1968 cont.
What is the Answer?
The almost complete apathy in the Western World, as opposed
to Soviet Russia, on the
subject of Atlantis just as much as on that of pre Columbian crossings of Atlantic, a logical sequence to the fall of Atlantis, is
exceptionally worrying. In England where the educational system is rapidly
vanishing in a welter of sex, drugs and anarchy, a lack of interest on the part
of the young is to be anticipated, but in the New World where matters have not
yet, one trusts, managed to get to the same pitch, this apathy is rather
worrying. Within a year or so Atlantis sinking ship loads of hardy adventurers
were breasting the Atlantic waves in search for traces of it. In the process
they invariably landed up somewhere on the opposite coasts and thus was built
up the beginnings of a traffic in merchant ships which lasted until the days of
Columbus, and has continued in a much expanded form ever since. But this huge
slab of early history with the epic voyages of these early explorers is of no
interest to anybody in the West. In Western Europe,
apart from myself, the only writer is Jurgen Spanuth, and although I do not agree with his thesis I am
extremely grateful to him for making it known and thus keeping the flame
alight. " (Webmasters Note- This exactly why when
I asked Egerton to pass the 'torch of knowledge' and
he did on a phone call 'pass it to me as the next scholar to keep his work
alive and the responsibility to the subject of Atlantis'. ) "In Greece we have Galanoupoulos with his Santorin/Thera idea, which I feel to be a political gimmick bearing
no relationship to reality. But here again I am grateful to him for putting
it up and thus kindling some interest. But we three apart the whole of Western Europe has not produced a single new concept for
years. In the United States,
apart from a book produced this Year by the ARE of Virginia Beach, there has been nothing of
import since 1960. For Africa, Asia and Australia the output is nil since
the War. This leaves Soviet Russia,
where apart from such writers as Zhirov, there has
been a steady output of one or two books a year for the last decade. And what is more the books are well produced, well illustrated,
printed in tens of thousands and at cheap prices. My wife and I have fought all
our lives for Atlantis and the Atlantean tradition.
With attacks we have always managed to cope but indifference is something which
it is very hard to overcome. Cannot our readers, as an expression of the
Christmas Spirit, endeavor to take some active measures to overcome the rot. With best seasonal wishes to one and
all.
E. & K.E. Sykes
Egypt and Atlantis
Over the years we have published numerous articles Africa
and Atlantis but to the best of my memory we have never done one on Egypt and
Atlantis. The situation as I see it is a straightforward one. The Proto
Egyptians after the fall of Atlantis sought refuge in North Africa, at that
time a fertile land, with the Meropic
Sea stretching inland into what is now
the Sahara Desert. At some period, probably about
BC 5,000 the climate changed and they were obliged to seek refuge elsewhere.
Some went southwards to the Ife Country in the hinterlands of Nigeria where
they established the first Benin culture, with temples inlaid with brass
sheets, like the City of Brass in the desert, described by Arab historians in
the 1001 Nights, memories of which are found in Pierre Benoit's: Atlantide, and in R. Gattefosse's:
Portes De Bronze, both of which are related to the
transition period. The largest and most powerful group crossed the desert to
Egypt where after a thousand years or more fighting with local tribesmen they
managed to unite Egypt, the Upper and the Lower Kingdoms, into one at the
beginning of the 1st Dynasty. The great impetus which they gave to
Egyptian culture gradually wore off and to those who go to Cairo Museum or to
the Paris, etc., it is possible to see the gradual erosion of the finer points
over the years until the low ebb of the present day. Here it should be pointed
out that the possession of foreign built motor cars, aircraft, tanks, etc.,
does not imply the possession of a culture. A very similar story is told in the
Meso America where the Maya and their cousins were
rapidly falling into the pit of oblivion and would have vanished from the scene
within a century had the Spaniard's not appeared on the scene. In both cases
the causes were similar: disease and climate. Perhaps the climate is the more
important. No nation which is situate in the semi tropical or tropical zones
has ever managed to produce statesmen, simply because the intensely high
temperature prevents the Brain from ever being cooled down enough for serious
thinking. All philosophy comes from the temperate zones. This has nothing to do
with race, people from colder climes soon descend to
the local level, becoming as emotional and unstable as the local populace.
Unfortunately it takes several generations for the reverse process to occur,
people whose ancestors were brought up in hot climates take centuries before
gaining benefit from living in colder ones, possibly because the DNA chains
have been altered to enable survival to be possible. From this it may be taken
that the climate of Atlantis was mild, probably because the Atlantis breezes
tended to keep the temperature down to a reasonable level. What a pity it was
the climate of India
is so hot, as over the years all the dynamic driving force which the Aryan
invaders brought with them has vanished into sloth and indolence. Whether the
growing use of air conditioning in hot countries will in any way altar the
situation is an open question, one can only hope that it will do so. The only
structures in Egypt
which may date back to days of Atlantis are the three Great Pyramids, which may
well have been put up before the disaster. This we shall only be able to tell
when the subterranean passages have been discovered and explored, an event
which may not occur for a long time. At the time Cairo
did not exist and Memphis
may only have been a small colonial settlement. There may well have been some
special reason for the picking on this particular site. The most likely one is
that it was only a mile or so from the stone quarries, from which stones could
be transported by water to within a couple of hundred yards of where they were
needed. Obviously there should be other pre dynastic buildings in Egypt but at
the present time it is hard to identify them. Sais
the Temple that
Solon visited has only been visited by two archaeologists in the last century
and a half and neither of them did anything much. As for Upper
Egypt, the discovery of the tomb of Tutenkhamen
forty years ago seems to have put a stop to any further investigation. I
attended a meeting of the Palestine Exploration
Society the other day to hear the cumulative result of several years' work in
what had been Jordanian Jerusalem.
Frankly I was not impressed, compared with what the Israelis have done at Masada
it was far too little. The reason simply is that the Arab is uninterested in
any form of historical research and those who work with them
tend to become infected by the same malaise. For example the various Dead Sea Scrolls fragments held by Jordanians and their
European supporters had remained untranslated until
the Israeli's captured them and handed them over to their own experts. The
reason was simply that on the Arab side there was nobody of the academic status
needed for the purpose. In Egypt
the great days when foreign archaeologists ranged the land seeking for evidence
of past history have long since gone. Now Archaeology is geared to political
needs and to tourism, rather than to the discovery of the past. The recent
demand for the funds to preserve the Temples at
Philae from the waters of the Nile is to my
mind absurd, underwater they are unlikely to suffer any damage and every detail
about them is already well known and available in numerous works. But they form
a tourist attraction, hence the demand on UN for the
large sum of money needed which would be far better spent on digging up Sais.
Having lived in Egypt for several years I realize
to the full the immense archaeological potentialities of the land, as also the
fact that until the political atmosphere changes considerably nothing is likely
to be done about it. E.S.
Webmaster Note- We are apologizing to any ethnic group that
it was not Syke's intention to offend anyone, just an
observation he made about apathy in Egypt and other countries about their own
ancient history at the time of his writing, it is not the case presently. There
is much more interest now, and yet there is still the problem of the politics
of archaeology and tourism which countries fight over for money……………..sadly.
Meteorites,
Hoerbiger, and Atlantis, An
Odd theory about Tunguskaya, Latvian Crater Problem
A
collection Summary of the Asteroid theories near time of Atlantis as of 1968 by
E. Sykes
1968 cont.
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