“It has been hidden from the Japanese government in1 modern times just as it was in ancient tunes, for in olden days such a map would have been destroyed by the authorities. “The map was found by my brother in a Japanese temple in the mountains of Japan,” said Dr. The map is drawn on the principle of the Mercator Projection showing the North Pole as the center of a circle in which arc the continents of North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Kobayashi, the well-known Japanese physician and surgeon of Honolulu, has received a copy of the map, which he believes to have been made by Chinese priests ten centuries ago. It is a map of the world made 1000 years ago. ![]() Stranger almost than the “Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder” is the copy of a map which came across seas to Honolulu from a Buddhist Temple in the mountains of central Japan. Like the Zeno Map, the original was also allegedly rotten with age, explained by a mysterious ancient letter unseen by anyone else, and it also serves to glorify the geographic areas connected to its “discoverer.” In this case a Japanese resident of Hawaii found a map in Japan that was ignorant of Madagascar, Greenland, and Polynesia but somehow managed to include Hawaii front and center! As with those maps, this one is also a redrawn modern copy of an allegedly ancient map unseen by anyone. But as critical readers will notice, the story has more than a few hints of the Zeno Map and Zena Halpern map stories. ![]() It comes to us from the Januedition of the Hawaiian Gazette and alleges to be a map of the world made in Japan more than 1,000 years ago. Even ancient astronaut theorist Klaus Dona weighed in. Today, let’s take a look at an article that’s been making the rounds of Flat Earth believers. After a long week of a heavy subjects, I thought that something lighter might be in order for Sunday.
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