With Schliemann's discovery of Troy and Evans' discovery of the Cretan civilization, there was a growing interest in Atlantis. At the age of 28, Donnelly was elected lieutenant governor of Minnesota, and his political prowess was very strong. Since then, as a member of parliament, he has carried out activities and gathered a lot of information in parliament. In particular, he argues in The Great Code that "all of Shakespeare's works were written by Francis Bacon." ”
But the biggest reason the world pays attention to him is that his two books, Atlantis Before Noah's Flood (1882) and God's Twilight Age of Firearms (1883), have been published in many editions and have become bestsellers. In support of Plato's claim that "Atlantis disappeared overnight due to violent earthquakes and floods," he collected and sorted out legends scattered around the world and published 13 propositions about Atlantis. Here he quotes Junichiro Koizumi, a researcher at Japan's Super High Ambassador.
(1) In the past, there was a large island in the Atlantic Ocean beyond the Mediterranean Sea. The ancients called that island Atlantis.
(2) Plato's description of the island has long been used as an allegory, but this is true.
(3) The place where the uncivilized humanity first civilized was Atlantis.
(4) As the years passed, Atlantis became a populous power. As the population increased, they spread all over the world, establishing civilized nations around the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, the Amazon River, the South American Pacific, the Mediterranean, Europe, Africa, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, and the Caspi Sea.
(5) The Atlanteans established the state before the Great Flood. The Garden of Eden, the nation of Hesperides, the fields of Elihiwyn, the nation of Alginus, Olympus and other legendary paradises are part of the memory of the nation established long ago when mankind enjoyed happiness.
(6) The gods and goddesses worshipped by the ancient Greeks, Greeks, Indians, and Eldians were the names of kings or heroes of Atlantis. In mythology, the actions of these gods and goddesses symbolically convey historical events.
(7) The myth of sun worship in Egypt or Peru originated in Atlantis.
(8) The oldest colony built by the Atlanteans is speculated to be Egypt. Egyptian civilization followed the civilization of the island of Atlantis.
(9) Dream european Bronze Age artifacts originated from Atlantis. The Atlanteans were the first ironmakers.
(10) The basic alphabet of the European alphabet comes from the alphabet of Atlantis. The letter also reached the Maya in Central America.
(11) The Ariatic, the Indo-European language family, the birthplace of the Turan family is also Atlantis.
(12) Due to the great changes in nature, the inhabitants of the entire island of Atlantis were also collected.
(13) A very small number of people who avoided disaster by boat or raft informed the winter melon of the situation in Atlantis. The story is legendary of the Great Flood in the old and new worlds (eastern and western) regions.
Donnelly's assertion is that, in a word, Atlantis is the root of human civilization, and all ancient civilizations were inherited from Atlantis. He said that the continent of Atlantis existed in the center of the Atlantic Ocean, and gave examples of pyramids spread across the continents, the preservation of mummies, the solar force and so on. Paying particular attention to the record of the legend of the Great Flood, which is evenly distributed around the world, he explains: "The legend of the Great Flood is remembered by the world because the memory of the fall of Atlantis spread throughout the world. ”
Donnelly's claim that the newly independent nation of the United States was a colony of Atlantis was enthusiastically supported by the Americans. He believes that the oldest colony of Atlantis is Egypt, and egyptian civilization is a replica of the civilization that once flourished in Atlantis. The following article amply illustrates how convinced he was of the existence of the continent of Atlantis.
"Today's scientific investigations have gone beyond the threshold and are on top of a huge wave of progress. One hundred years from now, all the world's museums will exhibit artifacts from Atlantis, such as jewelry, sculptures and weapons, and the World Library will be filled with records of interpretations of Atlantis inscriptions.
Donnelly's ideas plunged the entire United States into the Atlantis craze, and even in New Orleans there was a "Mardi Gras" (1883) based on the atlantis theme. In particular, he uses vast amounts of material to try to restore the continental face that has become the root of human civilization, but because he is too obsessed with Plato's story, he adds a lot of unrealistic content that ordinary people can't understand, thus losing trust.
Scottish mythologist Lewis Spence added a more scientific basis to Donnelly's hypothesis, arguing for the existence of Atlantis. He found evidence of the problems of the continent of Atlantis through a book, the topography of the vast expanse of the largest part of the North Atlantic. "The land splits into two distinct islands, one of which is located in the western Part of the West Indies and the other in the Strait of Gibraltar, next to the Spanish peninsula on the continent of Atlantis. This means that the Atlantean civilization reached the Mayan civilization of the West Indies.
Spence argues that Atlantis, unlike Donnelly, perished in several natural disasters. The first catastrophe occurred 25,000 years ago, where early Europeans lived, that is, the Atlanteans were European Stone Age cromanns.
As enthusiasm for the continent of Atlantis grew, it eventually led to UFO syndrome. Among them, Charles Habgood, Rand Flem-Ath and Graham Hancock are representative figures. In particular, charles berlitz, the continent of Atlantis and the Triangle of Bermuda, the Mystery of Atlantis, the Mystery of the Lost World, the Bermuda Triangle and other best-selling books, the existence of established facts in Atlantis "hardened as much."
Flitz was a very talented storyteller
He first enumerated a map of the Antarctic of Turkish Admiral Piri Reis found in Istanbul and used it as evidence that traces of the draft gate did not completely disappear, but vaguely existed. The map depicts the topography of thousands of kilometers of Antarctic coastline and remote areas currently buried under the ice. He was the leader, of the Atlanteans, whose works, if not impossible, had also expanded in the past to be used by electricity, with lenses, gears of the 태엽장치 of course in BC had been found to have used gunpowder and other clear evidence that a "micro-horse tip of knowledge remained all over the world." He also accused that less than a tenth of the knowledge recorded in the past is now because religious fanatics ruthlessly destroyed, tampered with and distorted it. He also said that the megalithic cultural relics left by the descendants of Atlantis have not completely disappeared.
He argued that Egypt was a colony of Atlantis and therefore could introduce more advanced civilizations than other regions. Of course, the descendants of Egypt influenced the Stone Hengzhi in England and the Mayan and Inca civilizations of the American continent, and did not rule out the inclusion of the stone statues or Nazca patterns of Easter Island in the Megalithic culture.
But he, like Spence, did not agree with Plato's statement that Atlantis disappeared overnight and during the day. He said that 12,000 years ago, the last glacier melted sharply, sea levels rose (120 to 160 meters), flat lands and islands along the mainland coast were flooded, and the super-high gate names that existed before the Great Flood disappeared. He added: "The vanished buildings on the island of Bimini (Bahamas), as predicted by the prophet Edgar Casey, were suddenly discovered, and these areas were part of the continent of Atlantis.
Atlantis is the prey in the eyes of journalists
Opinions varyed about the continent of Atlantis, and on October 20, 1912, the American daily New York American published a surprising story. The article is titled "How I Discovered Atlantis" here, and "I" am Paul Sliemann, the grandson of Hainrich Iriman. The content of the report is shocking.
"My grandfather, Heinrich Schliemann, died in Naples in 1890, and a few days before his death I gave a friend a seal. The envelope read: "Only those who, as members of the Schlieman family, have sworn to devote their lives to the research work mentioned in the document can be opened." I swore after opening a mysterious envelope. An hour before his death, Grandpa wrote the following passage with trembling hands:
Sealed epigraph. Break a gourd bottle on an owl's head and investigate what's inside. It is related to Atlantis. "Excavate the east side of the Temple of Seth and the tomb of Shakun." You will find that my theory is correct.
Paul, who had studied in Russia, Germany, and the East for many years, opened a secret envelope in 1900. The envelope contained Schliemann's text.
I have come to the conclusion that Atlantis, with its vast territory between the Americas, West Africa and Europe, is the cradle of a common human culture.
In the envelope is a gourd bottle with an owl's head excavated from the site of Troy, on which it is written in Phoenician hieroglyphs "From Kronos, King of Atlantis". A document is also attached stating that crock pots unearthed from Troy and South America's Tiahuanaco (ruins of the prehistoric city of Sucre, the bolivian capital of South America) are similar, so Atlantis is its birthplace. Paul, who broke the gourd bottle, found a square silver metal plate in the bottle. On the metal plate inscribed with unknown letters and Phoenician letters is engraved the words "Temple from transparent walls".
Based on his grandfather's last words, Paul investigated the site of Seth and found the same metal plates taken from gourd bottles, as well as in Mexico and Peru. Not only that, but in the Mayan manuscripts and the texts of the Tibetan Monasteries in Lhasa, a record of the mysterious "Mu) continent", which has always been considered an "imaginary continent" located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has also been found.
Based on the information published by Sheriman's grandson Paul alone, the authenticity of the report was not questioned, and concern about the continent of Atlantis exploded. This report not only has the elements of classical reasoning, but also the mysterious elements of ancient civilizations, so it is more impactful. But the envelopes and other relics claimed by Paul were not made public, and his whereabouts were unknown, and the truth was eventually revealed. It was a fiction of a journalist.
Interestingly, Hitler's Nazi SS Gestapo organized a large-scale exploration expedition to discover the continent of Atlantis and carried out the "Atlantis Continental Project". They sent expeditions to Northern Europe, Central America, Venezuela and other places known as Atlantis. The aim was to consider the Aryan Germans to be the most capable and qualified ancestors of the nation in the world, and to consider the Atlanteans to be the most appropriate. In particular, they believed that if they found the relics of the super-famous Atlanteans, they could inject their superhuman abilities and spirit into the Germans and conquer the world.
In order to concentrate on the study of the legendary snowman living in the Himalayas, they also sent a mountaineering team to Tibet. Because Snow's ancestors were Neanderthals, they became Atlanteans and then thought that Aryans would have a genealogy.
Europe, which was very interested in snowmen at the time, supported Himalayan expeditions in search of snowmen. Britain's Hillary Clinton's successful ascent of Mount Everest was also supported by huge sums of money because he said he would try to find the snowman. In any case, the distorted targets of Britain and Germany were not successful, but the German exploration teams sent to the world achieved a lot in the field of science, especially archaeology.
To be continued
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