I’m trying to take the info on the site below with a grain of salt (he refers to Atlantis as an actual place) but there are some interesting theories on a phoenician presence in what is now Brazil. If any of you can separate the straight from the dopey please help. Here’s the link http://phoenicia.org/brazil.html
All I can tell you is that “the great Brazilian historian Rui Barbosa” wasn’t an historian. He was a politician (100 years ago).
Also note that the author is simply identified as a “Student of Archaeology, Porto Alegre, Brazil”. Put a title in front of his name or half the alphabet after it, and I might give him more creadance.
He’s a little off on the mechanics and timing of Andean orogeny as well. The general uplift of the Andes is a mesozoic event, an era that ended about 65 million years ago (well before any Phoenicians were anywhere) and were the result of subduction of oceanic crust driven by sea floor spreading, not the passing of a large celestial body beckoning the magmatic tides he mentions.
I didn’t get a whole lot further.
I thought they lived in Arizona!
Peace,
mangeorge
I only know two things;
I know what I need to know
And
I know what I want to know
Mangeorge, 2000
Two things wrong with the “study”. First, there is no other evidence of Austrian “professor” Mr. Ludwig Schwennhagen. The only reference to him that I could find, is the Phoenicians in Brazil site. In other words, not a strong source.
second, the author himself states,
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Plus, did you notice the dates of the books in the reference section? Dated 1945 and 1969, not to mention that “professor” is not cited. This report has as much crediblity as the report on UFO’s I wrote in the 5th grade.
If I was discussing Lucy Lawless but I wrote Lucy Topless, would that be a Freudian typo?
[aside]I usually don’t sweat my (typically minor) typos or whatever, but as long as I’m posting here again, substitute ‘was’ for both the ‘is’ and the ‘were’ in my previous post.[/aside]
In the absence of respondents who can find any trace of credibilty in the referenced site, I’m afraid we’re going to Cuba…
The OP spurs the additional question: Why do people cook up this bullshit? If you’ve wandered the 'net for any time at all, you’ve run into a few sites like this, where people have constructed alternate realities that are largely fantasy, but they enjoy weaving together sort of plausible sounding stuff (if you take it at face value - no, the Andes didn’t pop up 11,000 years ago). The whole UFO scene is full of this, as is the conspiracy world along with the new agers. Some, the scams, are not hard to understand. But others, those not selling redemption or seeking contributions, are quite difficult to understand, motivationally.
Are they just storytellers practicing their craft? Do they believe the tale they spin?
Quote: “Are they just storytellers practicing their craft? Do they believe the tale they spin?” I think there often has to be some money in it.
The guys in Great Britain who created the crop circles just did that for the giggles, for example.
Some guy in SA carved ancient Indians getting brain surgery into rocks, sold them, too. I think he had some people going for a while. May have carved in some flying saucers, too, or that could have been another guy. Money was produced for both of these efforts. ** Once begun this kind of fraud takes the time and effort of a real scientist away from something more worth while. And aren’t your pretty sure that all Phoenicians traveling to Brazil went off course and got stuck in the Bermuda Triangle? It is the masts from those ships that pierce the hulls of modern ships and boats. I’ll look up the cite, but if you send them a check they’ll send you a map–return post. 
Oh, I’m gonna keep using these #%@&* codes 'til I get 'em right.