Queen Isabella & Columbus

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This paradise mythology was very influential and far reaching, and it shows itself sometimes in perhaps unexpected domains. Christopher Columbus, a man who ws very familiar with maps and had once made a living of their trade, also thought that he approached the earthly paradise on his third voyage. While he cruised near the estuary of the Orinoco in Venezuela, he firmly believed he had finally reached the mouth of a paradise river.

Holy scripture testifies that Our Lord made the earthly Paradise in which he placed the Tree of Life. From it there flowed four main rivers: the Ganges in India, the Tigris and the Euphrates in Asia, which cut through a mountain range, and fro =m Mesopotamia and flow into Persi, and Nile, which rises in Ethiopia and flows into the sea at Alexandria. I do not find and have never found any Greek or Latin writings which defnitely state the worldly situation of the earthly Paradise, nor have I seen any world map which established its position except by deduction. ~ Page 310

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