The
incredible story of Atlantis retained as a folk memory by
some and dismissed as speculation by others will not go away.
This article sets out to lead the seekers of truth to the
geological evidence of its former existence, and demonstrate
that Plato in his story did not create a mythology, rather,
he reported upon a tradition which had been handed down to
him as historical.
It
was the law maker and one of the most respected Greek citizens
Solon 638-558 BC, who had gained knowledge of Atlantis from
Sonchis and other priests of Neith in the Nile delta district
of Sais c. 570 BC - O Solon, you Greeks are all young in
your minds which hold no store of old belief in a long tradition,
no knowledge hoary with age - Solon had decided to travel
and consult the wisest men in the region, and to write down
information from their old history records. It was this manuscript
that Plato used in his dialogues Timaeus and Criteas.
The
records of Atlantis were passed down in the time honoured
ancient Egyptian oral tradition, and inscribed on a stele,
much later inspected and confirmed by Crantor, when he checked
on the Plato account. Later Sais was destroyed during Alexander's
Macedonan conquest and the stele was lost, hopefully buried
awaiting discovery.
Direct
and associated knowledge of Atlantis in the Atlantic appears
independently of Plato in pictures, maps, written and oral
records, from all over of the world. The deeds of kings on
the Egyptian King lists going back 36,525 years, match the
known progress of Homo Sapiens, and describe historical events
which help fit together and make sense of the story of our
ancestors. Thoth the inventor of writing was said to have
ruled on an island located in the west. Atlantean survivors
are found where they would be expected to have found dry land
on the Atlantic coasts.
Sonchis
had much verifiable knowlege to impart to Solon, including
the date of the catastrophic end of Atlantis at 9,500 BC,
and the date for what would have been a restart of Egyptian
and Greek civilisations, either side of 9,000 BC, by what
were descibed in the Old World, as a small group of Atlantean
survivors from the west. In the Americia's they came from
the east.
Plato's
detailed description of Atlantis in the ocean opposite the
Pillars of Hercules and Gades, matches the geological survey
of the Azores carried out by former top BP exploration geologist
Christian O'Brian, which he completed in 1984. His evidence
along with a 3D Visualisation of the great island, based on
the actual ocean floor contours, can be found on this website.
(Survey of Atlantis - click here
; 3D visualisation - click
here)
Only
now are our astrophysicists and space scientists recognising
the high culture of the archaic world, through the physical
structures such as the Great Pyramid, Stonehenge, the Bodmin
Moor Astronomical Complex, the Line A Loxodrome in East Anglia,
and many other sites world wide, which demonstrate the superb
knowledge and practice of observational astronomy in ancient
times.
The
same specialists are also able to link this knowledge to the
cycles of cosmic catastophe, which were of such great practical
concern to our ancesters, and who undertook the building of
megalith structures to hide themselves, their valuables and
animals from the wrath of god.
The
Dead Sea Scrolls produced its most valuable record in the
Qumran Calendar, attibuted to Enoch and describing the mathematically
perfect 360 day calendar, where the necessary adjustments
in time were added by inserting extra days as public holidays,
which did not count in the weekly tally. We see the means
of counting them in the use of the Aubrey Holes at Stonehenge
and a carved stone record at Newgange, and therefore see no
reason to doubt the superior accuracy of Egyptian time keeping
and dating.
Our
archaic ancestors had mapped the sky and the globe with extrordinary
accuracy, had adopted the Golden Ratio from which they had
set up a precise standard unit of measurement, understood
the precession of the equinxes and located the galactic plane
and centre - among other great technical achievements.
In
constructing the Great Pyramid they left for us their mathematically
perfect represention of the northern hemisphere, complete
with King's Chamber and Queen's Chamber star shafts. These
shafts record the positions of the key north (Alpha Draconis)
and south (Zeta Orionis) stars before and after a 10 km comet
hit the area of thick (former) north pole ice over the Hudson
Bay, at a velocity and low angled trajectory sufficient to
move the Earth on its axis by 14 degrees, at a date around
10,500 BC. The account in the Book of Enoch mentions the earth
tilting on its axis during which the earth labours and
is violently shaken (1 Enoch LIXV. 1-3). This event led
to the largest mass extinctions for 3.5 million years, Noah's
flood and the eventual demise of Atlantis.
The
related scientific disciplines now available to us, linked
to common sense, and the more accurate translations of the
work of our ancient authors, are revealing a priceless and
the clearly benevolent heritage of mankind's existence on
a beautiful, but vulnerable planet. Can there be any doubt
that we are the children of an advanced civilisation ?
Edmund
Marriage - see Articles for References, and Atlantis.
887
words - Prepared for the Wessex Research Group March Newsletter
Websites:
www.goldenageproject.org.uk
www.atlantisquest.com
References:
Plato's Criteas and Timaeus
The Shining Ones by Christian and Barbara Joy O'Brien
The Genius of the Few by Christian and Barbara Joy
O'Brien
Cycles of Comic Catastrophe by Richard Firestone, Allen
West, and Simon Warwick-Smith
The Great Pyramid Speaks by John Gagnon
Echoes of Atlantis by R.Cedric Leonard
R.
Cedric Leonard References:
Book of Enoch - translator Richard Laurence - Keegan
Paul, Trench & Co. 1983
The Book of the Dead by Wallis Budge - University Books
Inc. New Hyde Park 1960
Turin Papyrus - 1300 BC - Translator Francois Chamollion
Library of History - 8 BC - Diodorus Siculus (translated
by C.H. Oldfather)
History of the Phoenicians by Sanchuniathon - 1193
BC
History: Book IV by Heroditus - Melopomene (Rawlinson's
Translation) - 450 BC
A New Translation of the Bible by James Moffett - Harper
and Brothers, London 1922
Gods and Heroes of the Greeks by H.J. Rose - The World
Publishing Co. New York
The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels by Alexander
Heidel - University of Chicago Press, Chigago and London 1946
Ancient Fragments by Issac P. Cory (containing fragments
of Manetho) Reeves And Turner, London 1832
Illiad by Homer 850 BC (translation directly from the
Greek: compare with the Latinised translation of Samuel Butler)
Theogony by Hesiod 735 BC (Based on A. Rzach's translation)
Teubner, Leipzig 1913
Work and Days by Hesiod 735 BC (Also Rzach's translation)
Teubner, Leipzig 1913
Kings James Bible translation of 1611 - The Greek LXX
Version, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids 1970
Critias - Plato 360 BC (Benjamin Jowettt's translation)
Random House, New York 1937
Timaeus - Plato 360 BC (Also Jowettt's translation)
Random House, New York 1937
New Bible Dictionary - Tyndale House Publishing, Inter-Varsity
Press, Leicester, England
