Q. Briefly, what is this presentation about?

A. We are all familiar with the geographical image we commonly refer to as the “Boot of Italy.” After considerable research, I’ve come to believe the ancients recognized many such geographical images and created stories telling of imagined interactions between those images. In this presentation, I reveal how the ancients interpreted geographical imagery to the extent that it became an established art form, and I reveal how remnants of that art form survive today in myth. I believe the implications of my discoveries may be significant in that much of what we have long held to be true involving the ancients and our heritage will be in question, which could have far-reaching effects.

Q. How old are the maps used in the presentation?

A. The maps I use in this presentation are modern and not ancient. Even the map of ancient Greece and the Aegean Sea that first spurred my interest in mythology was a fairly modern map with locations labeled with their ancient names. To avoid unnecessary visual distractions, I’ve removed non-essential labels from all the maps, and added lettering only where needed. Please note that although I use and often refer to flat maps in my presentation, the concepts I present apply to spherical maps, or globes, as well.

Q. Since ancient maps are not as accurate as modern maps, how could the ancients have possibly seen the images presented?

A. This is a reasonable question, and I, myself, would probably reject my thesis if it were not for the fact that while using modern maps, I’ve identified a multitude of geographical images that correspond closely to the details provided in ancient myths. I believe there are far too many correlations to be merely coincidence.

Since the figures I present are difficult to discern on known ancient maps, it seems probable to me that the ancients had, at least at one point in time, maps more accurate than those handed down to us. Furthermore, I have reason to think accurate maps may have been systematically destroyed for reasons I explain in Part 3 of the presentation.

Whatever their accuracy, it seems reasonable to believe that if the ancients did see any human-shaped figures in any maps, such sightings would have been considered most significant by any developing civilization eager to find answers to the basic questions concerning life and existence.

How could immense, human-shaped figures formed by, or born out of, the very earth itself never be considered gods, and how could such godly figures never be mentioned in any ancient myths, which we clearly know often involved the gods, many of whom myth tells us were born from Gaia, or Mother Earth? I believe my presentation shows that the ancients did, in fact, create gods and myths from geographical imagery.

Q. What makes you think the ancients may have created maps more accurate than those that have survived?

A. Aside from my belief that the many correlations that exist between ancient myths and accurate modern maps point to the ancients also having accurate maps, here is what I think, and this is mostly speculative.

As ancient civilizations developed and tried to satisfy the thirst for knowledge, they developed and studied astronomy, mathematics, medicine, geometry, hydraulics, physics, optics, and metallurgy, just to name a few areas of interest and advancement.

Using their knowledge and skills, they designed and built engineering marvels such as the pyramids at Giza in Egypt more than two thousand years before the Christian Era. I believe they also developed and used surveying techniques, such as triangulation, to map the earth.

Triangulation is not that difficult a concept and the ability to understand and use the triangulation method would surely have been within grasp of the ancients who could design and build projects like the Giza pyramids.

We know that modern maps developed quickly once the triangulation method was adopted for map making in the 1600’s. The ancients had many centuries to develop accurate maps. It was over two thousand years from the time the Great Pyramid at Giza was engineered and built to the time I believe those maps might have been systematically destroyed.

It looks to me like the ancients had ample time to create accurate maps along with the technical ability to do so if desired, and since maps would have, among other things, greatly helped ship navigation, safety, and efficiency to facilitate trade, there would have been the desire.

So, as the ancient’s maps developed, human-shaped geographical images began to be recognized. Significance began to be placed on those images. Interactions between the images began to be imagined and shared in myths. Religions developed as some of the various characters created from geographical imagery became revered as gods.

This process continued for some time. Map accuracy increased. New images emerged and new myths were created. New religions formed and conflicts between competing religions became common.

And then something happened, and the need to destroy every accurate map emerged. What could have possibly been the impetus for such a crusade against accurate maps? Part 3 offers an explanation as to what the impetus might have been.

Q. If accurate ancient maps were systematically destroyed as suggested, how is it that only inaccurate maps escaped destruction? Why didn’t any accurate maps also escape destruction?

A. There may be more than one reason for this apparent imbalance, but at this time I see the most plausible explanation is that the destruction of accurate maps may have been part of a well-organized, persistent crusade and a few inaccurate maps were simply disregarded and survived the purge.

While it might seem implausible that a crusade of this magnitude would have been carried out for no good apparent reason, In Part 3, I offer what I believe may have been a very good reason.

Q. Don’t you think your ideas are a little far-fetched?

A. Look at the night sky and think of all the far-fetching the ancients did when they created the constellations. Is it really so far-fetched to think the ancients did the same with geographical imagery?

Q. Why can’t I see all the images you claim to see?

A. To not see some of the images is perfectly understandable and expected. Sometimes, squinting the eyes can help with the visualization. To see or interpret some of the images in somewhat different ways is also perfectly understandable and expected. I believe my presentation shows how seeing and interpreting the same imagery differently gave rise to a variety of myths.

Q. How could this presentation possibly have a profound effect on the human race as suggested in Part 1?

A. I believe the implications of my discoveries may be significant in that much of what we have long held to be true involving the ancients and our heritage will be in question, which could have a profound effect on the human race. While such a suggestion no doubt seems absurd at first, there is a possible scenario I bring to light in Part 3 that might help justify this apparent overstatement.

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