Atlantean Research Journal, and Atlantis from
1947-1987, or 50 years research in
Edgerton
Sykes was the Editor
for most of the Articles. Dean R. Clarke has been the World Authority on
the subject of Atlantis and curator of this very rare collection for over 30
years.
Journal
discussions in 1950- The Hoerbiger Theory was
discussed further, and the dating of ancient timbers
and bones by radio carbon dating when it was fairly new. The Avalon Group
discussed the similarity of the Earth Lodges of Celtic and Manden
Indians with the
Atlantis the Paradox of History, By Continenza
Angelo
"The
dawn of history reveals a humanity already
civilized-perhaps a civilization already old. The curtain rises on a play
already begun, and shows the truth of the paradox that there was a history
before history". This quotation, not from the Sybil or Delphic Oracle, but
from Aldo Valori contains the kenote
of our researches. Dietz considers that our present geological age started some
25,000 years ago with the end of the fourth Ice Age, while Barbagallo
considers that it was during the Ice Age that humanity first appeared on the
earth, at the end of the tertiary or the beginning of the quarternary,
at the time according to Wendel Philips the Tethys
Sea spread from the Atlantic to the Arabian Peninsular. From the above it would
appear that those parts of Europe which were not coated with ice were at that
time under the
Dietz
considers that the skeletons found on the Canaries were of the Cro Magnon type, the same type as
those of the producers of the art referred above, which would seem to indicate
that they escaped there from the deluge. Could this be the answer to our enigma.
Plato in
his dialogues showed himself to be well informed as an historian and as a
geographer, and without his interest nothing tangible would have survived of
the story of Atlantis, of which memories must have been extant even in his day.
When Homer wrote of "Odysseus languishing in the misery on an Island, in
the clutches of the Nymph Calypso" that "remote Island of Ogygia" where "from four separate but adjoining
springs, four crystal rivulets ran" he must have been thinking of
Atlantis, while "Scherie the rich country of the
Phaeaceans" must have been another aspect of
this civilization, as was also the violence of the Island of the Cyclops.
Hesiod
spoke of Atlantis, as did Euripides, Diodorus Siculus and Seneca; and Pliny says memories of Atlantis
occur in the Labours of Hercules; Virgil comments on
the Atlantean Culture in the Georgics, Herodotus
mentions it frequently; Pherecydes says "The
people who lived near
Stories of
the deluge are to be found in the Sagas, the Eddas,
the Puranas, in the memories of the Algonquins, the Aztecs, the Incas, the Mayas, and the Toltecs, in the same manner as the Babylonians, the
Hebrews, the Egyptians, the Chinese, in fact all the peoples of antiquity who
have legends of the Garden of Eden, the Terrestrial Paradise, and of Atlantis.
Underlying all this is the fact that language, tradition, monuments, of all the
ancient civilisations have an underlying similarity
which seems to prove conclusively their origin from a single source, and in
addition they all start their histories with an account of some kind of deluge,
although some, such as the Vedic and the Babylonian have a pre deluge stories.
In Genesis is realted the story of the Garden of Eden
with four rivers which we have already encountered on Calypso's Isle and in the
Hesperides. The fact that two of them: Tigras and Euphrates, are in the
-above is a shortened transcript of Signor Angelo's paper
from Italian-
The Labours of Hercules, By Edgerton
Sykes 1950 cont.
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