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    Friso’s Giant Ship
    Friso’s Giant Ship
    Friso’s Giant Ship
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    Friso’s Giant Ship

    By Dirk Bontes

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    Friso’s Giant Ship is an interpretation of the Frisian folktale "Het Reuzenschip Van Friso". It is a double tale, because in fact it is about two ships at the time of the Deluge. The one ship is a project Orion type spaceship that is propulsed by atom bombs and that travels into deep space to there collect a comet and to send it on a collision course towards the Earth; God is aboard this vessel. The other ship at the same time endures the Deluge on Earth and brings Friso, one of the clones of God, to his predestined land Frisia. According to the magical paradigm there is a bond between both ships.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDirk Bontes
    Release dateNov 2, 2015
    ISBN9781311208453
    Friso’s Giant Ship
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    Dirk Bontes

    Won some short story contests. Runs another. All Scifi / Fantasy / Horror. Has written some uncompleted science books. Has translated and interpreted Aeneid VI: Aeneid Liber Sextus.

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      Friso’s Giant Ship - Dirk Bontes

      Friso’s Giant Ship

      Cover: Anaïd Haen

      Published by Dirk Bontes at Smashwords

      Copyright 2015 Dirk Bontes

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      Contents

      1. Reviews (0)

      2. Introduction

      3. The ship di Mannigfuald and the Oera Linda Book

      4. The launching of the ship

      5. The ascent to Heaven / the Deluge

      6. The Story of Heligoland

      7. Halley’s Comet and the election of the king

      8. Taking aboard the oxen

      9. The Deluge and the Etna

      10. The missing ox

      11. The Etna and the pillars of Hercules

      12. The Sinter Nuet

      13. Geographical locations

      14. The mast, the comet and the missing ox

      15. The comet and the meteorite bombardment

      16. The Deluge and the docking in the basking shark

      17. The ship The Omnipotence

      18. About the author

      19. Other titles by Dirk Bontes

      20. Contact

      Chapter 1. Reviews (0)

      Chapter 2. Introduction

      This book is an interpretation of the tale.

      The Story of Heligoland in the sixth chapter is extraneous material, but it seemed relevant to add it to this discussion of Friso's Giant Ship.

      The tale Het reuzenschip van Friso (Friso’s Giant Ship) is in the book Friese Volkssprookjes (Frisian folk tales), verzameld door (collected by) J.P. Wiersma. – herdruk (reprint). - Leeuwarden : van Seijen, 1973; p. 260-266. Jacobus Pieters Wiersma was born in 1894 and he died in 1973.

      Another version of the tale, presumably an adaptation, is De drie gebroeders (The three brothers, 1936), by Antoon Coolen. I will not discuss Coolen's version.

      I wrote my first – unpublished - interpretation of this tale in 2003. Now, twelve years later, soon after my interpretation of Lucian of Samosata’s True History, and in interaction with that interpretation, various aspects of my interpretation had to be adjusted and improved upon.

      First of all I have to briefly mention some of my earlier discoveries in mythology and folklore.

      In the summer of 1979, accompanied by my youngest brother, I went to Sjaelland in Denmark to search for king Hrothgar’s Hall Heorot, which is mentioned in the Beowulf epos. I suspected that Beowulf had entered into a spaceship or habitat that had been hidden under the water and I wanted to find that location and object. I had also concluded that the dragon which he fought, was a jet aircraft with its accompanysing contrail.

      I believe that it was in January 1987 that there was a Christian World congress in the RAI in Amsterdam. People from all over the world came to that congress. A Mormon woman from the USA gave me an English language copy of John’s Revelation at Central Station.

      I had always been interested in astronomy and when I read Revelation, I realized that it described a comet – which does resemble a jet aircraft’s contrail – being on a collision course with Earth. I paled and it would not have surprised me had my hairs become white when I woke up the next morning. I also recognized that the collision of the comet with the Earth was prevented at the last moment. The purpose of these cosmic manoeuvres was to cause a meteorite bombardment on Earth.

      In fact Revelation has two comets: the second comet was Halley’s Comet. Reading more in mythology, folklore and history caused me to realize that this bombardement was not the only one: each time when Halley's Comet returned, a second comet

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