The Americas are a continent at the far end of a long voyage, “an old colony that became independent”, and they are the Mount Analogue, which the world had assumed lay in the south.
| Type | Place (continent) |
| Spanish entry | Las Américas |
Description
Named in plural and singular (America); only North America is described. The voyage is long and needs significant provisions. Before its ruin it was not “a totally innocent world” but “a kind of purgatory”, a place of ascent and purging.
People and law
Russians, squeezed by the Mongols “on both sides”, “managed to escape to America”, where they live alongside the French in “a North America with a somewhat different climate”.
- First amendment: “all men must be free from foreign substitution”.
- Second amendment: “everyone has the right to carry only cold iron”.
The founding institution is the House of Burgesses of Virginia, “one of the first political instruments in North America”.
History
America is emancipating itself from London, which “does not want to let go”. The revolt was prophesied by Blake’s poem “America”, which circulates in English and Spanish and can be recited in Spanish.
Conflicting accounts
- One account holds that “that place was razed”: first a betrayal from within, then “the impossibility of resisting” as the world gave way; it also records the taking of the year 1500.
- Another holds that “the America that is now free for the first time” has just been ratified as such “by remnants of the world’s nations”.
Open questions
- The continent’s terrain and cities; how its climate differs.
- Who carried out the taking of 1500, and who the traitor within was.
- What “foreign substitution” and “cold iron” mean, and what “only” excludes.
- What is purged there, and by whom.
- Where the voyage starts and how long it lasts; whether the House of Burgesses survived.