Just bumbed into an ancient manuscript by a Gnostic sect known as the Ophites. They got their name from the greek word "OPHIS" - Serpent. They were snake handlers and practically worshipped snakes. The remarkable thing about them was that they had an entirely different take on the story of what happened in the Garden of Eden.
In this version of the story, a stranger arrived in Eden bearing an extraordinary birthmark - a double serpent on his forehead. Through time, the myth became confused and people came to believe that an actual serpent appeared in the garden of Eden. The stranger spent all of his time with Eve, telling her amazing things. He said he had secret knowledge of the true nature of the universe. He called this special knowledge "GNOSIS", and the tree of knowledge was his symbolic way of representing Gnosticism. Good and Evil, were entirely different from what Adam and Eve were taught by Jehovah.

So the legend arose that Eve was tempted by a serpent to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In fact, what happened was that she was taught Gnosticism by the serpent stranger. There was no literal tree of knowledge in Eden, and no forbidden fruit. After all, why would Jehovah create a tree, put it in the middle of the garden of Eden and then stop Adam and Eve eating from it? That made no sense, even for Jehovah. If he had done that, he himself would have been guilty of tempting Adam and Eve. What was forbidden was any knowledge that challenged Jehovah. Gnosticism was the forbidden knowledge, forbidden because it was the very first heresy - Original sin.
Eve managed to persuade Adam to listen to the Gnostic ideas; hence the myth that Eve tempted Adam to join her in eating the forbidden apple. What she kept secret was that she was pregnant, and Adam wasn't the father. The first person born on the earth, according to the old testament, was Cain, the first true human being. His brother Abel soon followed, and this time Adam was the father.
When they grew up, the difference in appearnce between Cain and Abel was obvious. They fought over their parentage, and on Cain's birthday, Abel tried to kill Cain - with an old spear he'd found. Cain wrestled the spear from Abel and slew him. He knew he could no longer live with Adam and Eve and fled eastward. The Old Testament said he was banished to the land of Nod, but there is no such place. Nod simply means wondering. In other words, he began a nomadic life. He eventually settled in Canaan, Cain's land, the same territory Jehovah later promised to Cain's mortal enemies: the Jews, Jehovah's chosen people.
The Old Testament also says Cain was branded by God. That too was false. Cain, like his true father, had a double-serpent birthmark - the so-called mark of Cain. For some reason, it only became distinct once a year: April 30, Cain's birthday, and, following Abel's death, the Anniversary of the first killing in human history.

SS
The Nazis are linked to Cain, that's why the SS adopted two sig runes for their insignia. The Ss represented the two serpents. They also had the Death's Head symbol, just like the knights templar. And the Swastika, an ancient Hindu symbol for reincarnation. The Gnostics called reincarnation Metempsychosis - the transmigration of souls. Any soul, trapped in a human body, that failed to achieve Gnosis was condemned to be reincarnated in a new body, and live again in the material world. So, the Nazis chose the Swastika to show their Gnostic allegiance and their belief in reincarnation as the penalty for remaining wedded to this world. The Swastika is just two square Ss stuck together at right angles, another form of the Mark of Cain.

Cain and his people became famous for technological accomplishment, and they spread far and wide from Canaan, building great cities wherever they settled. Their most famous city was an architectural and engineering Marvel, full of people from all over the world, speaking different languages - Babel. Which became Babylon.

Centuries after Canaan fell to the Hebrews, becoming the land of Israel, the Babylonians invaded, sacked the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, and carried off all the treasures it contained, including, perhaps, the Ark of the Convenant. Some Babylonians took to ships and went looking for new lands to settle in, and rumour was that they took the Ark with them. They went to the far North, to a land that legend said lay beyond the north wind. It's called Hyperborea in Greek. The Latin name was Ultima Thule, or, usually, just Thule: the land at the end of the world.
The people of Thule made another great journey, to the most famous Island of all... Atlantis. According to the legend, Atlantis was destroyed over two and a half thousand years ago on none other than April 30, following an apocalyptic religiuos ceremony. The rumour was that the Ark of the Convenant was the centrepiece of the ceremony.
The few survivors then spoke of finding a new Atlantis, a lush land marked by a special star called "Merica" - America. America wasn't named after Amerigo Vespucci. It got its name because the people who discovered it thought it was the mythical Gnostic land that lay under the shining star "Merica".

SO WHO DID DISCOVER AMERICA?
The knights Templar. The Templar fleet that sailed off in 1307 to escape the Catholic church's persecution had no choice but to find a new land, beyond the reach of the papacy. Once they discovered America, they kept it a closely guarded secret. They made sure no word got back to Europe, knowing that if anything leaked out, the Pope would send an armada against them to conquer them and seize their new country.
It wasn't until the end of the fifteenth century that they changed their strategy. They had lost many men in wars against the native Americans, and the knights were unhappy about having to take squaws as wives. Their settlements were failing. They needed an influx of Europeans to make America viable. The Templar they chose for their most vital mission was one of the most famous men in history - Christopher Columbus.
Christopher knew exactly were the New World was for the simple reason that he already lived there. That's why no one is quite sure whether he was Italian, Spanish, Catalonian or Portuguese. In fact, he was American. Isn't it the ultimate irony? The so-called discoverer of Americas was an American all along.
When the ships 'Santa Maria', Nina and Pinta embarked from spain in 1492, they changed their sails as soon as they were out of sight of the land, and raised a new sails emblazoned with the red cross pattee of the knights Templar. A Scottish Templar called Sir John Drummond was the man who drew up the maps and charts they used on the voyage.
The history of America is largely the history of persecuted religious minorities, and the very first were the Templars. America is the country of the knights Templar - a Gnostic country, Freemasonic. It's the new Atlantis, the cherished home of the IlLuMiNaTi, their bulwark against the power of the Vatican.