Posted on 04/22/2007 5:53:44 AM PDT by yankeedame
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What word would a people use for a land buried under ice (frozen water) if they did not have a word for ice?
Would the word be water? Would the say the land was inundated and sunk beneath the waters?
What land beyond the gates of Hercules and as large as Eastern North Africa exists buried beneath the waters?
Anartica. Just imo.
> I’ve read recently that some believe Santorini may have been close to super-volcano status.
> I just completed reading the 1965 book Krakatoa and many first hand accounts...It was no picnic either.
Nor the Taupo explosion in NZ. There is one theory running around that New Zealand was, up until the Taupo explosion, settled by Phoenecians. The archaeologist is a neighbor of mine, and his findings are, on the surface, possible.
I read a theory somewhere that the Santorini ash fallout could have been the cause of the darkening of the sky in Egypt around the time of Moses.
Plausible...
The longer I live in the South Pacific, the more I come to realize that there is a WHOLE LOT of history that has never been recorded, ever.
And that this world is ALOT older and wickeder than most folk imagine. (with the possible exception of Robert E Howard).
What is now Indonesia being Atlantis? Sure, maybe, why not?
Our modern civilization brings along with it many, many biases. But nobody has successfully — to my satisfaction — explained what happened in the Pacific, while the rest of our Civilization was off fighting Trojan Wars or building Noah’s Ark (which must have had outboard motors and lots of petrol, to drop off the kangaroos in Australia and the kiwis and tuataras in New Zealand, and still make it back in time to Mt Ararat for the floods to settle down...)
The Pacific is a very old, very antient place, full of evil that has been practised for many millenia. Yet we know next-to-nothing about its History.
Like I said: Atlantis in Indonesia? Plausible. I would not be one bit surprised.
*DieHard*
My neighbor is a 60 year old guy from NZ and he believes the same.
What word would a people use for a land buried under ice (frozen water) if they did not have a word for ice? Would the word be water? Would the say the land was inundated and sunk beneath the waters?Hey, nice! Very good idea, imho.
I agree. There was a story (I forget from whom) who wrote that the polynesians are a mixture of african and pacific peoples as a result of the Phoenecian trading. The islanders (Guam, Figi, Hawaii) were among the largest, most massive peoples of the world with 300 lbs being normal. Even today, 300 lbs is common and they have among the peoples of the earth the most massive frames and bodies.
Gypies are also larged boned and can be extremely large, but that is a separate geneology.
The Phoenecians were a mixture of Semitic peoples, being Lebanese and Israeli. Indeed, at that time, there was probably no difference between the peoples and they were probably viewed as one people with different kings.
Nice link...
Should we bring up the Olmecs and how they found their way to MesoAmerica.
Phoenicians....In the old testament, it was they who controlled the “Gates of their Enemies”. IMO, the Judahites were the bookkeepers and bankers, just as they are today.
> My neighbor is a 60 year old guy from NZ and he believes the same.
There are some really... interesting... rock carvings that require explanation. They come from the Taupo region. One of them is a very, very detailed-if-crude map of the globe.
A natural formation, the result of erosion? Shyeah right — I think not so. Someone did it, and that someone had a technological capability that surpassed dugout catamaran canoes (as marvelous as that maritime innovation was: the subject of separate discussion). These Taupo folk could quite clearly circumnavigate the globe and check out the coast-lines of all continents, and keep careful records, and return home within a lifetime, then etch their map onto volcanic rock. Their writings suggest Phoenecia.
I’ll keep an open mind on this one. Wide, wide open. Vikings were supposed to have found NZ at some point, too. And the Chinese. And the Spaniards.
Any of them easily could have: the prevailing currents would have virtually guaranteed it. One would have to be really unlucky to be in the Pacific Ocean and not eventually be sucked by some current or another smack into New Zealand (check it out).
Like I said, the true history of the South Pacific is lost in antiquity, and it is veiled in darkness and evil, amongst great civilizations with no written language, only tradition and oral history that is quickly disappearing. In real terms we have absolutely no idea what went on here.
No idea at all.
*DieHard*
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Pumice from the eruption is still regularly washing up on the beaches of Santorini. I’ve pick up all sorts of the stuff there. Another fascinating aspect of that island is the different colored ash cliffs. Like nothing anywhere else I’m told.
I still think Southeast Asia and perhaps parts of India as Atlantis. It sure fits what Plato described it as.
That's my first choice as of now. It has changed before though...maybe again.
I used to think it was in the Mediterranean Sea.
What about Lemuria, an ancient mythical civilization somewhere in the Pacific. Has any archeologist given it credence or is it just a myth?
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