The Story of HiBrasil

The Celts of Old Europe believed that HiBrasil was one of several paradise ‘alternative universes’, a land of beauty and plenty, and of neverending sports. This paradise was well known to all Celtic peoples, including the Portuguese and the Irish. It was described in detail in a book titled L’Isola Brazil, published by one Angelo Dalorto in Genoa, in the year 1325 AD.

In all of the explorations and joint colonisations of the Spanish and the Portuguese, it was the Portuguese who were the ocean sailors and navigators – Vasco da Gama, Magellan and Cabral to name but a few. The Columbus voyage – led by a Venetian, financed by Isabelle of Spain – was navigated and manned by Portuguese. These descendants of the Celtic peoples who migrated to Portugal from 700 BC would all have known the HiBrasil story from childhood.

It is thus my argument that the nation of Brazil was named from the Celtic HiBrasil, and not – as all kids in Brazil are taught in school – from the abundant Brazilwood tree harvested there by the early European settlers.

What do you think?

And did you know – the deal between Spain and Portugal on sharing their conquests involved dividing the colonised lands in the proportion of the land masses of Spain to Portugal – hence the size of Portuguese-speaking Brazil against that of Spanish-speaking Latin America.