Tibetan

Richard Smith rzs at WILDBLUE.NET
Fri May 2 15:11:52 UTC 2008


Even after historical accounts are straightened out
The USA still maintains the yearly celebration of "Columbus Day",
He didn't even have to land on this continent to get credit.
The Chinese might actually possess myths of equal validity.

Doctrines of Discovery are pretty fascinating studies.
They really are a history of languages (the mind)

-Richard

> Some people have taken the earlier Chinese accounts of voyages to Peng Lai
> as describing travel to the Americas, but these accounts are vague and
> almost certainly in large part mythological and insofar as they do
> describe real places, there is no particular reason to think that
> they are in the Americas.



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