1956 end
Echoes of Atlantis in Nippon, Prof. A.M. Kamienski,
A.F.R.A.S.
For several thousands of years the
peoples of eastern Asia- Chinese. Japanese, Koreaner and others
had been using an ideogram when writing a Mountain. When author during his
sojourn in Nippon came across a mountain
symbol, and inquired about it. When he first asked he thought the single
mountain was the sign of a three pronged ideogram symbol, but to his surprise
it is really depicting a three mountain prong literally. The symbol is simaler to the triton symbol, and that the triton symbol
means in those languages not a harpoon directly but a 'Mountain range with
three specific mountains'. Now, many ancient authors mention that to the west
of Cerne, the capital of Poseidonia,
there was a mountain with three peaks. On the highest of them there was erected
a shrine for Poseidone. But in the antique world
Poseidon was the deity of seas and oceans, having trident as his symbol. Thus
astronomers, even at present, use this symbol for the denoting of Planet Neptune vel Poseidon. The
custom of hanging up round paper lanterns during festivals and parties was
transferred from Atlantean to Japanese. It lasts in
their country even nowadays. One of these festivals is Bon or Lantern Fest,
kept on the 7th of July. It is devoted to the memory of deceased men
(in Christianity it is All Souls' Day). According to famous French philosopher Fabie d' Olivet (in the beginning of XIX century), the
Lantern Fest is a reminiscence of the terrible catastrophe-that of the
submersion of Poseidonia. It is a very curious thing
to note that the orbit of Halley's Comet approaches that of the earth just in
that its place where the earth moves in Summer. Now
the closest approach of the orbits of these Celestial Bodies takes place at
present on May 15th. Col.A. Braghine, in his 'L'Erigme de L' Atlantide' mentions that the earth approached Halley on 7th
of June, 4,015 B.C.. According to the authors computations,
it took place about 4,012 B.C. Supposing that these data differ in consequence
of the motion of nodes of the comet's orbit, and extrapolating them for the
year 9,500 B.C., we find that the minimum distance of the earth from the
comet's orbit took place towards the end of June or in the beginning of July.
Thus, the author's consideration nearly agrees with the date for the Bon's day.
It should be however noted that the orbit of Halley's Comet was hitherto
investigated only for the period from 1910 A.D. upto
623 B.C. But the author had extrapolated it backwards, showing that the bright
comet of 2,320 B.C. was in reality Halley's Comet. Nevertheless, long and
difficult investigations and computations are to be made to find the very orbit
of this comet for 9,500 B.C. These investigations hitherto were not preformed.
It is a curious thing that according to Col. Braghine,
in the Brazilian Forests were found lately sun stones. The round disks of them
were divided into 16 sectors. On the other hand, the arms of
the Emperor of Japan is
represented by a chrysanthemum with 16 petals, what is very similar to the
sun-stones of Brazil.
From these coincidences we can conclude, that the Atlantean
Culture and certain their rites penetrated from native Poseidonia
far to the west as well as to the east-reaching China
and Japan.
Moreover, certain Mayan Ideograms are very similar to those
of Emperor Fo-Hi in China.
Webmaster's note: Ptolemy also found in geography of the
sun cast shadows this 16 sectors in the early beginning
of the first millenium. It may be added that during
the period before the Hyksos went into Egypt as Shepherd Kings the Egyptians were
already plotting out shadow clocks and wells all across Africa,
say roughly about 1,750 B.C. The reasoning is that it may have been discovered
before this period in solar worship, but became at some point nearly forgotten
as a latitude component. The Lantern Festival however is what makes the point
all the more interesting, that the solar, or celestial fire cult of an ancient
origin maybe connected with the use of light and shadow to mark out latitude by
use of their ancestor's placed on earth and in the stars? The Triton is a very
old symbol and is tied with a very earlier sextant device, not just for fishing
as the Polynesian's have shown in their elaborate harpoon language? The
mountains were the earliest sextant devices from solar to moon to comets to the
night sky in the backdrop of its summits?
Some
Notes on Egyptian Myth and Legend, by E. Sykes beginning of
1957 go to link 1957-1960
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