Atlantis

[Horus]

I figure this is the right place to ask this question. How do you all view the myth of Atlantis? Do you believe in it? Do you think that anybody who cares is crazy? Discuss.

 

[speed]

I figure this is the right place to ask this question. How do you all view the myth of Atlantis? Do you believe in it? Do you think that anybody who cares is crazy? Discuss.

I'm a big fan of the whole Atlantis myth. I think Prof. Spyrion Marinatos solved the mystery with the discovery of Ancient Thera on present day Santorini Greece. I spent a whole summer on the island, and wrote my masters thesis on the unique wine and wine history of the island--that goes back to the times of Atlantis.

The evidence is very compelling. Thera was a highly advanced island that had every thing from plumbing, three story modern looking buildings, highly advanced art and culture. They were by far the leading traders of the time, and non-violent. They are thought to have been part of the Minoan civilization, but they could have been independent or allied with Crete.

I was told by the archealogist in charge Prof. Doumas--who has also written on the subject, that there are more ruins that have yet to be unearthed; maybe more than 50,000 people lived in the city ( and thats from 1900-1650 B.C.). Furthermore, the island is a volcano, that blew up 3,700 hundred years ago, most likely causing the flood in the Bible.

Or, as Prof. Doumas and many others believe, Atlantis is merely a allegory, and never meant to be taken literally.

 

[derek]

Love the myth, as with all myths they fire the imagination. I'm reading more atm, based on what speed has just talked about. But my initial conclusion would be allegory.

 

[LORD_RED_DRAGON]

i dont remember the name of the geologist-guy but there's this pangea theory about how atlantis is really the north-eastern-most land in north america

 

[Narg n Lamb]

Whoever thought of posting this idea here is a genius


I for one, believe in the myth of Atlantis more because I like stories like that always make you think that there was once a very advanced civilization that lived on earth but disapeared during the last Ice Age ... I dont know it always interests me, and that maybe one day we might discover something in the middle of the Atlantic ocean that was swallowed up by the glaciers of the last ice age...

 

[LORD_RED_DRAGON]

I was told by the archealogist in charge Prof. Doumas--who has also written on the subject, that there are more ruins that have yet to be unearthed; maybe more than 50,000 people lived in the city ( and thats from 1900-1650 B.C.). Furthermore, the island is a volcano, that blew up 3,700 hundred years ago, most likely causing the flood in the Bible.

Atlantis was sub-merged in "The Flood" in the beggining of "The Bible"?!? i always thought it was pulled away from the main land in the "Pangea earth-quake" (see my previous post) so if it really was a flood then Atlatis was prolly both on the beach and also under-sea-level like New Orleans

 

[Lord SteveO]

I would make sense for the Bible flood and that which "killed" Atlantis to be the same thing.
With so many other things in the Bibile or other texts we see they are based on real events, often events which we would not imediately link with the bible.

 

[Norsemaiden]

In the film "Erik the Viking", the land of High Brazil is probably based on atlantis. When the island floods and sinks under the sea, as the prophesy foretold it would, the High Brazilians refuse to believe what is happening and refuse to be saved. "It's not happening, it's not happening" they say, as the water rises past their necks and drowns them. Now why does that remind me of the mentality of pretty much everyone on this planet today....?

 

[Kenneth R.]

I figure this is the right place to ask this question. How do you all view the myth of Atlantis? Do you believe in it? Do you think that anybody who cares is crazy? Discuss.

i believe there was likely a Mediterrannean island civilization about as advanced as the Romans or Greeks, that was destroyed in a cataclysmic natural event (very likely a volcanic eruption.) I do not believe they were aliens, or that we have lost some vast treasure or secret magical knowledge with their demise. I too think this event is responsible for the flooding described in biblical events.

 

[derek]

I love the idea of Atlantis being some advanced alien outpost or something, but sadly I doubt that is the case. More likely to be an island of a decent civilisational advancement that was destroyed by a natural disaster.

 

[NeverIsForever]

I love the idea of Atlantis being some advanced alien outpost or somehting, but sadly I doubt that is the case. More likely to be an island of a decent civilisational advancement that was destroyed by a natural disaster.

agreed

 

[LORD_RED_DRAGON]

In the film "Erik the Viking", the land of High Brazil is probably based on atlantis. When the island floods and sinks under the sea, as the prophesy foretold it would, the High Brazilians refuse to believe what is happening and refuse to be saved. "It's not happening, it's not happening" they say, as the water rises past their necks and drowns them. Now why does that remind me of the mentality of pretty much everyone on this planet today....?