ATLANTIS (The Kingdom of Shadows)
Large island, or even a continent, suddenly rises from a green sea, from the giant global ocean beyond the pillars of Hercules, and than, unexpectedly, sank in it again. It happened at some indefinite time away, its downfall; according to Plato, was the year 9,600 BC.
This collapse is a consequence of wrath of the gods, Zeus himself, in fact. It will disappear in the fire, fire in the sky that will rain down on the island, the waves will then be entered into one essentially the already obsolete, petrified world. Disaster will take place only during "a single day and a single night" (Plato, on the basis of Egyptian myths). But the sea, according to the sailors,will, for millenniums, remain not navigable: one coeval of Plato speaks of the "twelve days of sailing behind the pillars of Hercules" (Gibraltar Strait), which is difficult because of sandbar, mud, seaweed and pumice (from the volcanic eruption), which recall a sort of extended, giant Sargasso sea.
A Carthaginian sailor Himilco (approximately 217 BC), adds to seaweed, which "resembles the bushes", and "sea monsters which constantly moving up and down", "wild beasts which swims among the slower ships, like crawling", and sea without a breath of wind. Remembering of the island, however, will live longer: thousands and thousands of years, in the dark and misty legends of countless people on Earth about dead or green land, which lies somewhere in the West, in the infinite ocean (hence the name for Greenland – "green land"). But that are forbidden worlds of the dead’s. Cruising behind the pillars of Hercules will remain for a long while forbidden, not only because the Phoenician monopoly over the Strait. An English map, dating from 1500, showing Atlantis connected to Labrador and Greenland, as it still exists.
The Dwarfs and the Giants
Its inhabitants, according to René Guénon, came from the North on the eve of human history, from the country that is also a hastily disappeared into cosmic cataclysms, but that was the cataclysm caused by freezing.
Here, in this paradisaical island-continent, refugees from Hyperborea, true men-gods, have created a new human race – Cro-Magnons, with their perfect features, a race to which was known seamanship, agriculture, magic and art of metalworking. These skills taught to them Titan Atlas, who, by ancient tradition, carried the world on his shoulders. Diodorus Sicilius says it's just a mythical expression of the fact that Atlas was a connoisseur of astronomy and inventor of the celestial sphere.
Just from Titan Atlas was named civilization which, according to Plato, cherished custom of sacrificing bulls (which were Alantis cult animals), and in accordance with other authors, they had and the ritual of eating fresh bullish meat and drinking his blood – a custom that will be very long hold on the Mediterranean area, mostly in its western part. “Corrida de toros”, (spanish) is the remain of the ancient, sacred ritual games with the bulls, and evidences of archeology find that very same cult long maintained on Crete. (Clue about it came to us in the form of vague legend of the Minotaur, which sacrificed boys and girls in the labyrinth in which, supposedly, was detained.) Today, by Titan Atlas was named one ocean and mountain in Africa.
Atlanteans knew the metal – a mysterious orichalcum ("mountain copper") – astronomy and navigation, they had boat-building skills and a writing skills, and in its amazing island they bred coconut, elephant and, perhaps, according to some researchers, corn and banana. If we believe to Plato and his Egyptian source, its military strength, in such a long time ago, did not have a worthy competitor in the world. Hence colonies scattered throughout the Old, and even the New World – America. This colonization generally occurred in the northwest-southeast direction, across the globe, from the northwest Atlantic to the Pacific, leaving behind its many traces, and one of the most striking is that which is in the form of names of African Moors, Biblical, Semitic Amorites, Maors from Pacific ... – all names with the same sense: "the people that came from the West". Archaeology give to this myth unexpected confirmation, in the form of so-called “Cro-Magnon enigma”. Cro-Magnon appears very suddenly and without transitional forms. Appears in northwest Europe, pushing the Neanderthal “dwarfs” first in the mountains, which were, then and later too, the shelter to all archaic races.
It should be noted that this scheme too well fits with the ancient legends and fables: the dwarves who inhabit caves and live in the bowels of the earth, the giants who live on the islands, or coming from them (the Cro-Magnon had an average height of over two meters) about the struggles of gods with titans who all come from the West squad (as the legend of the dragon fits into another mystery of the past in the Earth, myth about disappeared giant lizards from the Jurassic era).
Flying cities and flaming arrows
Other devotees of the myths of Atlantis are added to this story, the inherently fascinating, new and equally amazing detail. Diodorus the Sicilus, in the third volume of his “Historical Library”, in which he describes the geography of East Altantic region, shows a complex history of wars that the Amazons, and then another one nation of the "woman-warrior," Gorgons, led against Atlantic colonists in northwestern Africa. That is history wich is rich in incredible details and amazing turnarounds. Great Greek geographer and historian Strabo (54 yr. BC), and Pomponius Mela (45 AD) giving faith to Plato, wrote about Atlantis as a land which is completely real.
Vladimir Shcherbakov, in his “Atlanteans”, talks about race of giants-people – in fact, real men-gods – that race is "disposed technique, different designed aircraft, which were flying at an altitude of several kilometers. Their science was allegedly close to the art and was like a magic (...) They had rockets, jets and railways for the episodic purposes, usually for the purpose of entertainment, amusement. There was no computer technology, but any of Atlanta man was able (due to much stronger mind power than is the thought of modern man and due the length of life, which numbered in the hundreds of years – annotation B. N.) account as computer, even and complicated calculations. Instead of the computer, there were a live games (...), industrial centers with underground factories and scientific research centers, "and the flying and underwater cities, protected with a transparent cupolas, domes”.
And further: "Extremely high – up to three meters, Atlantas could affect all the living world (...) Precivilizacation existed. But there have been and wars, and they were magical, we cannot call them otherwise, because of ours modest horizons. "And these wars, finally, led to the destruction of the island's technocratic civilization, which colonies were scattered abroad, throughout the world, to the cataclysm that affected not only it, but also the whole Earth and all mankind, leading to geological, climatic and other changes, including the extermination of some human races and many animal species (mammoths).
Is not that exactly those wars fought with the help of fantastic weapons, as is described in the ancient Indian epic “Mahabharata”? In the third book of the ancient epic mentions, for example, the "flying city" Saubha. "He's (Salva) came to Dvaraka with their flying city called Saubha and he attacked without mercy young prince Vrshni(...) Then he flew into the sky with Saubha. "One of the weapons used in the fight was called “the weapons of wisdom”, Prajnastra. The battle of the gods takes place then in the air, above sea which simmering, and includes weapons which "penetrate to all", thunders and flaming arrows, which destroyed the flying city, which falls into the sea. Vimana aircraft are described in the epic “Ramayana”. Some of them, the so-called Jalayan, were able to move through the air and the water, the other, in turn, called, Trichakra Ratha were "the three-wheeled vehicle designed specifically for operations from the air".
It is difficult, if not impossible, to determine the time and place of these epic batlles. But it is almost certain that they are not the product of mere imagination, and that they keep in the memory something ancient and very significant, something quite beyond our ability to understand.
The earthquake that marked the end of the world
According to I. Shcherbakov (and other authors), traces of precivilizacation of Atlantis are scattered all over the globe – from the Atlantic to America and from the Himalayas to the Pacific – in the form of graves of long-lived people-giants, and as the archaeological remains and traces of hi-tech civilization, which surpasses all later seen in history. One of these necropolos is one which is found near the river Harganaik-Gol, central Mongolia,in 40th of the twentieth century, expedition led by I. A. Efremov. As said I. A. Efremov in his book ”The road of the winds”, they find, below the slabs of black stone, remains of a giant whose height was two and half meters.
Lama Lobsang P. Ramp (which is in Tibet reached the highest level of spiritual sanctification), describes in great details what he called a key event of his life: he visited a cave in Tibet, where he saw, among other things, the flying devices and holographic projections, and finally preserved human body inside the sarcophagus of black stone, of which the largest is a male staggering height of five meters.
Similar places, says Lama Lobsang P. Ramp, can be found all over the world. But most amazing of all is that Lama`s visit to one of secret places enabled the experience of the reality as was thousands of years ago: "The sphere is portrayed to the world of the distant past(...) the people have walked were a different race(...) almost near the ground, I saw the mysterious flying machines(...), which are, after all, might rise a few miles up. "What follows is a description of destruction, so the whole earth was covered with ash and scarlet-red clouds. But the hidden places like this left to indicate the existence of "thalassocratic, ancient civilizations from the time of Atlantis" and its superior achievements.
1869th in the small town Levarden, North Holland, is discovered the remain of ancient book that offered belated and unexpected confirmation of Plato's and classical geographers statements, in which they accepted the existence of Atlantis. The book, according to family that owned her, was named „Oera Linda Book“. It contains a very detailed history of Frisian, very old nation, which is now mostly germanisated. In it, among other things, is said and about the flooted country „Atlan“ (Aldland is the synonymous), and the book itself, according to its authors, was first written 3449 years after the destruction of the Atlan (a copy of the original book, which is kept in the Leverden library is, of course, transcript, from the1256th AD).
The disaster that befell it here is described as follows: "The whole summer Sun hid behind the clouds, as they no longer wanted to see the land. And the Earth was gripped in eternal silence and wet heavy fog hung over the homes and fields, as a wet sail. The air was heavy and disgusting, people have forgotten the joy and happiness. Then the earthquake resounded as announcing of the end of the world. Mountains are disappearing, spitting the fire, sometimes perishing in the breast of the land, sometimes even more exalting up. Aldland, by sailors called Atlan, gone, and over the mountains raised raging waves, and those who were saved from the fire, took the sea abyss. The ground was on fire, not only at land of Find but also in the Twiksland. Forests burned in blaze, and all the land was covered with the ashes, when the winds blew from that direction. Rivers have changed its course and in their estuary are grown new islands, formed from sand and flotsam. All this lasted for three years, then was peace, and the forests grew again..."
Earth's mythical past
Maybe blonde Guanches, natives which the Spanish conquerors found in the Canary Islands (and completely exterminated around 1500 BC.), are last descendants of the unfortunate Atlanteans? Spanish monks recorded the myths of these ancient peoples who believed, that God forgot them and left them to live on that remote island. Maybe and the Basques are also descedents of mythical Atlanteans (Muck Otto in his book about Atlantis claims to certain linguistic similarities and some customs associated Basques with certain Indian tribes on the opposite side of the ocean)? Mayan and Aztec civilizations, like ancient Egypt and Cartagena, had certain traits which can be easily and naturally associated. The so-called Cyclopean buildings, scattered throughout the Old and New World, might be the remains of Atlantis building skills. Perhaps the Azores are last earthy trace of the vanished continent, snow-covered peaks of Atlantis mountains, as portrays them Plato?
Cro-Magnon appears in Europe before about 40,000 thousand years, bringing with him the beginnings of agriculture, maritime and art. He brings and characteristic obsession of deads (which may be generate force for the generation of custom of mummification, a characteristic of many civilizations of Atlantic region), the cult of the bull and red colour (with which they “coated” their deads), the cult of bone and stone (which is "bone of the land"). It is mainly what has been described as "Atlantean cultural complex". (It is possible that the Atlantean legacy includes and witchcraft, ritual cannibalism and cruel custom of sacrificing the children, recorded on both sides of the Atlantic, for example in Aztecs and on the Cartaginians, but, in turn, that may be just a consequence of degeneration, decadence of late Atlantean tradition? Plato mentions depravity of late Atlantean civilization, but the list of "sins" in his text is not decisive, either explicit.)
Cro-Magnon, as noted above, appears from the "archaeological nowhere”. "There are no transitional forms between him and the indigenous Neanderthal, who in a relatively short, time was suppressed. Orignon man and its related forms are not the evolution of the Neanderthal man to the Cro-Magnons, but rather degenerated form, variants of Cro-Magnons, or the result of his intersection with the indigenous people. This invasion gradually creates Iberian Europe, Iberian race. Only later, at the end of the Neolithic period, will be Aryan invasion from a mysterious place in the far north of Eurasia, which some old irish myths remembered as arrival of the people Tuatha Dé Danann ("peoples of the goddess Danu", truly divine race, describing in these myths and the wars they fought with Fomorian; the people of the descedent of sailors from the West (the descendants of Atlanteans?), which they find on the island.
All the events in question does not belong to the history, but rather to the mythical, legendary history of the Earth. The memory of them because of it is no less true, the legend is, on the contrary, important, and worth of memory and knowledge, memorable in fact.
Boris Nad
Translated by English Vesna S. Disic
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