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The Atlantis Thread

TinFinger said:
ok so most moons face their primaries(learn something every day)
but its still the same size as the sun and has been for a very long time
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A long time in human history, yes.

But a short time in geological history, and even shorter in astronomical terms!

One thing science should teach us is a sense of perspective.
 
yes but its only human history,and possible a short while before thats relevant
this is the atlantis thread and i still stand buy the premmis that it could have been on a planet thats now nothing more than an asteriod feild

iirc it was an island beyond the pillars of hercules(spelling)
imho a planet could be described as an island,yes its a simplistic description but this is an ancient story that could have possibly been passed down the ages before it was passed to Plato

A Phaethon myth

“Ah Solon, Solon, you Greeks are ever children... There have been, and there will continue to be, numerous disasters that have destroyed human life in many kinds of ways. The most serious of these involve fire and water, while the lesser ones have numerous other causes. And so also among your people the tale is told that Phaethon, child of the Sun, once harnessed his father’s chariot, but was unable to drive it along his father’s course. He ended up burning everything on the Earth’s surface and was destroyed himself when a lightning bolt struck him. This tale is told as a myth, but the truth behind it is that there is a deviation in the heavenly bodies that travel around the Earth, which causes huge fires that destroy what is on the Earth across vast stretches of time... after the usual number of years, there comes the heavenly flood.”

large planetery disturbances????
 
atlantis

Perhaps Atlantis was only one nation of an advanced anti diluvian civilisation. Plato, who recieved the information third hand (Solon, a Greek king was told of atlantis by the priests of sais), may have been mistaken about the type of island that it actually was. chances are, that it could have been man made.
Dubai are currently building several man made islands off its coast. one of these is called the world and can be seen from space.
Credo Mutwa writes about such a place in Indaba my children:
"......With all his metal and subhuman slaves
They built many vast and oblong rafts.
Each was a hundred miles long-with a breadth about half
And on these rafts he had them build new cities of solid gold"

And in these very early days of technology (wright bros - 1903) we are already building ships the size of cities.

And as for any artifacts remaining from that anti diluvian epoch, I think that the establishment may already have whisked most of them away!

Anyway, I believe that most of everything was destroyed in a catastrophic event possibly around 3650 bc. many myths and religious texts illustrate such an event, pertaining to an earth nemesis aka:
nibiru;planet x;taurid progenitor;god;assyrian chaos monster;the bull of heaven, amongst others.

This, from www.goldenageproject.org.uk :
"The egyptian priest Sonchis at sais giving knowledge of the past to the Greek leader Solon in 594 bc talks of past catastrophes as follows:

A deviation of the bodies that revolve in heaven around the earth and a destruction, occurring at long intervals of things on earth by a great conflagration and once more after the usual period of years, the torrents from heaven swept down like a pestilence, leaving only the rude and unlettered among you."

The first things to go would be power and communications-without which even the most technologically advanced civilisations, including Atlantis(eden) would cease to function.

And afterwards only the primitive would remain. Unless 'blue peter' increased the size of their time capsule!
 
Anyone searched for Atlantis in the Black Sea yet?
 
It seems the Black Sea has been targeted before, with varying degrees of success. Or about as much success as anyone else can claim I suppose.

Black Sea

German researchers Siegfried and Christian Schoppe locate Atlantis in the Black Sea: Before 5500 BC there was a great plain in the northwest at a former freshwater-lake. 5510 BC the barrier at today's Bosporus broke due to the rising sea level of the world-ocean. The Pillars of Hercules are identical with the Strait of Bosporus. Oreichalcos means the obsidian stone that used to be a cash-equivalent at that time and was replaced by the spondylus shell around 5500 BC. The geocatastrophic event led to the neolithic diaspora in Europe, also beginning 5500 BC.

In 2000AD Robert Ballard in a small submarine found remains of human habitation around 300 feet underwater in the Black Sea off the north coast of Turkey. The area flooded around 5000BC. This flood may have inspired the Biblical story of Noah's Ark; but the area need not be Atlantis.
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Numerous websites are all suggesting the flooding of the area was responsible for the Noah's Ark tale and possibly tying in this flood 'memory' as being the story of Atlantis.
 
okay, atlantis theories are full of the kind of wild speculation i love, so i have to throw in my 2 bits here. i agree with the idea that atlantis wasnt so much a single society, as a worldwide collection of advanced societies. much like the earth is now. they would have been advanced to varying degrees, some rather more so than others, but by and large id say none of them was much more so than we are now, if at all. now, seeing how human societies tend to work themselves out once they start operating on a global stage, one was probably on top, either technologically, culturally, or just through sheer military force. my votes on the first. i think this apex culture ("atlantis" for lack of an actual name) would stick in people memories the most, becoming platos atlantis. anyway, i subscribe mostly to the antarctica/ crustal shift theory, with one significant modification. antarctica (what bit of it was arable at the time) was the continent of atlantis. the CITY of atlantis, this supposed technological, three ringed, marvel, containing the elite of civilization, i think was a space station. when the crustal shift happened, it got knocked out of the sky, into some ocean or other, hence the sinking. then the people, all similarly knocked into the stone age, could later only conceive of it as an island.

anyway, thats my bit of wild speculation. the space station bit is just a fun idea, but the rest of it i pretty much buy. i dont know how things happened on YOUR earth, but thats how it happened on mine.
 
Seeking World War Two gold

By Mick Elmore, dpa

Kanchanaburi (dpa) – Sukkhai Panyareaunkaew remembers joking with her boyfriend, an Imperial Japanese Army officer, about gems from Burma.

"He would say, 'Do you want some sparkling gems from Burma? Shinier than sticky rice.' And I'd say, 'Can I eat them?' and we'd both laugh," she recalled, sitting in her home 280km northwest of Bangkok near the Burma border.

Sukkhai was a 15-year-old ethnic Karen girl selling kanom, a Thai sweet, when the Japanese Imperial Army marched in, 60,000 prisoners of war and about 100,000 Asian slave labourers in tow, to build the Burma-Siam railway.

Her mother grew concerned by all the attention the soldiers paid her daughter, so she arranged for her to be an officer's girlfriend. His name was Sanjo, Sanjio or something like that, Sukkhai can't remember for sure.

That was a long time ago and like the Japanese language she spoke quite well, the 79-year-old says she has forgotten a lot. The gems, however, she remembers.

Gold, on the other hand, she does not remember him talking about. But in subsequent years she has heard the persistent rumours that the Japanese hid great quantities of it during their retreat in 1945.

Just five kilometers south of her home is Lejia cave, the site of much speculation and gold digging.

Senator Chaowarin Latthasaksiri of Ratchaburi said in a short telephone conversation that he does not talk with Thai newspapers now because of all the crazy news reported during his own search in 2001.

But, in an interview with Deutsche Presse Agentur, dpa, he admitted he is still a believer and is still looking.

"The project never stopped, never had a holiday," he said.

Chaowarin still visits Lejia cave himself on occasion, and has a 15-man team searching the labyrinth of interconnecting passageways in the mountain there. He is the best known of many treasure hunters.

In December 1995 and January 1996 he led a large team that turned up a lot of dirt but no treasure, but he was back in April 2001, six months after six treasure seekers suffocated in Lejia cave.

That time Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra visited the sight and promised to help.

Chaowarin and Thaksin promised to use the treasure to pay off the substantial national debt, and the country was behind them. Well, at least one poll released after Thaksin's visit showed 62 per cent of Thai people believed in the treasure.

None materialized, Thaksin went quiet and the public stopped listening to "I'm not crazy" Chaowarin.

But legends of hidden treasure are hard to kill, and there is much fact behind the rumours of Japan hiding looted goods at the end of the war.

Such talk is almost a national pastime in the Philippines, where it's called "Yamashita's Gold" after the commanding officer who surrendered to American forces there. But only after he buried billions in war loot, the story goes.

And there is a lot of compelling evidence the Japanese did loot the treasures, both government and personal, in many of the countries they occupied.

Sterling and Peggy Seagraves in "Gold Warriors" go into great detail how, where and why the Japanese hid gold and other treasure.

Their book deals mostly with the Philippines, but in an email response to questions about Burma and Thailand, Sterling Seagraves said; "Obviously, the 'Death Railway' would have been used to move stuff to Bangkok, where Golden Lily (the Japanese organization in charge of moving treasure) would have moved it on by sea, while individual officers would have found places to stash what they'd come back for after the war."

But he said Japan moved most goods out of Burma by sea, not what became known as the "Death Railway" because of the POWs and Asian slave labourers who died building it.

There have also been reports of some Japanese searching for buried treasure in parts of Burma, including the Mon state, which borders on Thailand's Kanchanaburi province.

Nagase Takashi, 89, was an interpreter based in the province with the Japanese military police during the war.

Since the war's end he has worked tirelessly to repair wounds and make amends for the damage his country caused.

He has visited Kanchanaburi more than 100 times since the war, setting up scholarship programs for locals, and building shrines for the many Japanese who died during the war but whose bodies were not retrieved.

On a visit last February he said he didn't believe in the gold rumours. But, he added, some soldiers did hide their Samurai swords and war loot along the railway after the surrender.

"That was the treasure," he said. "But they came back and retrieved them."

Nagase has made a point of building and visiting shrines to the Japanese war dead still in Thailand. One of them is four kilometres from Sukkhai's house. Perhaps her officer boyfriend is there.

He committed ceremonial "seppuku" suicide in a cave after Japan surrendered, Sukkhai later learned.

So he can't put the rumours to rest. And in the absence of fact, rumour thrives, and when gold is part of the story it dies harder still.
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www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/break ... ?id=103628
 
I always wondered what happened to this case. It caused quite a local sensation in 2003 when two men walked into a Toronto bank branch and tried to cash $25 million in bonds on which the word 'dollars' was misspelled.

But there were some bits of evidence to which Graham Halksworth had no answer. He and Slamaj claimed that Chiang Kai-Shek had given the Americans 125,000 tonnes of gold in the 1940s. But police inquiries on the London Bullion Market revealed that the cumulative total of all the gold mined in recorded history was only 63,500 tonnes by 1950. (It was only 145,200 tonnes by the end of 2001).

Even more damning, the documents contained zip codes, which the US postal service only introduced in 1963 – and a Treasury Seal which was too modern. Oh, and the fact that analysis showed that some of bonds had been produced on an inkjet printer.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story ... id=3532004
 
Ok There's two Atlantis threads but I'll post in this one. The other is here:

http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewt ... 608#695608

The wave that destroyed Atlantis

The legend of Atlantis, the country that disappeared under the sea, may be more than just a myth. Research on the Greek island of Crete suggests Europe's earliest civilisation was destroyed by a giant tsunami.

Until about 3,500 years ago, a spectacular ancient civilisation was flourishing in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The ancient Minoans were building palaces, paved streets and sewers, while most Europeans were still living in primitive huts.

But around 1500BC the people who spawned the myths of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth abruptly disappeared. Now the mystery of their cataclysmic end may finally have been solved.

A group of scientists have uncovered new evidence that the island of Crete was hit by a massive tsunami at the same time that Minoan culture disappeared.

"The geo-archaeological deposits contain a number of distinct tsunami signatures," says Dutch-born geologist Professor Hendrik Bruins of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

"Minoan building material, pottery and cups along with food residue such as isolated animal bones were mixed up with rounded beach pebbles and, crucially, sea shells and microscopic marine fauna.

The latter can only have been scooped up from the sea-bed by one mechanism - a powerful tsunami, dumping all these materials together in a destructive swoop," says Professor Bruins.

The deposits are up to seven metres above sea level well above the normal reach of storm waves.

"An event of ferocious force hit the coast of Crete and this wasn't just a Mediterranean storm," says Professor Bruins.

Big wave

The Minoans were sailors and traders. Most of their towns were along the coast, making them especially vulnerable to the effects of a tsunami.

One of their largest settlements was at Palaikastro on the eastern edge of the island, one of the sites where Canadian archaeologist Sandy MacGillivray has been excavating for 25 years.

Here, he has found other tell-tale signs such as buildings where the walls facing the sea are missing but side walls which could have survived a giant wave are left intact.

"All of a sudden a lot of the deposits began making sense to us," says MacGillivary.

"Even though the town of Palaikastro is a port it stretched hundreds of metres into the hinterland and is, in places, at least 15 metres above sea level. This was a big wave."

But if this evidence is so clear why has it not been discovered before now?

Tsunami expert Costas Synolakis, from the University of Southern California, says that the study of ancient tsunamis is in its infancy and people have not, until now, really known what to look for.

Many scientists are still of the view that these waves only blasted material away and did not leave much behind in the way of deposits.

But observation of the Asian tsunami of 2004 changed all that.

"If you remember the video footage," says Costas, "some of it showed tonnes of debris being carried along by the wave and much of it was deposited inland."

Volcanic eruption

Costas Synolakis has come to the conclusion that the wave would have been as powerful as the one that devastated the coastlines of Thailand and Sri Lanka on Boxing day 2004 leading to the loss of over 250,000 lives.

After decades studying the Minoans, MacGillivray is struck by the scale of the destruction.

"The Minoans are so confident in their navy that they're living in unprotected cities all along the coastline. Now, you go to Bande Aceh [in Indonesia] and you find that the mortality rate is 80%. If we're looking at a similar mortality rate, that's the end of the Minoans."

But what caused the tsunami? The scientists have obtained radiocarbon dates for the deposits that show the tsunami could have hit the coast at exactly the same time as an eruption of the Santorini volcano, 70 km north of Crete, in the middle of the second millennium BC.

Recent scientific work has established that the Santorini eruption was up to 10 times more powerful than the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. It caused massive climatic disruption and the blast was heard over 3000 miles away.

Costas Synolakis thinks that the collapse of Santorini's giant volcanic cone into the sea during the eruption was the mechanism that generated a wave large enough to destroy the Minoan coastal towns.

It is not clear if the tsunami could have reached inland to the Minoan capital at Knossos, but the fallout from the volcano would have carried other consequences - massive ash falls and crop failure. With their ports, trading fleet and navy destroyed, the Minoans would never have fully recovered.

The myth of Atlantis, the city state that was lost beneath the sea, was first mentioned by Plato over 2000 years ago.

It has had a hold on the popular imagination for centuries.

Perhaps we there is an explanation of its origin - a folk memory of a real ancient civilisation swallowed by the sea.

Timewatch: The wave that destroyed Atlantis is on BBC Two at 2100BST on Friday 20 April, 2007.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6568053.stm
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But what caused the tsunami? The scientists have obtained radiocarbon dates for the deposits that show the tsunami could have hit the coast at exactly the same time as an eruption of the Santorini volcano, 70 km north of Crete, in the middle of the second millennium BC.
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Ths is hardly a new theory. I read a book about 40 years ago that argued this hypothesis. (OK, maybe we know a little more now about tsunamis.)

And I think this was the book:
The End of Atlantis - New light on an Old Legend
J. V. Luce
Hardcover (1969)
Thames and Hudson

J.V. Luce has for many years made a close study of the Classical sources relating to the Atlantis legend- in particular of Plato, the originator of the story.
In this book he suggests that the core of the legend is a historic fact: the volcanic desaster on Santorini that in turn caused the destruction of Crete by floods as first proposed by Marinatos in 1950. His work is critical and tries to concentrate on archaeological and geological facts and on the available sources. The book is furthermore valuable because of its many photographs and illustrations as well as an detailed appendix.
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http://www.decadevolcano.net/santorini/ ... ofatlantis
 
I've just watched Timewatch.

It amused me how several times they pointed out that various people involved in the film had studied this subject for 20 or 25 years - although, as I pointed out above, the basic idea has been around much longer:
..the volcanic desaster on Santorini that in turn caused the destruction of Crete by floods as first proposed by Marinatos in 1950.
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It would have been good to honour the earliest proponents of this idea, although of course it's always good to get extra corroborative evidence.
 
I've read about a lot of places that could be atlantis here is just a few of them

Bimini (edga cayce 1940)
South of Cadiz in Spain (recent see FT)
The Azores (lewis spence 1924)
Thera / Santorini (S Marinatos 1950)
Crete (K T Frost 1909)
The Outer Hebrides (Erik Von Daniken 1974)
Cornwall (Erik Von Daniken 1974)
Scilly Isles
Bermuda
Puerto Rico
Corsica
Sardinia
Sicily
Iceland (Erik Von Daniken 1973)
England (Comyns Beaumont 1949)
Ireland
Canari Islands
Madeira
Morocco (F.Berlioux 1874)
Antillia
N. America (Francis Bacon c.1600)
Mexico (Louis de Launay 1938)
Brazil (P H Fawcett 1925)
Greenland (F de la motte la Vayer c.1700)
Spitzbergen (J S Bailly c.1800)
Sweden (Olaf Rudbeck 1675)
Heligoland (J Spanuth 1953)
Tartessos (A Schulten 1922)
Malta (G G Vasse 1900)
Sahara (D A Godron 1868)
Nigeria (F Elgee 1908)
S. Africa (G K Kirchmaier 1685)
Palestine (Serranus 1570)
Iraq (G F Oviedo y Valdez 1525)
Iran (P A Latreille 1819)
Ceylon
Mongolia (J S Bailly c.1800)
Egypt (Plutarch ???)
Mid Atlantic (Ignatius Donnelly)

Just to name a few and there are many more.

I've seen maps that were upside down and even where North was pointing right (but never left)

Plato describes Atlantis as west of the Pillars of Hercules but there was at least 6 Pillars of Hercules in the ancient world.

Gibralta
Gallipoli
Istanbul

I can't find the others
 
Another candidate would be 'Doggerland', the area of land between Britain and the Netherlands, which flooded after the last ice age.

It's been in the news and on TV recently - I posted about it in the Flooded Kingdoms thread, here:
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewt ... 883#708883

(But surprisingly, in all that discussion, no-one mentioned Atlantis...! 8) )
 
There is no mention of Atlantis for the usual reasons and also because they have only recovered neolithic materials.
 
I'm going to Santorini on holiday at the end of this month; if I find anything out 'll report back.
 
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet...but here goes:

When Britain and mainland Europe were connected by a land bridge, creatures and people were able to wander back and forth across it.

If you were based in, let's say, Northern Germany, and you knew that your cousins had migrated across to the mild climate of Britain and helped create a civilisation there (advanced or not) what would you see when the land bridge was submerged?

Considering that Britain cannot be viewed from mainland europe (except in isolated spots in France possibly), one might conclude that the entire Island had been submerged.

Picture it.

At first the water would submerge only a part of the land bridge. If this process was halted for a few generations and both the Northern European and British communities could easily view each other, the resulting 'inhabited island' view from mainland Europe would be recognisable to anyone who has ever looked at an island from their own coast.

If after a few generations the water flooded so much more of that land bridge, the view of Britain would 'recede' to such a degree that the viewer may conclude that the whole island had been submerged.

Now you see it. Now you don't. Conclusions: a sunken island.

Atlantis. :p

"Beyond the pillars of Hercules" could be a reference to ANY body outside the med. Including Britain. How would one sail to Britain from northern Africa or Greece? By traversing the 'tight as a nun's chuff' straits of Gibraltar.

I apologise if this has been covered. I will now read the thread properly.
 
Old_Pretender: I like the cut of your jib :D . It kinda makes sense...

However you have to explain how this piece of folk history from the North-West frontier of the World finds its way back to become a secret history held by the Egyptians only! Surely it would be transmitted from North to South and be a commonly held myth pre-Plato in the North?
 
Fabled island Atlantis still exists, says researcher
UPI

June 28, 2007


PISA, Italy -- An Italian researcher said that the fabled island of Atlantis did not sink but is sitting just off the coast of Sierra Leone in West Africa.

Marcello Cosci, former head of Siena University's archaeological photo-interpretation department told Italy's ANSA news agency that he has been poring over satellite imagery for three years and said that he has matched physical features written about Atlantis with the island of Sherbro.

Cosci released a book Wednesday in Italy detailing how descriptions of Atlantis, such as three ditches around a citadel and a canal, match modern pictures of Sherbro.

While the existence of Atlantis has never been confirmed, it was first mentioned in the writings of the Greek philosopher Plato around 427 to 347 BC. Plato said that the island and its advanced civilization were destroyed by a natural disaster, now akin to a tsunami.

Nowadays, Sherbro's main industries are fishing and rice farming, the report said.

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?St ... 2543-6977r
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A new Atlantis candidate found off North coast Ireland?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7532771.stm

Prehistoric land under the sea


Huge cliffs and vast basins were revealed in the survey
By Mike McKimm
Science Correspondent, BBC Northern Ireland




It's a landscape no human has even seen. And those who live right beside it had no idea it even existed.

Deep below the sea, off the north coast of Northern Ireland, a dramatic geological mystery has been discovered.

Huge cliffs, vast basins and plateaus, a lake and even rivers have been found. But so far no-one is certain what caused them to end up like this deep under the sea.

The discovery was made when the seabed was being surveyed to update old Admiralty charts, drawn up in the mid-1800s.

Funded by the European Union and backed by the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency, a survey vessel has been scanning the seabed along most of the north coast of Ireland, including the seabed north of Rathlin Island.
Marine biologists have been surveying the sea bed


Most of the bottom was largely flat and unremarkable, but as the survey headed east it suddenly came across an unexpected landscape.

For the first time marine biologists could understand what was down there and the scale of it all.

"I'm always very envious of my terrestrial biologist colleagues", said Joe Breen, Head of Aquatic Science with Northern Ireland's new Environment Agency, who has dived the area for years.

"They can go out on land and see where their habitats are. Underwater we've never had that luxury.

"On a dive you can only see about 15 metres so it's like operating in fog. Now, with this survey, we can report on the true extent of the features.

"For the European Habitat Directive, we have to report the extent of our reefs and sandbanks. This will help with the whole concept of marine spatial planning.

"So, if someone wants to put in renewable energy or extract aggregate, we now have a blueprint and can see how they're going to interact and if it's sustainable."

The survey is to update old Admiralty charts of the area


One of the most striking details is a large lake or crater on what was once the top of huge cliffs towering above the plateau below.

The streams and rivers that fed it are still clearly defined.

And that raises one of the mysteries. Why did coastal erosion not obliterate all that detail as the sea slow rose over the land?

Could it mean that some cataclysmic event took place that allowed the sea to overwhelm the land before erosion could begin?

But already the marine scientists are excited about what they've found.

"We can now get a true idea of the true extent of the rare and endangered species and habitats", said Mr Breen.

"We can now see that we have got more of certain features which we weren't aware of - like sandbanks and reefs. The sandbank features in particular are stunning."

The survey is part of a 2m euro cross-border collaboration with the Marine Institute of Ireland. The area covered is a three nautical mile strip ranging from Tory Island off Donegal to Torr Head near Ballycastle.
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http://www.vnrs.co.uk/mca/video/rathlin.wmv

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7466369.stm
 
Almost fits my theory, but not north, I believe Atlantis was off the west of Ireland. Known to the ancient Irish as the land called Tir Na Nog, (land of the young or beautiful).
 
Rather than Atlantis, as such, isn't this just more evidence of the millions of square miles of world-wide littoral which went (rapidly) under the sea at the end of the most recent Ice Ages, around 9500 BC?

Which is, of course, pretty much the date Plato gave for the "sinking" of Atlantis.
 
The Wikipedia article makes it appear that there are few places in or around the Western Seas, north or south, that weren't identified as Brazil at one time or the other. <g>
 
There are many theorys about atlantis and many of them link to Ireland,
however i dont think they hold much sway because atlantis is described as being west of the pillars of hercules,Ireland is way up to the north of the strait of gibralter(pillars of hercules). If you look at google earth you can see the raised platforms of land under the sea,and yes there is around ireland wich links it to mainland UK but thats it ...nothing north of or south of it. Besides theres no raised land west of gibralter under the sea so it looks to me like its a total fairy tale :(
 
BIg_Slim said:
There are many theorys about atlantis and many of them link to Ireland,
however i dont think they hold much sway because atlantis is described as being west of the pillars of hercules,Ireland is way up to the north of the strait of gibralter(pillars of hercules). If you look at google earth you can see the raised platforms of land under the sea,and yes there is around ireland wich links it to mainland UK but thats it ...nothing north of or south of it. Besides theres no raised land west of gibralter under the sea so it looks to me like its a total fairy tale :(
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I just have to pipe in here, many Irish focklore tales tell of a land West of Ireland, Off our west coast. The land was said to contain all the beautiful and strong peoples, who remained forever youthful, the land was Tir Na Nog. Many characters came from there, and always seemed to land on the West coast of Ireland, one very famous character was Nuada of the Silver Arm. It is were I believe the Tuatha De Dannan came from, a slightly advanced people, who knew the arts of chemistry and medicine, and used their knowledge in battle.

If you look to the West of Ireland. (Heres a good Map sight (http://www.flashearth.com/), choose openlayers option, and look beyond the west coast of Ireland. There is a large interesting shelf foramtion, that seems to have a lower centeral area. If descriptions of Atlantis are to be followed there was some sort of inner sea area that acted like harbour. It's an interesting sight, and north of that shelf mass, there is a very promenant circular island shap just at the top. Coudl that have been Atlantis or the whole land mass. This could all be said to be West of the strait of gibralter.

Still if you go directly west of the strait of gibralter, you have the Azores! Maybe the Azores or long disappeared parts of it was Atlantis?!

Anything is possible, folklore has a funny way of ringing some truth behind it's tall tales.
 
Thankyou for "pipeing in" lol
always good to hear another theory.
From what i know of tirnanog and Tuatha de Danann.
is that its not always there and visible only to very few humans.
If your lucky enough to ever see it go there and never look back. :lol:
ancient history describes it and as always i think there must be Somthing there
to start all theese tales. truth or not there must be a reason for the story.
 
BIg_Slim said:
Thankyou for "pipeing in" lol
From what i know of tirnanog and Tuatha de Danann.
is that its not always there and visible only to very few humans.
If your lucky enough to ever see it go there and never look back. :lol:
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Funny enough, there is mention of a ghost island that can be seen of the west coast of Ireland, in this last months Fortean times. It was an editors note in the letters pages, (only just got to them last night); so there must be something on the ether. :)
 
Waylander28 i have somthing to support your submergerd atlantis off ireland :).
Ossian’s Grave
Now, staying in Antrim but heading inland a little into Glenaan, the next site is one where you need to really stretch your imagination, and that’s Ossian’s Grave...

Who was Ossian and how did he die?

Well, he’s a figure of legend of course – the warrior/poet son of Finn McCoul - and the story goes that he was feeling tired and dispirited after losing in battle when his eye fell on the lovely Niamh.

She returned his love but there was a catch - they had to live beneath the sea in the land of Tir na n’Og. Time passed (some say a hundred years) and Ossian longed to return to the land once more.

This was allowed but on one condition. No part of his body must ever touch the ground because if that happened he would instantly age all those years. Well, you can guess what’s coming...

He went ashore on horseback, stopped to help an old man and his foot slipped in the stirrup, turning him into an old man himself. Some say he died at that point but there is another story that he actually lived long enough to meet St Patrick.

Now, if you want to be picky, you might point out that Ossian was supposed to be around in the 3rd century, and St Patrick lived mainly in the 5th, so meeting him might have been a bit of a problem...

You might also mention that his so-called grave is actually a very fine double horned cairn, dating back to about 2000 B.C. but, hey.. who wants to let facts get in the way of a great story?

eh eh? check that. Son of Finn McCoul the legendary irish giant AND they had to live beneath the sea in the land of Tir na n’Og. Thats the first time i seen Tir na n’Og being refered to as under the sea!!!!. Does it fit with what your saying?
 
If it's near Tory Island maybe it was part of the lands of the Fir Bolg....

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staticgirl said:
If it's near Tory Island maybe it was part of the lands of the Fir Bolg....

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This threads got me digging out the Horslips albums! ;)
 
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