I’m fascinated by the underwater ruins near Okinawa ... Nomagumi? Graham Hancock’s beautiful photographer wife took extensive photos of that site a few years ago.
Me too - check out the link I provided.
The UNDERWORLD thesis of Hancock’s is that during near the end of the Ice Age there arose an advanced stone age coastal civilization - not advanced like they had cars or lasers but advances like the Egyptians and when the great melt happened this far flung coastal civilization/empire was drowned giving rise to the Atlantis myth and other flood myths with the survivors of the coastal flood moving inland to be among the less advanced humans of the inner continents who viewed the more advances coastal dwellers as gods or near gods. What survived are racial memories and some passed down knowledge turned to myth and legends but for the most part real evidence for this civilization is buried under the seas.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2355928/posts
Make that ‘Yonaguni’ ... getting old is such a hassle.