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Amy Harlib's avatar

I love this story! Having a life long fascination with archeology/anthropology/history and folklore, I have known about this legend for a long time.

Glad you are explaining it here!

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BettyK's avatar

Thank you for taking this break from politics. What a lovely story.

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Reinette Senum's avatar

Yes, sometimes I need a break as well! LOL

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

"...Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very near the Terrestrial Paradise, and it is peopled by black women who live after the fashion of Amazons. This island is the strongest in the world, with its steep rocks, and great cliffs, and there is no metal in the island but gold."

HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA BY HELEN ELLIOT BANDINI

NEW YORK •:. CINCINNATI •:. CHICAGO

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

Copyright, 1908, by HELEN ELLIOTT BANDINI

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Reinette Senum's avatar

THAT is a fascinating addition to the story. 1908 no less.

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Thomas Guitarman's avatar

That I would agree is the most likely location of the real story , I N CARIBBEAN, always something good from you SK

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Dozt's avatar

And the Yogis of the East have stated California the West Coast will become the the place of spiritual rebirth.

Great info. Thanks Reinette.

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LONG In The TRUTH's avatar

.....WOW - so, the name 'Califa' almost CERTAINLY is a feminized form of 'CALIPH' (indeed, a MUSLIM title) - and, sure SOUNDS like Montalvo is describing ELEPHANTS - with those EAR characteristics, anyhow.....thus, LIKELY it derives from SOME Asia Minor, subcontinental or African origin - and, sure ENOUGH.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_California

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Reinette Senum's avatar

Thanks for the addition.

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

"Califas" is spanish for California. It is also a Muslim ruler, which alludes to the Moors of Spain in early history in California. Remember 1492 is when the Moors surrendered Spain and all of their holdings. This is what Columbus was surveying for the House of Aragon. He had Moor maps and navigators "assessing the new holdings" of Spain in "the new world." New to them.

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LONG In The TRUTH's avatar

I should - I'm half Galician ; ) BY way of Cuba, however (father born there 112 years ago this June) - but the MORE salient aspect: SUEVI (or, 'SCHWABIE' ; ) control OF that region, Italy, what is NOW 'Switzerland'.....

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aj's avatar

14000 year old remains of white giants have been found on the islands off California

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Reinette Senum's avatar

Ohhhh, the Giants. What a story that is.... how is THAT not in our history books?

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

Where, can you provide a link please.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Suggest you read "Magicians of The Gods", "Fingerprints of The Gods", and "America Before" ... all by Graham Hancock. You'll learn about the giants (who are NOT nephilim) alongside many other fascinating pieces of history that are not taken seriously by the majority of mainstream sources.

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

I don't believe in Nephilim. It is a fable I believe. I do however know that real flesh and blood giants did exist and they knew nothing about "our mythology."

https://jeanbaptisteguillory.substack.com/p/situations-and-circumstances

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Jose Gonzales Ortego's avatar

Perhaps one day someone could explain the difference between the 'annals of history' and 'the anus of history.' Strikes me they are both in the rear view mirror. :-)

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Reinette Senum's avatar

Funny! Very funny. I will never see the word anals the same again.

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Subo2's avatar

I've seen a few ancient maps depicting California as an Island from a couple of sources. It could be after one of the great floods and has recently become 'attached' to the mainland by simple reduction of the sea levels by just a few meters much like the Doggerlands that clearly were inhabited joining the UK to Western Europe not so long ago. In this case is was a rising of sea levels that has made that particular area what it is today and the Chronological time line of events that is applicable to it. There is also evidence to suggest that the Americas were 'discovered' by the Vikings as as far back as c1100AD notwithstanding the Natives whom already existed there.

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Reinette Senum's avatar

I think you are on to something... the lowering of the sea levels. The "discovery" of American being some other time.... I believe very little of the history taught to us because of these very reasons.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Consider the global flooding that occurred during the Younger Dryas period some 13K years ago. A mass extinction event that also raised global sea levels significantly, and obliterated many landforms known to the ancients - including land bridges joining continents together that made human migration from, say, Asia to the Americas, possible.

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Subo2's avatar

Yes perhaps, there was also purportedly an Ice Age thawing c10k years ago which could have done much the same thing however I assume most of this evidence to support these theories comes from Geological records and some are subject to carbon dating which most likely relies upon the same kind of science that detects 'contagion and viruses' so is kinda speculative and subject to an agreement as the Chronological written records of history only stretch back c5500 years so after this it's all people's opining based on flimsy data crunching as good as guessing?

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Debi Decot's avatar

It is true. She was a nephilim, descendant of a fallen angel.

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

That is fables and fairy tales from Babylon. Think about it? All of the "stories" revolve around the same Messianic theme. The giants, the nephilim, the fallen angels, all without actual "real proof" aside from the same source material that is being utilized, has been utilized as a control mechanism. All of the kooky "narrative" is just a rehash of old Babylonian myths, twisted into biblical form and used "once again" to keep the people in fear, in cyclones of nothingness, while the Messianic fanatics steal everything and consolidate power. "She" was just a Negro woman. A flesh and blood "Negro" woman who ruled. I know, that sounds impossible, being a Negro and all, so its better to say she was a spook.

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Reinette Senum's avatar

Well, we have plenty of evidence of giants in the U.S.. Something clearly left out of our history. I provided this link to you earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K02xd83WyA#:~:text=Thousands%20of%20giant%20skeletons%2C%20artifacts,://www.megalithoma...

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Thomas Guitarman's avatar

See my comments above much evidence for sure , ALL OVER . But also see this no one in new administration talking about this in all vaxxes Since way back.

all vaccines contain He-la cells, which are cancer cells, and syphilis, taken from Henrietta Lacks a woman who died of cervical cancer who also had syphilis. I read the book about these cells which never die, and have taken over labs all over the world. They use these cells in the vaccines which cause all these diseases like chicken pox, herpes... and so forth. Every disease we have was introduced by the vaccines. if you don't know of Patrick Jordan Vaccine fraud on substack you should start reading his work.

ICD-999 is a book he wrote on all his research.

https://www.amazon.com/ICD-999-Vaccine-Diseases-Sickness-Postulate/dp/B00K1EBY3C#customerReviews

5.0 out of 5 stars an brilliant deep researcher and a meta-analyst

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016

Patrick Jordan is a polymath, an brilliant deep researcher and a meta-analyst. His work on vaccine fraud and the industry of malfeasance and biowarfare that is modern inoculation is light years beyond the controlled opposition and red herring trail of the mercury/autism correlation, or the big pharma greed machine excuse. Just the fact that we are allowing ourselves to be injected with foreign DNA (allografting and zenografting), and not recognizing that this is potentially far more disastrous than a Mercury adjuvant controversy, speaks volumes to the mind control the American people are directed to consume from cradle to grave. The FDA, CDC, NATO, WHO, UN and many other alphabet soup groups are confederates in the most well planned and devious genocide in the history of the world, and it's getting worse every day. Are you going to sit there and mumble more fallacies while ignoring this important work or are you going to get out and get mad enough to do something about it? Hell don't even buy the book, though I think this author is more worthy of sort than most. Just listen to some of Patrick's interviews then come back for the book. The only way we are going to fix this mess is supporting guys like Patrick, and or assisting in finding the solutions to end this madness. Are you ready to help?

Vaccines literally are the vectors for the viruses we are all infected with.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00338QENI/?bestFormat=true&k=henrietta%20lacks%20book&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-pd-bk-d_de_k0_1_9&crid=3AIL1Q0EX842B&sprefix=Henrietta

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

No, you are correct. There is too much evidence of this. Right here in California, in the Castle Craigs. It's creepy up there.

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Thomas Guitarman's avatar

Enormous evidence all over of giants , I have seen personally and records in early AMERICA , and may early news reports . I have seen the large conical skulls and enormous bones in S. America personally . Vatican has all this stuff . 20 MILES OF HALLWAYS in secret Vatican archives hinding 10, 000years of human history.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Why disrespect ancient Babylonian stories as "myths"? To someone in a different culture in a different millenium, all foreign history degenerates to "myth" ... taking away the respect needed to motivate us to find the truths therein.

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

It's a fact. It is a myth. Most of it anyway. Besides there are literal college courses with lectures on "Babylonian Mythology." Here is one right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya3xba7tzMo

The ONLY THING THOSE PEOPLE LEFT US WAS MISERY. PERIOD. Every despot, every "religion," every "fraternal group," is contaminated with their deficiencies. They play no role "on this land" except when BROUGHT HERE by Europeans and foreigners in general. Facts. Name a tragedy that this "mythology" or a derivative thereof is not part of? Abrahamic? Nope. Roman? Nope. Greek? Nope? Egyptian? Nope. American Indian. Yep. I don't disrespect people, except my apology, I just state facts and produce "receipts to prove it." I find no lessons in those people except WHAT NOT TO PATTERN MY LIFE OR MIND AFTER. Regards.

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Thomas Guitarman's avatar

ON another topic RFK Jr jumps the tracks as expected

https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-priority-rfk-jr-backtracks-212924981.html

On this story , its like TRUE but of another location not California as we know it now . SK

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Reinette Senum's avatar

This story is spreading like wild fire and is not exactly accurate... at all.

(Via my friend Denise)

Bobby knows about Vitamin A, he even talked about it in his opinion piece to FOX. Ladies, we HAVE to read the SOURCE documents.

Bobby did not “urge” people to go get the vaccine as the AXIOS article stated. Here is what he said about the MMR….

“HHS’ efforts include offering technical assistance, laboratory support, vaccines, and therapeutic medications as needed……This includes ensuring that accurate information about vaccine safety and efficacy is disseminated. We must engage with communities to understand their concerns, provide culturally competent education, and make vaccines readily accessible for all those who want them……All parents should consult with their healthcare providers to understand their options to get the MMR vaccine. The decision to vaccinate is a personal one. Vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons…..”

He also said this….

“It is also our responsibility to provide up-to-date guidance on available therapeutic medications. While there is no approved antiviral for those who may be infected, CDC has recently updated their recommendation (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2025/2025-cdc-statement-on-measles-outbreak.html) supporting administration of vitamin A under the supervision of a physician for those with mild, moderate, and severe infection. Studies have found (https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/39/suppl_1/i48/699532?login=false) that vitamin A can dramatically reduce measles mortality……..By 1960 -- before the vaccine’s introduction -- improvements in sanitation and nutrition had eliminated 98% of measles deaths (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/measles-cases-and-death-rate). (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/measles-cases-and-death-rate) Good nutrition remains a best defense (https://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/features/micronutrient-facts.html) against most chronic and infectious illnesses. Vitamins A, C, and D, and foods rich in vitamins B12, C, and E should be part of a balanced diet.”

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Thomas Guitarman's avatar

Do yu have anything definitive , did he authorize or speak that he would or any other evidence or articles ? SK

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Thomas Guitarman's avatar

Sorry, that is a cowardly stance he is taking, talking out of both sides of his mouth , I defy him or anyone to prove mrna , nano and other very negative stuff is NOT IN ALL VAXXES . So just saying people who want these deadly things need info is completely non productive, cowardly , and precisely what he has always done . I have met him 3 times , always the same double talk and answers. . Former girl friend of mine very close with Kennedy family all her life, they are not what many wish to believe or believe in. This kind of behavior is PRECISELY what big pharma wants , because its not enough to stop their agendas or EVER prosecute the guilty for what has ALREADY BEEN DONE.

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Thomas Guitarman's avatar

This IS what we are up against , whether even this article is absolutely true, or even if Gates said it , or even if he is still alive , or even a real human. This IS THE AGENDA. And Kennedy or anyone in this administration, that I can see as of yet will NOT really do ANYTHING to stop it . The engineered FOOD FAMINE is STILL in full rollout. Millions of animals every week destroyed globally , while these people talk out of both side of their mouths .Starvation is ALWAYS the last weapon of force.

https://rumble.com/v6mshix-bill-gates-caught-pumping-deadly-bird-flu-jabs-into-americas-food-supply-me.html?e9s=rel_v2_ep

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Roger Beal's avatar

Reinette, please send this article to Graham Hancock. It'll fit well in his wheelhouse.

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Kathy Enking's avatar

Maybe related it not, relecs of ancient Egyptian past found in the Grand Canyon (in a restricted area). Will we ever be able to piece this historical grand puzzle together? I loved the reprieve from politics as well! Found your talk at Music and Sky last summer so informative, although have been following you for some time ❤️

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Gregory May's avatar

Men; Big hairy beats with 8 hands...

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Crixcyon's avatar

Interesting. It would be a sweet moment to know true history about whatever you want for any period of time.

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Reinette Senum's avatar

Give it time. There will. be an AI for that.

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Roger Beal's avatar

Rumor has it that Mister Peabody's Wayback Machine is available for lease.

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Minkat's avatar

Off topic, but I am having lots of problems with your substack, nobody elses. I don't use the app and have an android phone. I recently switched from my Gmail account to a different one with substack, but have also updated several.things such as Brave. I have spent so much time on it, it's crazy. Somehow I got this to work, but it has disappeared a few times too. It seems that when it goes through Brave it stops and will not load. But why only your substack? I have tried copying it into Google, but it comes in very strange. I unsubscribed and subscribed to see if it makes a difference. It's bizarre. Hope it will work after this.

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Reinette Senum's avatar

MInkat, I have a LOT of people having trouble receiving or being notified about my substack posts... as well as losing their paid subscriptions and ever being able to get a paid subscription again. It's insane.

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Minkat's avatar

I was just able to get to this now. No matter how I subscribe I can't seem to get yours to.work. I don't use the app still as that didn't work for me either. But substack also makes me sign in every day now. I hardly ever signed in before.. i don't know if it is Brave problem also. I upgraded it as I don't usually and thought maybe it would help. Horrible. Some news links I have to copy and go through Google. So I have zero clue if you have posted lately. I will keep trying, but gets annoying. They mess with my font too since some upgrades. Phones, can't live with or without them. Thank you so much.

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Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

Okay Reinette, shmolitics/politics, how about out of the frying pan into the fire, why don't you?? And ruffle a few feathers "no pun intended" bring the darkness into the light, (no pun intended) and shake up your comment section a bit. I would throw my hat (actually I wear a headpiece) into the ring but I think I may just come back here from time to time and just read the comments.

Life is but a dream, we just need to find out who are the dreamers and have a nice little sit down with them, cause for real, for real, the dry bones only tell us what the archeologists say. And the lore, fables, stories, myths and legends may have all been somebody's dream. You feel me??

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Reinette Senum's avatar

I have come to the conclusion it's all a dream....

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Nana Baakan Agyiriwah's avatar

I concur, Reinette, I concur!!!

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

Yes this is true. The California coastal/inland Indians are originally Negro. They covered the entire "Great Basin" of the united states back to California. The other tribes came from the North [Canada] and South [Mexico].

“Their complexion is much darker to that of the tribes further north, often being nearly black, so that with their matted, bushy hair which is frequently cut short, they present a very uncouth appearance.” The Digger [Nigger] Stereotype in California- Allen Lonnburg

JOURNAL OF CALIFORNIA AND GREAT BASIN ANTHROPOLOGY Vol. 3, No. 2. (1981). [italics mines]

They switched the "D" for the "N" to be politically correct. I have a whole book detailing the destruction of the California Indians. It was my first because Negro California Indians are left out of history, just like everywhere else.

https://jeanbaptisteguillory.substack.com/p/reparations-for-niggers

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Reinette Senum's avatar

Yes, I have heard about this.... would love to bring this to light. I'm so tired of all the historical rewriting.

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

See, they want people to think race centric when the land had people from dark brown to light tan, or even pale in some tribes. Why? Europeans "have been coming here" in small splashes over time. They just don't fit the narrative so they are left out, especially if they did not agree with the colonization. Most did not because they were here trading and that made for less revenue for them.

https://jeanbaptisteguillory.substack.com/p/pre-colonial-americans

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LONG In The TRUTH's avatar

.....related to the SIZABLE population of black Asians (including antipodal Aborigines) then. Jean-Baptiste?

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Jean-Baptiste Guillory's avatar

I think yes on coastal regions , however I believe each place had an organic population of "negroid" peoples. Take the Grimaldi for example in Europe.

https://jeanbaptisteguillory.substack.com/p/resistance-is-futile

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