Secret_History

Chapter 11: Time 471
and terminated just as abruptly 1,800 years later. [...] When prehistoric America’s
copper mining ceased all at once in 1200 BC, the Michigan pits were abandoned for
the next 21 centuries. They were suddenly opened in 900 AD, an event that can
only mean that, despite the virtual abandonment of the Rock Lake area for
thousands of years... [somebody KNEW about it - and came back]. [...] Alliance
with another mound building people at Spiro, Oklahoma, near the Arkansas River,
provided portage to Mesoamerica Trade Centers. [...] Roy Ward Drier writes, “That
the copper from which tools, scattered over such a vast area of country, were
manufactured, came from the ancient mines of Lake Superior, does not admit of
doubt. Although large and numerous deposits of copper ore are scattered through
Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico and Central and South America, there is no
evidence that the aborigines had sufficient metallurgical knowledge or skill to
reduce the ores to refined copper. The shores of Lake Superior have the only known
workable deposits of native copper in the world. The term virgin copper is well
used to denote its purity. In this latter day, it outranks all others in the markets of
the world.” [...]
Archaeological excavations in the 1930s at Aztalan discovered the remains of a
large rectangular building containing an abundance of unworked copper,
establishing the site’s identity as a mining town. [...]
Frank Joseph found some very strange pyramidal type structures in Rock Lake,
Wisconsin. They were different from other pyramidal structures - being conical -
and he was astounded some years later to see identical, unusual, pyramidal
structures in the Canary Islands.
The original inhabitants of the Canary Islanders referred to themselves as “Canari”
long before the Romans arrived. The name appears to have had a similar meaning
in both Latin and the native speech, which was a mixed Indo-European language
with at least several Latin cognates.
Previous to the 1st century AD, the Atlantic group was known throughout the
Mediterranean World as the Blessed Isles, the Fortunate Isles, the Hesperides, or
the Isles of the Blessed. Forgotten for all of classical civilization, they were isolated
from outside contact for almost 1,000 years until their rediscovery by Portuguese
sailors in the 14th century. The Canari more commonly referred to themselves as
Guanches (men) a once civilized race that had slowly degenerated over millennia of
interbreeding, while their level of society slid back, quite literally, into the caves...
Before their virtual elimination, some studies were made of the Guanches, a white
people, fair complected and with red, auburn, and occasionally blond hair. Despite
their genetically debased condition, they preserved traditions from long gone ages
of civilized greatness and still gathered at the ruined stone monuments of their
ancestors for special events. Some of these cyclopean walls, called tagora, survive
as crumbling rectangular enclosures, circles, and even pyramids.
At Santa Cruz, capital of Tenerife, largest of the islands, I was surprised to learn
that regular, ancient contacts between the Canaries and North America were
generally acknowledged by the academic community. Talk of possible pre-
Columbian visitors from Europe is taboo throughout professional circles in the
United States, but Tenerife’s leading historical scholar, Professor Lopez Herrera,
writes: “One fact about which we may be certain is that there existed a relation in
ancient times between the people of Canarian origin and the inhabitants of
America.” [...]