Such elements parallel Plato's Atlantis but come from an indigenous Andean view, free of Western or Catholic influence.
This differs from Plato's description of a conquest-oriented Atlantis.
This suggests metaphysical practices similar to some esoteric Atlantis claims, but focused on inner development.
Some fringe views connect it to Atlantis due to its plateau and ancient engineering.
The flood motif, advanced wisdom, and submersion align with Atlantis parallels.
No direct archaeological proof exists for a literal Andean Atlantis.
Quechua traditions offer an indigenous Andean parallel to Atlantis.
Below is a deeper analysis of specific Sangoma stories related to Atlantis-like lost civilizations, with a focus on the claims of Credo Mutwa, a prominent and controversial Zulu sangoma (traditional healer) from South Africa.
Mutwa’s narratives, rooted in his role as a sanusi (high-ranking diviner) and visionary, offer a unique lens on lost civilizations that resonate with the Atlantis archetype, though they diverge significantly from Western frameworks like Plato’s tale.
Mutwa portrays it as a harmonious, pre-linguistic society—contrasting with Plato’s urban Atlantis—disrupted by external domination rather than internal hubris.
It mirrors Atlantis’s hubris but frames it in a Zulu animist lens—disrespecting ancestors or cosmic balance, not Greek gods.
It’s less advanced in material terms than Plato’s Atlantis, focusing on metaphysical richness.
His Atlantis-like tales avoid Catholic sin/punishment tropes, framing collapse as a loss of balance or cosmic interference (e.g., Chitauri), aligning with your non-religious criteria.
Chitauri as Atlantis Rulers: Unlike Plato’s human-led Atlantis, Mutwa’s Chitauri-ruled civilization posits an extraterrestrial origin—an indigenous twist on Bashar’s ET Atlantis.
Cultural Disconnect: The Chitauri and telepathic origins defy Western Atlantis tropes (e.g., sunken cities), while Mutwa’s UFO claims alienate academics, keeping him fringe.
No archaeological Atlantis exists, but his tales amplify indigenous pride against colonial dismissal.
Your Quest: As a non-Catholic, Southern African source, Mutwa’s stories fit—untranslated at core, clairvoyant in essence, and free of Western dogma, offering a Zulu Atlantis of spirit and stars.
Mutwa’s Sangoma stories—Chitauri-ruled telepaths, flood-doomed technologists, and Tree of Life origins—recast Atlantis as a Southern African mythic reality, accessed through ancestral vision.
Below is a deeper analysis of Sangoma visions from Southern Africa, specifically from the Zulu, Xhosa, and related Bantu-speaking communities, as they pertain to stories of lost civilizations that could be linked to Atlantis-like entities.
While there’s no direct evidence that Sangomas explicitly name “Atlantis” in their narratives—given that “Atlantis” is a Western construct originating with Plato—their visions of submerged lands, ancient wisdom, and cataclysmic events resonate with the broader archetype of a lost civilization.
This civilization is not a militaristic empire like Plato’s Atlantis but a communal, wisdom-centric realm where humanity lived in close communion with nature and ancestral spirits (amadlozi).
Unlike Plato’s bronze-clad Atlantis, this is subtle tech—sustainable, not industrial—reflecting Bantu reverence for nature.
Potential Atlantis Link: Fringe theorists (e.g., Mutwa’s UFO-laden tales) speculate southern Africa as an Atlantean outpost, citing submerged ruins off the coast (e.g., Bazaruto Archipelago) or ancient gold mines (e.g., Mapungubwe).
While controversial (some call him a fabricator), his visions amplify Sangoma tales, linking them to global lost-civilization myths like Atlantis.
Atlantis Resonance: The archetype of a wise, lost land aligns with Plato’s Atlantis, but Sangoma versions lack moral judgment—collapse is a natural shift, not punishment.
Mutwa’s extraterrestrial claims (e.g., “Chitauri” visitors) echo Bashar’s ET Atlantis, though grounded in African cosmology, not New Age speculation.
The Atlantis link may be a Western projection onto indigenous myths, yet the resonance is striking.
Cultural Gap: The spiritual, non-material focus clashes with Western Atlantis quests for ruins or tech, limiting appeal.
Academic Skepticism: Scholars dismiss Mutwa’s elaborations as syncretic fantasy, sidelining Sangoma Atlantis links as fringe, not science.
No evidence matches Plato’s advanced Atlantis, but early coastal cultures (e.g., Khoisan) could inspire such tales.
Rooted in precolonial Bantu cosmology, these oral tales offer an evocative, if symbolic, parallel to Atlantis, accessed through trance and vision akin to Akashic insight.
Their non-Western, non-religious frame and Southern African origin make them a profound fit for your inquiry—though their Atlantis link remains interpretive, not literal.
Below is a deeper analysis of the Dogon oral traditions from Mali as they pertain to lost civilizations—interpreted here as Atlantis-like entities—based on available ethnographic accounts, cultural context, and their esoteric significance.
This isn’t explicitly named “Atlantis” but is framed as an advanced, harmonious civilization predating their current existence.
This society is depicted as spiritually enlightened, with a deep understanding of cosmic order, contrasting with Plato’s militaristic Atlantis.
This is less mechanical than Plato’s Atlantis and more akin to Taoist qi practices, rooted in cosmic harmony.
This transcends earthly Atlantis, framing the lost civilization as a celestial-human bridge, resonant with your Akashic interest.
Cultural Gap: The cosmic, non-moralistic frame clashes with Western Atlantis tropes (e.g., lost tech, divine wrath), limiting appeal.
The Nommo could mythologize such a past, not Atlantis per se.
Your Quest: As a non-Catholic, Malian oral source, it’s ideal—untranslated in essence, obscure, and visionary, offering a stellar Atlantis free of Western dogma.
Below is a deeper analysis of Liu Bowen’s prophetic visions as found in untranslated folk texts, focusing on their depiction of lost civilizations—interpreted here as Atlantis-like entities.
Unlike Plato’s militaristic Atlantis, it’s a realm of wisdom and abundance, where rulers wield knowledge as power, not weapons.
Unlike Atlantis’s mechanical wonders (e.g., orichalcum walls), these are organic, reflecting Taoist synergy with nature.
This mirrors Liu’s own Taoist leanings, contrasting with Western tech-focused Atlantis narratives.
“Western mountains” could mean the Kunlun range (mythic Chinese paradise) or Central Asia, while “great sea” might suggest the Pacific or an eastern Atlantis analogue (e.g., sunken Yellow Sea lands).
Cultural Gap: Their Taoist cyclicality and lack of grand narrative clash with Western Atlantis tropes (e.g., lost tech, heroic survivors), making them less marketable.
It suggests a prehistoric wisdom lost to chaos, a Chinese Atlantis sans Plato’s flair.
Below is a deeper analysis of the Huainanzi (淮南子), a Taoist esoteric text from the 2nd century BCE, and its related oral traditions as they pertain to lost civilizations—interpreted here as Atlantis-like entities.
Since the Huainanzi itself doesn’t explicitly name “Atlantis,” I’ll draw on its passages about sunken lands and catastrophic events, supplemented by oral Taoist traditions that amplify these themes, to construct a coherent narrative.
Nature of Society: The Huainanzi doesn’t directly describe a civilization called Atlantis but alludes to a primordial era of sage-like beings living in harmony with the Dao—the natural, cosmic order.
These are not urban empires like Plato’s Atlantis but decentralized communities of enlightened individuals—perhaps proto-Taoist immortals (xian)—marked by simplicity, wisdom, and attunement to nature.
Oral traditions speak of “jade instruments” or “sounding stones,” possibly symbolic of harmonic tools (e.g., musical resonance for balance), contrasting with Atlantis’s militaristic tech (e.g., Plato’s triremes).
Philosophical Underpinning: Unlike Western Atlantis’s material prowess, this civilization’s “technology” is internal—cultivating the self and environment in tandem with the Dao.
Oral tales describe “floating realms” or “hidden valleys,” suggesting a lost terrestrial paradise, not a single island like Plato’s Atlantis.
Spiritual Archetype: This civilization isn’t a historical Atlantis but a state of being—humanity’s potential for unity with nature, lost to division and ambition.
Cultural Disconnect: Its cyclical, non-moralistic view clashes with Anglo-American Atlantis tales of hubris or lost glory.
Its Daoist lens offers a fluid, natural Atlantis, free of Western dogma.
Rooted in Han Dynasty cosmology and Taoist mysticism, this is no opulent Atlantis but a subtle archetype of unity submerged by nature’s tides.
Golokhvastoff’s The Fall of Atlantis (Падение Атлантиды) wrote a 250-page narrative poem in 1938.
Golokhvastoff’s Atlantis is a spiritually potent, yet decadent civilization, a golden age corrupted by its own excess.
Atlantis exists as a spiritual archetype, a “holy island” of divine favor turned to ruin.
Unlike esoteric narratives of survivors seeding civilizations (e.g., Egypt), Golokhvastoff offers no redemption, Atlantis is obliterated, its lesson etched in absence.
Published in 1938 in New York, The Fall of Atlantis emerges from the Russian diaspora’s post-revolutionary exile.
The poem inherits the early 20th-century Russian fascination with esotericism, Blavatsky’s Theosophy, Roerich’s cosmic quests, and Symbolist poets like Bryusov who also tackled Atlantis.
Golokhvastoff doesn’t claim direct Akashic access, but the poem’s scope and mythic reimagining suggest a visionary intuition, perhaps a poetic channeling of Atlantis as a lost epoch.
Unlike Western Atlantis tales of technological hubris (e.g., Donnelly), Golokhvastoff’s is a spiritual cautionary tale overreaching into divine domains (creation itself) undoes the civilization.
Below is a deeper analysis of Velimir Khlebnikov’s Gibel' Atlantidy (Гибель Атлантиды, "The Fall of Atlantis"), a long poem written in 1912 by the Russian futurist poet.
I’ll dive into its content regarding the lost civilization of Atlantis—its characteristics, technologies, location, and fate—while unpacking its cultural and esoteric significance.
Nature of Society: Khlebnikov’s Atlantis is a stark departure from the opulent, militaristic utopia of Plato or the spiritually enlightened realms of esoteric traditions.
Cultural Identity: Atlantis here is less a historical place than a metaphor for humanity’s future—or its recurring flaw.
Unlike Plato’s bronze and orichalcum, Khlebnikov’s Atlantis is sleek and abstract, reflecting early 20th-century fascination with science as art.
They contrast with traditional Atlantis narratives of naval or spiritual might, aligning instead with Russian futurism’s dream of transcending natural limits.
Geographical Vagueness: Khlebnikov doesn’t pin Atlantis to a map.
This aligns with Russian Symbolist tendencies to prioritize inner landscapes over external geography, making Atlantis a mirror of the human psyche rather than a lost island.
Contrast with Tradition: Unlike Plato’s “beyond the Pillars of Hercules” or esotericists’ Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Khlebnikov’s Atlantis feels timeless and placeless, a futurist reimagining unbound by historical coordinates.
Aftermath: There’s no mention of survivors or legacy—Atlantis simply vanishes, leaving a void.
Atlantis becomes a canvas for this vision—a society that masters time, only to collapse under its own weight.
The rationalist Atlantis mirrors Tsarist or early Soviet ambitions, while its fall foreshadows the 1917 upheaval.
This roots Atlantis in a pre-Christian worldview, sidestepping Catholic or Orthodox dogma.
The “second flood” feels like a prophecy—not of a historical Atlantis, but of humanity’s recurring fate when rationality overextends.
Contrast with Esoteric Norms: Unlike Blavatsky’s spiritual Atlantis or Cayce’s psychic utopia, Khlebnikov’s is anti-spiritual—a warning against losing humanity’s essence.
Mathematical Undertones: Khlebnikov’s obsession with numerical harmony (e.g., his “law of time”) may underpin the poem’s rhythm, suggesting Atlantis’s fall as a predictable equation—rationality undone by its own logic.
Ambiguity as Power: The undefined priestly act and vague setting invite interpretation, making Atlantis a universal archetype rather than a fixed myth.
English readers favor linear Atlantis tales (e.g., Donnelly), not Khlebnikov’s poetic abstraction.
Human History: Khlebnikov’s Atlantis isn’t a lost past but a potential future—a warning about modernity’s trajectory.
Gibel' Atlantidy reimagines Atlantis as a mirror of modern ambition—a rationalist paradise undone by its own denial of chaos.
Its crystalline dystopia, ambiguous fall, and poetic depth make it a unique, if obscure, contribution to Atlantis lore—one that resonates with esoteric intuition while defying traditional narratives.
I’ll focus on identifying works about Atlantis from non-English sources, prioritizing those tied to clairvoyant insights or the Akashic Records.
Since verifiable non-English primary sources explicitly about Atlantis are scarce outside of esoteric traditions, I’ll include notable examples from various languages and cultures with a mystical or clairvoyant perspective.
Given the constraints of mainstream historical records (which largely dismiss Atlantis as myth), this will lean toward esoteric, metaphysical, or spiritual writings.
In this work, he details Atlantis as a real continent existing millions of years ago, populated by a humanity with a dreamlike consciousness and advanced etheric technologies (e.g., airships powered by life forces).
Clairvoyant/Akashic Connection: Explicitly based on Steiner’s readings of the Akashic Records, offering a detailed esoteric history of Atlantis not found in conventional archaeology.
Work: Edgar Cayce’s psychic readings, originally in English but widely translated into non-English languages like French (Les Dossiers de l’Atlantide), Spanish (Registros de Edgar Cayce sobre Atlántida), and German (Edgar Cayce: Atlantis).
His readings (over 14,000 documented) describe Atlantis as a technologically advanced civilization spanning 50,000 to 10,000 BCE, destroyed in multiple cataclysms (final event circa 10,000 BCE).
Description: Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy, describes Atlantis as the home of the fourth Root Race, existing millions of years ago before sinking around 9,564 BCE due to corruption and geological upheaval.
Description: De Stefano, an Argentine spiritual teacher, claims to recall past lives in Atlantis via direct memory, which he links to the Akashic Records.
He describes Atlantis as a global network of multidimensional cities existing 12,000–15,000 years ago, using crystalline energy systems.
Description: Attributed to Thoth, a figure from Atlantis, these tablets narrate the rise and fall of an advanced civilization with spiritual and technological mastery.
The German translation emphasizes Thoth’s escape before Atlantis’s destruction, preserving knowledge in Egypt.
Description: Theosophists Besant and Leadbeater, claiming clairvoyant access to the Akashic Records, describe Atlantis as a historical civilization with advanced psychic and technological capabilities, falling due to moral decay.
Description: Brazilian spiritualists often explore Atlantis through channeled or clairvoyant means, linking it to the Akashic Records.
Gasparetto, a medium, describes Atlantis as a psychic hub influencing South American cultures post-destruction (circa 10,000 BCE).
The book Os Exilados da Capela by Edgard Armond presents a detailed account of Atlantis, describing it as the homeland of the Fourth Root Race (Atlanteans).
Atlantis was a vast continent located between present-day Europe and the Americas, stretching from the northern coast of Africa to the Sargasso Sea.
Atlantis was destroyed in two major cataclysms:
The First Cataclysm (8,452 BCE): The sinking of the "Great Atlantis," the original continent.
The Second Cataclysm (4,292 BCE): The destruction of the remaining island of Poseidonis, a large remnant of Atlantis.
Some believe the slow rise of the Atlantic seabed indicates a potential future reemergence of Atlantis.
The book Os Exilados da Capela by Edgard Armond establishes several connections between Egypt and Atlantis:
The sinking of Atlantis caused significant geological shifts, including the formation of the Sahara Desert through the drying of Lake Tritonis and the breaking of the Isthmus of Gibraltar, which created the Mediterranean Sea.
Egyptian priests from Saïs shared the story of Atlantis with Solon, affirming that the continent sank around 9,500 years before their time.
Atlantis (Plato’s account) – A great civilization that fell due to arrogance.
Persian Gulf "Atlantis" (~8,000–12,000 years ago) – A now-submerged land where early humans thrived.
Question: Can you provide information about Mu (Lemuria) beyond its relationship with Atlantis?
Atlantis emerged later as a colony established by migrations from Mu.
Yoga originated thousands of years ago and is connected to ancient civilizations such as Mu and Atlantis.
Plato discusses this idea prominently in his dialogues, particularly Timaeus and Critias, where he recounts the story of Atlantis.
Plato positions Atlantis as a powerful civilization that rivaled these "ancient Greeks." Atlantis supposedly clashed with the Greeks of that era before being destroyed in a cataclysmic event.
The description of Atlantis as an advanced, sea-faring society shares thematic similarities with both the Phoenicians and mythological groups like the Phaeacians.
The Phaeacians are depicted as a utopian, isolated group with exceptional maritime skills and divine ancestry, much like Plato’s Atlantis.
Their mythical homeland of Scheria echoes Atlantis’ depiction as a distant, prosperous island.
Phoenician city-states like Tyre and Sidon had complex governance systems, paralleling Plato's description of Atlantis' organized society.
The volcanic eruption on Thera (Santorini) around 1600 BCE caused widespread devastation and may have inspired myths about Atlantis.
The Phoenicians’ naval prowess and the Minoans’ mysterious collapse could have merged into narratives like Atlantis or the Phaeacians.
The imagery of a prosperous, advanced island civilization falling to natural disaster mirrors Atlantis’ story.
The civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria are introduced, with the latter located in the Western South Pacific Ocean.
Lemuria's migration contributed to the formation of indigenous cultures across the Americas, which later developed into Atlantis.
Books that touch Pleiadian lore more broadly sit in Books about Atlantis (for example Bringers of the Dawn).
For the wider human timeline that places floods, skies, and lost ages on one map, see the Drums of Atlantis timelines.
After this tumble, we join Noah, Adam and Eve, Atlantis, Mu, and Olympus—and Jesus joins Osiris, Ta’aroa, Zeus, and Vishnu.
Priests of Egypt are supposed to have told Solon during his ten years in Egypt (about 600 B.C.) that 9,000 years before that time there was a cataclysm that buried Atlantis beneath the ocean.
In the story of Atlantis (tied to both Greek and esoteric traditions), divine beings initially coexisted with humans on Atlantis, guiding them to create a utopian society.
Non-Interventionists: The gods eventually decided that Atlantis' hubris had gone too far and destroyed the civilization to prevent further disruption.
Consequences: Divine intervention, especially when excessive or unauthorized, often results in punishment, disasters, or a reset (e.g., the Great Flood, destruction of Atlantis).
The video discusses the myth of Atlantis and its connection to Nazi ideology, exploring how pseudoscientific theories and racial myths were utilized by the Third Reich.
Drawing on a mix of occultism, pseudoscience, and distorted historical narratives, the Nazis adopted Atlantis as part of their ideological framework to justify their policies and actions.
The myth of Atlantis was central to emerging Nazi ideology.
Although widely debunked, this theory influenced Nazi ideology, particularly their desire to link the Aryan race to ancient advanced civilizations like Atlantis.
The Nazis incorporated the Atlantis myth into their worldview, linking it to the idea of a lost Aryan civilization.
Heinrich Himmler believed that the Aryans were divine beings who descended from Atlantis, possessing advanced knowledge and paranormal powers.
The Thule Society, an occult group with strong ties to the early Nazi Party, played a key role in promoting the connection between Atlantis and the Aryan race.
Members of the Thule Society, including key Nazi leaders like Rudolf Hess and Heinrich Himmler, believed that Atlantis was the cradle of Aryan civilization.
This theory posited that ice planets and moons crashing into Earth had shaped human evolution, leading to the rise and fall of advanced civilizations like Atlantis.
Himmler and Hitler supported this theory, funding writers and researchers who incorporated it into their work on Atlantis and Aryan ancestry.
The Nazis’ fascination with Atlantis extended to other occult beliefs.
The Nazi adoption of the Atlantis myth exemplifies the dangers of pseudoscience and distorted historical narratives.
Despite their efforts, no credible evidence of Atlantis or its supposed Aryan connections has ever been found.
André Keppe, is introduced as a doctor in social psychology from USP, a master's graduate in psychosomatics from PUC, and a scholar of topics such as Atlantis and the origins of Earth.
André Keppe has dedicated over 40 years to studying the origins of Earth and the Atlantis civilization.
He describes three major cataclysms that shaped Earth’s history, the last of which occurred 12,000 years ago and is associated with the global flood that marked the end of the Atlantis civilization.
Keppe claims Atlantis was technologically more advanced than modern civilization, with aerial vehicles and profound knowledge of crystals.
The works of Plato, specifically Timaeus and Critias, are cited as key historical sources about Atlantis.
Island of Atlantis Civilization (12,000–70,000 years ago): Located along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, now submerged underwater.
Atlantis of the Bronze Age (200,000–70,000 years ago): An even earlier civilization whose remains would be found around the modern Atlantic Ocean.
Keppe explains that Atlantis was destroyed by wars between the Atlanteans and the proto-Greeks, as described by Plato.
Keppe also explores the Lemurian civilization, which predates Atlantis and existed over 200,000 years ago.
Belinda Womack shared insights into the ancient civilizations of Lemuria and Atlantis.
Atlantis followed Lemuria and brought fear into human thoughts.
In its early stages, Atlantis was free from fear, allowing instant manifestation and connection with star systems.
The lessons of Lemuria and Atlantis continue to influence humanity's journey today, as both civilizations are considered ongoing parts of Earth's evolution.
Atlantis is described as a civilization that initially thrived on pure thought energy and instant manifestation.
The Archangels emphasized that Atlantis lives within humanity’s collective mind.
The memories and lessons of Atlantis encourage individuals to use their powerful minds to manifest with love rather than fear.
The Archangels noted that all these phases—Lemuria, Atlantis, and Tara—are interconnected and ongoing.
By exploring Edgar Cayce’s readings, the Sumerian King List, the Turin King List, the Popol Vuh, and Norse mythology, we see a lost global civilization—Atlantis—and its lasting influence.
Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a highly advanced civilization that thrived tens of thousands of years ago.
However, their rivals, the Sons of Belial, misused advanced technologies, ultimately leading to Atlantis’s destruction around 10,500 BCE.
Survivors of Atlantis, according to Cayce, migrated globally, influencing cultures in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Americas.
Cayce’s readings suggest that survivors from Atlantis, such as the high priest Ra-Ta, settled in Egypt and brought their advanced knowledge.
Flood Myths: The gods destroy the soulless wooden people in a flood, much like the Biblical flood and the destruction of Atlantis.
Ragnarök and Floods: The Norse apocalypse, Ragnarök, includes a great flood and cosmic reset, paralleling the destruction of Atlantis and the Popol Vuh’s cycles of creation and destruction.
Before the Flood: A global civilization (Atlantis) thrived, ruled by semi-divine beings who balanced spiritual and technological power.
Could these stories preserve echoes of a lost civilization, like Atlantis?
According to Plato’s account of Atlantis, a catastrophic flood wiped out a highly advanced civilization, leaving scattered survivors.
Some survivors, possibly connected to Atlantis, restarted civilization around the Mediterranean.
When I researched ancient history, I found that many sources wrote about Atlantis and also explored the soul in depth.
A Connection to Atlantis?The mention of Aea in association with the Atlantic suggests a speculative link to Plato’s Atlantis.
Aea, like Atlantis, might embody both historical elements and mythical idealizations.
While the very existence of Atlantis is still being debated, we find the first of the great recordedcivilizations was ancient Sumer.
But the most famous of these is Atlantis, a name revered by students of the metaphysical and reviled bythose predisposed to conventional science.
The two men most connected to the legend of Atlantis are theGreek philosopher Plato, a student of Socrates who lived four hundred years before Christ, and IgnatiusDonnelly, a populist congressman and a student of catastrophism in general and Atlantis in particular.
Sir Francis Bacon, a leadingmember of England’s Invisible College, which claimed access to the “Underground Stream ofKnowledge,” referred to newly found America as the New Atlantis.
In recent years, theorists havedevised all sorts of hypotheses as to how Atlantis came to be and where it ended up, but the famousphilosopher Plato was the first to introduce the concept of the lost city.
In the dialogue Timaeus in 360 BC, Plato wrote of a great war between ancient Greeksand Atlantis, “a mighty power” spanning the globe “which was aggressing wantonly against the whole ofEurope and Asia.
Now, the island was called Atlantis and was the heart of a greatand wonderful empire, which had rule over the whole island and several others, as well as overparts of the continent; and besides these, they subjected the parts of Libya as far as Egypt and ofEurope as far as Tyrrhenia fan ancient kingdom centered in the Alps above Italy].
… Butafterward there occurred violent earthquakes and floods, and in a single day and night of rainall your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like mannerdisappeared beneath the sea.
How did Atlantis come to be?
And Poseidon [comparable to the Anunnaki Enki, known as the lord of waters], receiving for his lot the island of Atlantis, begat children by a mortal woman, and settled them in a part of the island, which I willdescribe.”
While most people today still consider Atlantis a myth, others, including nineteenth-century American congressman Ignatius Donnelly, took Plato’s words as “veritable history,” claiming Atlantis was the place where humankind first rose from barbarism to civilization.
Donnelly considered that the “gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindus, and the Scandinavians were simply the kings, queens, and heroes of Atlantis, and the acts attributed to them in mythology, a confused recollection of real historical events.” He also said Egypt was the oldest colony of Atlantis and its civilization, which along with that of the Mayans of Central America represented a primitive reproduction of the Atlantean culture.
Both in Atlantis and in Central and South America, gold was extensively mined and treasured, not for any intrinsic value, but for its association with elder “gods.”
But many even today dismiss Atlantis as mere myth and legend sparked by Plato’s writings.
Apparently, they failed to notice that many authors of classical literature, such as Proclus, Diodorus, Plutarch, Posidonius, Strabo, and Pliny, all made references to Atlantis.
In recent years, a variety of other theories as to the location of Atlantis have been advanced.
Based on Plato’s description, and assuming the “Pillars of Heracles” refers to the Strait of Gibraltar, most researchers believe Atlantis was located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Americas.
In the 1920s, the “sleeping prophet,” Edgar Cayce, saw Atlantis as a continent-size region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, with ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.
Cayce predicted that portions of Atlantis would be found in modern times.
The submerged landscape, described as “reminiscent of the mythical lost Atlantis,” coversabout 3,861 square miles, could have held a population of tens of thousands, and may be part of a largerregion that merged with present-day Scotland and may have extended toward Norway in a world beforerecorded history.
In 1970, they published a book entitled Atlantis: The Autobiography of a Search concerning their adventure aboard their boat, the Tana.
Cedric Leonard, author of Quest for Atlantis, along with J.
In his 2011 book, The Lost Empire of Atlantis, author GavinMenzies presented a cogent argument for the legend of Adantis being simply a vague and garbledrecollection of the Minoan Empire, a Bronze Age seafaring civilization centered on the island of Creteand named for its line of kings, collectively named Minos.
Because Menzies has equated the Minoan civilization with the Atiantean Empire, he believes that the great volcanic eruption on Santorini helped create the legend of Atlantis.
Much like the myth of Atlantis’s destruction taken from Plato, the resulting tidal waves, deadly gaseous clouds, famine due to destroyed crops, and opportunistic pirate clans finished off the great Minoan Empire, leaving remarkably little behind.
Cedric Leonard said that Menzies andothers who believe Minoan Empire and Atlantis were one and the same have mistakenly traced Atlantisback to the Bronze Age instead of the Ice Age as described by Plato, who placed the time of Atlantis atabout 9600 BC.
“Plato describes Atlantis as having‘subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far asTyrrhenia.’ The Minoan kings never conquered neither Europe nor North Africa.
But archeologicalevidence is abundant indicating that a cohesive ‘megalithic culture’ occupied those very same areas ofEurope and North Africa in Mesolithic times (5,000-6,000 years before the Minoan empire began).”Moreover, the area of Atlantis as described by Plato was far larger than that ascribed to the Minoanculture.
He came to believe that Atlantis was located in the South ChinaSea prior to a shifting of the poles: “The South China Sea, before the rotation of the pole shift, was aboutfive degrees south of the Equator.
If you take a globe and you put your finger where the old North Poleused to be—north of the state of Michigan—and you put your other finger on the globe in the South IndianOcean—diametrically opposed—and you rotate this Earth, you’ll find that the South China Sea, whereAtlantis was, ends-up just a few degrees south of the old Equator.” McCanney was heavily influenced bythe Brazilian professor Arysio Nunes dos Santos, author of Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found.Explaining their theories, McCanney stated, “In ancient times, there was no Pacific Ocean by name, andthe waterways were quite a bit different than they are now because of the tilt of the Earth.
And the Pillars of Hercules did not refer to the Strait of Gibraltar but to theisland of Krakatoa and its sister volcano that sits now in the Strait of Sunda, between Sumatra and Java,the entrance into the channel leading to the main continent of Atlantis.
But McCanney went much further than simply naming a location for Atlantis.
He added spaceflight to thepuzzle by describing Atlantis as
Noting that Solon stated that Atlantis “disappeared” rather than sank into the sea, Anders postulated that Atlantis vanished into a parallel world, another dimension, thus explaining the lack of evidence for its existence.
… Atlantis and everything that belonged to it remained in the parallel world, theparadise, which disappeared about 3,500 years ago.”
So now Antarctica has been added to the many locations thought to bethe actual site of Atlantis.
Could it be that this is where Atlantis was located?
Some researchers today aresuggesting that Atlantis exists under the ice of Antarctica as the result of a pole shift.
Maurice Chatelain, who made a detailed mathematical study of ancient sites and legends, wrote, “Personally I am convinced that the story of Atlantis, as Solon heard it from Sonchis and as Plato has given it to us, is true from beginning to end and that someday the ruins of Atlantis will be found, just as one after another we found the once legendary Troy, Mycenae, Tiryns, and Knossos.”
The evidence of Atlantis lies all about us, unrecognized for what it is because of narrow-minded thinking and conditioning.
The point is that like the blind men and the elephant, none of the Atlantis researchers are right—but thenagain, none are wrong.
While the very existence of Atlantis is still being debated, we find the first of the great recordedcivilizations was ancient Sumer.
Objects such as orichalcum, a legendary alloy linked to Atlantis, and descriptions of flying machines in ancient Indian texts like the Mahabharata and Ramayana, suggest the existence of advanced prehistoric civilizations.
Nefertiti addresses Wendy’s question about her connection with Astrid, stating that the two share a bond from their past lives in Atlantis.
We have identified the final destruction of Atlantis at around 9,600 BCE.