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Well, I suppose my Algonquin isn't good enough to pursue my theses ...
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a time ago,(more than a year, less than 2) at a sad time, we had a poster, who posted a link to a virgina college.. where there was an oghram slab, about a buffulo hunt... (she became annoyed at goings on here, best left untalked about, and deleted all of her post.)-and it was apparently dated to the year 1100 or so...
in any case, there is some evidence that irish monks came to the americas, not to 'discover' and colonize them, but to convert them.. and finding an oghram carving in virginga, seems to hint it might have happened...more than once!
if one or two of these missionaries, had a scant (there used it!) knowledge of latin or greek, he might have named the potomac... many indean names were distorted to fit into english sounding words.. so my idea could be off the wall..
does anyone else remember the thread? or did any one save the url? (i think this was all below the fold..
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Thank you for this hint. I googled the combination: ogham virginia. It yields interesting pages on the controversy between over enthusiastic amateurs and cold minded archeologists about pre-Columbian artifacts. Were they native counting tables or Irish petroglyphs? Archeologists insist on the former. However we should remember that pre-Columbian european presence on America, that was officially dismissed 20 years ago, is more and more accepted.
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Okay--I finally got around to looking it up on the word list! Is this where the word potable also comes from?
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It could be the beginning of a hint that ancient Greeks and native Americans somehow knew each other.
I think you're on to something there, crealude! And then there's the Roman connection:
Seneca Nation: a tribe in the northeast US; part of the Iroquois League of Six Nations.
Seneca (Lucius the Younger): Roman playwright.
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So, senecanation is the act of writing Roman plays in Iroquois? Boy, bet there's a huge demand for those!
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