deviadah
04-25-2007, 09:23 AM
I really wanted to post this in Archaic Revivalism, but somehow it didn't work. Maybe an Admin can move this there since it probably fits better.
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Last week Atlantis figured in the news again. Go HERE (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6568053.stm)to read.
There have been many places suggested as the site of Atlantis. In the middle of the Atlantic where it is believed that Atlantis mountaintops are now the island world Azores, and then there is Crete, outside the coast of Cyprus, the area north of the Black Sea... and even Sweden.
As most know Atlantis is only known through Plato, which is a person we can't prove existed either 100%. There have been many books on the subject. One of the best, in my opinion, is Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis, The Antediluvian World in which he argues:“The fact that the story of Atlantis was for thousands of years regarded as a fable proves nothing. There is an unbelief which grows out of ignorance, as well as a scepticism which is born of intelligence. The people nearest to the past are not always those who are best informed concerning the past. For a thousand years it was believed that the legends of the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were myths: they were spoken of as the fabulous cities.”The Flood theory is interesting as proof since it can be found in many cultures. If a whole nation was destroyed it would no be strange to see it re-told again and again. As in recent time we have seen that it is possible for a deluge, or flood, to destroy cities such as what happened in New Orleans in 2005 (although it was also a hurricane) or the 2004 Tsunami that hit Sri Lanka amongst other places.
The thing that annoys me most is the fact that few take Atlantis serious. If historians would do that and accept that it did in fact exist then we should search for it on a more serious scale, because it would be, according to the few sources we have, the cradle of the intelligent mind we now, supposedly, possess.
And if it is not real and only a metaphor it is still not something to brush aside. Atlantis represents a higher human being. The people who lived there are the Gods we worship now. Surely we could learn something from them.
I don’t really have any point about this post… I just wanted to blow steam after I saw Atlantis mentioned in the press. It has never, and will never be, a crackpot theory in my eyes.
James Bramwell makes a poetic point in his book Lost Atlantis that:
“…the name Atlantis has a sad sound. If it is pronounced ringingly, giving the first two syllables their full consonantal resonance and allowing the finial sibilant to fall softly from the tongue, the effect seems to evoke an image of the surge and hiss of huge waves breaking over submerged rocks to spend themselves in white ocean foam. Atlantis is a grand name…”
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Last week Atlantis figured in the news again. Go HERE (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6568053.stm)to read.
There have been many places suggested as the site of Atlantis. In the middle of the Atlantic where it is believed that Atlantis mountaintops are now the island world Azores, and then there is Crete, outside the coast of Cyprus, the area north of the Black Sea... and even Sweden.
As most know Atlantis is only known through Plato, which is a person we can't prove existed either 100%. There have been many books on the subject. One of the best, in my opinion, is Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis, The Antediluvian World in which he argues:“The fact that the story of Atlantis was for thousands of years regarded as a fable proves nothing. There is an unbelief which grows out of ignorance, as well as a scepticism which is born of intelligence. The people nearest to the past are not always those who are best informed concerning the past. For a thousand years it was believed that the legends of the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were myths: they were spoken of as the fabulous cities.”The Flood theory is interesting as proof since it can be found in many cultures. If a whole nation was destroyed it would no be strange to see it re-told again and again. As in recent time we have seen that it is possible for a deluge, or flood, to destroy cities such as what happened in New Orleans in 2005 (although it was also a hurricane) or the 2004 Tsunami that hit Sri Lanka amongst other places.
The thing that annoys me most is the fact that few take Atlantis serious. If historians would do that and accept that it did in fact exist then we should search for it on a more serious scale, because it would be, according to the few sources we have, the cradle of the intelligent mind we now, supposedly, possess.
And if it is not real and only a metaphor it is still not something to brush aside. Atlantis represents a higher human being. The people who lived there are the Gods we worship now. Surely we could learn something from them.
I don’t really have any point about this post… I just wanted to blow steam after I saw Atlantis mentioned in the press. It has never, and will never be, a crackpot theory in my eyes.
James Bramwell makes a poetic point in his book Lost Atlantis that:
“…the name Atlantis has a sad sound. If it is pronounced ringingly, giving the first two syllables their full consonantal resonance and allowing the finial sibilant to fall softly from the tongue, the effect seems to evoke an image of the surge and hiss of huge waves breaking over submerged rocks to spend themselves in white ocean foam. Atlantis is a grand name…”