Pre-Columbian charts showing Antilia, Satanazes, Saya and Ymana 1
Chart | Word | Explanation | Translation | Dictionary | Relevance |
All | An | “Particular Negativa” = opposite of | This is the key to unlocking the names on the various charts | ||
1463 1470 | An sollj | An sol | no sun | “No sun” is marked where there is the El Yunque tropical forest (rainfall 240 in. p.a.) and to the west of the Cordillera Central where rainfall is 100 in. p.a. | |
1476 | Ansors | an senhors (Castilian) | no people | Castilian expression for “without people” – in the tropical rainforest. | |
1489 | Ansoa | an soa | no drainage | This is placed over the marshland north of Mayaguez at the estuary of the Rio Grande de Anesco. | |
1424 | Ansuly | an suolo (Veneto = fertile land) | no fertile land | Goldoni | “Ansuly” is placed where there are the forest reserves of Maricao and Guilarte (Portuguese names). |
1463 1482 | Ansodi | an sodi (sodium, salt) | no salt | The salt is leached away by incessant rain. | |
1463 1470 | Ansesselj | an sessil (meadow saxifrage) | no grass | Save in the south west, Puerto Rico lacks grass – less than 5% of the land is arable. | |
1470 | Antuub | an tuub (no tubes) | without drainage | This denotes the swamp “Cienaga Tiburones” to the east of Arecibo. Another Portuguese name – Tubaro which becomes Tiburon in Castilian. | |
All | Antilla | anti ilha | island the opposite of | Either opposite side of Atlantic or opposite (in ambience) to Satanazes. | |
1463 | Antuab | An tuab (no tubes) | swamp | ||
1480 1489 | Ansaros | Macaws or Brasilian parrots | This denotes the forest reserve of Boqueron, mangrove wetlands where there are mangrove canaries and brilliant red and blue Puerto Rican parrots – a centre for bird watchers today. | ||
1424 | Arailia | village | village | Columbus describes these villages at the same position on Grand Terre when he sailed past in 1493. | |
Ar y | and strong winds | and (strong) winds | 28 & 2 | ||
1424 | Asa y | Asa do lat ala | strong (wind) | 28 & 2 | |
1476 1480 | Asal | derived from Latin Acinus and dot azeo = berry or grape (Lat) | coffee beans | 28 | Asal is placed above modern Yauco, the coffee capital of Puerto Rico. The translation is “small berries some bitter some sweet”. |
1463 1470 | Aira | windy | windy | Aira is placed in the NW part of the island where chove (torrential rain) and eyodue (incessant rain) are shown – as indeed there is 100in. p.a. |