Solomon's Treasure SOURCEBOOK - Book - Page 46
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THE SEARCH FOR KING SOLOMON’S TREASURE SOURCEBOOK
394
isle of pearl
palawan?
JAPAN IS FAR TOO BIG
AND OUT OF PLACE
AND NOT A MARKER
chryse=gold=ophir
Luzon
MASBATE?
panay?
samar?
BOHOL?
leyte?
isle of gold
& spices
argyre=silver=tarshish
maniola=manila?
mindanao
CEBU?
see 403
“A thousand years of Philippine history...” By Austin Craig. 1914. p. 1.
NOTE: Not only is Chryse beginning to take the geographic form of Luzon in 1492 on maps especially at the
top but Argyre appears the shape of Mindanao. Both are Northeast of Malaysia. That’s called Philippines.
SW of Luzon appears as Iloilo in shape. The writing to the right under Japan by a red island similar in shape
of Negros or Leyte is identified as an isle of Gold and Spices. Thilis, the famed isle of Pearl is above Luzon
likely inappropriately as it is more likely Palawan where the largest pearls are found. It was never Bahrain.
SW of Argyre/Mindanao the German text identifies the Magnetic Islands of Maniola. Ptolemy propagated a
legend that one could not travel with lead near these magnetic isles. Far more likely, this is a reference to
Manila and the many shipwrecks on the dangerous shoals in the South China Sea on the way there. Behaim
did not know where everything was but he knew Chryse and Argyre were in the S. China Sea NOT Malaysia.
Behaim corrects all of Ptolemy’s guesses in geography further to the East because they were not Malaysia
as knowledge increased. Magellan, Pinto, Barbosa and the Portuguese especially knew better.
394. A modern facsimile of Martin Behaim’s 1492 Erdapfel map. Behaim Globe (1492–
1493) Ernst Ravenstein: Martin Behaim. His Life and his Globe. London 1908. Public
Domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chryse_and_Argyre#/media/File:RavensteinBehaim.jpg
Further identifications at: http://digilib.ub.uni-freiburg.de/document/318545497/
