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THE SEARCH FOR KING SOLOMON’S TREASURE SOURCEBOOK
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MELA’S ACTUAL WORDS (TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH):
NOTE: The context of this entire passage is set between the Malay Tip and China as islands in the sea. That is called the Philippines.
NOTE: Tamus is China. We know the Ganges in India today. However, ancient maps omit Burma, Malay
Peninsula and Indochina and place the Ganges just South of China(Tamus).
NOTE: Tamus is China. Colis is the Malay Peninsula in description though in that time they thought India
and China were next to each other on the coast. That’s wrong but we just need to understand their mindset.
NOTE: Notice how they bounce from India to China seamlessly as they were not aware in 43 AD that they were
confusing the Malay Peninsula with Burma and India. 16th Century cartographers and Magellan straighten this out.
NOTE: Chryse is associated with China just as The Periplus places it Southeast of China and so does Dionysius the Tourist. This is consistent. Argyre beside the Ganges is still consistent with the view of that era
which placed Ganges in Indochina essentially.
NOTE: These islands do not exist in India by the Ganges. They were reporting the Ganges next to China in error which
became clear as they were missing an entire land mass in Burma, Malay Peninsula and all of Indochina. No surprise
in an age where they were no longer travelling that far yet. Magellan and the 16th century cartographers remedy this.
NOTE: Mela is far more specific in identifying Chryse and Argyre. He is placing Chryse by China specifically so any view he meant the Malay Peninsula is fraudulent deduction. He says Chryse is an island
and he knew the difference between a Peninsula and an Island. He NEVER says Chryse is a Peninsula.
Suarez is committing fraud to apply such reason inaccurately. Pliny also NEVER says Chryse is a
Peninsula as he commits the same fraud there stretching the reference when he even admits Pliny says
Chryse is an island multiple times yet we are to believe that Pliny the great Geographer did not know
the difference between a Peninsula and an island. He most certainly did. This is British propaganda not
relaying facts in interpretation accurately. Mela continues in identifying Argyre next to the Ganges but
in the perspective that both isles are placed between Colis (Malay Peninsula Tip) and Tamus (China)
which Suarez agrees but then ignores. The Islands between the Malay Peninsula and China are called
the Philippines. Suarez then goes back to India in confusion when in the directions, Mela is in the South
China Sea just as The Periplus and Dionysius relay. Certainly, Suarez was smart enough to know this
but this is propaganda which ignores such reason. Again, the reason Argyre is associated as beside or
really East of the Ganges is because it is but it is not right next to it. Mela omits the entire Malay Peninsula, Burma and Indochina. We have centuries of history and the islands Mela is discussing were not found
next to the Ganges, they are found right where Mela tells us they were and maps agree. They are found
in the Philippines. One cannot ignore the mindset of this era. Suarez and other especially British authors
do ignore this. See our maps with this 1st Century mindset following in 17, 18 and 154.
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cont.’d
16. 2. “Pomponius Mela, Chorographia Bk II, from Pomponius Mela’s Description of the World.”
Translated by Frank E. Romer. University of Michigan Press. 1998. Sections 3.67-3.71.
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