1954 cont.
In light of this information, the previous link or second
previous link has the site at the top of it on the Sept. 7th 2001
finding of structures by oil explorers 250 miles S. West of the Azores with a
Plato Citadel description at 2,800 feet down, and the Cuba western shore recent
find is of note at the same link. Http://earthfiles.com/earth303.htm and Ancientamerican.com.
Lost Atlantis (Part 6 Bryant) by Egerton Sykes
In the first place they carried bridges over the zones of
the sea which surrounded the ancient metropolis, and they constructed a
passage-way into and out of the royal palace, and then they began to build the
palace in the house of the god Poseidon and their ancestors. "They
continued to embellish in succeeding generations, every king surpassing the one
whom he succeeded, unto his utmost ability, until they made the building a
marvel to look at for extent and beauty. And beginning from the sea they dug a
canal, three hundred feet in depth, and nearly six English miles long, which
carried through to the outermost zone, making thus a pathway from the sea up to
the said zone, which thus became a harbor, and leaving an opening sufficient
for the largest vessels to find their way out. Moreover, they joined the zones
of land which parted the zones of water by building bridges so wide that would
leave passage for one trireme to pass out of the zone of water into another,
and roofed them over, and there was a way underneath for the ships as the sides
of the earth zones were raised considerably above the water. Now the largest
zone of water into which the canal from the sea entered was 1808 English feet
broad, and the land zone coming next was equal breadth: but the next two were
1206 feet each in breadth: and the one of water surrounding the central island
was 503 feet only in width."
The central metropolis would, of course, be in the central
island containing the Palace Temple of Poseidon and Cleito, which was made
inaccessible as possible by the arrangement of the zones. This account reminds
me of Venice, and then our thoughts go back to still earlier city of Carthage,
but on similar lines in 869 B.C., with sea-gates like the ones referred to
above. Those that had old records of the layout or proportions of the Atlantis
canal zones was laid out in some of Carthage Cities founding. It must have
taken hundreds or thousands of years for this settlement develop into the proud
seaport it became when it was finally overwhelmed. Spence notes that although
Carthage may have been built after Plato's day the actual layout plan was in
existence in Plato's day, and probably for some time?
The outermost stretch of land canal beyond the third zone
of water where stood the sea-gate entrance into the sea, facing the present
south-western slopes of the southern Atlas Range of Mountains. We are told that
when this intricate layout of that Atlantis Citadel was first layed out ships
and voyages were yet unknown? The answer of its original reason was so that,
"no man could get to the island", meaning the innermost mass of land
which by these waterways had become in fact an island.
A tabulation of the preceding details gives the result:
Innermost water zone
.603 English feet
Innermost land zone
.1206
Second water zone
...1206
Second land zone
...1808
Outermost water zone
.1808
The total is just under one and a quarter miles in all:
adding the six miles of canal between the outer water zone and the coast
proper, we have a distance of seven and a quarter miles between the sea and the
central island with the palace temple.
Because the Plato account and the Carthage Empire are so
close in time we might be inclined to think of that old expression
"Delanda est Carthago". Returning to Critias story:
"The island in which the palace stood had a diameter
of 3013 English feet, (which means a circumference of over a mile and a half).
This and the zone and the bridge, which was a hundred feet wide, they
surrounded by a stone wall on either side, placing towers and gates on the
bridges where the sea passed in. The stones used for this work they got from
under the central island, and also from under the zones on the outer as also on
the inner side. One kind of stone was white, another black, and a third red:
and as they quarried, they at the same time hollowed out docks, double within,
having roofs formed of natural rock. Some of their buildings were plain, yet in
others they placed together different stones that intermingled for ornamental
purposes, to be admired. The whole circumference of the wall which went round
the central zone of all, they covered with a coating of brass, and the circuit
of the next wall they covered with tin, and the third wall which went round the
citadel flashed with thew light reddishness of orchalkum. The palace in the
interior of the citadel were constructed as follows: in the midst of all stood
a sacred temple, dedicated to Cleito and Poseidon, which remained inaccessible
and was surrounded by an enclosure of gold: this was the spot which the
Atlanteans annually brought fruits of the earth in their season, from all ten
divisions, and offered up sacrifices to each of them. Here, too, was the temple
of Poseidon, with a length of 603 feet and 301 in width, and a proportionate
height, splendidly ornamented. All the outside of the temples, except the
pinnacles, they covered with silver, and the pinnacles with gold. The interior
the roof was of ivory, ornamented everywhere with gold and silver and
orchalkum: all the other parts of the walls, pillars and floor they lined with
orchalkum."
The tarnishing of some of these metals would employed a
large group of people alone to polish the floors constantly, unless it was
layered with melted amber like a Lucite type resin???
The narrative goes on with what was in the temples:
Statue of Gold-God standing on a charioteer of six winged
horses, and of size that touched the roof with his head, around him were
hundred nereids riding on dolphins which for such was considered their number
in those days.
Other statues of private people offered and placed by them.
Round the outside of temple the ten kings and their wives,
and other offerings form foreign kingdoms and individuals.
An Altar included which in size and execution corresponded
to the rest of the work.
Other temples to the greatness of the kingdom, and glory of
the temple.
Fountains of cold and hot springs affording the excellence
of their source of water, many of them.
Constructed buildings with groves of trees, also cisterns,
some of which opened to the heavens, others roofed over, used in winter as
baths. King's baths, private baths, and baths kept separate for women and
others for horses and cattle.
Apart form Greece and Rome, the only other empire of any
antiquity, that observed this same custom as the Atlanteans in erecting statues
of their deities and monarchs, was Peru, where the Incas and their wives were
represented in the temples of the Sun and the Moon at Cuzco: and Plato's reference
to the golden statues of the ten Atlantean kings and their wives is exactly
paralleled by Prescott's accounts of the Peruvian golden statues. And Donnelly,
as all that have read his "Atlantis" are aware, considered Peru the
westernmost province of the Island Empire whose seaport and capital city we are
now considering.
Poseidon and Hermes are patrons deities of the sea affairs
and maritime trading: yet the former was worshipped in Atlanteans and
Phoenicians, the latter is replaced among the Tyrians, Sidonians and
Carthaginians by blood thirsty and ferocious Melkhart or Hercules, the biblical
Moloch. Old temple of Poseidon we have also totem animals, the horse, which he,
or rather some of his votaries, may first have introduced to the Athenians of
Pre-History. One invading group of Atlanteans may have left their horses behind
after Athens defeated them on land in Greece? It is only natural that
Poseidon's dolphins
, from whom the heir apparent to the throne of France may
have derived his name of Dauphin, along with the sea-nymphs, like Tritons, have
been seals?
The location of the mountains near the citadel may be
termed as south-west Morocco, the point being Atlas carried the world from the
one he lost of his former dominions, and the capital city may have slipped into
the old Sahara Sea which then was washing these coasts. Others suggest the city
is lost in Western Morocco. Not still clear if it was the northwestern region
of Morocco Atlas Mt. Chain or the southwestern portion to the Sahara Sea? Some
have reported ruins in the extreme southern regions of Algeria and Morocco
which were thought to be roman, but Romans were not as far as we know to
venture too south into these regions. According to Braghine and Bilau
considers the capital of Atlantis was situated in one of the islands of the
Azores.
They used aqueducts to carry away water away from the
groves unused on top of the canal bridges toward other temple areas in the
other zones.
In the middle land zone there was a racecourse (sometimes
said to be similar to the one on Rhodes later) that was 603 feet in width and
for length extended around the island. The lesser-trusted guards had garrisons
to the outer posts and the inner acropolis the most trusted guards. The docks
were full of triremes and naval stores and all things were quite ready for use.
As far as the harbor edges wall: this was everywhere about
five miles, five and a half furlongs from the largest zone and harbor, and
enclosed them all, meeting at the opening of the canals toward the sea, and the
entire space was densely crowed with houses, and the canal and the largest
harbor were full of vessels and merchants from all parts. Carthage in Plato's
day was the only site that had anything close to these descriptions, even then
on a smaller scale. The grove of Poseidon maybe the fabled gardens of
Hesperides where the golden apple, women and booty were taken at some point
when his kingdom was breached (Atlas war with Busiris?) was taken by story from
Spain to Greece, or Egypt. Beneath all Greek Myths there is a substratum of
historical fact. One almost gets the impression Poseidon was a prisoner within
his own place, and that with his guards he being almost an earth god could never
leave without his subjects made aware first. The ship type used by Atlantis in
the Trireme form is noted as a type of galley first built in Corinth, whose
root goes back to 2,098 B.C.. There was also the Egyptian and Phoenician
Galleys of fairly great size back to the 2nd Dynasty of Egypt?
Webmaster Note- It would seem that if one were to build
such an elaborate canal zone that took the Panama canal all the forces of
1900's machinery, why in the this Plato Atlantis story there could not have
been great ships at 9,000 B.C.. For if the one is true, then the other would
simply is the progression of tall trees being used for boats i.e. a tree like
the Cedar. If hollowed out and like in some cases the Polynesian style boat
catamaran it would be a level and fast barge that could take on some great
weight like stone. The fact they adorn metal on temples, how fast would they
not adorn their ships with metal sheets? If they had canals the size said there
is no reason to think they could have boats as large as our 18th
century clippers. Other wise there would be no reason to build the canal zone
bridge ways as high as they did for the issue of tall sails, almost space for a
plane to easily go through with out complication. The other reason is that a
balloon needs great space to enter controlled wise through the canal let us
says of mammoth hide, another way to lift stone? The historical evidence is
wanting, but if the story were true so is the technology greater then Solon's
depictions gave. There is also another hint I have not had an author to my
recollection address. The hundred nereids is very important in reference to
atlantean sub-divisions of land. In Egypt, and in the times of the Vikings a
Hid, or House often had its associated 'Hundred', or 'Hundare'. The nereids are
a representation of the extension of Poseidon's Kingdom which may have been
divided into Nereids by name. Merritt was the Egyptian Goddess of Isis and
Nephthys who the Phoenicians revered and was connected by coin to the
Phoenician flip side of her with a representation of Horus-Osiris, and in some
cases of a Phocia, or Seal like Poseidon's dolphins?
The Nereids ride the dolphins because they are the kingdoms
they control, almost as if the Mereids are Poseidon's 'beloved children' who
like the name Nymph (Nemphthys) are priestesses who control the hundreds of
hides, or houses of-seal. Why the Nymph and the Seal always appear near seal
rookeries is not a mystery in light of this. It is they that Hercules later
went after. The notion of inundation is very closely connected to the nereids
like merritts and implies the staking out of marshy, or gasso like regions
As well as spots where in a delta a seal might frequent. A
Hundred in a sense would be to an Atlantean something of the size of or a part
of a delta. We may also see that the 603 feet, 1206, and the 1808 measurements
has a pattern- 1x603, 2x603 and 3x603, for the outer rings. Yet, the third is
not exact for a reason being not 1808, but 1809. This implies that the 603 and
the 1206 combined are not exact, not numerically speaking but off when combined
with 1808 by 1. The racetrack in the middle zone is a part of that mystery. The
track was 603 as if it where the standard of the measurement. The racetrack is
about the course of the Milky Way and the whole of the night sky, especially in
regards to the processional equatorial equinoxes of the Zodiac as the race
track of ages, i.e. 603? From the position to the viewer on the earth's
curvature looking toward the expression found in the night sky the procession
is off by a small margin. In a sense they are saying i.e. the Atlanteans we
know the earth is not flat and we know the earth is a little oblong. They
account for this in the outer most zone, which would be likened to our idea of
the equator which they know also repeats in the south. The progression also of
Pi1, Pi2, and Pi3 is implied but number wise would not come out the same, yet
they kept the integrity of of that idea of a progression, as if a half
biosphere covered the whole of the island in a map making sense. This
reflecting the night sky over them, which is why the temples did have domes
with the stars mapped on them? We do have some vague notion also that they were
making some connection with these circles with the solar days and system. The towers,
which like obelisks, would mark on the edges of the canals, and in such a
circumstance would want to measure the incoming tide datelines. Lastly, if we
were to take the equator to the pole and looked at it we will see the smallest
zone is first, the second from the pole to Atlantis is the second and the third
was that to the equator terms of its kingdom. The mystery of the rape and loss
of all or one of the Pleiades (Hes-Preiades, and Hy-Brides) is more than just a
woman taken away. It is a constellation that this middle Citadel emulated in
symbology. Though evidence for a explosion that occurred in that star system
explains one aspect of the tale, the fact is that the Pleiades are circumpolar
presently at latitude 63' on earth, meaning they do not set on the horizon. The
Azores are approximately around latitude 40' which shows a 23 degree difference
between locations. But, 11,000 B.C. the Pleiades were not in the same position
they are now and were almost 5-7 degrees more south at 55-57 degrees latitude
turning circumpolar. This degree difference is now 15 degrees at 11,000 B.C.
from Azores to the Pleiades non-resting status. It only took a shift of a pole,
or 2,000 years ( or 8,000 B.C.) for the Pleiades to no longer be circumpolar
and not far above the Azores region. It would seem a earth tilt of 10 degrees
southward would change this whole matter for the Azores, and change the
equators position. Does this seem to mean that if you stood in Poseidon's
backyard and the Pleiades (at that ancient time) would appear as if they were
just on the horizon aligned with earth's horizon as marking your spot and
garden (as if a golden apple that fell from the tree). And that it would not
inspire you enough to call it the 'land of apples', and not of its brides? When
the daughters and the constellation were stolen into the horizon did it mark
the plot in the play of Pleiades own star system setting under the horizon,
like Poseidon's kingdom latter? The significance that the other daughters
remained secure, but one did not explains the partial submersion before the
whole group was stolen below the sea and horizon? It would seem that the
kingdom of Lyonesse that the British talk about is pretty close to the loss
Poseidon latter honors just north of the Azores. Plus, the Pleiades do mark the
beginning and what used to be the end of the zodiac between Aries and Taurus
and not Pisces and Aries, which occurred, latter. Was the finish line of that
track on Atlantis middle zone rewarded with a Pleiades Bride offering one of Poseidon's
Pleiades apples? If so, the Dog and Orion were not far behind, because with
hunting that was another ceremonial sport. The fact that Jason had to wrestle
with a Stag-Bull connected with the fleece, one gets the notion is was over the
Pleiades for Aries and the Stag-Bull Taurus are protecting it not just the
fleece but its tree that bore gold apples. There are no doubt those boats
racing or encircling the moats between may have been sport hunting, in closed
conditions even seals. They were playing out a celestial ritual and no doubt
for Pleiades the festival would have been around May 15th-25th
for the race which was the holiday of their idea of Mayday combined with summer
solstice as the mid-point for the zodiac race. We may want to take look and see
that within Pl-eiades name shows that at one time it was a larger
constellation, because in Taurus there is a set of stars called the Hyades, and
who where they like the island of Haiti? Clarke 2001.
Observations sur l'Atlantide Quartinaire,
by Nicolas de Ascanio
M de Ascanio after careful study of the rock formations of
Tenerife came to the conclusion that while the basalt rock foundation of the
island of Tenerife had been formed in the open air, and the upper layers of
'tosca' a volcanic product had been formed beneath the sea, thus showing that
the island had been submerged in some disaster and had subsequently reappeared.
The other islands of the Canaries offer similar evidence. The point noted is
that underneath this 'tosca' have been found pottery in both Tenerife and Grand
Canary, a mortar and a fragment of human jawbone on Tenerife and various other
objects including a fragment of burnt wood showing axe or instrument markings,
pieces of pottery and vases, etc. All of these were discovered by women digging
tunnels or shafts for mining or for water supply and could not have been put
there by Guanches, the post diluviand inhabitants of the islands. The sites
include the Kreitz Mine Shaft. The names of the owners of these various
fragments are given together with attestations as to their being possible that
the situation has changed since then. However. This was thirty years ago and it
is possible that the situation has changed since then. However, if anybody
desires to investigate these finds we shall be most pleased to give further
details.
The picture on article shows that the find was 20 feet
below sea level in mining area and into volcanic debris.
A Note on the Canary Islands written in
1796, from Miss B.B. Hutchinson of Nairobi
The Modern Universal Gazetter; or a General View of the
several Nations of the World. Containing five chapters, by Mr. Salmon.
Embellished with a new set of maps. London printed for W. cavil, T. Martin, T.
French, and J. Wren. MDCCXCV and the owners date , 1815.
Canary Grand or Proper, which gives its name to the rest,
is sit. In 15 deg. 50 min of w.lon. and between 27 and 28 degrees of N. Lat.
And is about 120 m. in circumference; the chief town Palm, from whence comes
the excellent palm sack we meet with; for chief produce of these islands are
those rich wines, which from them have obtained the name of Canary wines, and
of these 'tis computed 10,000 hogsheads are sent annually to Britain in time of
peace. They may be well called the Fortunate Islands also, from the pureness and
temperateness of the air, which in this warm climate, is constantly refreshed
with cool breezes. They were first discovered by the Carthaginians, but lay
concealed afterwards for many ages form the rest of the world, till they were
again discovered anno 1405, by the Spaniards who remain in possession of them
at this day. There were then some people on these islands, but could not tell
which was their mother-country, or indeed whether there were any other
countries; nor did their language, manners or customs, resemble their any other
part of the world; but they were of an olive complexion, like the people on
the coast of Barbary in Africa
Lost
Atlantis (Part 7 skipped for Part 8 used instead, Bryant) and Butavand's
Atlantis, by E. Sykes 1955