Atlantic myth or reality

1988/08/01 Barrentsoro, Karlox Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Historia

In the fifth century BC, when the Greek philosopher Plato, in one of his writings, spoke of a continent engulfed by the sea, began one of the greatest mysteries in the history of humanity. According to Plato, Atlantida was the greatest civilization of the world of then, and its society was made up of writers, sages, philosophers and great and skillful merchants. Their kings lived in the rich palaces and the Atlantic constructions were built with an unknown metal, oricalkoz.

The continent was outside the Pillars of Hercules (Strait of Gibraltar) and had a prestigious capital: Poseidonia. The Atlantic dominated all trade in the Mediterranean and the Western Sea (Atlantic) and their large and fast vessels traveled all over the world, from one corner to another, from one sea to another. But overnight Atlantis disappeared, following Plato's words, began to shake the earth by breaking down houses and palaces and ingesting human beings and cattle. Then great waves arose and Atlantis remained under the sea forever.

So far Plato's words come and from now on the opinions of researchers pursuing a logical expression begin. Let's see what they are.

Schulten and Tartesos

German researcher Adolf Schulten (1.870-1.960), following the geographical precisions exposed in the writings of Homer and Plato, sought the ancient Tartesos culture and found it on the Andalusian coast. In his research, Schulten identified Tartesos and Atlantida, since for him a reality is two different names of it.

We know that the Carthaginians destroyed the civilization of Tartesos and today it is thought that it is a submarine. For Schulten, the Atlantida-Tartesos equation was very clear and did not believe in it, he did not understand Plato's message well.

Theory of Prelate Spanuth

In a text by Plato he said: The last remains of Atlantida are located under the North Sea, next to Heligoland, seven meters below the sea. Based on this, in the middle of this century, he went to the place where the ancient fortress called Spanuth Heligoland existed, finding through the probe walls and walls of human construction.

Spanuth believes the problem is solved: Atlantis was in the Atlantic, off the coast of Northern Europe, and being larger than Africa and Europe, it reached on the one hand to Gibraltar and on the other to America.

1.- Following Shulten's theory, we should identify with Atlantida Tartesos. 2.- For Prelate Spanuth was in the Atlantic, between North Europe, Africa and America. 3.- According to the Nazi thinker Horbiger, ancient Old Atlantis disappeared when the Moon fell on Earth. 4. James W. According to Major American, Thera was around the island. 5.– Donnelly believes in Plato: Atlantida was outside the pillars of Hercules! 6.- Flavio Barbiero defends that ancient Atlantis would be Antarctica today.

Falling walls and moons

According to early century Nazi thinker Horbiger, Atlantis was a gigantic one and spread across the Atlantic Ocean, from America to Europe and Africa. Its axis was in the Andes of today and from there its ships went to the eleven parts of the world. But there are four other Atlantean cities in New Guinea, Mexico, Abyssinia and Tibet.

Horbiger said that before our moon today two other moons have been spinning around our planet. When the first fell into our world old Atlantis disappeared with its heart in the Alps. But the saved rebuilt the second simplest Atlantis in the North Sea, on an island now disappeared. And this Atlantis would be, according to Horbiger, what Plato mentioned in his writings.

When the second moon fell, the second Atlantis disappeared under the waters of the sea. As the last descendants of Atlanta are Aryans, which was what Horbiger defended, those of this race are destined to dominate the world, until the third current moon falls back on us. Then the new stage will come. Hitler's thought and policy were based on Horbiger's theories.

James W. Mayor and Thera Ugarte

James W. According to the American scientist Major, Atlantis was in the Atlantic, but after several studies, he thought that if it existed, it would be in the Aegean Sea. He organized two expeditions to the Egeoarian islands and discovered the remains of an ancient and unknown city on the shores of the island of Thera, seven meters below the lava. Since then the discoveries have multiplied: walls, walls, palaces, amphorae, pieces of ceramics... and for James Mayor the question is clear: Located in the Aegean Sea of Atlantis, three thousand years ago, when the volcano of the island of Thera began its eruption, its lands and civilization remained under lava and sea. James W. This theory of Major was published in the late sixth decade of this century.

Donnelly believes he was in the Atlantic

But perhaps the most successful theory is the Irish Donnelly. It has been knocked down in the 20th century. For him, Atlantis was in the Atlantic, as Plato well said, and when the disaster occurred it finally disappeared under the sea. Donnelly gives many tests: Amazingly similar to Asia Minor and to many places and peoples of Central America, the pyramids of Central America and Egypo, the undeniable brotherhood of some languages of America and North Africa and Asia Minor, the calendar of three hundred and sixty-five days of helmets and egypti, the fraternity between several animals from both continents... As we see, Donnelly does not lack evidence.

Donnelly says that, after the disaster, many fled to the Central American, Egyptian, Spanish, Portuguese and Canary Islands, bringing with them the last vestiges and memory of their great culture. The gigantic and mysterious remains found in waters before the Bimini, and recently in the Bermuda Triangle, strange pyramids seen under the remains of the seabed, give strength and actuality to this old theory of Donnelly.

Flavio Barbiero and Atlantida-Antarctica Equation

Among the strange theories perhaps the most curious is the one created around 1970 by the naval engineer and corvette captain Flavio Barbiero. For Barbion, Atlantis was a continent, island or extensive area that stood between the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific and the Indian. But about three thousand years ago – and this data is confirmed by all scientists – when the comet or asteroid, seven kilometers in diameter and two hundred billion tons, fell to the Atlantic, the axis of rotation of the world deviated in twenty-three or three degrees, covering under snow and ice the famous green and temperate continent, becoming the powerful and powerful Platonic Atlantis, in the white wall.

There are more theories of course, and new ones emerge every day. For some Atlantis was America, for others it was in the Scandinavian area. While Rudbeck defended that it was Sweden, Verdaguer claimed that it was in the East. Some say they are in the area of Andalusia and others in Africa or between the Canary Islands and Cape Verde.

But when we still don't know if it was a myth or a reality, the reflections of today's researchers, scientists, religious and poets depart from the clues given by Plato, seeking what might never be found, it may never be known if it was legendary or true. And what do you want to know? Why a civilization without myths?