How the World Changes Over Time
The rest of the world, considered to be theOld World
includes Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. Here we can also
include what is known as the Middle East and the islands of
the Pacific. There was supposed to be absolutely no contact
with the New World also known as the Americas, until
Tim Serverin re-created the curragh of Saint Brendan made
of treated ox hideswhich floundered near Newfoundland and had
to be towed the rest of the way. Another sailor/biologist/
historian, Thor Hyerdahl built ships based on ancient texts
and tried to prove that there was contact through these
primitive vessels. The Ra, the Egyptian reed-boat
version, floundered in the Atlantic. The Kon Tiki, a balsa
raft, actually reached a Pacific island but wrecked on the
coral reefs. On the Asian side, Thor created a boat to
sail as Sinbad had sailed and arrived in Guangzhou (Canton)
China, but never crossed the Pacific Ocean. Even Kuno Knobl
attempted to sail a Chinese junk called Tai Ki) to America
(from Hong Kong) in 1974. Boat was patterned after river boat
model found in tomb of I A.D. He failed. It sank in the
Pacific Ocean after hurricanes and ship worms attacked it
(Knobl, Kuno, Tai Ki, Boston: 1975, Little, Brown and
Company. and Thompson, Gunnar, Nu Sun, p. 57.)
The Japanese and Chinese were correct in designating this
ocean as the
Sea of Death. (See the picture showing skulls around
a "magic" gourd used by a mythic creature. He is called Sun
Wu Kong, the Monkey King. He is in a very famous story
carried throughout Asia by the foreign T'ang Dynasty and
sometimes called "The Journey to the West." In countries
other than Japan and China, the story title changes and the
Monkey King becomes less important, while still a main
protagonist. Eventually, even he acquires a completely
different physiology and is no longer recognizable in his
original form.
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