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The
Truth About His Secret Double-Agent Role is Currently Available Only in
the Portuguese Language Book: O Mistério Colombo
Revelado. No English Version is yet published. We continue seeking
a major worldwide publisher. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This chapter is an older version that does not include yet more discoveries and documents that we have located pointing to the fraud of Columbus's history. Unfortunately all of the evidence is in the Portuguese version of the book and has not yet been translated therefore we leave here only part of the story. Chapter 1
The Man, The Myth and The Mission
This
journey of discovery has led to a chase of the illusive truth in seven
different countries from which we can distill the facts of a conspiracy
of lies that is much larger in scope then anyone could have imagined.
Everyone around this man, from kings to friends, lied about his true
identity. For five hundred years there have been historians inventing
details, forging documents; and countries maneuvering against one
another in order to claim this Colombo because of the political and
economic investments that were at stake. It quickly
became apparent that the life of this man cannot be looked at merely as
misinterpreted history, but as a crime scene that involved many
accomplices. There were so many lies and deceptions that it is hard to
tell the facts from the fiction. Therefore, his life must be researched
as a detective solving a crime by checking every bit of the story and
turning every stone rather than accepting as historians have done, the
accomplices’ cover-up as the truth. Though this book will grow increasingly more complex as we cover five hundred years of deceptions, we felt it was appropriate to begin presenting these events of the late 15th century in the same manner of our research - by looking at the mystery surrounding the man first. This, of course, will necessitate an early attempt to separate what we know and what is myth woven purposely to obscure the truth. Finally, we will take an introductory glance at the deceptive Mission of India, in which Colon played an important role.
COLUMBUS THE MAN In the year 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue…
and the rest is history, or so it seems! The first confusion concerning the name
Christopher Columbus from the Italian Cristoforo Colombo – the version
most recognized in English-speaking countries – is that it is a
mistranslation of his chosen name of Cristoferens
Kolon, see Figure 1-1. The name “Christopher Columbus” is rarely
used in other countries because the discoverer is called Don Cristoval Colon. The Spanish often call
him Cristóbal, due to their common tendency to swap the b and v. The
1488 letter of Portugal’s King João
II (John II), however, clearly reads
“Cristoval” as does Colon’s own Book of
Privileges (Figure 1-2). To keep the book as easy to follow as possible
we must simplify the discrepancy of which name to use. We will not use
Christopher Columbus because he never used this name. He never wrote
down his name he always used the cryptic signature “XpoFERENS ./” when signing his letters as shown in
Figure 1-1. We will use Don Cristoval Colon as the closest form of his
chosen name “Xpoval Colon” as on his own Book
of Privileges. This is also closer to the name Don Cristóbal Colón used today in Spain. The name -“Colon" is also what
Pope Alexander VI called him in 1493. Colon’s cryptic signature brings us to a greater confusion concerning his name, and ultimately, the tip of a huge mystery that changed our simple fact-finding search into a multi-year journey of discovery. There is nothing signed by Colon where he writes out his chosen name instead of this spy-like signature. It is as if James Bond is writing simply 007 and those people “in the know” knew exactly what he meant.
The
top three lines of code in his signature, “.S., .S. A
.S., X M Y,” have not been successfully deciphered to this day. On
the
lower line, Colon used two dots (:) – what was termed in old writing
the
perfect separator or colon – and on the right side the period (.) and
slash
(/), the imperfect separator or semi-colon. This semi-colon symbol (./)
kolon,
meaning member in Greek, was his chosen last name
(;) Colon. Between the colon and semi-colon is his
chosen first name XpoFERENS. Xpo (read as Christo) is Greek for Christ
and
FERENS is a tense of the Latin verb fero, loosely
meaning to ferry, to bring, to carry, or to bear. We believe the best
translation of his chosen name meant “Christ Going
Member” but member
of what? In
Colon’s time in Iberia there were a few religious Military Orders of
Monks and
Knights. Most famous nobles belonged to one or several of these orders
(See
Chapters 7 – Military Monks and 8 – Christ Going Members). Colon’s
father–in-law, Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was a member of both Santiago and
of the
Ordem de Cristo, and Bartolomeu Perestrelo’s in-laws (the
Mendonças) were
members of Santiago. Colon was a frequent visitor to this order’s
monastery as
his son tells us “el monasterio de Todos los Santos,
donde el Almirante iba de ordinario a misa” –– “the
Monastery of All Saints, where the Admiral ordinarily went to mass.”
“Todos os Santos” was the Monastery of the Ordem de Santiago and King
João
II was the Master of Santiago and therefore leader of this Militia. We
are all
familiar with Al-Qaeda these days as an Islamic Military Order.
Likewise,
the religious orders of medieval times were driven by similar goals,
“till-death” allegiances, and with “cells” of influence scattered
throughout the known world We remind ourselves that this was not a
group of kids
out in their tree fort developing a secret handshake. These were
religious
militiamen who would put everything at stake for their cause. During
a time when one’s noble name and heritage was a vital commodity, it
would seem
foolish for a noble to volunteer to go into obscurity, but this is what
Colon
seems to have done. On his tomb in Seville was written “Non
confundar in aeternam –– “I will not be
forever confused.” We feel this is a very big clue indicating that
he
voluntarily agreed to change his name and be confused with another but
that at
some future date his real name and lineage was to be revealed as it
happened in
1692 (See Chapter 10 – The Mysteries of Prior Dom Tivisco). Why does
Cristoval
Colon assume a new name before arriving in Castile in late 1484 and
what secrets
do the code letters in his signature reveal? This cryptic signature is
only a
hint at the mysterious life of Colon. Amid
so much secrecy, what can we tell for certain about Don Cristoval
Colon? Did Don
Cristoval Colon actually take three ships offered to him by Queen
Isabel of
Castile and King Fernando of Aragon, after Colon’s seven-long-years of
persistence and great insistence, and sail across the the Atlantic in
1492? Yes,
of that there is no doubt. Did Don Cristoval Colon die in 1506? Again,
yes, but
there the certainties end. We do not even know for certain where he is
buried
today! What
we have discovered is that historians and history books, no matter how
hard they
argue, cannot back up with facts his true name, his nationality, his
date of
birth and real family, his motivation and patriotism – not even his
being the
first man to sail across the Atlantic Ocean to the New
World with the certainty that we have been taught. In actuality, the reverse is true. For every bit of documentation regarding the accepted details of the discoverer’s life, there is more documentation negating it. Historians have debated this issue for five hundred years, and most have wrongly decided that the Italian Cristoforo Colombo was the same man as Don Cristoval Colon, but the support for this accepted piece of the myth had many holes in it and was finally sunk in 2004 by forensic science.(1) Forensic and DNA science proved, just as some historians had insisted over the centuries, that Cristoforo Colombo was not Don Cristoval Colon. COLUMBUS THE MYTH For five centuries research, rumor and
rhetoric have kept the controversy of Don Cristoval Colon alive, yet
the certainties are still very few. Why? Why, when so many less
significant historical figures are so well documented, do Colon’s
identity and motives continue to baffle historians? The answer is
rooted in the initial deception by Colon and the power of the accepted
myth to influence how people interpret the evidence. It is interesting
to note that much of the evidence needed to understand the true Don
Cristoval Colon has been hiding in plain sight. It was often discarded,
minimized or explained away because it did not fit neatly into the
concept of a poor weaver’s son from Genoa, Italy. A quick restating of the elements of
the propagated myth of this Italian man Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher
Columbus in Latin) weaver\sailor may be helpful. They claimed Cristoforo Colombo arrived
on the shores of Portugal, penniless, in August 1476 after swimming
five miles from a sunken ship. Yet, three years later, around 1479, he
married a noblewoman named Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (a member of
Santiago) while coming from humble birth of wool-weavers and having no
schooling. This weaver\sailor named Colombo, they insisted, did not
know Italian and learned to read and write in Portugal at age 25. That
he not only learned Portuguese, but, Castilian and Latin in his short
eight-years there. The myth continues that Portugal’s King João
II rejected his idea to sail west to India, instead of around Africa,
as João II’s navigators were attempting. So, in late 1484, angry
after getting rejected and backstabbed by this king, he secretly
arrived in Castile, Portugal’s only competition and only enemy,
and began pushing his agenda of reaching India by West to Queen Isabel.
After seven years of persistence he was
granted the ships in 1492. He successfully reached land in October
1492, which this weaver\sailor Colombo mistakenly believed to be India.
He returned to Spain in March 1493 and sold the belief to those in
Europe of having found India at 1,000 leagues West. Colombo, they say,
died still wrongly believing he had reached India. Furthermore, some
historians write that the “Non confundar in aeternam” means "Let
me not ever be confounded," and was Columbus’ last attempt at
telling the world he was not confused that America was India. Our research, however,
shows a much different story. This weaver\sailor Cristoforo Colombo has
nothing to do with the nobleman Don Cristoval Colon other than having a
similar name. . . . A Well-Woven Fable ––
There are many strands of misleading facts that have been woven by
historians into the complex fable of a Christopher Columbus passing for
Cristoval Colon. Let us take a first look at this Columbus myth and
discuss the different ways people have added to its growth. The seeds
of this confusion were sown when Colon assumed a new name years before
he sailed in 1492. In 1486 there were already problems writing his
correct assumed name and rumors about his real nationality as being
Portuguese (see Chapter 2 – The State of Affairs of The States). Colon
himself helped to create the dark cloud of ambiguity that surrounds him
by employing his secret-spy-signature and his many lies. Regardless of
what other historians have written, Colon never admitted his
nationality or the identity of his real family. In the court case
following his death witness after witness was unable - or unwilling -
to pinpoint his real nation of birth - or his real family. His contemporaries added to this confusion, some
intentionally, others unknowingly through their own error, or by
Colon’s manipulation of the facts.(4) One illustration of the confusion
regarding Don Cristoval Colon’s name
is the following propaganda announcement of his discovery that was
dispersed throughout the known world, written in Lisbon, in March 1493,
see Figure 1-3. Many versions of this letter were printed and
distributed. The page below from one of these propaganda letters
printed in 1494 clearly shows a misprinting of the name Colom as Columbo in the Bishop’s added epigram to
Colon’s letter. This error was most likely typographical and unintentional. It has
profound implications, however, as to the meaning and source of his
chosen name. How could it happen? The name “Colon” was being used by Don
Cristoval as a rare surname, and writers did not know how to interpret
it, although the surname “Colom” with m had been used in
Catalonia, and Colona/Colonna(5) was used in Portugal and Italy.
Interpreters of his last name have used Colomo, Colom, Colyn, Colin,
Colon Collon, Coullon, Columo, Colmo, Colõbo, Colomb as well as
Colombo, Columbus and Columbo.
...
Vlisbone, pridie ydus Marcii. Christoforus Colom Oceanice classis Præfectus. Epigrâma. R. L. de
Corbaria Episcopi Môtispalusii ... Vnde repertori merito referenda Columbo Gratia… –– Lisbon, the day before the Ides of March [March 14th, 1493] Christoforus Colom, Admiral of the Ocean Fleet. Epigram of R. L. de Corbaria, bishop of
Monte Peloso ... Then to Columbo, the true finder, give due thanks… This
letter was a propaganda ploy sent by Colon from Portugal to put
pressure on Spain. What should have been kept as ‘a secret of
discovery’’ of lands to the west and revealed only to the kings of Spain instead spread like wildfire, and along
with this, either unintentionally or on purpose, was spread the wrong
name of Colon as Columbo. Columbus is Latin,
Colombo is Italian, Pombo is Portuguese, Colombe is French Colom is Catalan All of these translate to "dove” or “pigeon" but none of these were the name of the discoverer. The name he
chose
to use, as will explain below, was "Colon" as in "member". Soon the
confusion increased as his chosen name, now misrepresented by the
public media, metamorphosed from the Greek Kolon, meaning member, to the Latin
Columbus meaning male pigeon or dove.<>
Remember also that Pope Alexander wrote the discoverer's
name on three letters and these letters were written in Latin, however
the name
there is always Colon and not the Latin Columbus.
Many historians,
taking this corrupted name as Cristoforo Colombo and following what
looks to be credible evidence, have found that one Cristoforo Colombo
was the uneducated son of a wool carder/weaver in Genoa and wrongly
attributed to this Colombo the great deeds of Colon. Once the Colombo
yoke was fitted to Colon it was impossible to be removed,...
RESEARCH SENSITIVE TEXT DELETED. COLUMBUS THE
MISSION What was
his mission? Don Cristoval Colon spent seven years, from
1485 to 1492, on a single-minded-task to convince Queen Isabel of
Castile that
he knew a shorter route to India. Castile, however, was not interested
in
sailing to India and was certainly not seeking someone to lead such an
expedition. Nonetheless, Colon tried to get this,
and only this, kingdom
to sponsor him: “To
serve [only] Your Highnesses I did not want to agree with France, not
with
England, nor with Portugal,
from which princes, Your Highnesses saw the letters...”(8) He
had shown Isabel letters from England, France and Portugal which
offered him
sponsorship. Wouldn’t any kingdom willing to sponsor him suffice? He
claims
that England, France and Portugal
had agreed to sponsor him. But, if he did
not want to agree with France, not with England, nor with Portugal, why did he contact those
kings? Did he contact them to pressure
Spain? All Colon needed was a few ships and a few men to give Castile
access to
India, India the richest known empire in the world. It took Colon seven
long
years to get a “yes”.
Why was he insistently pushing this enterprise on Castile when they
were
continuously turning him away? Furthermore India had never been a
Castilian
pursuit; Spain had never shown any interest in reaching India by sea.
They were
too busy trying to pacify their territories from Iberia to Italy and
recover
Granada from the Muslims. Yet Colon insisted that it must be Castile to
take on
this mission. What if Colon’s plan was not simply his passion for
adventure
and discovery and ennoblement as we have been told? What if
his true plan was to divert Spain west and protect
Portugal’s monopoly over the sea trade routes around Africa and the
future sea
route to the real India? When
viewed through the assumption that the mission was a planned
deception, the entire Colon experience, including the facts previously
treated
as mistranslations or insignificant, begin to make sense. It becomes
clear, as
the evidence shows, that Colon spent the next thirteen years, from 1493
to 1506,
saying that the New World he had discovered was India
when he knew it wasn’t India. These
were not the actions of a confused sailor as historians
have written. Historians
always knew Don Cristoval Colon came from Portugal, that he was married
there,
and that his son the future Admiral was born there. They also knew that
he
wrongly named the Americas “India.” Until now, however, no one has
seriously
examined the close relationship between Colon’s insistent proposals to
Queen
Isabel; the mission of Portugal’s crusading military orders, like
Santiago and
Ordem de Cristo-;, the state of turmoil between Portugal and Castile;
or the two
treasons by Queen Isabel and the Braganças aimed at killing King
João II, in
which Colon’s nephews and Queen Isabel actively conspired so she could
have
access to Portugal’s African Gold Trade routes. Furthermore, few writers have understood the high importance to Portugal and the Ordem de Cristo over this monopoly of rich trade with the West African territories to both kingdoms, one of which, Castile, was continuously denied access due to Portugal’s insistent African trade policies of exclusion mare clausum – the closed seas – begun by King João II’s grandfather the Regent Infante Dom Pedro in 1443(11) and which João II fought to maintain at all costs with spies, slyness, secrecy and steel. ./ ________________________ (*) See Discovery Channel documentary "Columbus: Secrets from the Grave"
** Secret Letter to Cristoval Colon by Portugal’s King D. John II from Avis, 20th March 1488 (+)
Who
was Christopher Columbus? XpoFERENS ./ Request Notice of English Publication The Voyage Will Continue at: ___________________________ . / ___________________________ Christopher Columbus, his new voyage is only beginning! ./ |
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