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THE KINGS OF THE SEA
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going a little farther south, the mouth of the Amazon River.
Then, by sailing up the river, they could get close to the mines of
Peru and Bolivia.
A map of these worldwide ocean currents looks very much like
a big city's subway map. You have your different lines and the
transfer stations from one Hne to another, and one of the busiest
changing stations must have been the Canary Islands where aU
the traflBc from and to the Mediterranean flowed by.
Once we understand how the ocean currents helped men to
migrate, we can also understand why the monuments of Easter
Island look so much Hke the ancient buildings of Tiahuanaco
and the submerged ruins in the Bahamas; we can explain how
Roman coins could be found in an old amphora on a beach in
Venezuela and the remnants of Hindu plantation colonies,
where cotton and jute were grown, on the east coast of Mexico.
Sumerians and Phoenicians established mining towns in Peru
and Bolivia to obtain copper and tin. To get there, these intrepid
sailors had to navigate the Amazon for thousands of miles, and
that is why mysterious inscriptions resembling the Phoenician alphabet
have been found all along the banks of the world's biggest
river.
In short, the use of the sea currents for navigation explains
why all ancient civilizations seem to have so many things in common
so that it looks as if all of them developed from one much
older and much more advanced central civilization. The men of
this central civilization were the Kings of the Sea and their art of
masterful navigation and knowledge of stars and mathematics
could very well have been gifts of astronauts who came from another
world to educate and civilize them. Unfortunately, we may
never know who these astronauts were or where they came from.