sounds interesting ,
I have often wondered why nobody has yet tried to recreate the westward journey as described in the older versions of the ancient Egyptian pyramid texts , I understand most people assume this journey was only symbolic and indeed it seems to have become impossible once the rains deceased '' about'' 4000 years ago , but having examined the text and the route thy describe it is in my opinion a real journey westward , over land and water , to a point where the sun rises , east of Egypt , I have examined the landscape of the period when the pyramids first document this journey , 5000 years ago it was much wetter in the deserts , and combined with increased river flow , using ocean currents and wind the journey as described in the Egyptian pyramid texts was easily possible
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/ocean_currents_1943.jpg
The
Book of the Dead is the modern name of an
ancient Egyptian funerary text, used from the beginning of the
New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC.
[1] The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated
rw nw prt m hrw[2] is translated as "Book of Coming Forth by Day".
[3]
Another translation would be "Book of emerging forth into the Light".
The text consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead
person's journey through the
Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife. The
Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier
Pyramid Texts and
Coffin TextsDespite draining into the Caribbean Sea, the Pacific Ocean is near enough to be seen from the mountains of
Ometepe (an island in the lake).
Before construction of the Panama Canal, a stagecoach line owned by
Cornelius Vanderbilt's
Accessory Transit Company connected the lake with the Pacific across the low hills of the narrow Isthmus of
Rivas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nicaragua
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IMHO its easy to imagine the journey as described '' was a real trip '' , that the ANCIENT EGYPTIANS made , or could have easily made , to the other side of the planet during the wetter period that then prevailed . Once you actually ''start looking'' , the actual evidence that they did indeed regularly sail around the globe , and recorded this journey withing the ancient text , slowly emerges , actually sailing due west from Abydos across the present deserts to emerge via the Niger river into the Atlantic , then crossing the americas via lake Nicaragua . all the while simply following the natural currents like many ''solo sailors '' do today
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/ocean_currents_1943.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_Boats_%28First_Dynasty%29_%E2%80%93_Abydos
The
Neolithic Subpluvial — sometimes called the
Holocene Wet Phase — was an extended period (from about 7500-7000 BC to about 3500-3000 BC) of wet and rainy conditions in the
climate history of northern Africa. It was both preceded and followed by much drier periods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Subpluvial