Posted on 10/29/2004 5:18:02 PM PDT by blam
One needn't have to believe the comic book version in order to think it likely that there was relatively advanced civilization in many parts of the world, and that it might reach back much farther than previously advertised.
The idea of Atlantis being a well civilized region, even one of many such places lost to history (so far) isn't really all that much of a stretch.
Ping.
All true.
But just because it's been made into an "art project" (apt description, imho) doesn't mean that it didn't actually exist, albeit in a somewhat more reasonable form than the art project version.
His chapters about the 'Rig Veda' from that part of the world is very, very intruiging. His theory about the reality behind the 'Shiva and the Mountain Dragon' myth seems to me to be very plausible.
Personally, I wonder more if 'Sundaland' wasn't "Kumari Kandam".
If reasonable means without the spaceships, Uber-people and healing energy crystals then i agree, in theory.
Although the real place might hardly be recognizable as the myth version.
If you know about the small jungle village which, most likely, inspired El Dorado myth, you know what i am talking about.
Exactly -- the nature of 'legends based on fact' in the past has followed this same pattern.
People take a story and 'embellish' it, especially when the true details fade from memory.
Yes, without the spaceships, Uber-people, and healing energy crystals. Mostly.
But I think we also risk making a mistake by underestimating the technological gains that might have been made -- or just barely missed -- by those civilizations. I suspect that there were some discoveries made thousands of years ago that either were lost, or barely missed some essential connection with another discovery that might have meant a technological or industrial revolution far earlier than ours.
I would submit that the things lost in the various burnings of the library at Alexandria would have amazed us were we to find them hidden today. I would bet that we would be very surprised at what they knew or what things might have been known if only they'd put a few different ideas together.
It's tantalizing, but of course, imponderable.
They would not have had appliances working on electricity, as some people think. not counting those clay battery thingies with their 0.02 volt of course.
Many may have had concrete or cement, simple chemical processes in order to produce colourings, handy tricks to work metal very finely, etc.
But i am interested in thought, philosophy, society, organization.
You need some basic level of technology in order to develop new technology. However, you can come to amazing conclusions just by observation alone. They may have had superior methods for stone working or agricultural tricks which we could use, but I think ancient people should consider ideas as their greatest legacy.
This theory has Atlantis in the wrong ocean.
Plato's description is pretty clear, and points to the most likely location -- just about where the Azores are now.
Bump...
Sundaland ping
Thanks for the ping. I think he makes his point that Sundaland was inhabited before the rising sea level flooded it at the end of the last ice age, but not that Sundaland was Atlantis.
According to Plato, the destruction of Atlantis was a tectonic event that happened in a day and a night. Perhaps it was like the event that formed the Tula Rosa basin in New Mexico, in which the top of a mountain range suddenly dropped at least 4000 feet.
very good!
The weight redistribution from the melting ice would have caused giagantic earthquakes, volcanos and tsunamis all over the world. The northern areas of the world are still slowly rising and some southern areas are subsiding because of the weight redistribution.
I don’t know when the Tula Rosa Basin was formed, but weight redistribution could have been the mechanism. It was a large bulge (mountain range) that cracked north-south on both sides, the sides moved apart and the middle fell in. I was impressed at how far it fell. If that is what happened to Atlantis, it could now be under many thousands of feet of water.
Indeed?
They put it in hibernation to protect it from the Wraith.
Yup Wriath. Sorry snakehead fixation syndrom. Never got into SG Atlantis - but at least they got rid of Ford. It is somewhat watchable now. Dude, three year old post?
ken21 seems to have started it up again. I didn’t even notice until now!
Although most of the ancient Greek stories were at least partially based on fact, such as the Iliad and Odyssey, I think Atlantis is totally fictional.
First of all, it has only one source. Second there are too many contradictions and impossibilities.
The only place which even remotely is close to the story is Crete. They really did war with Athens, and they really were advanced at an early date, although not as early as the supposed time of Atlantis.
Basically the story is an interesting piece of fiction.
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