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Pages of the 15th-century Latin edition of Themeu
The legend of Atlantis begins with Plato, the philosophical ancestor of ancient Greece. It is mentioned in two dialogues in Plato's most recent works, Critias and Timaeus.
In Plato's hint, there is this: "Around nine thousand years ago so, across from the Pillar of Hercules (strait of Gibraltar), there was a very large island, from where you could go to other islands, and on the opposite side of those islands was a whole land surrounded by the sea, and this was the kingdom of 'Atlantis'. At that time, Atlantis was about to start a big war with Athens, but Atlantis suddenly encountered earthquakes and floods, and in less than a day and a night, it was completely submerged into the seabed, becoming an obstacle for the Greeks to travel far by sea. ”
Some scholars of Plato's philosophy have a negative attitude towards the existence of Atlantis for the following reasons:
They believed that Plato's purpose was to promote the concept of the "Republic" and to invent the story of Atlantis in order to make it easier for people to understand.
He wanted to encourage the corrupt descendants of Athens at the time, so he told them that his ancestors had fought bravely with the "ideal people" (Atlanteans) to defeat the legendary maritime empire, proving that the Athenians had substance and strength beyond all mankind. It is hoped that this will invigorate the corrupt descendants of Athens.
Legend has it that the creator of the kingdom of Atlantis was Poseidon, the god of the sea. On a small island, there was a young girl whose parents had died, and Poseidon married the girl and gave birth to five pairs of twins, so Poseidon divided the island into ten districts, which were ruled by ten sons, with the eldest son as the supreme ruler. Because this eldest son was called "Atlas" (Άτλας), the country was called the "Kingdom of Atlantis".
In the acropolis in the middle of the continent, there is a temple dedicated to Poseidon and his wife, and a shrine dedicated to Poseidon, which is decorated with gold, silver, brass and ivory. The coast of Atlantis is home to shipyards, which are packed with three-oared warships and are filled with merchant ships and merchants from all over the world. The Kingdom of Atlantis was very rich and powerful, and in addition to the richness of the island itself, tributes from Mediterranean countries such as Egypt and Syria were also continuous.
The ten kings, each holding absolute power in their own territory, each in different state organizations, gathered every five to six years at the Temple of Poseidon to discuss their relations and their right to rule, and when the agreement was established, they cut off the throat of the cow who died in the Temple of Poseidon, and wrote the text of the resolution on the pillars of the Temple of Poseidon with their blood, in order to increase the sacred authority of the resolution.
The ten kings were all wise, and their respective countries were rich and powerful. Unfortunately, corruption soon began in those countries. Zeus, the head of the gods, punished the fall of the people, causing earthquakes and floods, and the kingdom of Atlantis fell to the bottom of the sea in one day and one night. In Plato's Story of Atlantis, it is also implied that The Greeks before Plato's time used different scripts from those used in Plato's time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > energy</h1>
Legend has it that there is an energy station in the Sun Palace in Poseidonia, the capital of Atlantis, and the center of the energy system is the magnetic euphrate, which is a huge hexahedron that absorbs sunlight and converts it into energy. Light energy is concentrated, enhanced, and transmitted outward with strong light that cannot be directly viewed.
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Plato's Dialogues mentioned 2,400 years ago that the Atlantean Empire was a large island in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean. King Poseidon divided the island into ten parts to five pairs of twin sons who ruled each other on the island. The plains were divided into 90,000 regions, each with commanders, 1.2 million troops mobilized, believing in the sun god, who possessed countless treasures, inexhaustible wealth, elaborate construction techniques, and other high civilizations, but they fell downhill because of corruption, and then twelve thousand years ago there were great earthquakes and floods, and in a day and night, they sank to the bottom of the sea. Many historians believe that Atlantis is a myth, and Plato only uses it as a metaphor for the values of Athenian society, but many archaeologists and historians hope to find and return it to a truth. More than a thousand places around the world are suspected to be Atlantis.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" > Cyprus said</h1>
Robert Sarmast, an American explorer who claimed to be an expert in mythology and antiquity, argued that there was something to it in his book Discovering Atlantis, and used Plato's description as the main basis for his research.
He said Plato provided "concrete clues" to Atlantis, 45 of which showed it in the southern waters of Cyprus, and said that the ancient landforms of Cyprus shown in the oceanographic map corresponded to Plato's description. Sassy also said that he found many of the places that Plato had mentioned, including a rectangular plain with the Atlantean domain in the middle.
The center of his theory was the ancient "Great Flood Disaster" in the Mediterranean Basin, which connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean at the present point of the Strait of Gibraltar. This statement is consistent with Plato's statement that a great flood "engulfed" the island of Atlantis, and that there was a great flood.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > Crete said</h1>
British archaeologist Evans discovered a large-scale remains on the island of Crete before World War II, and coupled with the discovery of a crater depicting the now inland sea on a small circular island in the north ,also known as Santorini), evidence that once was a small island, some people suspect that Thira is the origin of the legend of Atlantis, because according to research, about the 15th century BC (that is, 899 years before plato's time), a large eruption occurred on the santorini volcano on the island of Thira, The eruption led to the destruction of civilized cities built on the crater and a tsunami, which dealt a major blow to the Minoan civilization, which had relied on trade, and died.
Proponents of this claim argue that Plato (or his cousin Curitius or the Greek Sauron, who first heard the story) got the numbers wrong, so the whole number was exaggerated more than tenfold, and 900 became 9,000 years, and 40,000 square miles became 400,000 square miles, which is why it became such a legend.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > Antarctica</h1>
Supporters of this claim are represented by archaeologists and writers Greim Hancock and Lance Frilias.
This theory holds that Atlantis should be on the Antarctic Peninsula, and explains the destruction of Atlantis by the "crust sliding theory", arguing that Atlantis was not only affected by volcanic disasters and so on, but was followed by severe cold, which caused the Atlanteans to abandon their homeland, and the Antarctic Peninsula was subsequently covered with thick ice.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > Mauritania said</h1>
Mauritania says it believes that Atlantis moved to present-day Mauritania because of floods and earthquakes. The only current location is the Eye of Sahara in the Sahara Desert.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > Sardinian-Corsica block said</h1>
In January 2021, independent researcher Luigi Usai released a new hypothesis according to which Atlantis would be a geological block of the sardinian-Corsica continent, while the sinking of Atlantis was caused by the sudden melting of glaciers after melting, um. In fact, geologists know that the water level in the Mediterranean sea was about 14,000 meters lower than the current water level about 14,000 meters ago, which melted after the so-called "meltwater pulsation", causing sea levels to rise worldwide. The so-called "Messinian salinity crisis" is also well known, during which Sardinia and Corsica were combined to cover on foot, as sea level dropped by more than a hundred meters. At that time, according to Usai, Sardinia and Corsica, as well as most of the coasts that are currently submerged, formed what appeared to be a large island, which was called plato by Plato in the third chapter of Timaeus and in Critias, Atlantis. These papers were published in February 2021 and are widely known worldwide through the "Map of Atlantis".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > Gibraltar said</h1>
Collina-Girard, a professor of geography at the University of Provence in France, believes that Plato's "Atlantis" described in his book is located along today's Strait of Gibraltar.
Corinna studied the history of human migration from Europe to North Africa before 19,000 and argues that during the period of the existence of the continent of Atlantis, the Strait of Gibraltar had land above sea level, and the continent of Atlantis was between present-day Andalusia and Morocco.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="33" > Ireland said</h1>
In his 2004 book Atlantis through the Eyes of Geographers: Wonderland in Exploration, The Swedish geographer Ulf Ellingson argues that the island of Ireland is the continent of Atlantis. The main argument comes from plato's description of the island nation as very similar in size and landform to the island of Ireland, and that both have megalithic burial cultures. Legends of the sinking of Atlantis may come from 6100 BC, when the end of the Ice Age caused sea levels to rise and inundated many of the islands along the coast. The long history of false rumors exaggerated the sinking of the island as a devastating disaster.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > Said Byadice</h1>
Some researchers believe that Atlantis is located near Cádiz in Spain. In 2011, an archaeological discovery by Hartford University professor Richard Freund in the marshland of Donaña National Park in northern Cádiz, Spain, identified it as atlantis destroyed by the tsunami.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > Americas says</h1>
Olmec Megalithic statue
Scientists Paul Weinzweig and Pauline Zalitzki have claimed to have found undersea pyramids off Cuba in the Caribbean. The Olmec civilization in eastern Mexico, America, was born around 1200 BC. The Olmecs have left many statues for their descendants, with their wide nose and thick lips, which, although very different from other Indians, are very similar to the indigenous peoples of Africa. Some studies believe that the Olmec civilization was established on the eastern coast of the Americas after crossing the Atlantic Ocean from the Negro race in ancient Africa; if combined with the geographical distance, the level of science and technology at that time, and the ancient historical documents, it seems that only the "Atlantean Empire" is a more reasonable explanation.