Atlantis

The Lost City of Atlantis is not the only lost continent . There is a legend that speaks of another one called Lemuria. But more on this less well-known mythical land later, for now let us focus on Atlantis. Many skeptics of the existence of Atlantis will insist that with the exception of Plato's two dialogues, Critias and Timaeus there is no other independent evidence of Atlantis given by ancient authorities.However ancient myths and traditions from many if not most nations center on a legend of a great Flood and it's destruction of Paradise (the original focus of Civilization), might this have been the fabled Atlantis?

The Mayan myths of origin tell of a mysterious island or continent called Aztlan which they came from originally. A volcanic cataclysm drove them out of their homeland, which later sunk underseas. Their voyage (which is recorded in such documents as the Codex Boturini) took them over the Pacific Ocean, and they stopped for several years on the various islands of that ocean. Professor Arysio Nunes dos Santos author of the website Atlantis the Lost Continent Finally Found says that "There can be very little doubt that Aztlan is anything other than Atlantis. Furthermore, the western location of Aztlan, and the volcanic nature of the cataclysm that sunk it away leave no room for doubt that if it is indeed Atlantis, the lost continent was situated in the Far East, probably in the Indonesian region". Furthermore there are Hindu traditions which speak of a sunken Paradise, known as Atala, which lay in the Far East. The Greeks (who believed that the Titan Atlas was the founder of Atlantis) copied their legends on Atlas and Atlantis from the Hindu legends of Atalas (Shiva) and Atala. the Professor goes on to say that " As in the Greek traditions, Atalas - whose name is Sanskrit and means 'Pillar' - was deemed to be the 'Pillar of the world', just as was Atlas in Greece. Atala was, like Atlantis, a sunken continent destroyed by a fiery cataclysm, and which lay in the Outer Ocean. Since the Greek myth is of Hindu origin and was simply transferred to their western when the Greeks moved to their present whereabouts, it is idle to quest for Atlantis in the ocean nowadays called Atlantic" Instead the Professor would have us look for Atlantis in the Indian Ocean which the Hindu called "the ocean of the Atlanteans" or the "western ocean".

So as far as I'm concerned there is the possibility that Atlantis was once a real place, and maybe even where Civilization began.

TBC...