You can watch it here at the blog or on YouTube. I filmed the footage during a visit to the site in April. Here I think the author gets carried away, giving readings with a tone of certainty which the evidence doesn't sufficiently substantiate.Balanced Rock in North Salem, New York was the subject of a post I made in July, one of two experiments with video so far. Since most of the inscriptions are short, context is of little help.
Most questionable are the translations of the supposed Ogam inscriptions.Įarly Ogam, like ancient Hebrew, displayed no vowels, so the reading of it is problematic.
Profusely illustrated, this book seems to make a strong case for its main claim, though many of the details of interpretation are debatable.
In addition to these physical traces there are other, less tangible, ones such as similarities between European and Amerindian languages. Fourth, and most importantly, there are the inscriptions on many of the stones and structures, most of which are in early the early Ogam script employed by the Celts. Third, there are shaped stones, again with European analogues, most of which have an association with fertility magic. Second, there are stone structures similar to ones on the European continent employed, apparently, for religious and calendrical purposes. Tin supposedly not being available in useable form in these areas, the bronze implies oceanic trade. First there are the bronze items found in Amerindian burial sites. There are physical traces of three types. The evidence for this claim is impressive. The focus is on the Celts, Celts ranging from the British isles to the Strait of Gibralter, Celts sometimes associated with Phoenician navigators. This, to me, was a rather incredible book given its author's claims that North America was regularly visited by Europeans during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
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