Airships of the Whale Culture above Greenland: My Voyages

By Vito de la Vera

To gain an understanding of the past, it is sometimes useful to test what one has learned by investigating the past. That is what this book is about. It is a continuation of my book, "The Whale Culture of Greenland". Based on the details about the whale culture in Greenland that I learned from rock carvings on a cliff in Eastern Greenland, I and like-minded individuals have built an airship, as it could have been built by a hunter-gatherer culture in the Arctic during the Holocene Maximum, and we will now attempt to fly it around Greenland and propel it with the fuel we can gather from hunting.
This is therefore the story of our journey in a hot-air balloon around Greenland and how we managed the long trip north around the island and down along the west coast until we returned to the east coast, facing all the challenges and dangerous situations that arose along the way.
It is also the story of what an ancient people could achieve in the distant past and what it tells about their spread in the Arctic and beyond.
It is a long and eventful journey that I and my companions undertake, which does not go as expected and certainly does not end as such, but still bears the fruits we desired.
The journey is long and tough and constantly tests us, as the Arctic must have tested the whale culture in Greenland's distant past, but we endure it all the way to the abrupt end of the journey, thereby showing that an airborne culture in Greenland could have been possible around the time of the Holocene Maximum.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
• Release date: May 22, 2024
• ISBN: 9788743023036

Vito de la Vera

The author and archeologist Vita de la Vera is a nobleman, scholar and very independent researcher, who's main field of interest is ancient and forgotten cultures that are unrecognized by conventional science. He is a more outlandish member of le Club d'Aventure d'Outre-Mer, where he has often caused quite a stir especially in his ongoing feud with fellow member Jacques Pierre, who is not altogether convinced of the validity of many of Vito de la Vera's findings. This competition has not meant that they cannot be civil, however. Vito de la Vera's main interest is the continued search for more knowledge about the ancient whale culture that has existed in the Arctic during the Holocene Maximum and in the Pacific during the ice age. His continued quest to find out more about this culture has led him far and wide from the Arctic to New Caledonia and to South America. His findings have also led him unto the truth about the continent of Mu that is deeply connected to the whale culture. His research has also led him on an airship trip around Greenland with fellow members of Le Club d'Aventure d'Outre-Mer. Aside from the search for the whale culture Vito de la Vera has also searched for Lemuria at the Mascarene Plateau and Atlantis as a floating artificial island in the Atlantic modeled on the Richat Structure also known as the Eye of Africa from whence the Atlantean culture stemmed as it spread to the ocean and into the Sargasso Sea. Aside from his archeological work Vito de la Vera is also heavily engaged in the creation and building of artificial coral reefs and floating islands build on the concepts of Atlantis and the south American cultures that build huge floating structures from rushes that were then used as platforms for fields and Mangroves.

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We arrived in Northeast Greenland and Scoresby Land not far from the Zackenberg Station. Up here in the fjord, where l’Aguila shot through the water, were the cliff with petroglyphs, which I had studied. In doing so, I found traces of the ancient whale culture that had existed in the Arctic Ocean during the warm Holocene maximum.

Based on my reading of the petroglyphs, I found remains from a nearby settlement and gained insight into this vanished and forgotten culture in Greenland and the Arctic. Equally important for this story, I interpreted signs that this culture was based on hunting whales and other marine animals and that they had hunted these animals from airships made of materials from whales and seals that they captured.

These airships were then propelled forward by blubber lamps made from hollowed bones, burning the powerful blubber and whale oil.

This discovery, with implications about airships in the Greenlandic sky in such early times, is met with skepticism, and that is why we have come here now. We aim to prove that the whale culture could have created airships and flown in the Arctic sky, hunting on the sea from above.

We have had an airship constructed based on my reading of the petroglyphs, and our vessel now rests in the hold of l'Aguila awaiting its maiden voyage.

As Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated that Polynesia in the Pacific could have been populated from South America with the Kon-Tiki expedition, where he and his team drifted with the Humboldt Current out into the Pacific, we aim to show that the whale culture could have populated and hunted in Greenland and the Arctic regions with their simple airships.

We will do this by departing from the cliff with petroglyphs that I discovered and fly around the Greenlandic coastlines, ultimately returning here.

Lastly, we will prove that the whale culture could have crossed the sea by flying from here to Svalbard, where I have also found faint traces of petroglyphs.

Such a journey will demonstrate that the whale culture would have been capable of encircling the Arctic Ocean and the Greenlandic coastlines while also lending credibility to my reading of the petroglyphs, which has not been widely accepted in archaeological circles.

However, among other members of Le Club d'Aventure d'Outre-Mer, there are those who see the possibility, and from them, I have found partners for this journey. They will assist in demonstrating that an ancient Inuit culture could have built airships and traveled over the Arctic Ocean with them. And the proof of this lies in l'Aguila's hold. The airship was constructed as closely as possible to what could be deduced from my sketches. We had successfully tested it back home over the sea. Now, it was simply a matter of putting it to use in its natural environment.

I eagerly surveyed the fjord and the land beyond, where I could see the cliff rising higher up. Since working on it, I had sought out other references to cliffs with petroglyphs in the archives and had thereby found and visited others along the Greenlandic coast, and even found traces on Svalbard after a reference in the archives in Oslo. I found very little on Svalbard. Time and the ice had been harsh there, but nevertheless, there were petroglyphs.

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