This book is mental.
Portolan atlas 1540 is as beautiful as they come. Strange beings, means of travel from the farthest stretches of your of your imagination, giants, dragons, kings, and sea beasts.
The photo above is “terra java” or modern Australia, eastern shore.
Some pages I couldn’t believe my eyes, maybe perhaps not wanting to when I saw what looks like an island off the west coast of Australia that I interpreted as beings that eat other beings. Add a “t” to “gean” and we have “island of giants” in latin, but I couldn’t be certain. Even as gruesome of a tale, cartographer Nicholas Vallard, who made this book, still had my admiration.
I’ve heard about these beasts being depicted all over were real not myth. But some say that they were imagined or invented to ward off competitors to get the best trade routes. Ancient conspiracy, can’t get enough of it.
References:
HM 10. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Full credit to @tartariantalisman, only on Instagram.
English
WOW !!! TRUTHS !!! Happy to see !! I am just Blown Away by All the Truths I’ve been seeing since finding this Whole Site of Tartarian Truths (it makes me mad/perturbed that Spell Check keeps putting the red line under the spelling Tartarian!!!) I’m MORE Mad about All these Truths being kept from us or Hidden All these centuries. I Now know what a Nightmare I use to have when I was a small child was Really All About now.