{"id":327,"date":"2009-12-21T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=327"},"modified":"2022-10-29T07:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T06:32:19","slug":"christine-pellech-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/christine-pellech-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Pellech, Christine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christine<\/strong> Pellech <\/strong>(1947- ) <\/strong>attained her Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in 1974. She is a trained ethnologist and an ardent diffusionist. She was \"Dr_Christine_Pellech_2\"<\/a>inspired by the work of Henriette Mertz<\/a>, who bravely suggested in Dark Wine Sea<\/em> that Homer<\/a>\u2019s Odyssey <\/em>was a description of a very early voyage from the Mediterranean to America. Pellech expanded on Mertz\u2019s theory in a book of her own[0640<\/a>]<\/sup>, in which she claims that the core narrative in Homer’s Odyssey<\/em> is a description of the circumnavigation of the globe in a westerly direction.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the book was only published in German, as are her other books on the subject. She has written a synopsis of her theory on the Atlantisforschung.de<\/a><\/em> website, which can be easily translated(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Pellech has published Die Entdeckung von Amerika<\/em>[<\/sup>1188<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup>(The Discovery of America)<\/em> in which she “<\/em>deals with the discovery of the Americas starting from Egypt via Asia across land and sea.”<\/em>(d)<\/sup><\/p>\n

><\/span><\/strong>In a review of her book by Dr Horst Frederick (1931-2015 he concluded “<\/em>The value of this new\u00a0<\/em>Pellech<\/em>\u00a0opus lies primarily in having shown beyond any doubt that both the\u00a0<\/em>Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0and the Argonautica contain such a quantity of evidence that only one conclusion can be drawn: far prehistoric, seafaring advanced civilizations have already had very precise geographical knowledge of the surface of our planet Earth<\/em>(h)<\/sup>.”<<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

However, Pellech has established an English language journal, Migration & Diffusion<\/em><\/a>, together with an associated website(a)<\/sup>. <\/b>In 2020, she added two papers to the M & D<\/em> website regarding Odysseus and ancient maps(f)(g)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Pellech\u2019s starting point are prehistoric maps drawn on cave walls in Spain and France(b)<\/sup> that have been dated to 12,000 BC, which she interprets as an indication of\u00a0early sea links between Europe and America. I am unaware that Pellech refers directly to Atlantis, but she does claim that the Caribbean had been the centre of an extensive maritime trading culture, millennia before Columbus. This idea has been used by Norman Frey <\/a>to underpin his theory of Atlantis having been located off the coast of Cuba<\/a> at the end of the Ice Age. In a joint paper(b)<\/sup> by Pellech and Frey they offer support for America as the location of Plato\u2019s Atlantis.<\/p>\n

Something completely different is offered by Pellech in a paper involving the Irish myth of Hy-Brasil<\/a>, a famous UFO incident and a Catalan map of 1375(e)<\/sup>!<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.migration-diffusion.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.migration-diffusion.info\/article.php?id=162<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Die_Odyssee_-_Eine_antike_Weltumsegelung<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.migration-diffusion.info\/article.php?year=2016&id=493<\/a><\/p>\n

(e) <\/sup>Hy Brasil (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/migration-diffusion.info\/article.php?year=2020&id=672<\/a><\/p>\n

(g) <\/sup>https:\/\/migration-diffusion.info\/article.php?year=2020&id=671<\/a><\/p>\n

(h)<\/sup> Christine Pellech: The Discovery of America, Vol. 1 (Review I) – Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christine Pellech (1947- ) attained her Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in 1974. She is a trained ethnologist and an ardent diffusionist. She was inspired by the work of Henriette Mertz, who bravely suggested in Dark Wine Sea that Homer\u2019s Odyssey was a description of a very early voyage from the Mediterranean to America. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7455,43,2259,3652,21,2392,37,475,123,7454,1729,4162,3946,2391,956],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agonautica","tag-america","tag-atlantis","tag-atlantisforschung-de","tag-caribbean","tag-christine-pellech","tag-cuba","tag-henriette-mertz","tag-homer","tag-horst-frederick","tag-hy-brasil","tag-last-ice-age","tag-migration-diffusion","tag-norman-frey","tag-odyssey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56792,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/56792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}