Monthly Archives: October 2020

The turning Fortuna Wheel was spinning wildly. For the pseudonymous “Christopher Columbus” the indications for his proposed third voyage were erratic. It looked good… It looked bad… It looked good… Suffice it to say, there were complications. Spain’s King Ferdinand … Continue reading →

A tv game show, Wheel of Fortune, trivializes the concept. The drawing of the wheel found on the first page of the Burana Codex includes four phrases around the outside of the wheel: Regnabo, Regno, Regnavi, Sum sine regno.(I shall … Continue reading →

“Was Columbus a Jew?” asked The American Jewish World (Minneapolis/St. Paul) on May 19, 1922. Dr. Abraham A. Neuman analyzed “the Spanish theory”. Many are the tales told about the person commonly called “Christopher Columbus”. Historian Manuel Rosa says the … Continue reading →

Most Puerto Ricans have a degree of Taíno ancestry. There were romantic liaisons between Spaniards and natives of Hispaniola, such as between Miguel Diaz and Catalina, female chief of what later became Santo Domingo. [1][2] On November 3rd the Puerto … Continue reading →

The person commonly known as “Christopher Columbus” was a preternatural navigator, as will be shown. In 1496, Cristóbal Colón decided to return to Spain. He fitted out two ships, one for himself and one for Juan Aguado, his archenemy, placing … Continue reading →

Here’s romance! Miguel Diaz had fallen in love with the female chief of what later became Santo Domingo. For her dowry she showed Diaz a location where gold abounded. The pseudonymous “Christopher Columbus” came to investigate and was mighty pleased. … Continue reading →

Escape to another time. Conked out by this awful year of coroner-virus, summer riots, and election tensions? Then tune out: put your mind elsewhere to olden times, to 1492 when he sailed the ocean blue. In 1495, the persecutor Juan … Continue reading →

The year: 1506. In Valladolid, Spain the pseudonymous “Christopher Columbus” is dying. There to torment him even at this time is the ghost of Juan Aguado, his relentless persecutor. [1] The persecutor Aguado came to the fore in 1495 after … Continue reading →

Reviews are mixed for Leonardo Balada’s opera, La Muerte de Colón (The Death of Columbus). The “choral music is always fresh, rhythmically incisive and suggestive, and Balada differentiates well the elegiac death-bed scenes opposite the ‘public’ scenes, filled with overt … Continue reading →

What became of the 500 “Indians” sent to Spain on the ships of Antonio de Torres? Erroneously, in the October 18, 2020 blog entry, I presumed their fate was unknown. [1] In fact, Spain did not known what to do … Continue reading →