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According to ancient myth, the
name of the vast island-continent,
and the many civilizations which
flourished on it, before being
destroyed in a cataclysm.
There are numerous legends
regarding Atlanteans and how their
advanced civilization was destroyed
by either their misuse of power or as
punishment for moral decay. In the
Middle Ages few doubted that
Atlantis had existed. Many theories suggesting the exact location of the lost
island have been advanced (most focusing in the area currently occupied by the
Atlantic Ocean), and the nature of its utopian political system has been discussed
extensively. Explorers have traveled thousands of miles looking for traces of its
culture and over forty locations for the site have been identified around the
globe, but no real evidence of its existence has ever been discovered.
Plato gave the first account of Atlantis in various dialogues around 350 BC,
describing the Atlanteans as a wealthy, successful, politically advanced and
militarily powerful society that overrun Europe with their armies, being only
defeated and repulsed by the Greeks. Shortly afterwards an earthquake caused
Atlantis to sink beneath the ocean. Plato recounts the story of Egyptian priests
who 200 years earlier had reportedly described Atlantis as a powerful island
empire seeking to dominate the Mediterranean world more than 9,000 years
before Plato's time. The island was supposedly larger than Libya and Asia Minor
combined and had been located in the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Pillars of
Hercules.
The modern myth of Atlantis began in earnest in 1882 with the publication of
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by ex-American congressman Ignatius Donnelly.
Originally inspired by documents he read at the Library of Congress, Ignatius
took upon himself to write a fanciful account of his own invention, concluding
that Atlantis was the location of the Garden of Eden and crediting its people with
the creation of alphabetical writing and scientific medicine. Furthermore, he
claimed that the ancient peoples
(Greeks, Phoenicians, Hindus and
Scandinavians) gods and
goddesses were simply the kings,
queens, and heroes of Atlantis and
that the acts attributed to them in
mythology are a confused
recollection of real historical
events. Even today there are
people that, inspired by Donnelly's
book, believe that mankind first
rose to a state of civilization in
Atlantis. They claim that The Sun-
worship found throughout the
world are relics of the original
religion of Atlantis.
In the late nineteenth and
twentieth centuries various occult
theories emerged regarding the
lost island race. Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, cofounder of Theosophy,
believed that the Atlanteans were descendants from another legendary lost
continent, Lemuria, and were the Fourth Root Race of all humans. She claimed
that the information had come from the book of Dyzan, an allegedly Atlantean
work that had survived and was now in Tibet. The philosopher and occultist
Rudolf Steiner claimed to be able to access the Akashic Records by psychic
means, which also described the Atlanteans as descendants of Lemurians.
Some writers have speculated that the present-day American Indians migrated
from the Old World to the New by way of Atlantis; shadowy legends among them
(the American Indians) seem to assist these speculations. Others point out the
startling similarities in technology and culture among ancient peoples who never
could have seen each other, and universal myths of a great flood and a race of
gods, as evidence of its existence.
Although traditional accounts of Atlantis have been proved false, today some
archaeologists speculate that the Atlantis legend may have originated with the
volcanic eruption that destroyed a highly civilized Minoan town on the island of
Thera in the Aegean Sea about 1450 BC. Regarding this possibility, Dr James
Mavor's book Voyage to Atlantis caused a minor sensation when was first
published in 1969.
Another book — The Secret of Atlantis, by Otto Muck — points to evidence of the
impact of a colossal body with the Earth in the southwest Atlantic as the cause of
Atlantis' demise. Fiery debris rained on Atlantis, followed by tidal waves that
inundated the island. Muck refers to twin depressions 23,000 ft deep in the sea
floor close to Puerto Rico, and to 3,000 shallow, eroded troughs, occupying part
of a elliptical area that extends out over the Atlantic. He deduces that these were
the result of an asteroid 6 miles (10 kilometers) wide that hit the Earth with an
explosive force of 3,000 medium-sized hydrogen bombs, triggering the
earthquakes described in Plato's story, and splitting the Atlantic open along the
line of the present-day mid-Atlantic Ridge. Furthermore, the Earth's Poles were
shifted, and a new geological age abruptly began, with the seasons becoming
sharply differentiated for the first time. Siberia, until then having a cool, but not
freezing, climate, was suddenly plunged into Artic cold, instantly freezing
thousands of mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses, many of them to be found in
good condition several millennia later.
Of all the world's unsolved puzzles, Atlantis is probably the biggest, exerting a
mysterious influence over humankind for thousands of years. The passage of
time has not diminished interest in the fabled continent, nor have centuries of
skepticism by scientists and scholars succeeded in banishing it to obscurity. See
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Accessible Remains of Atlantis.
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Atlantis: Ice Age Civilization.
Living Crystals of Atlantis.
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Sunken Civilizations.
The Atlantis Homepage.
The Atlantis Society.
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis.
The Mysterious and Unexplained - Atlantis.
