EVIDENCE OF... ATLANTIS

RECORDS OF...

Many, many historical writers and recorders document Atlantis in various ways, from various times and places, often without possible knowledge of one another's documentations.

One of the oldest books ever found, the Oera Linda from Holland, tells of the destruction of a large Atlantic Island civilization by earthquakes and tidal waves.

In Plato's record of Atlantis, the Critias, he makes note of the Atlantean's use of the metal, Orichalc, despite the fact that Plato had no idea what Orichalc was. Certainly, then, the Critias is not a work of imagination as many believe, but is exactly as Plato says: a record of a dialogue regarding the wisdom acquired by his ancestor, Solon, who had studied under Egyptian priests in 560 B.C., 200 years before Plato lived.

In 300 B.C. the well-traveled philosopher Crantor wrote Beginnings or Glimpses of Vanished Civilizations which includes record of Crantor's visit to Sias, Egypt. Crantor tells us that while in Sias he was allowed by priests to study two well preserved (albeit very old) pillars, upon which was recorded the history of the fall of Atlantis.

Manetho, an Egyptian Chronicler best known for Aegyptiaca, also makes record of pillars kept by the Priests of Sais. According to Manetho in the Corpus Hermeticum (circe 300 A.D.) he was told by the Priests of Sias that the pillars were first inscribed at the fall of Atlantis, near the date 10,000 B.C.. However, knowing that the pillars would succumb to an impending catastrophic flood, around 4,000 B.C., Thoth-Hermes made new pillars inscribed with the ancient wisdom so that the knowledge would not be lost to the flood. It was these second pillars which Manetho wrote had long been housed in Sias.

Hebrew tradition tells us that Enoch (who is the same as Thoth-Hermes) erected two pillars before a great flood, and embossed them with a depository of the great truths. Only one pillar, the bronze, was believed to have survived the flood.

The Jewish historian, Josephus, makes a very similar record of pillars, though regarding Seth's children: They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day.

The Bible tells us of pillars erected by Solomon in I Kings 7:21: And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

It is the belief of the Freemasons that the two pillars Solomon had erected before the porch of his temple were made hollow and with a secret opening. Inside the pillars were kept the great truths of humankind.

PLACING OF...

Edgar Cayce and many others place Atlantis in a region which would include what we now call the Bermuda Triangle. In the 1930's Cayce's readings told of evidence of Atlantis to be found off the coast of Bimini, in the records of Egypt, and in the stones of the Yucatan (Central America). Cayce speaks extensively of the use of crystals and their energies by the Atlanteans.

The Spanish conquerors of Central and South America learned through records and stories of the Mayans, Incans, and Aztecs of Atlan, the wise kingdom which once existed to the east of the Americas, and met its demise by cataclysm. These peoples also maintained records and traditions regarding the continent of Mu in the Pacific, which had met its demise before Atlan.

There have been numerous old maps discovered which record Atlantis in the same region Cayce describes. Three of the most famous of these maps are: the Piri Re'is map which not only shows the coastlines of Atlantis, but the shores of Antarctica without its ice. An ancient map held by King Henry in the 1500's. And, the 1482 Benincasa Map, showing the 3 large islands which composed Atlantis, used by Christopher Columbus to navigate his way to America.

In the 1930's workers clearing the Diquis Delta of Costa Rica Central America, exposed a forest floor littered with hundreds and hundreds of artificially-smoothed stone spheres. The largest of these spheres is 8-feet in diameter.

In 1957 Dr. David Zink, diving off the coast of the Bahamas, discovered and photographed a stylized marble head block which had a seam, as if it had been produced from a mold, a second block that appeared to have been tooled by a drill, and a column of the same stone.

In 1958 Dr. William Bell discovered and photographed a six-foot erect spire protruding from a mechanical-looking base which included two large circular gears and other parts which were obscured by the sand of the ocean floor. Oddly, light emanated from the mechanical base causing the water to have a dull glow at the bottom of the spire. This peculiar light is clearly visible in the photographs he captured.

In 1969, during the Dr. Manson Valentine expedition, which was both photographed and video taped, stone stairs were discovered on Bimini leading down into the ocean, where a path paved in large stones and wall remnants were found beneath the waters. These ruins are of striking comparison to ruins of an unknown civilization found in Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, which is connected to Atlantis by way of its mythology. Discoveries are still being made to this day around the island of Bimini.

In the 1970s a Soviet expedition to the Atlantic's Ampere Seamount discovered and photographed a large number of ruins there, all of which had been destroyed by lava. The pictures were published in the New York Times on May 21, 1978. The pictures had been developed and released to the press by the Soviet Academy of Science's Institute of Oceanography. The Academy reported similar findings near Cadiz, Spain close to the ruins later discovered by the Asher expedition.

In 1973 a team of some 70 scientists, teachers, archeologists, and divers, under endorsement from Pepperdine Universtiy, traveled the Atlantic in search of Atlantis. That same year Maxine Asher, co-director for the expedition, released a statement to United Press International which was featured in every major newspaper at the time. Asher stated that Atlantis had been discovered "in the exact place discribed by the Greek philosopher, Plato". She discribed what they found as being a "super-civilization", and furthered that the expedition had documented roads, large columns (many bearing spiral motifs), walls, and canals which littered the sea floor for a great distance. Among other items, an oddly inscribed urn that had been brought to the surface by the expedition was displayed for American photographers.

In 1977, during the Ari Marshall expedition, a huge pyramid was photographed off the coast of Cay Sal, in the Bahamas. The pyramid rests at a depth of 800 feet, with the capstone being 150 feet below the surface. Despite the dark appearance of the ocean in the region, the water immediately surrounding the pyramid ranged from an eerie white to a very clear green color.

In 1979 an "In Search of Atlantis" television show with Leonard Nemoy featured the story of a crystal sphere discovered underwater by Dr. Ray Brown on a scuba diving trip near the Bahama's Bari Islands in 1970. The interior of the quartz sphere, in normal view, depicts three smooth-sided pyramids on top of one another. From another angle, many claim to see a fourth, more illusive, pyramid. Still, from another angle, there is the interior image of an open eye. This later image, as well as the three pyramids, have been clearly captured on film. The sphere was first publicly displayed in 1975 in Phoenix, Arizona where a host of strange phenomenon was recorded in the sphere's presence, mostly magnetic disturbances which included compasses spinning counter-clockwise when placed in close proximity to the sphere.

INFLUENCE OF...

There is much evidence of contact between Atlantis, before it fell, and other parts of the world.

When Heinrich Schliemann rediscovered Troy he documented the find of a mostly-bronze vase in King Priam's treasure room. The second metal which composed the vase could not be identified by scientists who examined it at the time of its discovery. On the inside of the vase are Phoenician glyphs which label the vase as a gift from King Chronos of Atlantis.

In Tiajuanaco, Bolivia, where many interesting discoveries connect the region to both Mu and later, Atlantis, pottery identical to what Schliemann found in Troy has been discovered in abundance.

Diodorus Siculus, in his 40-volume work, Bibliotheca Historica - or "Historical Library" - documents that the Phoenicians traveled to Atlantis, and had great trade relations with the Atlantic Island. He wrote that the Phoenicians had recorded their knowledge of a war which occurred between Atlantis, and errant Atlantean colonies in South America. The Phoenicians, claimed Diodorus, were also knowledgeable of South America, for they had, in their writings, included descriptions of South American jungles and the Amazon River.

Writing identical to, and translated the same as, Phoenician hieroglyphics, (though the modern scientific consensus stops short of calling the writing Phoenician because their beliefs of history tell them it can't be) are found on a variety of ruins and objects discovered in South America.

The Greek historian Timagenus wrote that tribes in ancient France made record of their original homeland as being Atlantis. In his study of ancient Europe, Timagenus also came to believe in a war between Atlantis and its errant monolithic-building European colonies.

Clear and bright colored paintings, found on cave walls in France, show people wearing clothes of a style closer to the modern century then what we would expect to find in ancient Europe. French historian and archaeologist, Robert Charoux, dated these images at 15,000 B.C., and noted that they were often found near underground temple structures, one such being a pyramid complex.

SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY OF...

Perhaps one of the most disputed descriptions of Atlantis include their supposed use of flying machines. Such a statement must surely be myth, we say, for we know flying machines are a purely modern invention. There is evidence which tells us, however, that humans achieved flight at a much earlier point in history, and that this technology was, over time, lost and thereby slowly reduced to myth.

In 1898 a peculiar wooden object was discovered in Egypt, labeled as a child's toy bird (despite no such toys having ever been found), and stored in a Cairo museum. The object was later rediscovered in the museum's store rooms by Dr. Kahlil Messiha. Dr. Messiha's occupation was in the study of ancient models, and he immediately prompted the Egyptian government to devote a special team into investigate the object. It was given the date of 200 B.C., and after the investigation the object was put on display in the museum, bearing the label "Model Airplane". In addition to a fixed rudder, tail, and cutout seat area, the wings have a very intentional downward curve - much like a modern glider - displaying advanced knowledge of aerodynamic principals.

In Central and South America there have been so many discoveries of small golden models resembling airplanes designed with knowledge of aerodynamic principals, we can not tell you when the first one was found or who found it. We can tell you that for lack of an easy explanation, these objects are most often filed away and disregarded as being zoomorphic, or "animal shaped" models. This happens despite the fact that, although being very similar to one another, they are very different then any other style of zoomorphic modeling we find in the region. These models are at least 1000 years old.

It is in South America that we also find the Nazca lines, enormous figures known as geoglyphs that can only be understood from an ariel viewpoint due to the monumental size.

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The widely studied Temple of Abydos in Egypt lends strength to the finding of the model airplane in that country. Dr. Ruth Hover discovered striking embossed images on a wall panel in the temple when a newer overlaying panel crumbled away. To many these images resemble a variety of flying machines. Egyptologist label them palimpsests, meaning they believe they are the result of two overlapping images combining to look like something else. The photo above left is a tourists photo. Below right is the photo

The top photo was taken by a visitor to the Temple of Abydos.

The photo opposite is a similar photo that has been digitally enhanced to sharpen the edges

In the photo below the images are much harder to see, though you get a good idea of how the carvings are located within the temple.

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In India's well known ancient Sanskrit text, the Ramayana, we find the following passage: and the King Rama got in the excellent vehicle at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere. The Ramayana text also describes a lunar battle with an Asvin airship. Asvin (mentioned extensively in the Indian Vedas) is the Indian term for the Atlantean race. In other Indian texts we are told of the Asvin airships, the Vailixi, cigar-shaped crafts which could not only fly, they could travel in outer-space, and dive beneath the surface of water.

Eklal Kueshana, respected author of the Ultimate Frontier and the founder of The Stelle Group intentional community writes of the Vailixi in a 1996 article: Vailixi were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago. The most common are saucer shaped, of a generally trapezoidal cross-section with three hemispherical engine pods on the underside. They use a mechanical antigravity device driven by engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power. The Ramayana, Mahabharatra, Vedas, and other texts speak of the hideous war that ook place, some ten or twelve thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama using weapons of destruction that could not be imagined by readers until the second half of this century.

In fact, India has a wealth of texts, poems, and pillars which not only refer repeatedly to flying vehicles, crafts with wheels that could also take to the air, and other such Vimanas, but also weapons of mass destruction very similar to Plato's record of the weapons employed by the Atlanteans near the end of their demise. In the Mahabharatra we read of vehicles in the sky which shoot "blazing missles", reflective weapons which use a beam of light to annihalate the enemy, flying vehicles which are able to be made invisible, bombs that produce clouds that rise perpendicular and open like an umbrella (mushroom clouds?), and "flaming arrows" able to seek invisible vehicles by way of sound. The several thousand year-old Mahabharatra epic ends its description of the war in the sky in this way: Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendour. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messaenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis (who include Krishna) and Andhakas. The corpses were so burnt they were no longer recognizable. Hair and nails fell out. Pottery broke without cause, And the birds turned white. After a few hours all foodstuffs were poisoned. To escape from the fire the warriors threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.

In the ancient Indian work, the Vymanka-Shastra, or the Science of Aeronautics, very detailed discriptions are given in the science of building a Vimana, or flying machine. Thirty-one parts of the Vimana are analyzed including a photographing mirror placed on the underside of the craft. The sixteen elements used to make the craft are listed, with only three of them being known to modern sciences.

In recent years, Sanskrit writings referencing machines of flight were also discovered in Lhasa, Tibet. These writings were studied extensively by University of Chandrigarh, under the direction of the Chinese. Dr. Ruth Reyna, in charge of translating these documents for the University, made some very startling discoveries that have been virtualy ignored by the mainstream American media. According to Reyna, the crafts are documented as being propelled by "laghima", which is a natural force of the advanced ego, "a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull". Hindu yogis tell us that laghima is the force which allows them to levitate. This text, dated to almost 4000 B.C., calls such flying machines "Astras" which are not as much for earthly travel as they are for inter-planetary excursions. According to Dr. Reyna's translations, in addition to the Astras, the text defines such topics as "the cap of invisibility" and "becoming as heavy as lead". In one of the first instances of a government admitting to being interested in such things, upon Reyna's findings the Chinese government openly announced that many of the texts instructions would be explored by their space program.

Hitler and the Nazi staff were exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent yearly expeditions to both places starting in the 1930's with the intention of gathering esoteric knowledge. It is interesting to note, then, that the Nazi's developed the first practical pulse-jet engines, which they then used to power their V-8 rocket "buzz bombs".

DESTRUCTION OF...

There is plentiful evidence connecting the cataclysm which took Atlantis to devastation in other regions at that same time.

To further the details given in the section above, in regard to the connection between the devastation of the ancient Atlantean and Rama empires, there is also plentiful evidence of the wars described by Plato which preceded and corresponded with the cataclysms. In recent times, while beginning work on a new housing development to be built ten miles west of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, a heavy layer of radioactive ash was discovered, and later determined by investigators to cover a three-square-mile area. For quite a long time a high rate of birth defects and cancer has been known in the area, and scientist have now convinced the Indian government to cordon off the area after a study showed high levels of radiation emanating from the ash strata. And now, and ancient city is being unearthed there, thought to be at least 12,000 years old. The city shows signs of a massive devastation that researchers have described as being comparable to the devastation of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, Japan. Once again, I reference the ancient Indian text, the Mahabharata, quoting historian Kisari Mohan Ganguli's reference to the Drova Parna section of the sacred writing, as he commented on the find of the radioactive ruins: The passage tells of combat where explosions of final weapons decimate entire armies, causing crowds of warriors with steeds and elephants and weapons to be carried away as if they were dried leaves.

Plato and most other sources describe the fall of Atlantis as being near 10,000 B.C., which would have been twelve thousand years ago. In that year a massive planetary alignment occurred which is largely attributed to an increased gravitational-pull and which is said to bring changes in weather patterns, and volcanic and fault-line disruption. The alignment, which occurs every 6000 years (and therefore would have also occurred at the time commonly assigned to the Biblical Flood), happened again on May 5, 2000.

Near 10,000 B.C. the Sahara desert -- once a bountiful land where grass, trees, and culture flourished -- experienced a massive change in the weather patterns which caused it dwindle into the desert it is now.

10,000 B.C. is the date commonly assigned to the end of the last Ice Age period in North America, as well as the date given for the first arrival of human civilization in many states, including Washington, Maryland, and New Mexico.

SURVIVORS OF...

There are many, many pieces of evidence which draw connections between the sudden demise of Atlantis, and the advent of advanced civilizations in both Egypt and Central and South America.

The Sun-Wheel or Cross and the Serpent are given as two of the most important religious symbols in Atlantis. These are also two of the most important symbols to the Mayans of Central America (which includes the region of the Yucatan) who describe in their holy book, the Popol Vuh, their divine progenitor, Quetzalcoatl, who came to them from across the sea. He is given the title of "Plumed Serpent", or "Serpent adorned with the colorful feathers of the Quetzal bird", and is described as being both white and bearded with blue eyes. After instructing the Mayans of the essentials of advanced civilization, it is writen that Quetzalcoatl left their land, departing toward the east by way of a "firey" craft that glided across the water. Once out on the water Quetzlcoatl and his craft were said to have disappeared in a "holocost of fire and flame".

Much like the story of Quetzalcoatl, in what has to be South America's most important site -- Tiahuanaco, Bolivia -- we read of Virachocha, the beautiful, bearded white man with emerald colored eyes, who arrived in the region after a flood which lasted sixty days and vanished cities in its wake. This flood is the second, though not the last, cataclysm to be recorded as part of the history of Tiahuanaco. The first cataclysm was thousands of years before, and had destroyed Mu and left half of Tiahuanaco beneath the water of Lake Titicaca. That first cataclysm had brought darkness to the city, from which Virachocha then awakened them. After he taught the inhabitants of the Andes the way of an advanced civilization, he departed from Ecuador, "sailing toward the setting sun" with his host of emerald-eyed men.

A further connection between the golden age of Central and South American civilization and the fall of Atlantis can be found in Plato's description of the stair-stepped temple-pyramids of Atlantis. These same temple-pyramids of a stair-stepped fashion became an important facet of Mayan, Incan, and Aztec civilization. The highest, most spectacular pyramids of these civilizations are dedicated to the Sun, just as they were in Atlantis.

Stair-stepped pyramids are also found in Egypt, pre-dating the more commonly depicted smooth-faced Egyptian pyramids known in the time of Thoth-Hermes (which are still constructed in the "stair-step" fashion, and then fitted with facing stones to give the smooth appearance). In fact, it is the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza that is one of the most obvious pieces of evidence we have of the great intelligence of the past. For many, it is the technological advancements of the Atlanteans that make Plato's record of their civilization read more like some form of Greek science-fiction, then an accurate record deserving of serious consideration. If nothing else should force us to reconsider our ideas of the past it is the Great Pyramid, unable to be duplicated by even the technology of the modern day.