Unesco’s literature on this world heritage site reads, ‘Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is a remarkable example of European military engineering dating from the 17th and 18th centuries in a Caribbean context. Located on the Island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts) the country’s largest island, the fortress was built to African slave labour to the exacting standards of the British military to protect the coastline from a sea attack and to provide a safe refuge for the island’s citizens’.
Church History traces its origin to the land of ‘Christ’ and ‘Ophir’ that identifies the seat of worship of ‘Krousta’ which geographically related with ‘Chryses’ and ‘Christ’; these names historically related to the region of Mt Caucasus same as Kakustha of Indian puranic tradition and Kakustan or Khotan of Pali literature. African continent is the home of the ancient ‘frank’ people who migrated from their homeland near this mountain. The name of the first inhabitants of St Kitts was the Arawakan peoples or the Taina peoples; both Ara-kona and Taina were neighbourly to each other and were also neighbours of the frank peoples.
Columbus did not give the name Christobal to this island rather this name identifies itself with followers of both Krousta and Baal who were in the same region and were close to each other at the foot of the Mt Caucasus.
Whether the British called it as Dulcina or the Spanish named it as Nevis, both the names find the same region in two different names at two different times in history. Dulcina means ‘Dakshina’ or the ‘south’ same as Negev of the Bible; and Nevis identifies the same place at the centre of the earth.
Island of St Christopher identifies migrants whose ancient land marks them as followers of ‘Krousta’ ; Biblical Saint is as same as Santha of Indian religious tradition; and Kitt which again finds its origin with mountain Kuta or Kukuta in the ‘navel’ or the ‘navi’ region of earth, is central to most of the religious terms of the ancient world.
This island country in the West Indies is yet to be defined through the meaning of ‘Indies’; Chain of Leeward Islands and the capital city of Basseterre along with Anguilla, Antigua, Montserrat, Tortola, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and St Barts specify a group of ancient migrants’ settlements whose ancient homelands were mostly neighbourly to each other. So their new homelands are accordingly placed and named.
More interesting are the names of Kalinago, Liamuiga and Oulia which are considered as ‘another’ name of St Kitts and Nevis. Whatever may be their locally identifiable meanings, they stand for the ancient Naga or Serpent Kali, Lambakanas, and Aulis of ancient history.
On the northwest of this site lie the Eustatius island and Saba(or the Netherlands), Saint Berthelemy, Saint Martin and Saint Maarten, and Saint Angulia, and to the east and northeast, Antigua and Berbuda, and to the southeast is the uninhabited Rodanda, and the island of Montserrat. Including Carib island and Lesser Antilles, they identify the ‘first-land’ and collectively focus on Europe as the ‘Second Settlement’ of the ancient migrants.
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