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Atlantis (page
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In the Ermitage Papyrus in
Leningrad there are
lamentations about a terrible catastrophe, when heaven and earth turned
upside down. After this catastrophe darkness covered the earth ― perhaps a nuclear winter, usually caused by
huge volcanic eruptions or an asteroid collision. This "shadow of death" is
related to the time of the wandering in the desert after the Exodus from
Egypt.
The sinister meaning of the words "shadow of death" corresponds with
the description of the Ermitage Papyrus: "None can live when the sun is
veiled by clouds." The phenomenon of gloom enduring for years impressed
itself on the memory of the Twelve Tribes and is mentioned in many passages
in the Bible:
Psalms 44:19 - "The people that walked in darkness ..
in the land of the shadow of death."
The
Manuscript Quiche
of the
Mayas also tells that in the
Western Hemisphere, in the days of a great cataclysm, when the earth quaked
and the sun's motion was interrupted, the water in the rivers turned to
blood.
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Map of
Atlantis by the 17th century German scholar Athanasius
Kircher. He based it on Plato's description of Atlantis as an island west of the Pillars of Hercules —
the Strait of Gibraltar — and situated in the ocean that
has since been named after the legendary land. Unlike
modern cartographers, he placed south at the top of the
map, and America appears at the right. . . —
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Another ancient document, the
Papyrus Ipuwer,
also states: "the earth turned upside down" and "the land turns round (over)
like a potter's wheel. The river is blood", and this corresponds with the
Book of Exodus 7:20: "All the waters that were in the river were turned
to blood."
Was this terrible catastrophe a volcanic upheaval that
changed the face of the Earth? Or perhaps a meteor from outer space that hit
us with catastrophic consequences? Whatever it was, it certainly made an
impression in our ancestors.
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Over the centuries, researchers
have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have
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suppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific
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anomalous evidence that casts this picture into doubt.
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If the eruption of a single volcano can darken the
atmosphere over the entire globe, a simultaneous and prolonged eruption of
many volcanoes would blacken the sky. The author of
Codex Chimalpopoca,
John Bierhorst, in his history of the suns, tells us of a terrifying
celestial phenomena. . . followed by darkness that covered the face of the
earth, in one instance for a period of 25 years.
To all the speculation, modern geologic theory now adds a tantalizing
footnote. It is believed today that, in the not so distant past, an
extraordinary period of flooding may have caused the filling of the
Mediterranean sea. In fact, scientist believe that the area has been subject
to many different massive floods throughout pre-historical times. Also,
extensive glaciations in the recent geological past have resulted in
repeated changes in worldwide sea levels. During the period of the last
glacial maximum, about 17,000 to 18,000 years before the present, sea level
was 100 to 120 meters lower than it is today. Any of these recent geological
changes could have originated the events and stories recounted in the
Atlantis mythology.
Around the shores of the Mediterranean, on its European, Asian, and African
coasts, are sunken structures, often visible when the sea is smooth. Some
are the remains of ancient harbor works, as at
Sidon and
Tyre and Alexandria. Some are villas or the floors of temples, as at
Posilipo on the
Bay of Naples or at
Kenchreai on the
Gulf of Corinth. Some
are entire waterfronts of lost cities, with roads leading into the water and
stairways descending out of sight.
These constitute evidence that world sea levels have changed many times, even during
recent
periods, and if not as dramatically and sudden as described by Plato in his
Atlantis' stories, certainly as disrupting and concluding, particularly for
the peoples that lived in these once above sea-level areas. It is entirely plausible that,
many thousands of years ago, an unknown advanced civilization, anywhere in the world,
even in or near the Mediterranean, encountered its demise in a vast, abrupt, and unexpected cataclysm.
Was this what happened approximately 12 thousand years
ago, spelling the end of a civilization that only reaches us in the form of
legend? Or is Atlantis just a figment of an overactive collective
imagination?
For a final enticing piece of information, in December 2001 explorers using
a miniature submarine to probe the sea floor off the coast of Cuba revealed
their discovery of stone structures deep beneath the ocean surface that were
indicative of ruins left by an unknown human civilization thousands of years
ago. Representatives of the Canadian-based
Advanced Digital Communications
and experts from the
Cuban Academy of Sciences
declared that the structures
were discovered at a depth of around 2,100 feet and were distributed as if
remnants of an urban area. Estimates of the ancient city under the sea were
somewhere in the vicinity of 6,000 years, thus making them about 1,500 years
earlier than the great Giza pyramids of Egypt. Whether this new fascinating
discovery proves to be Atlantis or indication of a land bridge that once
connected Cuba to mainland Latin America, it is sure to be controversial.
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 lessened interest in the
legendary
continent, nor have centuries of skepticism by scientists and scholars succeeded in
banishing it to obscurity.
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Sources: (1)
Dictionary of the
Occult, Caxton
Publishing;
(2)
Into the Unknown,
Reader's Digest Association, Inc;
(3)
Braymer,
Marjorie,
Atlantis: The Biography of a Legend,
Atheneum; (4) Donnelly, Ignatius,
Atlantis:
The Antediluvian World, Dover Publications; (5)
Mysteries of the Deep,
American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc; (6)
Mysteries
of the Unknown,
Time-Life Books;
(7) Muck, Otto,
The Secret of Atlantis,
Pocket; (8) Spence, Lewis,
The History of Atlantis,
Dover Publications; (9) Wilson, Damon,
Lost Worlds,
London Bridge; (10)
Mysteries of Mind,
Space & Time: The Unexplained,
H. S. Stuttman Inc. Publishers; (11) Steiger, Brad and
Sherry H.,
The Gale Encyclopedia of
the Unusual and Unexplained,
Thomson Gale.
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