Secrets of Ancient America: Archaeoastronomy and the Legacy of the Phoenicians, Celts, and Other Forgotten Explorers by Carl Lehrburger

Author:Carl Lehrburger [Lehrburger, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Tags: Ancient Mysteries
ISBN: 9781591437758
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2015-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Fig. 12.7. Tall-masted Indian ships would have made crossing the Pacific from the Bay of Cambay perfectly feasible. Drawing of a Javanese galley, ca. A.D. 880, from a relief carving in Borobudur, Java. (Drawing by Gunnar Thompson, American Discovery, 214)

Fig. 12.8. Drawing of an Indian ship referred to as a “yanapatra,” ca. A.D. 600, from a temple painting. Ancient relief sculptures from Cambodia show ocean vessels capable of making the long crossing of the Pacific Ocean to the Americas. (Drawing by Gunnar Thompson, American Discovery, 214)

An unusual pictoglyph of a boat in the Painted Cave at the Carrizo Plain National Monument in California depicts what appears to be a smaller version of these big vessels from India (see figure 12.9).

In addition, established oral traditions of the Native American Paiutes, passed down from their ancient ancestors, tell of ships sailing into the Death Valley area, making an unimpeded passage from the Gulf of California to the Pacific Ocean. It is therefore possible that the ancients sailed into Lake Lahontan in Nevada, thus explaining the mysterious and ancient Grimes Point petroglyph carving what appears to be of a small Asian elephant carrying a rider.

An overview of this scenario is provided by Ricardo Palleres in his Archaeology Online article “Who Discovered America?”9 and the exciting prospect of visitors from India. This will be examined in detail later in this chapter and in chapter 15 but by way of introduction, some of the possibilities of influences from India on the languages and traditions of the American Indians need to be briefly examined.

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