Ancient Sea People mines found intact from "The Specil Theory of Ancient History."

                                         Ancient Sea People Mines Found Intact!
                                                  By Michael Busch
                                                            “The Tears of Thermodon.”

The tears of Thermodon yet wail in the wind, dashed upon these very rocks: like the broken words of some vanished God, “Yet seek ye the truth.”
The ancient Greeks called it the sea of Thermodon, the lake that is still the largest in the world. The following pictures taken of extensive fire marked mines with stone tools on Thermodon’s shores, attest to the accuracy of the location given in the Argonautica for the miners the ancient Greeks called Chalybes. While following up Stoahist theory local inhabitants told me of this place they had visited and could not understand.
Thermodon was on the upper part of the Great Lakes known in antiquity as Punt – Patala – Pont, while the eastern part was then called Ta-Netjer. The great lakes name Puant, Puans, and Puants survived, with the decedents of the people that made the mines, and was recorded as such on maps form the 1600’s AD and 1700’s AD. (Busch, Veda 7, Greek American History, p. 29) The first people to write on the mines of Punt, and have that writing survive, were not the ancient Greeks; but the ancient Greek texts are the most extensive I could find to this date. A more detailed literary work on this subject can be found in my book, “The Special Theory of Ancient History,” and on a page I will soon be putting up on this site if it is not already there. In my book you will find supporting material and “works cited” for the translation of Greek place names shown below.

Phineus of Ancient Greece stated,
"Now there is a headland opposite Helice the Bear, (The Island of Helene is Helice the Bear - now part of the mainland, called the town of St. Ignace. [See: Maptech, Inc.].) steep on all sides, and they call it Carambis, (Carambis, now known as Castle Rock, is turned toward the sea so much so that it is used as a outlook to observe Lake Michigan and the bridge over the Straits of Mackinac. (for a picture go to: YOOPER - yooper.com)) about whose crests the blasts of the north wind are sundered. So high in the air does it rise turned towards the sea. And when ye have rounded it broad Aegialus (Lake Michigan) stretches before you; and at the end of broad Aegialus, at a jutting point of coast, (the point of the coast is the point on which is De Tour Village beside De Tour Passage) the waters of the river Halys (St. Marys River) pour forth with a terrible roar; and after it his flowing near, (This is the wider old higher water version of Joseph Channel on the North Side of St. Joseph Island. It was called “his flowing near,” “his that flows hard by” and “smaller in stream” to indicate that was the navigable upward stream to the upper St. Marys River. Whether Jason sailed up Joseph Channel or not is immaterial: this story is as much a map to the riches of the massive mines on Thermodon - Superior as it is to Pont, which is now Lake Huron and as such must include the upper St. Marys River.) but smaller in stream, rolls into the sea (Pont that is now Lake Huron) with white eddies. Onward from thence the bend of a huge and towering cape reaches out from the land, (The long wall of hills North of the Saint Marys River are over 1000 feet in elevation and run from Gros Cap on Lake Superior in a straight line eastward as far as the eye can see more than 350 feet above the level of Lake Huron at 3000 – 2000 BC. In Greek histories other than Jason and Medeia this cape is referred to as Cape Sunion. In the Cape Sunion version, the cape is East of the island of Helene. (Kerenyi 235) The Island of Helene is Helice the Bear - now part of the mainland, called the town of St. Ignace.) next Thermodon at its mouth flows into a quiet bay at the Themiscyreian headland, (Echo Bay) after wandering through a broad continent. (The “broad continent is the vast basin that is drained by Lake Superior; from the Red River watershed to the arctic watershed, plus some of the central plains watershed at that time of Jason.) And here is the plain of Doeas, (The plain is the dry land below the 646 foot level and above the present levels of the Saint Marys River and above the Lake Huron level. Though the plain of Doeas - was submerged during the actual story of Jason it was a dry plain at 1500 BC during the reign of Hatshepsut when mariners were still voyaging regularly to Thermodon - Superior and returning to Egypt, Greece and Greek colonies telling the story of Jason as it pertained to the land they saw. Today, on this plain that was formed by the sea bed of Pontus - Huron, is the Airport of Sault Saint Marie, lower Sault Saint Marie, The Rankin Indian Reserve, the town French Bay, the town Garden River, the town Echo Bay, the town of Bar River, etc. From Echo Bay westward the land is flat sand (as mentioned in the “Argonautica”) delta and to the East is clay.) and near are the three cities of the Amazons, (An Iroquois confederacy.) and after them the Chalybes, (A name for Sea people miners [Long Beards] mining the copper of Punt since the days of the first Egyptian Pharos.) most wretched of men, possess a soil rugged and unyielding (This is the rugged rocky land at the east end of the plain were copper miners from the 1800’s AD recorded finding copper tools of “unique temper.” (Hornick, 1) at what is today Bruce Mines.) sons of toil, they busy themselves with working iron.” (University of California Regents, THE ARGONAUTICA. BOOK II)

Farther in the Argonautica is written, “That folk (Chalybes) have no care for ploughing with oxen or for any planting of honey-sweet fruit; nor yet do they pasture flocks in the dewy meadow. But they cleave the hard iron-bearing land and exchange their wages for daily sustenance; never does the morn rise for them without toil, but amid bleak sooty flames and smoke they endure heavy labour.” (University of California Regents, THE ARGONAUTICA. BOOK II)
(The Chalybe miners at the time of Jason worked a copper vein that disappeared beneath Pontus - Huron, near the present town of Bruce Mines. The Chalybes, being present before Jason entered Pontus, were associated with the Colchians of Temple Grove, the peoples on the Bush Rout and with peoples at the Sacred Mount at Algoma Mills. [Wile studying ancient docks at Algoma Mills on the 2000 - 1700 BC water level I followed up directions from a man, who lived nearby, to what he thought was a unnatural stonewall. This turned out to be an ancient man made stone mount beside a magnificent stone circle complete with inner circle, alter, libation bowl, and deliberately placed large lithic core outside one of the 2 circle openings. The docks and other stone remnants, that remain outside an area of stone clearing for a Hotel in the late 1800’s AD, are of an ancient Celtic community that fits the location for what the Greeks called the “Sacred Mount” past “the headland of Genetaean Zeus.”] Though iron was available to mine on the North Shores of Pontus - Huron Jason and the Argonauts sailed long before the use of iron was invented, in the copper or early bronze ages through openings closed between 2000 BC and 1700 BC. (Karrow 90, 91) The story of Jason is handed to us from people of the Iron Age who would have assumed miners on Pontus were after Iron. )
(“at least one race of people lived in the Bruce Mines area before the Indians. Archeologists have found tools which have been accredited to these people. They were made of copper and were of unique temper and design.” (Hornick, 1))

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A local prospector was kind enough to attend this site with me. In the many dozens of ancient mines he pointed out how the lateral shafts and pits followed vanes of pure copper in a rock formation called Keweenaw volcanic formation. He demonstrated to me the over 99% purity of the copper (known as native copper) by showing how it bent when struck with his prospectors hammer. The chipped stone tools, rock type, purity of the copper, thousands of ancient copper artifacts found above the site years before, proximity to the shore, evidence of fire mining technique, lack of evidence of meaningful white occupation after 1600 AD and colossal scale of the work evidence the same mining methods and miners as operated the enormous, and well documented ancient mines of the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale.   Later my friend the prospector gave me a piece of a sample of copper from above the mine that he had found on a construction site years before. At that time he had been following up a newspaper article on a much larger mass of pure copper found during none mining related construction above the mines. This large piece (And a second piece of float Native Copper from the area.) he wants me to make available to any accredited individual or group for trace element analysis.

Weep for what we have taught of ancient North American histories: but weep more for the path taken in human intellectual evolution and philosophy because of what we have not known! Surely if ever there was a time for all humanity to hang our heads in shame for how our understanding of history has failed us, it is now. Such are the “Tears of Thermodon;” they fall as fell the rule of the ancient Celtic Man Gods; the Manito’s, Pharaohs and Rulers on all continents. The Tears of Thermodon I present to you, rediscovered this day, are in this case ancient mines. In the days of long past those same tears from Thermodon are in many ways the basis of the philosophies and civilizations we enjoy today. Now the pictures.
I can be contacted by Email by anyone inquiring as to the location of the mines. history@tyenet.com or at my mailing address: Suite 234, 800 LaSalle Blvd., Sudbury P3A4V4

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                                                                                      Works Cited

Busch, M. (2000). The Special Theory of Ancient History, Veda 7.Greek American History. Sudbury. Available: Suite 234, 800 Lasalle Blvd., Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, P3A4V4. p. 29

Hornick, G. Leigh. (Ed.) (1969). The Call of Copper. Bruce Mines: North Shore Printing. Bruce Mines. pp. 1, 7

Karrow, P.F. and P. E. Calkin. (Ed.) (1984). Quaternary Evolution of the Great Lakes. St. John’s: Geological Association of Canada. pp. 90, 91, 100, 101, 125, 126, 127

Kerenyi, C. (1959). The Heroes of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p.p. 161,235, 250, 262, 264, 271

McEvedy, C. (1967). The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History. Penguin Books. p. 9

University of California Regents. (Feb. 28, 2000). THE ARGONAUTICA. BOOK II. Available: Berkeley Digital Library SunSite. Online Medieval and Classical Library Release #27b. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Argonautica/book2.html

University of California Regents. (Feb. 28, 2000). THE ARGONAUTICA. BOOK IV. Available: Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE. Online Medieval and Classical Library Release #27b. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Argonautica/book4.html
“Originally written in Ancient Greek sometime in the 3rd Century BC by the Alexandrian poet Apollonius Rhodius ("Apollonius the Rhodian"). Translation by R.C. Seaton, 1912.
The text of this edition is based on that published as "Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica", edited and translated by R.C. Seaton (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1912). This edition is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN in the United States.
This electronic edition was edited, proofed, and prepared by Douglas B. Killings (DeTroyes@EnterAct.COM), January 1997.” (University of California Regents) An excellent translation.

Yooper - yooper.com. (1998 - 2000). Available: Castle Rock - St. Ignace Michigan http://www.yooper.com/at_castlerock.html

Copyright © 2001 by Michael Busch
Permission to reprint or publish the above article entitled “Ancient Sea People Mines Found Intact” owned by myself is granted for free by Michael Busch to anyone for any legal purpose who recognises me as it’s author and the person that rediscovered the mines I call the “Tears of Thermodon.” I am retaining copyright on the above article written by myself. It has been and will be offered to others for publication. (It would be appreciated if I was sent an E-mail telling were it has been or will be printed or used. Thank you.)

Click on the picture below to see photo gallery of new discovery.

                                                         Supplement

I feel it necessary to first bring some readers up to date, by introducing an obstruction that has often devastated our ability to gain a truthful understanding of secure ancient recorded eyewitnesses accounts.
Colin McEvedy, author of “The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History” points out, as I do, large deviance from real ancient history exist when archaeological evidence’s that are by their nature, uncertain and indirect, challenge the direct knowledge gained from eye witnesses in secure ancient text. A researcher in any field of science, including ancient history, best serves humanity if he puts his brain in gear before continuing to support pronouncements made by the old school of archaeologists.   McEvedy holds this old school accountable for it’s action. (McEvedy, p 9)   When examined for factual historical occurrences, the Argonautica, Sumerian records, text of Egypt, and many others worldwide can be considered secure text. The authenticity and antiquity of the Argonautica is unchallenged and accepted internationally within the normal scientific community.
The great pioneers of archaeology did such a disservice to science that a clean up was made by later generations. That cleanup within the field of archaeology has been referred to as “Puritanism,” by Colin McEvedy (McEvedy, 9) and others. After the cleanup continued Puritanism has discouraged intellectual activity and elevated their indirect interpreted knowledge above direct secure knowledge. History is full of accounts of abuses by groups who dominate positions of authority and have very little accountability. I encourage you to read what Colin McEvedy has wisely written.
I apologize that an embarrassment I perceive within the academic community has made this preface necessary. It is my hope that, because of this preface fewer people will dismiss secure evidence in favour of following misplaced and undeserved trust.