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	Guanches - LoveToKnow 1911
		Strictly the Guanches were the primitive inhabitants of Teneriffe, where they seem to have preserved racial purity to the time of the Spanish conquest, but the name came to be applied to the indigenous populations of all the islands.
		Many of the Guanches fell in resisting the Spaniards, many were sold as slaves, and many conformed to the Roman Catholic faith and married Spaniards.
		In times of drought the Guanches drove their flocks to consecrated grounds, where the lambs were separated from their mothers in the belief that their plaintive bleatings would melt the heart of the Great Spirit.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Guanches (1108 words)

	Guanches
		Strictly speaking, the Guanches were the primitive inhabitants of Tenerife, where the population seems to have lived in relative isolation up to the time of the Spanish conquest, around the 14th century (though Genoans, Portuguese, and Castillians had occasionally landed there since the second half of the 8th century.
		The Guanches, now extinct as a distinct people, appear, from the study of skulls and bones discovered, to exhibit similarities to Cro-Magnon populations of the Mesolithic era, and links to the Berbers, who have long inhabited northern Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic, have been suggested.
		The Guanche population of Tenerife were, according to accounts from the 15th century, tall, tan-skinned, and powerfully built, with some having blond hair and blue eyes.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DGuanches%26type%3Den (1850 words)

	Guanches
		Guanches (also: Guanchis or Guanchos) (native Guanchinet; Guan=person, Chinet=Teneriffe[?], man of Teneriffe, corrupted, according to Núñez de la Peña[?], by Spaniards into Guanchos), were the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands.
		Strictly the Guanches were the primitive inhabitants of Teneriffe, where they seem to have preserved racial purity to the time of the Spanish conquest, but the name came to be applied to the indigenous populations of all the islands.
		Many of the Guanches fell in resisting the Spaniards, many were sold as slaves, and many conformed to the Roman Catholic faith and married Spaniards.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gu/Guanches.html (979 words)

	Guanches - Definition, explanation
		Guanches (also: Guanchis or Guanchos) (native Guanchinet; Guan=person, Chinet=Teneriffe, man of Teneriffe, corrupted, according to Núñez de la Peña, by Spaniards into Guanchos), were the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands.
		Strictly the Guanches were the primitive inhabitants of Teneriffe, where they seem to have preserved racial purity to the time of the Spanish conquest around 14th century (though Genoans, Portuguese, Castillians landed there since the second half of the 8th century).
		The Guanches embalmed their dead; many mummies have been found in an extreme state of desiccation, each weighing not more than 6 or 7 pound.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/gu/guanches.php (1050 words)

	Guanches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Guanches, now extinct as a distinct people, appear, from the study of skulls and bones discovered, to exhibit similarities to Cro-Magnon populations of the Mesolithic era, and links to the Berbers, who have long inhabited northern Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic, have been suggested.
		Guanches wore garments made from goat skins or woven from plant fibers, which have been found in the tombs of Grand Canary.
		The Guanche population of Tenerife were, according to accounts from the 15th century, tall, tan-skinned, and powerfully built, with some having blond hair and blue eyes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guanches (1971 words)

	THE GUANCHES OF THE CANARY ISLANDS
		The Guanches on Tenerife in 1492 did not permit Columbus to land on their island - they were not impressed by the physical appearance of the bearded Europeans, who looked like the Guanches themselves.
		When Columbus and the Europeans who followed in his wake landed in the Americas, they were welcomed and initially worshiped as gods, since the beardless Indians they encountered believed that the spanish belonged to the same people as the legendary founders of their civilization, bearded men from across the Atlantic Ocean.
		Guanche artifacts, such as cave murals, tombs, stone and mortar walls, broken pottery and other everyday items are abundant on the island.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_guanches_1.htm (1600 words)

	GUANCHES : Encyclopedia Entry
		The first reliable account of Guanche language was provided by Genovese explorer Nicoloso da Recco in 1341, with a translation of numbers used by the islanders.
		Guanches wore garments made from goat skins or woven from plant fibers, which have been found in the tombs of Grand Canary.
		Some theories state that the Guanches inherited their fair traits from the Celts or some other group originating on the European continent; indeed, the Celts and Germanic tribes enjoyed a much wider distribution across Western Europe in pre-Roman times, including the Iberian peninsula.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Guanches (1880 words)

	Guanches-Canary Islands-DNA Project - Family Project Website
		Indeed, the Guanches are deemed to be related to the Berbers of neighboring Morocco, who are, likewise, tall, blond and blue-eyed when unmixed with the Arab majority.
		Furthermore, the Guanches mummified their dead, and this material can be studied by the researchers, particularly concerning traits such as blood type and racial characteristics.
		The Guanches also left some sort of alphabetic inscriptions which have yet to be studied, along with their pottery and peculiar ruins.
	www.familytreedna.com /public/Guanches-CanaryIslandsDNA (6793 words)

	What Became of the Guanches
		It is another typical example, full of symbolism, of the presence of Guanche roots in the present-day Canarian culture and society.
		It was probably a sickness against which the immunitary system of the Guanches was unprepared, for the illness didn't affect the Spaniards.
		Many Guanches refused to live in the towns and villages which were built all over the island and prefered to stay as free shepherds in the mountains following their traditional ways of life.
	www.ctspanish.com /communities/canary/guanche3.htm (1412 words)

	Guanche language derived from Dravida?
		Since the Guanches lived in almost perfect separation from Europe and Africa from very early epochs, their tongue provides a sort of "fossil" evidence for the very earliest form of the language spoken by the immigrating races that settled in Western Europe and northwestern Africa.
		We have made the remarkable discovery that the Guanche language is closely related to the Dravidian family of languages of south India, both in grammar and in phonetics and etymology.
		The Guanches were fierce combatants, and resisted the Spanish conquest down to the last man. Canarian wrestling is famous even today, and was originally used to train the Guanche warriors for battle.
	www.atlan.org /articles/guanche_dravida/index.html (3115 words)

	UFO Area The Mysterious origin of the Guanches (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Guanches are the mysterious natives of the Canary Islands.
		It was thus that Mauritania was settled by the Berbers, Lebanon by the Phoenicians, Crete by the Minoans, Italy by the Etruscans, the British Islands and Brittany by the Celts and, of course, the Canaries by the Guanches.
		The idea is that the Chams, formerly white as the Guanches, were "charred" by the volcanism that destroyed their land, and became the Ethiopians, that is "the fiery faced" (aith-opes).
	www.ufoarea.com /aas_mysterious_origin_guanches.html (6298 words)

	Los Guanches de Las Islas Canarias
		Guanche was the name by which the natives of Tenerife called themselves.
		According to the tales of the European conquerors, the Guanches were a "highly beautiful white race, tall, muscular, and with a great many blondes amongst their numbers" Their great height must be understood in relation to the average height of Europeans at that time.
		The Guanches were submitted to a slow process of cultural indoctrination at the hands of Christian missionaries which lasted at least a century before the Guanches were finally conquered.
	www.rareplants.de /islas_canarias/guanches_canary_islands/los_guanches.htm (4711 words)

	Guanches \| Aborigines of the Canary Islands
		Guanches - the aborigines of the Canary Islands
		After all, the Guanche society was at a Stone Age-level, while Spain at the same time aimed to conquer the whole world by using modern ships and weapons.
		The Guanche people was either sold as slaves, or as it seems, integrated in the new society which of course meant conversion to Catholisism.
	www.bestofthecanaries.com /articles/canary-islands/guanches-the-aborigines-of-the-canary-islands114.htm (1214 words)

	Background Info \| Canary Islands Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		The Guanches left cave paintings dating from the 13th and 14th centuries scattered around the islands, particularly in the cuevas (caves) of Gáldar, Belmaco, Parque Cultural La Zarza, and the Los Letreros.
		The Guanches relied on limited farming, herding, hunting and gathering for their subsistence; the majority of them lived in caves.
		The first Europeans to attempt to conquer the Guanches were Normans from France in 1402, and the final campaigns ended around 1495 under a Galician soldier of fortune.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/africa/canary-islands/essential?a=culture (1137 words)

	Indianz.Com Message Board - Archaeologist says Guanches Came from South Americ
		Strictly speaking, the Guanches were the primitive inhabitants of Tenerife, where the population seems to have lived in relative isolation up to the time of the Spanish conquest, around the 14th century (though Genoans, Portuguese, and Castillians had occasionally landed there since the second half of the 8th century).
		The Guanche population of Tenerife were, according to accounts from the 15th century, tall, tan-skinned, and powerfully built, with some having blond hair and blue eyes.
		The surrender of the Guanche kings to Alonso Fernández de LugoThe conquest of the islands began in 1402, with the expedition of Juan de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle to the island of Lanzarote.
	indianz.com /board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24486 (4970 words)

	People of Gran Canaria
		Guanches, ‘guan’ (meaning 'man') and ‘che’ (meaning ‘white mountain’ referring to the snow-crowned Teide on Tenerife) in the native tongue, was the name given to those inhabitants.
		The Guanches were cave dwellers, which was a logical development with regard to the climate of the Canary Islands.
		Although the Guanches learned well how to adjust their way of living to the rocky landscapes and lived in caves or simple huts built out of rocks, their society was not entirely primitive: they had a relatively sophisticated social structure.
	www.spain-grancanaria.com /uk/people.html (634 words)

	The Mysterious origin of the Guanches - Unexplained - IN SEARCH FOR TRUTH - RIN.RU
		The Guanches are the mysterious natives of the Canary Islands.
		Indeed, the Guanches are deemed to be related to the Berbers of neighboring Morroco, who are, likewise, tall, blond and blue-eyed when unmixed with the Arab majority.
		The mysterious Guanches provide the key to the riddles that surround the origin of Mankind, and are the "missing link" connecting the Mediterranean and other neighboring civilizations to the Far Orient and the Indies, the true site of the Garden of the Hesperides.
	istina.rin.ru /eng/ufo/text/243.html (1394 words)

	Guanches@Everything2.com
		The Guanches were the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands.
		The word Guanche is a corruption of "Guan Chenech" which means "Man from Chenech" or "Man from Tenerife." This term eventually came to refer to the people from any of the islands, not just Tenerife.
		Those Guanches who weren't killed were baptized and made subjects of the Spanish crown, their names were changed and they were made to speak Spanish.
	everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=1046227 (385 words)

	Tenerife History and Legends
		Today besides the motorway there is a huge stone wall painting with a Guanche blowing the victory signal through a horn in the place of the massacre.
		One and a half years later, the 25th of December of 1495 and after the stench plague which weakened the Guanches the spanish crown finally conquered Tenerife.
		After the victory over the Guanches, de Lugo constructed in 1496 the Metropolis of 'San Cristobal de La Laguna' beside a lagoon which was about seven kilometres away from the bay of 'Añaza'.
	www.donquijote.org /tenerife/info.history.asp (890 words)

	::... Artifice Design ...::
		What is intriguing about the Guanches is the fact that they told other visitors, notably the Portuguese, that they'd once been part of a much greater homeland that had been destroyed in a huge deluge.
		By the time the Spanish arrived it was reported that the Guanches were terrified of the ocean that surrounded them.
		The Guanches also have similarities with the Egyptians and they were known for mummifying their dead.
	www.artifice-design.co.uk /guanches.html (703 words)

	Mysterious origin of the Guanches
		In an article parallel to this one we present the philological comparison of the Guanche language to Dravida, the sacred, pristine language of the Dravidian populations of India.
		Many writers who investigated the problem of the Guanches were puzzled by the fact that the natives of the Canaries detested the sea, and never sailed it at all.
		It was thus that Mauritania was settled by the Berbers, Lebanon by the Phoenicians, Crete by the Minoans, Italy by the Etruscans, the British Islands and Brittany by the Celts and, of course, the Canaries by the Guanches.
	meta-religion.com /Paranormale/Atlantis/mysterious_origin_of_the_guanches.htm (6496 words)

	Mysterious origin of the Guanches
		The Guanches are the mysterious natives of the Canary Islands.
		It was thus that Mauritania was settled by the Berbers, Lebanon by the Phoenicians, Crete by the Minoans, Italy by the Etruscans, the British Islands and Brittany by the Celts and, of course, the Canaries by the Guanches.
		The idea is that the Chams, formerly white as the Guanches, were "charred" by the volcanism that destroyed their land, and became the Ethiopians, that is "the fiery faced" (aith-opes).
	www.meta-religion.com /Paranormale/Atlantis/mysterious_origin_of_the_guanches.htm (6496 words)

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