Donald,
Maybe your download neglected some chapters and maps. The myths and histories all have Q arriving from and leaving to the east. He is Venus as the morning star after all. The map and chapters tell of an ancient canal from the Pacific to the Caribbean via Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan River. This theory was the basis for an expedition financed by Gavin Menzies and led by the explorer Sir John Blaisford-Snell in 2010. I've talked with Blaisford Snell by phone a couple of times and asked him to ask Menzies where he got the idea of a canal. It was from a post of mine in sci.archaeology circa 1998 which was based on archaeological research from SIR radar images of the area taken from the space shuttle (Dr. Payton Sheets), as well as excavations on Ometepe Island.
[www.johnblashfordsnell.org.uk]
When last I spoke with Sir John, he was awaiting hydrologic studies of the Santa Elana Penninsula. I am sure that 'Quetzalcoatl Rising' will be met with skepticism, but valid or not, it is a unique and new theory on the identity of Quetzalcoatl.
I am hoping that the underlying themes of creative responses to violence, the clergy and civil authority are communicated amidst the ongoing diffusionist arguments. The quotes in the book are accurate and the sermons of Bodhidharma are the four texts found at Dunhuang that Dr. DT Suzuki can attribute to the 'blue-eyed monk'.
Regards
Duncan