Where Calypso may have lived, By Egerton Sykes (a summary)
The Azores when Prince Henry the Navigator (Portuguese explorer a
descendant of England's
own John Gaunt) ordered the expedition in the 15th Century were
found to be uninhabited. According to Legend Prince Henry was in possession of
an Ancient Map upon which the position of the Islands was marked, and
overlooked the significance of this map for previous Trans-Atlantic contacts
before Columbus.
The only evidence of Human Habitation when he arrived was a Bronze Statue
Equestrian who was pointing on a Horse towards America
on the Island of Corvo. Some 250 years later, small hoard
of Cathegenian coins was found, dating back to the 3rd Century B.C.,
and was described by the Swedish Archaeologist, Podolin. The presence of the
coins established the fact that this island
of Corvo was a trade
center as far back as that date. Unfortunately, the statue and coins are
missing, one lost to sea, and the other unknown to who the collector was.
Humboldt mentions a cave on one side of the Island that first explorers found
several inscriptions, and two or three statues. The writing was thought to be
Hebrew only because they could not read it, but is very likely was
Lybian-Punic, or Phoenician. The traces of the Caves location has also been
lost all of, which can maybe traced in accounts in some Portuguese Library. The
mythical Irish Maeldune, who visited the Islands in search of the slayer of his
father, mentions an Island where a horde of
Giant Ants as large as foals waited to seize the crew of his ships. Today these
very rocks are called in the Azores, the
Formigas or Ants? Maeldune reported landing on an Island where he saw, "A
vast multitude of people on the sea, rushing along the crests of the waves with
great outcry. As soon as they landed, they went to the green where they
arranged a horse race." Since no less than eight of the nine coins found
on Corvo had horses. Long before that, Statius Sebosus said the Azores were
6,000 Stades (750 miles) West of Maderia, and named two of the Islands Pluvalia, and Capraria, a fact well known to
compilers of guides to navigators. Homer's reference to Calypso's Isle, 20 days
sail from the islands of the Phaecians (The West Indies) obviously refers to
the Azores. The Egyptians 1,500 B.C. had passed by the Azores, but is there
earlier evidence of the land once being larger and inhabited?
The Swedish Scientist, Prof. Petterson, says that the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge was still above water fifteen thousand years ago. The fact that Santa
Maria, the first island to be colonized again, is not volcanic tends to
disprove the theories that the Islands were thrown up by volcanic action alone.
Webmaster Notes:
The islands the Greeks noted is
broken up as Pluval-ia, and Caprar-ia which Pluval is the Latin equivalent of
praefui, or as an adjective form Praesens i.e. present and in person. Also,
refers to a safe harbor indirectly with praesidium name, which recalls
Posidium. The other angle is proveho, to carry forward or sail onward in latin,
and lastly profluo or to flow forth to rise. This indicates that the Pluval-ia
is an island that maybe-volcanic active, or rises high and that some Egyptian
Pharaoh's name had marked it as his own. The Caprar Island almost has the
Calypso name, or Caply-so.
Latin Capere means take, or seize, and Caprae is for a 'goat'.
In Egyptian however Khepri is a magical serpents with human heads and
wings in Taut XI
And is the name of Kheprer for the self-begotten sun beetle itself a
form of Ra.
It is also a name for the spring period and the Zodiac sign of Cancer
being the
opposite of Capricorn like Tropic of Cancer had replaced? The Islands
may still yield