Who & Where | Antilles, West Indies, East Indies, Europeans, AmericansUnity Consciousness #2797

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Like John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt and pyschoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop, all geographic locations on this planet have had several names all smushed together in our memory. Many locations still have several names in current use. I heard the term “Antilles” two days ago on the weather channel and wondered what area this less frequently used term applied to. Every question is a potential entry into another rabbit hole. To not wonder or question not, is a snare outside the covert surface of the liar's lair we pass by unawares. Yesterday I heard the term “Leeward Islands” just as I was wrapping up my inquiry into the Antilles and connected information.

Though I started with the Antilles, I must explain my understandings starting with the West and East Indies, a bunch of Islands close to North, Central and South America. All these Islands are in the Caribbean Sea portion of the North Atlantic Ocean and are known by their individual names.
The West Indies and East Indies can be referred to as North Atlantic Islands but I doubt if this is used.
The West Indies and East Indies are also referred to as Caribbean Islands. Some of them have a group name such as “The Bahamas” or “The Caymans” or “Spaniola” (Hispaniola, Espanola).
The West Indies and East Indies are also referred to as “The Antilles.” Using this name, the islands are further subdivided into the Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles. Greater Antilles is West Indies is Leeward Islands are closest to North America. Lesser Antilles is East Indies is Windward Islands are the second half of islands further from North America. (Names & Their Histories, Taylor)
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The Indies also refers to India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and other mainlands and islands in the Indian Ocean and off the coasts of Asia. (Map) This is due to the confusion of many Europeans who had no clue as to the extent of India or Asia. To them, most of Asia was the Indies. At least some of them, including Columbus, thought the Americas were India and part of Asia.
Thus the term West Indies referred to all of the Caribbean Islands before they were divided into West Indies and East Indies.

East Indies also refers to Islands and mainlands in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean near East Asia. Another word for east or eastern is Orient or Oriental. This is why people in the East Indies are called Orientals which include many of those who are on the east coasts of Asia and are non-white. Thus an Oriental is an East Asian, i.e., an African living in East Asia. Even so, the term Orient or Oriental is also used to refer to Africa and Asia overall as opposed to the Western world of the Americas. Thus in this sense, white Europeans are Orientals, as are Africans and Semites and White Jews and Arabs and...
Another word for west or western is Occident or Occidental. Thus, if balance was used, people in the Americas should be referred to as Occidentals.

”Antilles is the English form of the Spanish name Antilias, which was given to the West Indies [the ones Columbus ran into and then Antilles was extended to include all of the Caribbean Islands] soon after their discovery. In the map of Toscanelli, drawn in 1474 CE, which Columbus had with him in his first voyage, we see marked in mid-Atlantic an imaginary island called Antilia, west of the Canaries [Canaries are islands off the northern coast of West Africa (specifically the southern coast of Morocco and northern coast of Western Sahara which was likely part of Mauritania)]. In the Portuguese map of Cantino, 1502 CE, the West Indies appear for the first time as “has Antilhas”, the Portuguese form of the Spanish name. (Names & Their Histories) A brief general search leads us to think the meaning of “Antilles” is uncertain. These references say Antilles is an imaginary or phantom island , statements which indicate a misunderstanding of the truth inherent in myth.
Another source says Antilles is also Antilia, Antillia, Atilae, Atulae, Aira, Ansodi, Con, Anhuit, Ansessali, and Ansolli, Septe Citade (Seven Cities), Sete Cidades, Septem Civates. (The Island of the Seven Cities, by William H. Babcock, Geographical Review, Feb., 1919 CE)
Based on this it is obvious the Antilles is related to the words Atalan and Atulan as names for the Seven Caves and the birthplace on the left hand side.

According to the American Universal Geography by Morse, Seventh Edition, Volume II, “The most authentic information concerning the knowledge of the ancients, is to be found in the geography of Ptolemy” [this is Claudius Ptolemy, a Roman born 100 CE in Egypt and who was a geographer among other things. He is not to be confused with the Ptolemies who were Greek and who were the top rulers in Egypt for a few hundred years. Claudius Ptolemy, would have had access to the extensive library in the city renamed Alexandria in lower Egypt] Morse goes on to say, “however, it appears probable that not above one quarter of Asia was known to the ancients, and this knowledge was little increased till Marco Polo, wh6se travels became well known in Europe in the beginning of the 14th century, established a memorable epoch in geography, by passing to China, and disclosing the extent of that country, the islands of Japan, and a faint intelligence [knowledge] of other regions.” [Obviously by “ancients” Morse is referring to white Europeans of the 332 BCE to 641 CE period. It is possible that the Egyptians hid information from the Greeks and Romans regarding geography due to Greek and Roman lust and bloodthirst to invade all lands. Obviously, Morse, writing in 1819 CE, was like most white Europeans of that time and current times who are hailed as experts and use their dedication to their asili and emergence out of their Medieval Middle Ages Dark Ages as the European beginning of Enlightenment which they try to claim as the first instance of Enlightenment for all humans. What we know today is that the time from the 1300's CE to 2022 CE has in no ways been a period of Enlightenment. It has been a representation and corruption of knowledge already known.]

Morse says, “the discovery of Asia, which had been nearly dormant since the time of [Claudius] Ptolemy, began to revive in the 13th century. Yet after the publication of Marco Polo's travels [circa 1350 CE], little was done for two centuries.” Morse refers to Christopher Columbus as a “man of great mental powers.” Taylor refers to Columbus in the phrase “the brilliant achievement of the great Genoese.” Christopher Columbus believed that Asia extended so far east that it was possible to reach the east coast of Asia by a short ship trip sailing west from Spain. Neither Marco Polo nor Columbus had any idea about the Americas, which is why, when Columbus stumbled upon Islands in the North Atlantic, he thought they were the West Indies because he thought he was close to India. Morse states, “In this erroneous idea, when that great man discovered the islands, now called the West Indies, he thought that he had arrived at the Zipango of Polo, or Japan: and thus the name of India was absurdly bestowed on those new regions.“ Also Columbus had no idea as to the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean and that there was such a thing as the Pacific Ocean.

For white Europeans, “Atlantic,” as the name of an ocean, is first mentioned by Herodotus, who tells us that the sea beyond the Pillars of Heracles is called the Atlantis ; or, as his words might be rendered, the sea of Atlas. [Pillars of Heracles are the two ends of the land of between Spain's southern tip and Morocco's northern tip. This is also called the Strait of Gibraltar. We know Heracles is Herakles is Hercules is Atlas is Moses is Joshua is Shu is Kepheus. Thus as Shu uplifted the Sky from the Waters and opened breathing room for creations between waters and sky, so also did Shu open up the world as a form of promised canaan land new world and new found land to white folks as johnnies and janies come late to the party who came to rape me as pretend friends with beguiling smiling faces and spread the hate of their European dis-ease they call peace and democracy] (Names & Their Histories, Taylor)

Caribee [now called Caribbean Islands] in the West Indies, were so called because at the time of the Spanish discovery they were inhabited by the Caribs, a native word meaning the ' fighters,' which was given by the more peaceful islanders to the fierce invaders from the South American coast. Columbus seems to have misheard the native term Cariba as Canica, and this served to confirm his belief that he had discovered the islands on the eastern coast of China, supposing they were subjects of the Great Khan (i.e. Genghis Khan) of Pékin. Columbus makes a journal entry that states, 'Caniba must mean subjects of the Chan, who must reside in the neighbourhood. ' The imaginary name Caniba was then transferred to the man-eating savages of South America, and the word cannibal, originally a corruption of carib as caniba, was derived from canis, 'a dog'. [The Caribbean Islands and the Americas were inhabited by Africans from various locations and Ages. At some point, Africans from South America came back to the Caribbean and invaded. Some Africans in the Americas were called Chan and Chanes and so were the Caribs. These were and still are the same people.] (Names & Their Histories)

Columbus thought the land now called Cuba was Zipangu (Japan). He observed the natives smoking certain herbs rolled up in dry leaves like cartridges, which they called tabocas. [Obviously the single plant called tobacco is not the same as the mixture the natives were smoking]
Columbus had with him a man named Luis de Torres, a baptized Jew who knew Hebrew, Chaldee, and a little Arabic. Columbus sent Torres inland to the main city of Cuba in order to interview the Emperor of Japan. (Names & Their Histories)
Compare this to the next entry from the same source that says, “West Indies is a name which perpetuates the misconception of Columbus, who imagined that Haiti was Cipangu (Japan), that Cuba was China, and that Costa Rica was Malacca. Hence he named the lands which he had discovered India Major, Greater India and las Indias Occidentales, 'the Western Indies,' to distinguish them from the East Indies [in the Indian Ocean] which Vasco da Gama had reached by sailing eastward round the Cape of Good Hope [at the southern tip of South Africa]. The term INDIANS has thus become established as the collective name of the Aboriginal American races. [as discussed elsewhere, despite the confusion of white Europeans, the term terms India, Indies and Indian are appropriate names for the Aboriginal American dark-skinned races because those terms stem from Africa, something which is still not understood by most people, especially most of the so-called experts] (Names & Their Histories)

The name of the WEST INDIES reminds us that Columbus imagined that the lands he had discovered were a part of India, while INDIAN ISLE, New Zealand, and INDIAN BAY in Australia, are a curious proof that Cook regarded as Indians the dark-skinned natives of New Zealand and Australia. (Names & Their Histories)
The term Indian was used for the natives of North America, who were also called AMERICANS, as in the well-known line of Wesley's hymn, 'The dark Americans convert.'[likely from Armorican]
[I now state the obvious. White people calling themselves Americans have adopted the name of black people or dark people or red people if you must. Americans are black people but is thought to originally mean white people.] (Names & Their Histories)