The God Culture: Columbus Rebuked Marco Polo and the Great Khan Part 2

It appears Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture has decided to finally respond to the criticism made against him on this blog. However, he has not responded by correcting his mistakes. Instead he is doubling down on his lies. Tim claims Columbus rebuked Marco Polo for not calling Zipangu Ophir. This is an outright lie as I proved in a previous article. Here is Tim's response.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK_iDwUHcRA0h_TdUHP8zwg/community?lb=UgkxnLZUMdVjX5veu7gk6NoxWEEFXGz24vt3

Columbus Rebuked Marco Polo for not telling people the Chinese Zipangu, for which Japan was named by colonialists in fraud, was the same location as Ophir! Wow! We cover this in Garden of Eden Revealed: The Book of Maps and the Video Series with correct source in both and it is accurate as it is right there on p. 210 as specified. It was said that Columbus never wrote that except, OOPS!, he did. 

Jesting aside... This is monumental! Columbus equated Ophir and Zipangu and this is why so many maps draw Zipangu as essentially Luzon Island, Philippines. Review the maps in the series and the book. Note: The Japanese do not call their country by that name but Nihon or Nippon and they did not make up that erroneous claim, the British did. Yah Bless.

Hayna = Cipangu = Ophir

If Only Bloggers Could read... Oops Failed Again!

Rather than prove I am wrong Tim has merely restated his error. 

The source for this quote is Washington Irving's book The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus.

https://archive.org/details/lifevoyagesofchr00ir/page/210/mode/2up

Encouraged by the interest with which the sovereigns listened to his account of his recent voyage along the coast of Cuba, border, as he supposed, on the rich territories of the Grand Khan, and of his discovery of the mines of Hayna, which he failed not to represent as the Ophir of the ancients, Columbus now proposed a further enterprise, by which he promised to make yet more extensive discoveries, and to annex a vast and unappropriated portion of the continent of Asia to their dominions. 

Tim claims this citation is saying Columbus said Marco Polo and the Great Khan failed to represent Cipangu as Ophir. However, there is nothing about Cipangu in this paragraph. Neither are Marco Polo and the Great Khan mentioned. What is mentioned is Columbus giving his account of "his discovery of the mines of Hayna." It is Columbus who "failed not to represent as the Ophir of the ancients" these mines as he related his travels to "the sovereigns", i.e. the King and Queen of Spain. This is not an account of Columbus rebuking Marco Polo and Kublai Khan for concealing the location of Ophir. 

It is simply mind boggling that Tim reads this paragraph so wrong. It is very clearly about Columbus and not a rebuke of Marco Polo. "If only bloggers could read?" The irony is palpable as it is Tim who is reading the text incorrectly. 

It is also not true that Columbus wrote the text Tim is citing. This is a biography written by Irving Washington. How do you cite a source and not know who wrote it? That is the fruit of being a horrible researcher who is simply not interested in the truth. 

If Timothy Jay Schwab wants to honestly respond to the criticisms on this blog he is going to have to do much more than restate his claim. He is going to have to prove his claim is true. In this case as in so many others his claim is a lie and he has not proven it to be otherwise.