Peru Hope

The connection between Egypt and Peru

As a boy I read the book Kon Tiki. It recounts the adventure of a guy with a raft who was trying to prove the people of Peru discovered, or settle Easter Island. My friends and I made rafts in different places. It’s really not that hard to do, and it kind of makes sense that if a group of people explored for a decade or two there would be a way to cross the oceans. What also made sense was that in a million years of men wandering the planet some connection could be made between Africa and South America.

I figured this out as a boy, but even today it seems like a point of discussion with most people.

OK, Egypt may be a reach, but West Africa seems a pretty safe bet. There are currents that can carry a raft into the Barbados Islands, Antilles, Haiti, and Bahamas. I picked Peru because of the Kon Tiki book, but if you look at the terrain of North Africa and Peru I can see where some travelers may get the two confused. There are a lot of similarities to me.

Of course my research is just my own opinions. There have been many times I have asked, or have spoken with archaeologists, but it seems to me every body wants to keep their little corner of the world to themselves. The migration of populations seems confined to the Bedouins in Africa and the Great Plain tribes of North America. Maybe archeologists are just happy to be digging in one piece of dirt for a life time.

What I know is there are pyramids all over the Yucatan and in Peru. There are walls of friezes, and paintings of red men. There are similarities to Egypt, and architecture similar to Africa. The faluka boats made of reeds from the Nile are the same design as in Peru.

What if, for thousands of years before there was an England, or Spain, that great civilizations conquered the entire earth? What if North and South America were never really discovered or conquered and we are just guests of a greater society? It makes sense to me that we need to take more care in our relationships with each other. One of my hopes is to elevate the way we think about each other.