Tsunil´ kalu 

Asian Giants of Cherokee Legend

 

The Si-Te-cah Giants  .  Giant Human Footprints  . 

 Martindale Mummies . Patagonian Giants .  The Mound Builders  . 

The Karankawa  .  The Colorado Desert Giants

"James Wafford, of the western Cherokee, who was born in Georgia in 1806, says that his grandmother, who must have been born about the middle of the last century, told him that she had heard from the old people that long before her time a party of giants had once come to visit the Cherokee. They were nearly twice as tall as common men, and had their eyes set slanting in their heads, so that the Cherokee called them Tsunil´ kalu´, "the Slant-eyed people," because they looked like the giant hunter Tsul´ kalu´ {a/k/a Judaculla}. They said that these giants lived far away in the direction in which the sun goes down. The Cherokee received them as friends, and they stayed some time, and then returned to their home in the west."  James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

Supposedly, There is a text in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in China which tells of monks who voyaged many miles east to a new continent. The text describes them making landfall on a coast with mountains and rivers, (California?) then traveling inland to the east where they discover a large canyon with stratified colors and a great river at the bottom (Grand Canyon?) They then travel south over a great desert with strange trees that have many thorns, (cactus?) and find a civilization far to the south.

 

The actual source of this information alludes me, and it may just be more internet dribble which I try to avoid. But if the story has Merit it could be relative to the Tsunil' Kalu legend.

There is also the writings of Chinese Historian Li Yan Tcheou which tells of 5 Missionaries who went to Mysterious Land 7,000 miles across the sea and discovered a Civilization / People whose description sounds like Amerindian. {Ancient Footprints , Gary Varner }