By BrokenEyeReborn
01/31/2021 - 22:33:52
Type: Spaceship
Rating: 0.71 (Not rated)
Tags: artifact, atlantean, atlantis, baal, barry fell, brazil, figure, gaprop, hercules, hittite, hoax, lost city of z, melqart, minoan, percy fawcett, phoenician, pre-columbian contact, pseudohistory, real life, south america, statue, statuette, tanit
Description
Looking more like a papier-mâché prop from a cheesy Italian sword-and-sandal flick than a genuine ancient relic, this bassalt figurine of dubious origin was given to British exporer Percy Fawcett by his freind H. Rider Haggard (best known as the creator of the fictional adventurer Allan Quatermain) in 1925. Based on the questionable insights of a psychic medium, Fawcett came to believe that the idol was created by ancient priests who had escaped the destruction of the mythical city of Atlantis by fleeing halfway across the world into the jungles of Brazil. The idol was on his person when he, along with his grown up son Jack, vanished without a trace during their ill-fated 1925 expedition in search of that final Atlantean outpost which he called the Lost City of Z.
As if that wasn't crazy enough, American marine biologist and pseudoarcheologist Barry Fell would later opine that the idol was in fact a relic of a fictitious Minoan-Hittite expedition to the Americas two thousand years before Colombus, and depicted a priest of the Canaanite god Baal dedicating a temple of the Roman hero Hercules to the Phoenicians god Malqarts and Tanit.
By alcamie
Wow! R
By Spudorama
This is a really amazing structure! R