Re: Atlantean Mythology

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:21:56 GMT, Larry Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (hypertech) writes: 
>> The DNA of wheat has been traced back to a strain of Einkorn,
>> still growing in the Taurus mountains, from 10,000 years ago.
>> The DNA of American corn is no older, the really big jump in
>> usefulness 6500 years ago. I havent seen recent data on rice,
>> but that shows the most promise of supporting a civilization
>> in the prehistoric past. There has been a lot of land around
>> Indonesia that has been submerged by rising ocean levels.
>> 
>> But if there were a great civilization in the area, why didnt
>> the Australians have any of it? Why were the Polynesians still
>> in the stone age?
>
>The polynesians had no access to ore.  In areas where metal ores were 
>available, they had bronze and iron.  You can't smelt anything out of 
>coral and basalt.  
> 
>> Rodney Castledon has works out that make a convincing case that
>> At-Lunus was on the Island of Thera in the Agean when the mountain
>> blew up in 1628 BCE. Which was an eruption several orders of magnitude
>> larger than Mt. St. Helens. It came along with earthquakes and huge
>> Tsunamis, and would have left a trace in myth. If not Atlantis, then
>> where?
>
>The circular description of Atlantis corresponds closely with the 
>structure of circular earthworks found throughout neolithic Europe.  
>Since henges have been found as far south as Egypt, it is certain that 
>the Egyptians knew of neolithic European astronomy.  As described, the 
>Greeks had forgotten it completely.  Atlantis was probably a lowland 
>ceremonial center in the subsidence zone along the English Channel that 
>was overwhelmed by a storm surge.  

Sounds remarkably like Jurgen Spanuth to me. He placed his 'Atlantis
of the North' somewhere round Heligoland, the Eider and the Elbe
rivers.
>
>Doubtless the eruption of Thera made a mess out of Mediterranean island 
>culture, but the description of a city built in concentric circles is 
>more northern European.  
> 




Eric Stevens