14 – Conclusions

In addition to correctly telling how the rivers flowed, what the mountains looked like, and which minerals were in each location, this Shan Hai Jing journey correctly placed the following, which are native to North America:

Chapter 2 Near Casper, WY

Chapter 3 Medicine Bow Peak, WY

Chapter 4 Longs Peak, CO

Chapter 6 Mount Princeton, CO

Chapter 7 Blanca Peak, CO

Chapter 10 Sierra Blanca, New Mexico

Chapter 11 Guadalupe Mountains. TX

Chapter 12 Baldy Peak, TX

Chapter 13 Chinati Peak, TX

In addition, the Chinese correctly named two locations where plants of Chinese origin (white mulberry and ailanthus) are found. What are the odds of someone across the Pacific who had never been to North America being able to do that? How can one explain the Chinese writing and all the Asian customs practiced by Native American tribes? We have now validated over 90 percent of what the Shan Hai Jing alleged was on this trip.

So if this trip was real, when was it?

My research only involves America and China. However, the Shan Hai Jing claimed journeys around the world. If the Chinese really did make it to North America at early dates, then all of world history should be re-examined. All those ancient Shan Hai Jing journeys could have been done using ocean currents that surround the globe.

Shang Civilization published by Yale University Press shows photos of Negroid, Caucasoid, and Eskimoid skulls unexplainably found in ancient Chinese graves.198 Did Chinese go to those regions and then take back slaves? The Shan Hai Jing, in discussion of another part of the world, mentions hippopotami, which one might assume would further imply that they went to Africa.

Furthermore, the style of ancient rock art found in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming mentioned in Chapter 1 is not only linked to Ningxia, China but reportedly is also found in Namibia, Africa, in Alta, Norway, and other locations around the world. Someone took it to those places. If not the Chinese, then who?

My friend Cedric Bell of the United Kingdom is doing research and has written a book (as of this writing not yet published) about evidences of ancient Chinese in the British Isles about the time of the Roman occupation of that area.

Please return with me to the round Chinese star charts with 28 spokes which I mentioned at the start of this book.

We all know that Stonehenge in the UK indicates equinoxes and solstices. Recently when viewing an aerial shot of Stonehenge, I noticed that the part of Stonehenge that we see in photos (the upright rocks with the mantles connecting them) is only the hub of a wheel. Outside of that, cut as a ditch into the ground, is another larger circle about 330 feet (100 meters) in diameter. Just inside the earthen bank to the ditch is a circle with 56 postholes.199 Is it possible that at one time at Stonehenge, those 56 posts were holding in position 28 spokes to the hub and that this was another Chinese astronomical device?

Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe wrote concerning the 56 holes: “Archaeological investigations have shown that these holes were not dug to hold upright stones or wooden posts.”200 Although the postholes are evenly spaced, he contends that the 28 day cycle of the moon can be tracked with those posts.

Computer rendering of Stonehenge - courtesy of Jlert Joseph Lertola

In The Asiatic Fathers of America my father expressed the desire that other researchers would “pick up the spade and dig deeper.” That is my sentiment as well. My abridgement of The Asiatic Fathers of America (148 pages) only covers a small part of what my father actually wrote (almost 800 pages). His original book needs to be studied in depth by serious scholars.

The History of Cartography, which the Library of Congress told me was the “Bible” on maps, states that over seventy two percent of the place names on world maps of the ch’onhado (tian xia) style are from the Shan Hai Jing. (That is the type of world map found in the Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr. Map Collection. This is the world map that started my father, then me many years later, on this quest.)

The History of Cartography confirms the: “general congruence of directional relationship between the Shanhai Jing and the ch’onhado.”201 Therefore, perhaps by using both the Shan Hai Jing and these world maps, the whole world can be re-examined in a new light.

For hundreds of years people have debated about whether the Shan Hai Jing was truth or fiction. Some have prejudices against re-examining history in that light. Some even have a vested interest – ethnic, religious, or academic – that the Shan Hai Jing be untrue.

There are numerous separate accounts in recent years of petroglyphs or ancient art purposely defaced, destroyed, or lost. The early Spanish priests purposely destroyed Native American writings, believing that they were of the devil. In A Critical Reprise of ‘Aboriginal’ American History, Dr. Covey stated: “U. Michigan destroyed over 5,000 inscribed tablets and figurines dug from Hopewill mounds in the Detroit area 1890-1920, assuming fakes on the premise that nobody in America could have been literate before Columbus.”202

In Secret Maps of the Ancient World I cited four pages of examples in which evidence of early visitors to America was purposely destroyed or defaced.203 I have since learned of even more documented instances.

In one case, clay tablets with writing on them found in a cave in Texas in the 1960s were turned in to a park ranger. Some clay tablets in museums are over 4000 years old. However, later when someone asked to view those Texas tablets they were no longer there. One account was that they lay on the floor of a maintenance shed for months. The tablets were moved around the shed until they disintegrated.

Some institutions do not properly protect artifacts. Others conceal information by ignoring or refusing to discuss it. The longer we wait, the more evidence will be gone forever. Secrets exist when information is withheld or clues are ignored.