.” #mythicalEast #FortunateIsles #AlexandertheGreat #Brazil
The #FortunateIsles were known from #Celtic mythology as #Avalon (they were identified erroneously as an island located somewhere within the #BritishIsles during 2+ millennia; #PureLand #BlessedLand) a #symbol of #archetypal images of #paradise & a happy #afterlife. #BlessedIsles
Correction: it is a representation of #Aphrodite in the #FortunateIsles area (#Olympians #Titans were represented here as #geoart; Helena of Troy) probably lived here returning from Troy near #Lisbon. #Iliad #Homer #IlhadoAlgodoal #Brazil #Greek #Troy #Odyssey_hypothesis #SaoLuis
Oddysseus, Helena of Troy , etc. had lived here in Fortunate Isles returning from Troy just S of #Lisbon, PT, the #Meander River is todays Rio Maracanã, n/Ilha do Algodoal=Aphrodite, etc. #Pausanius #protoGreece #Troy #Homer #Iliad #Oddysey #geography #Brazil #FortunateIsles
Helena of Troy had lived here after coming back from Europe. Pausanias probably had referred to the island in front of the Meander River (todays Rio Maracanã, Ilha do Algodoal) #Pausanius #Greece #preGreek #Helen #Troy #Homer #Iliad #literature #geography #Wikipedia #Southamerica
The Atlantic coast between #Belém & Sâo Luis (~600 km) was called Fortunate Isles by Greeks & Romans (who sent an expedition here ~40 yr BC) and is a colossal geoglyphic representation of ~30 deities known as #Olympians & #Titans. #mytheme #greek #roman #FortunateIsles #Brazil
Helena of Troy had lived here after coming back from Europe. Pausanias probably had referred to the island in front of the Meander River (todays Rio Maracanã, Ilha do Algodoal) #Pausanius #Greece #preGreek #Helen #Troy #Homer #Iliad #literature #geography #Wikipedia #Southamerica
ancient #Troy south of #Lisbon Portugal was destroyed probably after 3,587 yr BC; #Homer writer of the #Trojanwar walked these #FortunateIsles #Southamerica before or after #tsunami struck the coast of #Brazil, and #Athina was relocated to #SaoLuis. #Homer #Iliad #longhistory
African King of #Mauretania Juba II reached todays Brazil in 40 yr BC? the patron of the arts, sciences RE: #Pliny the Elder, sent an expedition to the Fortunate Isles (before #CanaryIslands) E of todays #Belém #Brazil. #Fortunateisles #JubaII #SAmerica https://t.co/fORXEKOikN
Europeanized African King of Mauretania Juba II reached todays Brazilian coast in the 1st c. AD. ~1,532 years before #Columbus? Juba II re: #PlinytheElder - sent an expedition to #FortunateIsles (E of todays #Belém #Brazil (erroneously known as #CanaryIslands before). #wikipedia
@ArqueologaIbri1 Gracias. Se sabe si Las Islas Afortunadas entre Belém y Sao Luis en Brazil, lo hicieron los Neandertales? El otro grupo desconocido? Antes el año ~6,080 AP? #FortunateIsles #Neandertal #prehistoria #griegos #deidadesolimpicos
The Fortunate Isles (#Blessed I.), were legendary islands in the #AtlanticOcean, a geographical location, a winterless earthly #paradise inhabited by the #heroes of Greek #mythology. The #FortunateIsles were associated with the concept of #Elysium. #Hesiod #Brazil #Greek #Merus
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