From: John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.alien.visitors,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: July 4, 1992 - Global Spiritual Independence Day
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 08:01:56 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

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Subject: Columbus Had An 
Alien Map:
  It seems that today is Columbus Day. Some people like him. Some people hate 
him and some people just don't give a hoot. It seems that we as a people are 
going through a celebrity bashing phase. Anyone who was famous people is now 
being talking about saying that they did all sort of bad things. Your 
welcome to your opinion of Columbus. It appears that there was a map that 
was in existence during the time of his journey to America that Columbus 
could have used. This map is called The Piri Ri'is Map.  Oh yes this year is 
1992 the 500 aniverery of the trip of Columbus. The copy of the map that may 
have been used by Columbus was made in 1513 and was discovered in Istanbul 
63 years ago according  to Turkish researcher  Mehmet Ali Yilmax.  
 "It's an incredibly detailed chart showing many important geographic 
landmarks which hadn't even been discovered in 1513-like the Andes 
Mountains, the course of the Amazon River  and Antarctica." I seem to 
remember that this map or another one shows Iceland without the ice cap on 
it, showing the country as two or more solid land mases. This information 
was not know until modern times when sonar and other electronic equipment 
was used to map the land mass. 
  This map also shows the southern tip of Florida, portions of  Mexico and all 
of the Caribbean islands, Central America and South America.  
  But the most incredible thing about this chart is that mathematical analysis 
shows it is an arerial view of the southern hemisphere taken from many miles 
above Earth, clearly  showing the curvature and proving the world wasn't  
flat.  
  This copy of the Columbus map was found in 1929 by a museum official in 
Istanbul. 
  It was painted on parchment by a 16th century Turkish admiral and mapmaker, 
Piri Re'is.  
  In a note in the margin, Piri Re'is stated that he  had consulted about 20 
charts in compiling his map-including one which Columbus had taken with him 
on his 1492 voyage.  
  After years of being ignored by professional geographers, it was an American 
college professor, Charles Hapgood, who finally recognized the significance 
of the Piri Re'is chart in the early 1960's.
  After analyzing it mathematically Hapgood determined it could only be an 
aerial view whose projection point  was miles above the meridian of the 
Egyptian city of Alexandria, site of an ancient library.
  And when he uncovered similar ancient maps, Professor Hapgood concluded that 
the original maps were made by space travellers and were then copied by 
scholars at the centuries-old library. 
  But how did  one of the maps fall into Columbus' hands?
 Where he got it isn't important. It's where the map got him.
  Now these are my (John Winston) words. I don't know whether or not Columbus 
used this map but it does appear that some people had the ability to get up 
in space some distance to make this map. 
Source of Information; Weekly World News October 20, 1992. Page 3.
John Winston
s Hapgood, who finally recognixed the signiicance ogf tof the Piri Ue'is chart 
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