COLUMBUS SECRET CODES
Here I leave some riddles about the famous navigator Don Cristóbal Colón that should make you think...
The navigator didn't know how to write Italian, he tried to write in two notes but made so many mistakes that you could understand that he didn't know what the Italian or Genoese language was... he didn't even know that EU in Italian would be IO and not YO as he wrote... .
Del ambra es çierto nascere in India soto tierra, he yo ne ho fato
cavare in molti monti in la isola de Feyti vel de Ofir vel de Cipango, a
la quale habio posto nome Spagnola, y ne o trovato pieça grande como
el capo, ma no tota chiara, saluo de chiaro y parda, y otra negra.
(Amber, it is true, grows in India in the land of the densest forest, and I had them there to dig in many mounds in the island of Haiti or Ofir or Cipango, to which I had given the name of the Española, and there I found a piece as big as a head, but not entirely clear, instead light and brown, and another black.)
These are the non-Italian words: es çierto, tierra, yo, pieça, como, el, y, parda, otra, negra.
From the note above, we can confirm that the navigator didn't even know how to write a word as important as "I" in Italian, having opted for the Spanish YO." -- PORTUGAL E O SEGREDO DE COLOMBO (Alma dos Livros, 2019)
The navigator wrote in 1493 that Portugal was "my land" (minha terra) and never said that he was Genoese, or that he was born in Genoa, he never said that anywhere.
The navigator was called COLÓN in Castile and was NEVER called "Colombo" nor "Columbus". Columbus was a name given to him by others. Columbus is a name that the navigator NEVER used for himself anywhere.
The navigator signed his name with a cryptic acronym to hide his past and sometimes placed a monogram on the left that appears to be an S.
Rumeu de Armas notes that there were five people involved in that 1487 payment,
because in addition to the almoner Pedro de Toledo, his note mentions the Queen
“Your Highness ordered me in person.” He also says that Doctor [Rodrigo
Maldonado] Talavera was present and that it was Alonso de Quintanilla who paid
the Portuguese. Yet, there was still the involvement of Friar Hernando de
Talavera. All five of them understood who the anonymous Portuguese was that
Pedro de Toledo referred to.
The fact that five people at the Castilian court accepted the future Viceroy to be a
Portuguese national in 1487, and simultaneously understood why he needed to remain
anonymous, makes the mystery much more complex.
Why would Queen Isabel assist this mysterious Portuguese (who was there “doing
certain things for our service,”)563 in concealing his true identity from us?564 Why would
the court later decide to refer to him only as foreigner? (COLUMBUS versus COLÓN, 2024)
In 1488, King D. João II wrote him a letter in Portuguese addressed to "Xpovam Colon, Our special friend in Seville". In this letter the king says that the navigator is at his service and that he will be paid very well. He calls him industrious, ingenious and very necessary for him to come to Lisbon immediately.
The navigator goes to Lisbon and meets with D. João II and Bartolomeu Dias, reviewing a map of the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope. - Why did D. João II want to show this discovery to the navigator?
In February 1477, the navigator sailed to Canada on a secret Portuguese voyage where he had the opportunity to measure the tides in the Bay of Funny, noting these immense 17 meter tides "twice a day".
Never letter written around 1500 to the kings of Castile said that he rejected offers from the king of Portugal, England, and France to keep the company of discovery just for Castile. The navigator wrote more times about these offers from the three kings, and in one of these letters he says that the queen saw the letters from the king of Portugal, the king of England and the king of France delivered to the queen by doctor Villalón.
It says that the offers from those three kings were neither small nor empty!
On his way back in March 1493 he did not go to Castile, but to Lisbon where he sought out King John II and showed him evidence of the lands where he arrived, lying to the kings of Castile that the reason for stopping in Lisbon was a storm.
He wrote to his brother Bartolomé in encrypted letters of unknown letters that the Castilians did not understand showing that brother Bartolomé was also highly educated.
He was nominated captain general of four fleets, leading hundreds of men, in charge of ships, routes, and procuring supplies.
After his death, the painter added these three secret images in his portrait inside the Alcazar of Seville that make us think, two palms(?) inside a crown, a pattern of three cut pomegranates placed in a triangle, and a crown hiding on his sleeve. Mysteries that the painter Alejo Fernández wanted to clandestinely pass on to the future.
