This is not "folk geography". Relatedly, these people were Polynesians.pic.twitter.com/MjpkapTTiC
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Multiple tourists have related with bafflement that many Lao believe white Australians are aborigines of that country. On questioning it seems that they picture the Earth as a torus or computer game map where continuing north from Europe causes you to wrap around to Australasia.
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Two skulls radiocarbon dated to the 18thC. from Babilônia Cave in Brazil were COMPLETELY UNMIXED Polynesians living amongst Ge Indians in interior Minas Gerais. Not 1% Amerindian ancestry, and predating Oceanian commercial slaving. There are portals. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214012743 …pic.twitter.com/nT6GtPr82p
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Maybe this is due to their weather. A toral Earth would have completely different weather patterns.
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