Jacques de Mahieu
Jacques de Mahieu, Director of the Institute of Human Sciences in Buenos Aires, has become a historian, ethnologist, and archaeologist to recount one of the most unknown and fantastic pioneering adventures: the discovery of America by the Vikings. South of the Amazon, in the Brazilian state of Piaui, Jacques de Mahieu discovered and identified the Seven Cities, a place of worship that he attributes to the Vikings. Two thousand kilometers further south, as the crow flies, the enormous figure of a bearded old man, wearing Odin’s pointed helmet, towers over Rio de Janeiro. The inscription it bears—now finally translated—marks an essential milestone on the sea route that linked the mouth of the Amazon to the ports of the South, to which the “soft paths” led the “Danes” of Tiahuanaco. And in the interior of Brazil, tribes of “white” Indians still live, heirs to the distant Scandinavian conquerors. This is an unfinished advance copy.