I am thinking about Atlantis as a worldwide maritime culture with a "motherland" off the Americas. I am wondering when Atlantis did "perish" (as stated by Plato) and relate it possibly to a cometary event 12,900 years ago. I am also thinking about the Atlantean legacy that we relate as the "beginning" of modern history. Just wanted to share some things AND in case anyone is also absorbed by thinking about "Atlantis", FEEL FREE TO DISCUSS ATLANTIS....
I have been interested in megalithic archeology ever since Graham Hancock first brought it to my attention. Also, I have been interested in "Catastrophobia" as Barbara Hand Clow coined that expression. There was at least one previous GRAND civilization. Something very difficult has effected the human "mind". We have suffered amnesia. This still effects us.
It always fascinated me to imagine that the homeland of Atlantis was located off the coast of now North and South America.
There was once a sea faring world wide civilization that had a common culture which was like a mother culture to many different children. This is evidenced in common features that can be identified. Evidence is found in many commonalities across the world.
It is possible that during the last great ice age, civilization was maritime and the sea levels much lower. Something happened like a cometary event and suddenly melted the ice? Civilization was plowed over and an ice time commenced again. The world wide culture was fragmented. North America was decimated. It seems possible that perhaps the timeline for this catastrophe Plato described could be within the ball park of a cometary event around 12,900 years ago?
Here is just one example of the synthesis of information connecting across vast distances. Maybe the "mother land" of Atlantis was here in this area? Maybe the Olmecs were Atlantean descendants?
Maybe cultures like the Olmec's and others had consistent contact that was then interrupted at a much earlier and much older than suspected or admitted time? As to "Atlantis" as a homeland, could the regional base of Atlantis have stretched as shown here?ATLANTIS:
The Berber tribes of North Africa call it Attala, the Basques Atlaintika, the Vikings Atli, the Babylonians Arallu, and the Aztecs Aztlán or Tulan. The Hindus referred to Atlantis or different portions of it, in various stages of its evolution, as Atala, Saka-dvipa (early Atlantis), Sveta-dvipa (‘white island’), Ruta and Daitya (large islands remaining after most of Atlantis had sunk), and Sankha- (or Sancha-) dvipa (Poseidonis).
We know for fact that the Egyptian pyramids were coated with fine white limestone.
Both, written and - more recently - photographic evidence reveal the face of Atlantis: an island of gigantic pyramids and temples (dedicated to the gods). Is this why the island was known as Sveta-dvipa (the white island)?
Sunk cities (pavement, monuments & pyramids) have been discovered where Atlantis continent was located:
.....“When we published the first news of this finding,” she said, “the University of Veracruz was interested in our work and we had recorded images of these structures on the seabed. Specifically, the Institute of Anthropology of the University excavations invited me. They were doing [studies] on parts and ruins of the Olmec civilization.
“When they saw these submarine images [they] found similarities and parallels with the ruins found in these excavations that the Institute was undertaking.
“The Olmecs and other native peoples all have primary morphology marking the arrival of this continent. This mean coming from the direction of Cuba, and had to occur in a very large earthquake where their land sank.
Morphologies indicate that they belong to three families who were saved. One of these families came to the coast of Veracruz, which are supposedly the Olmec. Others came to Central America and traveled to the Pacific coast, and these families created the civilization of the Americas as we know it today, because they distributed all their knowledge.
When these anthropologists saw underwater images of this city, and saw some stone monoliths, some symbol, and inscriptions, they identified with Olmec motifs. They were very surprised.” http://humansarefree.com/2011/09/atl...nnections.html
http://davidpratt.info/americas1.htm
http://hercolano2.blogspot.com/2012/...-survivor.html
Throughout the world, harbors are seen on now flooded areas that were once shorelines
Around 12,900 years ago, did a comet devastate the North American continent and the region of the Atlantis homeland? The Carolina Bays show the region was strafed northwest to southeast. It was evidentally from the residual markings on the earth, as powerful an event as something like this.Evidence on this site, Ancient Canal Builders shows many harbor areas on much of New York's Long Island Sound and other East Coast locations, Florida Gulf Coast, the Louisiana Delta and Mexico, to have been 'worked' and 'inhabited' by a very large, and technically sophisticated population of canal builders during some remote period. Both Florida and New York have extensive offshore harbor and canal-channel systems that are at least -7,000 years old.
‘There is a tendency in this field to label any circular feature a crater,’ says Michael Oskin of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, who surely had in mind the famous Carolina Bays when he said these words. These are literally ten of thousands of elliptical craters, orientated northwest to southeast that cover large areas of not just the Carolinas but several states from New Jersey down to Florida. Many are in swampland and filled with water, thus are taken simply to be wind-created lakes or ponds. Ever since their discovery in the 1930s, following the advent of aerial photography, there has been mounting speculation that the Carolina Bays, and other similar elliptical craters in the Yukon permafrost, are impact craters caused by either the aerial bombardment of meteorites, or the fragments of some more substantial object such a comet or asteroid, similar to the one suspected of causing an explosion of immense magnitude in a remote forested region in Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908.
Carbon-dating evidence from the Carolina Bays has provided compelling evidence that they were formed around the end of the Pleistocene period, and many bear characteristic lips or banks at their southeast ends, suggesting that whatever caused them arrived from the northwest.http://researchgroupfb.wordpress.com...900-years-ago/North America’s woolly mammoth, giant ground sloths and sabre-tooth tigers were wiped out by a devastating comet 12,900 years ago.
This is according to a controversial study by Californian Professor James Kennet which suggests that an ancient cosmic impact triggered a vicious cold snap.
Now a research team from University of California, Santa Barbara, claims to have further evidence to back up Professor Kennett's 2007 ‘Younger Dryas impact theory’.
Scientists from University of California, Santa Barbara, found nanodiamonds around rock sediment that formed during the Big Freeze 12.900 years ago.
Scientists from University of California, Santa Barbara, found nanodiamonds around rock sediment that formed during the Big Freeze 12.900 years ago.
The Younger Dryas, or the ‘Big Freeze’, saw a rapid return to glacial conditions in the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere between 12,900–11,500 years ago.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz35TY0bQICCivilization LostDid a Comet Hit Earth 12,900 Years Ago?
Nanodiamonds found across North America suggest that major climate change could have been cosmically instigated
Roughly 12,900 years ago, massive global cooling kicked in abruptly, along with the end of the line for some 35 different mammal species, including the mammoth, as well as the so-called Clovis culture of prehistoric North Americans. Various theories have been proposed for the die-off, ranging from abrupt climate change to overhunting once humans were let loose on the wilds of North America. But now nanodiamonds found in the sediments from this time period point to an alternative: a massive explosion or explosions by a fragmentary comet, similar to but even larger than the Tunguska event of 1908 in Siberia.
Sediments from six sites across North America—Murray Springs, Ariz.; Bull Creek, Okla.; Gainey, Mich.; Topper, S.C.; Lake Hind, Manitoba; and Chobot, Alberta—yielded such teensy diamonds, which only occur in sediment exposed to extreme temperatures and pressures, such as those from an explosion or impact, according to new research published today in Science.
The discovery lends support to a theory first advanced last year in that some type of cosmic impact or impacts—a fragmented comet bursting in the atmosphere or raining down on the oceans—set off the more than 1,300-year cooling period in the Northern Hemisphere known as the Younger Dryas for the abundance of an alpine flower's pollen found during the interval.
The cooling period interrupted an extended warming out of an ice age predicted by slight changes in Earth's orbit (known as Milankovitch cycles) that continues today. And it remains an unexplained anomaly in the climate record.
But a series of cometary fragments exploding over North America might explain a layer of soil immediately prior to the cooling containing unusually high levels of iridium—an element more common in cosmic wanderers like meteoroids than in Earth's crust. Paired with the fact that this layer occurs directly before the extinction of at least 35 genera of large mammals, including mammoths, it is strong circumstantial evidence for a cosmic event.
Robert R. Cargill, Philip Coppens, Jonathan Young
History Channel 11 December 2011
Did People create Underground Cities in advance of Catastrophe
The Cappadocia region of Turkey was part of the zoroastrian empire, which was persian in nature.
And it's one of the oldest religious traditions on the face of the Earth.
The zoroastrian religion an ancient faith based on opposing forces of good and evil is widely believed to have influenced both hinduism and judeo-christianity.
Founded sometime before the sixth century, its chief God is the creator, Ahura Mazda.
And in the second chapter of the zoroastrian sacred text, the Vendidad, Ahura Mazda saves mankind from a worldwide environmental disaster much like the story of Noah in the Hebrew testament.
The great prophet Yima was instructed to build a kind of underground refuge similar to Derinkuyu by the sky God Ahura Mazda.
According to the sacred texts, Yima built a multilevel underground city to protect a select group of people and animals, not from a flood but from a global ice age.
The Vendidad calls this "the evil winters.
" According to many mainstream climatologists, the last ice age peaked around 18,000 years ago and ended around 10,000 b.http://www.springfieldspringfield.co...episode=s02e04
From Graham Hancock:
Coast To Coast Graham Hancock Interview -12,800 yrs ago comet hit polar icecap and wiped out advanced civilizationa titanic global cataclysm in the window between 13,000 and 12,000 years ago, around the end of the last Ice Age, that wiped out and destroyed almost all traces of a great global civilization of prehistoric antiquity. I’m already well ahead with the research and I aim to complete writing of the book by December 2014 and to publish in the autumn of 2015.
Emerging from mainstream science – which has so often ridiculed and dismissed my work – the first piece of evidence that made me realise there was a new story to be told was proof that north America was struck by several pieces of a giant fragmenting comet 12,900 years ago (i.e. 10,900 BC), causing an extinction-level event all around the planet, radically changing global climate and initiating the sudden and hitherto unexplained thousand-year deep-freeze right at the end of the Ice Age that geologists call the Younger Dryas.
The second early clue was the discovery in Turkey of an extraordinary 12,000-year old megalithic site called Gobekli Tepe, which is on the scale of Stonehenge but 7,000 years older than any of the other great stone circles known to history anywhere else in the world. Furthermore the best megalithic work at Gobekli Tepi is the oldest and the site was deliberately buried 10,000 years ago only to be rediscoveredhttps://www.facebook.com/Author.Grah...51506710212354
North American Comet Catastrophe 10,900 BC Part 1