Magos
23.09.10
As referências a Reis Magos (Gaspar, Melchior, Baltazar) levam-nos imediatamente ao registo do Novo Testamento, sobre o seu fugaz e misterioso aparecimento aquando do nascimento de Jesus Cristo. Seguindo uma estrela, encontraram o filho de Maria, e entregaram presentes na forma de ouro, incenso e mirra. Este é o registo bem conhecido que aprendemos desde crianças, notando ainda que em Espanha é no dia 6 de Janeiro que se distribuem os presentes natalícios.
As referências a Magos aparecem noutro contexto dos descobrimentos portugueses. Por exemplo, no Livro dos Três Místicos, a que tive apenas acesso a esta página:
Na obra de Francisco de Souza (1570) encontramos esta referência a uma ilha Santa Cruz dos Reis Magos, a oeste da Madeira:
A oeste da Ilha da Madeira 65 ou 70 legoas, está uma grande Ilha que se chama Santa Cruz dos Reis-magos, que tem de comprido trinta legoas, e de largo no mais estreito quinze legoas, e pola banda do sul está em 32 graos, e corre athé 34 ao norte, e corre-se noroeste susueste, e tem por todas as faces grandes Bahias e enseadas, grandes arvoredos, e Ribeiras, e boas agoas, como d'isto mais largamente tenho informações dos antigos, e se arruma pola maneira aquy posta em uma carta Franceza, que tenho onde está aluminada, e presumesse que tem gado.
Tal ilha não existe, e a melhor descrição para possível localização será na zona referenciada aqui, onde há assinaláveis baixios... a menos que a Ilha da Madeira fosse outra, ou que o livro tivesse uma especulação falsa, não censurada pela Inquisição.
Na Madeira, acabamos por encontrar afinal uma outra referência, à Praia dos Reis Magos, em Santa Cruz, é ainda na Madeira que encontramos o profundo Canhão da Calheta, tal como o Canhão da Nazaré.
No Brasil, na cidade de Natal, encontramos a Fortaleza dos Reis Magos, edificada em 1598:
Natal, Belém, Reis Magos, na mesma zona nordeste do Brasil, acabam por estar associadas na toponímia ao nascimento de Cristo... acidentalmente, ou não, já que as habituais explicações se mostram com a fortuitidade da cidade, ou do forte, ter sido erigido em data natalícia.
Ainda em Portugal, acabamos por ter uma antiga localidade pré-histórica, cujo nome Salva-Terra de Magos, tem origens desconhecidas, mas consta prender-se com uma origem associada a magos persas.
Continuando por essa associação persa, vamos aos antigos registos de magos, mais precisamente recuamos ao tempo de Zaratustra, e a Ka'ba-ye Zartosht:
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One of the sailors found an unusual arrowhead in the broken rock, a discovery that led the captain to send for picks adn shovels form the ship so that the crew could dig into the gravel. According to what he told a reporter from the Times Picayune in New Orleans, where he later docked, he and his crew uncovered "crumblig remains" of"massive walls." A variety of artifacts uncovered by diging near the walls for better part of two days included "bronze swords, rings, mallets, carvings of head figures of birds and animals, and two vases or jars with fragments of bone, and one cranium almost entire..." and "what appeared to be a mummy enclosed in a stone case... encrusted with volcanic deposit so as to be scarecely distinguished form the rock itself." At the end of the following day, much of which was spent getting the rock sarcophagus aboard the Jesmond, Robson now worried about unceratin weather, decided to abandon his exploration of the island and resume his course.
Several reporters examined Robson's unusual finds and were infomormed by him that he planned to present the artifacts to the British Museum. Unfortunately for Atlantian research, however, the log of the Jesmond was destroyed during the London blitz of September 1940, along with the offices of the Jesmond's owners. There is no record at the British Museum of their having received Robson's collection. Although it is possible that the artifacts are files in the capacious attics and basements common to all museums. Nor was the island ever heard of again, existing only in the sworn testimony of the captain and crew of the Jesmond.
There is, however, some corroboration of the incident:
Captain Robson was not alone in reporting the sighting of the mysterious island. Captain James Newdick of the steam schooner Westbourne, sailing from Marselles to New York during the same period, reported on arrival in New York having sighted the island at 25º 30' N, 24º W. Newdick's report appeared in the New York Post, April 1, 1882. If the coordinates given by both captains were correct, the mystery island would have measured 20 X 30 miles in area. The volcanic activity that brought an island of this size to the surface would have killed, probably through heating the oceanic water, an enormous quantity of fish, just as Captain Robson reported.
The miles of dead fish, fanning out from the area first reported by Robson, were also commented on by a number of other ship captains and appeared in a variety of newspapers including The New York Times.
Texto citado retirado daqui (http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/milkyway/190/jesmond.htm).
One of the sailors found an unusual arrowhead in the broken rock, a discovery that led the captain to send for picks adn shovels form the ship so that the crew could dig into the gravel. According to what he told a reporter from the Times Picayune in New Orleans, where he later docked, he and his crew uncovered "crumblig remains" of"massive walls." A variety of artifacts uncovered by diging near the walls for better part of two days included "bronze swords, rings, mallets, carvings of head figures of birds and animals, and two vases or jars with fragments of bone, and one cranium almost entire..." and "what appeared to be a mummy enclosed in a stone case... encrusted with volcanic deposit so as to be scarecely distinguished form the rock itself." At the end of the following day, much of which was spent getting the rock sarcophagus aboard the Jesmond, Robson now worried about unceratin weather, decided to abandon his exploration of the island and resume his course.
Several reporters examined Robson's unusual finds and were infomormed by him that he planned to present the artifacts to the British Museum. Unfortunately for Atlantian research, however, the log of the Jesmond was destroyed during the London blitz of September 1940, along with the offices of the Jesmond's owners. There is no record at the British Museum of their having received Robson's collection. Although it is possible that the artifacts are files in the capacious attics and basements common to all museums. Nor was the island ever heard of again, existing only in the sworn testimony of the captain and crew of the Jesmond.
There is, however, some corroboration of the incident:
Captain Robson was not alone in reporting the sighting of the mysterious island. Captain James Newdick of the steam schooner Westbourne, sailing from Marselles to New York during the same period, reported on arrival in New York having sighted the island at 25º 30' N, 24º W. Newdick's report appeared in the New York Post, April 1, 1882. If the coordinates given by both captains were correct, the mystery island would have measured 20 X 30 miles in area. The volcanic activity that brought an island of this size to the surface would have killed, probably through heating the oceanic water, an enormous quantity of fish, just as Captain Robson reported.
The miles of dead fish, fanning out from the area first reported by Robson, were also commented on by a number of other ship captains and appeared in a variety of newspapers including The New York Times.
Texto citado retirado daqui (http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/milkyway/190/jesmond.htm).
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