I recently saw a documentary on Discovery about Atlantis. A scientist says he has found proof that Atlantis could have been in South America (for example “atl” means water, and “antis” means copper in Incan, I think). The only problem is, I didn’t see the documentary from the beginning, and what I can’t figure out is how could the Greek writer (I can’t remember his name) from about 2000 years ago, write about a civilizations in America, long before Columbus, or the Vikings got there?
I recently saw a documentary on Discovery about Atlantis. A scientist says he has found proof that Atlantis could have been in South America (for example “atl” means water, and “antis” means copper in Incan, I think). The only problem is, I didn’t see the documentary from the beginning, and what I can’t figure out is how could the Greek writer (I can’t remember his name) from about 2000 years ago, write about a civilizations in America, long before Columbus, or the Vikings got there?
I think the name you are looking for is Plato. And to answer your question, he didn’t write about a civilization in South America. Atlantis was either an Island in the Mediterranian or Aegean. There is also the possibility that Atlantis was just a made up place to help Plato further one of his lessons.
Did the show you watch mention Graham Hancock? If it did, that is your short cut clue to knowing that you are about to be hearing BS.
I don’t know how many times I’m going to have explain this.
Atlantis’ Nucleonic energy reactor overloads
Atlantis sinks
Altantis preserved by orgone generators, drifts with current
Atlantis rises and anchors itself
Inca civilization has nothing to do with it. All Inca culture was the result of Viracocha, a renegade Tau Cetian.
Is the ol’ omniscience failing?
d&r
I think the name you are looking for is Plato. And to answer your question, he didn’t write about a civilization in South America. Atlantis was either an Island in the Mediterranian or Aegean. There is also the possibility that Atlantis was just a made up place to help Plato further one of his lessons.
Did the show you watch mention Graham Hancock? If it did, that is your short cut clue to knowing that you are about to be hearing BS.
There was a guy that was looking for evidence of heretofore undiscovered ancient civilization, possibly, Atlantis being in South America, based on something he thought was a dried-up canal. Turned it was some kind of 19th or 20th century runoff pond or something, the theory went bust. Saw a show about this on public television last year, I believe. Sorry for the lack of a cite. Think it might be related to this site about Bolivia
I like to point out that what adam yax says about it being in the Med or Aegean is one possible interpretation (and possibly the most likely), but it is not actually what Plato wrote.
The wierd thing is that he writes of a war, which the Greeks win (and have forgotten about - the Egyptians have to remind him about it). Now, if we’re talking about Atlantis=South America/Central America/Cuba etc., I find it hard to believe that they launch an invasion from there into Greece without first securing a sizable base on the European/African side of the Atlantic.
This is quite an easy one to get info on with a google. Items that you might want to look for, which might indicate pre-Columbus (and Lief Erikson) contact with the Americas are:
- Cocaine/nicotine mummies.
- Statues in America with apparent negroid features.
- American carvings of bearded men.
- Quetzalcuatl.
I’m not presenting these as proofs, but merely as items that might help your googling.
All I’ve got to say is that Atlantis sure moves around, a lot.
Just a couple of weeks ago we were looking at “evidence” that Atlantis is Antarctica
You’re all wrong. Atlantis is in the sump pump in my basement.
Cecil Adams on Atlantis .
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Atlantis is not South America.
Atlantis is fiction.
:wally