Message about Atlantis. Secrets of Atlantis. Lost mainland. Scientific and technological progress in Atlantis

The mystery of Atlantis is described in many works, both adventure novels and serious scientific research. To date, scientists and enthusiastic researchers have put forward more than 1,700 hypotheses about the location of this mysterious continent and the reasons for its disappearance without a trace. However, not so unimportant.

One of the most eminent scientists Ancient Greece, Plato, in the works "Critias" and "Timaeus", mentions Atlantis, referring to data from the diaries of his great-grandfather, no less famous Athenian poet and statesman Solon. An Egyptian priest told him about the existence of a large country of the Atlanteans, which fought with the Greeks as far back as 9000. According to this fragmentary information, the land of the Atlanteans was somewhere on the other side of the Pillars of Hercules. According to Plato, according to Solon, Atlantis was a large and rich country with large cities and a very developed economy at that time. The picturesque territory of the country, covered with dense forests, was cut by numerous irrigation canals. Atlantis was a federation of ten kingdoms. The Atlanteans hoped to expand their territory and tried to enslave Athens and Egypt, however, they suffered a crushing defeat in the fight against the Athenian army. According to the same data, as a result of a terrible earthquake during the day, the mighty Atlantis disappeared forever under water.

Scientists to this day have not come to a consensus regarding Plato's story about this mysterious country. Perhaps Atlantis was just a product of one of the ancient Greek legends? This assumption is supported by the fact that not all of Plato's stories were believed even by his contemporaries. According to these scientists, in such ancient times, 9000 years before the birth of Plato, such a highly developed culture could not have existed. It could not for the simple reason that at that time the end of the ice age had just come. Many scientists agree that at one time cavemen and highly developed Atlanteans could live. And can it be that an entire country suddenly disappeared without a trace. However, most scientists argue that Atlantis could well exist in reality, because the legends had to have at least some basis, and most of the myths reflected the events that took place in reality.

After all, the ruins of the once mythical ancient Troy, which was also considered a figment of the fantasy of blind Homer, were found by archaeologists. And not so long ago, the fact was scientifically proven that the ancient Greeks could make quite long long journeys on their ships, and, like Odysseus, reach the shores of Colchis, the country of the Golden Fleece. As for the huge and destructive power of earthquakes, then, according to geologists, it is really capable of burying a vast territory in a short time.

True, if we assume that Atlantis really existed, another rather important question arises. Where should researchers go, where should they look for this mythical land? Scientists from different times and countries could never come to a consensus. Some of them believed that the mysterious Atlantis sank to the bottom of the central part of the Atlantic Ocean - somewhere between two continents, Europe and North America. This statement is based on the words of Plato, who noted that the mysterious land was located in front of the strait, called the Pillars of Heracles (framed by the rocks of Abilik and Kalpa), which was located near the Strait of Gibraltar. In addition, many of the same species of animals and plants live in these lands. In addition, not so long ago, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, located in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, was discovered. A vast plateau with a number of ridges adjoins the ridge, the peaks of which form the Azores.

It is likely that this area was once land and about 12 thousand years ago, during a geological catastrophe, it sank to the ocean floor. This period just coincides with the alleged time of the existence of Atlantis. After that, the warm Gulf Stream finally reached the shores of Northern Europe, and as a result, the ice age ended in our part of the world. This version of warming in Europe was put forward by the Russian scientist N.F. Zhirov, as well as some other researchers. It is likely that the Azores and the island of Madeira are the very remnants of the lost mainland. According to some scientists, not all the inhabitants of Atlantis died during the collapse of their mainland - some survivors reached the shores of America, while others reached Europe. It was they who laid the foundation for the greatest civilizations of Mexico and Peru, as well as Egypt and Mesopotamia. This explains the striking similarity in their architecture, traditions and religions, all the more surprising because the countries were far from each other.

Indeed, the inhabitants of both sides of the Atlantic equally worshiped the Sun, and believed in the myth of the global flood, which was widespread both in Mesopotamia and among the Indian tribes that inhabited South and North America. It is amazing that the language of the Basques living in the north of Spain in the Pyrenees mountains is absolutely different from other European languages, but at the same time it is very similar to the languages ​​of some Indian tribes. And the ancient pyramids created by our ancestors in Mexico and Egypt have a lot in common.

In addition, in both countries there is a custom of mummification of the dead, moreover, the same objects are placed in their graves. But the main thing is that in the places where the burials of the Mayan tribes are located, archaeologists find jewelry made of green jade, the deposits of which simply do not exist in America. Maybe he got there from Atlantis?

According to a legend widespread among the Indians of Peru and Mexico, which tells about the white god Quetzacoatl, he arrived on the mainland on a sailboat from the edge of the early sun - that is, from the east. God taught the Indian tribes construction and craft, revealed laws and religion to them, and then mysteriously disappeared. The Peruvians, who did not know about the existence of the Aztecs, believed in the same legend, with one amendment - their god was called Viracocha. Perhaps these people came from Atlantis? It is believed that their images are found on the walls of the cities of Chichen Itza and Tiguanacu.

Scientists refer to the evidence of the existence of Atlantis and the ruins of ancient Indian cities, the remains of which are located in the Peruvian Andes and the impenetrable jungle of the Yucatan Peninsula.

In the autumn of 1970, while inspecting the coastal waters of the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean from a seaplane, D. Rebikov, a French archaeologist and aquanaut, noticed strange ruins of some buildings on the ocean floor near the island of North Bimini. Divers who went down under the water found giant walls more than a hundred meters long. They were built from giant blocks, each of which weighed about 25 tons. By whom were they built? Perhaps Atlanteans? True, it was soon discovered that these "walls" arose as a result of cracking coastal rocks, gone under water due to the gradual sinking to the bottom Bahamas.

They are also looking for Atlantis in the Mediterranean. The most plausible is the opinion of the Russian scientist A. S. Norov, who considered the island of Crete and many small Greek islands to the north of it to be the remnants of a continent that had sunk into oblivion. The well-known Soviet geographer L. S. Berg agreed with this opinion. Today, this theory is supported by the vast majority of scientists. This version is supported by recent studies in this area and in the Atlantic Ocean.

When studying the area of ​​​​the alleged death of Atlantis at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists found that the average thickness of sedimentary rocks in this zone is about 4 meters. At the same time, at the current rate of accumulation of such rocks, which is 10-15 mm per thousand years, this will require at least 300 thousand years, and certainly not 12 thousand, as argued by supporters of the Atlantean origin of the mysterious Atlantis.

In addition, according to evidence from oceanographic studies of recent times, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the result of a geological event during which the continents of Africa and South America were “torn apart”. Scientists separately noted the features of the coastline pattern: the western line of the African mainland and the eastern line of the South American.

Accordingly, in order for Atlantis to be located in the Atlantic Ocean, there is simply no place in it. But then what to do with Plato's message about where the disappeared country is located, allegedly located in front of the Pillars of Hercules, that is, the Strait of Gibraltar? Under the name "Pillars of Hercules" before Plato could mean a completely different place. What is it? Disputes of researchers do not subside until now.

Regarding the Mediterranean location of Atlantis, assumed by most scientists, they provide a number of fairly weighty evidence.

For example, it has been established that on the island of Thira (Santorini), located in the Aegean Sea, about 3.5 thousand years ago there was a volcanic explosion of destructive power, similar to the one that was noted in 1883 on the island of Krakatoa in the southeast Asia, including the islands of Indonesia. Apparently, it was the greatest geological catastrophe in the entire history of our planet.

In terms of its strength, the explosion of the Santorin volcano was equal to the explosion of about 200 thousand atomic bombs, identical to those that were once dropped on Hiroshima.

Scientist Garun Taziyev gives the approximate date of the explosion - 1470 BC and claims that as a result, about 80 billion cubic meters rose into the air. m of crushed rock, and the waves that arose in the process reached 260 m. Danish scientists reasonably believe that the explosion took place in 1645 BC. e., - almost 150 years earlier.

Just at that time, the islands located in this part of the Aegean Sea were ruled by the Minoans, who achieved great success in science and handicrafts. As a result of a powerful volcanic explosion, as it was found, one of the developed cities on the island of Thira and the center of the civilization of the Minoans, located on Crete - Knossos, perished.

Most of the territory of the state was absorbed by the Aegean Sea. Probably, it was this event, the echo of which reached Plato through the centuries, and was reflected in his story about the country of the Atlanteans. True, in the interpretation of Plato, the size of the sunken continent is much larger, and the time of the catastrophe is shifted many thousands of years ago.

In other words, according to the opinion of the fans of this hypothesis, in the descriptions of Plato we are talking about the state of the Minoans. After all, according to his data, Atlantis was developed maritime power, and the same could be said about the country of the Minoans, which had an impressive navy. Plato said that fat herds of sacred bulls grazed on the island of Atlantis, of which the Minoans had a lot, and they were also considered sacred. A ditch was discovered on the seabed near Tyra, similar to the one that, according to Plato, protected the fortress in the capital of Atlantis. Now the island of Thira is a fragment left after the explosion of a giant volcano. Excavated in 1967, the ruins of the Minoan city lay under a thick layer of volcanic ash and, like Pompeii, are perfectly preserved. Archaeologists have found many colored frescoes and even wooden objects here.

In 1976, the famous French scientist and aquanaut Jacques Yves Cousteau discovered the remains of an ancient Minoan civilization at the bottom of the Aegean Sea near the island of Crete. According to his calculations, it was destroyed during the crushing eruption of the Santorin volcano, which occurred in 1450 BC. e. Nevertheless, Cousteau always considered Atlantis a beautiful fairy tale by Plato.

The authority of Cousteau's opinion forced many scientists to "return" again to the hypothesis of the Atlantic Atlantis. The impetus for this decision was the discovery of a group of seamounts to the west of Gibraltar, which have table-like peaks, located only 100-200 meters below sea level. Many scientists consider these mountains to be the remains of a vast archipelago that sank in ancient times.

Pictures taken by a researcher at the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1973 became a sensation. At that time, he took part in an expedition on the vessel "Akademik Kurchatov". Looking at eight underwater photographs taken by him, you can see the ruins of the fortress wall and other buildings on top of one of the seamounts.

As a result of the conducted in 1983-1984. research, scientists of the research vessels "Akademik Vernadsky" and "Vityaz" with the help of underwater vehicles "Paisis" and "Argus" confirmed that Mount Amper is an extinct volcano that once sank to the ocean floor. Well, the notorious ruins are far from the creations of human hands, but ordinary natural formations.

This means that the unsuccessful search for Atlantis in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean only confirms the conclusions of scientists looking for traces of her presence in the Aegean Sea. True, some disagreements arose in their orderly ranks. The reason for this in 1987 was the Russian scientist I. Mashnikov. He logically rethought the works of Plato and put forward a new hypothesis.

First of all, he disputes the time of the death of Atlantis, as well as some other data of Plato. For example, the number of land and sea forces of the Atlanteans. Judging by the words of Plato, the Atlanteans had a huge armada - 1200 ships, as well as an army, according to experts, amounting to more than a million soldiers. Accordingly, the Greek army that defeated the Atlanteans should have been no less numerous. According to Mashnikov’s quite logical reasoning, during the ice age such a huge army simply had nowhere to come from, given that at that time the number of inhabitants of the entire planet was no more than 3-4 million people, while being at a fairly low level of development.

Accordingly, we are most likely talking about a different, much later time. Mashnikov says that ancient people recorded nine thousand as ten thousand minus one thousand, and, accordingly, nine hundred as one thousand minus one hundred. In the system of calculus adopted in Egypt, a thousand was denoted by the sign "M", and in the ancient Greek system "M" meant ten thousand. Apparently, Solon simply rewrote the Egyptian signs from ancient Egyptian documents, and Plato understood them in ancient Greek. Thus, 9000 appeared instead of 900.

Considering that Solon "stayed" in Egypt (560 BC) 900 years after the death of Atlantis, the approximate date of the disaster is 1460 BC. e. plus a possible error of 100-150 years.

Scientists, looking for Atlantis in the Atlantic, according to Mashnikov, took a false trail, because they did not doubt that the Platonic Pillars of Hercules, behind which this land was located, are strait of Gibraltar. But, under the Pillars of Hercules, apparently, some other place was meant. However, Plato has direct indications that allow you to determine the location of Atlantis. Plato says that on the Pillars of Hercules was laid maritime border between the Atlantean country and the Athenian state. And this means that these pillars could only be in the Aegean Sea. In another place of his story, Plato directly indicates that Athens opposed the state of the Atlanteans, which can be interpreted not only as a war, but also as a geographical one, that is, they were on the other side - on the peninsula of Asia Minor. At that time there was the land of the Hittites. In addition, according to the author, only here the cities were built according to a circular plan, creating canals, as if outlined by a compass.

But after all, Plato spoke of Atlantis as a large island that sank to the bottom of the sea. It can be assumed that part of this state was indeed located on an island, though not as large as Plato claimed. Probably, it was this island, and by no means the whole country, that perished as a result of a volcanic eruption or an earthquake, as a result of which only a chain of islands remained, which is now called the Sporades. It turns out that Atlantis is actually Hittia or its island part. In addition, Plato, in his retelling of Solon, claimed that Atlantis was at war with Athens. And from the sources it is known that in the XIV century. BC e. Egypt waged war with the Hittites, and after a while Athens entered the war, according to the historian Herodotus, inflicted a heavy defeat on the Hittites and captured 13 of their cities. Subsequently, the Hittite empire collapsed.

According to I. Mashnikov, the war between the Hittites and Athens is the key to unraveling another mystery. Obviously, "Atlanteans" is not a nationality, but a contemptuous name for an enslaved people. The sculpture of the enemy, who became a slave and propped up the cornice, was a symbol of the courage of the winners and the humility of the vanquished. The defeated Hittites were turned into slaves and became Atlanteans, their fallen state began to be called Atlantis. "Perhaps these arguments are not far from the truth.

An unusual version of the origin of Atlantis was put forward in 1992 by the German scientist Zangger. Some researchers consider his book about the secrets of Atlantis simply brilliant. According to Zangger, Plato's narrative is a distorted memory of the once fallen Troy. This ancient city, which was located near the Dardanelles and was described by Homer in the XII century. BC e. as fallen under the onslaught of the Greeks, was considered a myth. But, in 1871, the ruins of Troy were found by the German scientist G. Schliemann. At the same time, Zangger provides quite a lot of weighty evidence for this hypothesis, especially if we take into account the coincidences in the descriptions of Homer and Plato of the area in which Troy was located.

But what about the fact that Plato does not speak of a plain, but of a large island? Zanger believes that Solon is to blame for this. When reading hieroglyphic inscriptions on a pillar when visiting the main temple in the residence of the Egyptian pharaohs, located in Saisi, he made a mistake. Allegedly, these hieroglyphs denoted a sandy strip or coast. A serious mistake was also made in the designation of the place where Atlantis was located on the other side of the Pillars of Hercules. It is possible that this name was borne by the Dardanelles.

According to the author of this version, another serious mistake crept into Plato's story, which consisted in incorrectly determining the time of the catastrophe. After all, on the column of the Egyptian temple, a story is written that nine thousand years ago the Greeks overthrew a powerful state - Atlantis. This hypothesis also has a weak side - inconsistencies, which the author explains by the mistakes of the ancient sages. In addition, the justification for determining the date of the war is rather unconvincing.

In general, each of the hypotheses has a certain rational grain, and which of them will eventually turn out to be true, only time will tell. Or a new hypothesis - after all, the mystery of Atlantis has not been solved so far.

This story about an unusually ancient mysterious civilization of the Atlanteans became possible thanks to thirty years of painstaking work carried out by a researcher from Australia, Shirley Andrews, for which many thanks to her. She devoted her whole life to the study and search for Atlantis. She did a titanic job and studied in detail all the available information about Atlantis, starting with Plato and the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Maya, the works of the famous mystic-medium Edgar Cayce, and ending with the research of modern scientists. In search of traces of Atlantis, she traveled across a vast territory and personally examined thousands of kilometers - from the jungles of Central America to the Azores. In our country in 1998, Shirley Andrews' book "Atlantis. In the footsteps of a lost civilization. Today this is the only work that gives the most comprehensive scientific answers to questions about the mysterious civilization of the Atlanteans. According to its author, in his book, using strict scientific methods, as well as intuitive insights of individual mystics, questions of the daily life of the Atlanteans, their religion, science and art are explored. . In addition, the book contains some information about what knowledge representatives of the ancient world left to their descendants.

About my intentions and goals of this wonderful encyclopedic book Shirley Andrews (1915-2001) writes the following:

“Over the years I have read every book I could get my hands on about Atlantis. I looked for an answer to my question from the ancient sages and scientists, from modern researchers, American Indians, turned to the works of Edgar Cayce and other well-known mystics. I was extremely surprised that the material received by the mystics is very much in common with more traditional sources - even if there might not be a direct connection between them at all. I soon became convinced that in the era before about 12,000 BC. e. on Earth in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean... the civilization of Atlantis really lived and flourished!

Much of what I learned about Atlantis is very important for today's life. After all, our distant Atlantean ancestors knew how to live in harmony with nature, without destroying it. They learned to lead a life that we truly admire today - and the desire to return to this state again, when a person was fully aware of the forces hidden in himself, comprehended the greatness and power of the Universe and maintained true relations with it.

What sources did S. Andrews use? First of all, these are the famous mystic - the clairvoyant E. Casey, about whom we will speak in more detail below, as well as the mystics W. Scott-Elliot and R. Sterner. Indirect information about the people of Atlantis for S. Andrews was some ancient legends of England and Ireland that once thousands of representatives of the country, which, as these people claimed, sank in the Atlantic Ocean, came to these parts. Initial information for the author of “Atlantis. In the Footsteps of a Lost Civilization, the legends of the American Indians about this lost land appeared, which they carefully passed on from century to century, from one generation to another.

It should be noted that our knowledge of Atlantis was significantly supplemented by many scientists. For example, Lewis Spence (1874-1955), a Scottish specialist in mythology and ancient history, who brought together stories about Atlanteans, cited by a wide range of authors: from Herodotus, a Greek historian and traveler of the 5th century BC. e. and Pepi I of Egypt (2800 BC) to later British treasure hunters such as Cuchulain Fioni, Leger Mac Criatian Labred and Mannannan Osin. As for the times closer to us, S. Andrews learned about the legendary Atlantis from the books of Edgarton Sykes, David Zink, Ignatius Donelly, Nikolai Zhirov and many others. All of these authors gave S. Andrews information about the life of the Atlanteans. In addition, she uses some prehistoric items that have survived to this day.

Firstly, it is shamanism - a variety, according to S. Andrews, of spiritualism, which dominated for 40 thousand years and is still practiced (in more or less the same form as in ancient times) in various parts of the world.

Secondly, these are amazing works of ancient art, created about 30 thousand years ago on the walls and ceilings of caves in France and Spain. This beautiful rock painting prompts researchers to a number of conclusions, which to a large extent help to understand the lifestyle of the prehistoric artists who created them.

Some important details that are directly related to Atlantis were kept in those amazing libraries that existed in cities long before the rise of Christianity. Western world and were available to any reader or researcher of the time. One of these libraries was located in the notorious Carthage on the coast of North Africa. As you know, the Carthaginians from time immemorial were considered excellent navigators, and their book depositories abounded with maps and descriptions of those places on the Earth where they themselves or their Phoenician ancestors sailed. In 146 BC. e., when the Romans destroyed the Carthaginian library, some leaders of the North African tribes managed to save some of these priceless books. They cherished them like the apple of their eye, and, thanks to the penetration of the Moors into Spain from the 8th to the 15th century, Western Europe got acquainted with fragments of this ancient knowledge.

Another similar library was located in the north of Egypt in the city of Alexandria. This huge library, according to E. Casey, was founded ... by the Atlanteans in 10300 BC. e. Twice in 391 and 642 the library burned down due to "invasion" by ignorant fanatics. More than one million precious scrolls of ancient manuscripts are believed to have perished.

In the turmoil and confusion of these disturbing events, local residents mixed with crowds of marauders and "under the guise" carried books out of the flames. And yet, for several months in a row, the water in the Alexandrian baths was heated, burning library books and papyri in the fire. And during the period when the same Moors appeared in some Spanish regions, some of the ancient manuscripts that were once saved by the ancestors of the Egyptians came to Europe. In 1217, the Scot Michael Scott (1175–1232) visited Spain, who knew Arabic and took up the translation of African manuscripts, where, among others, it was about Atlantis. Undoubtedly, they were not missed by S. Andrews and found their place in her book.

And, finally, another source of information about the Atlanteans for S. Andrews was the ancient nautical charts preserved in North Africa and dry areas of the Middle East. In the 13th and 15th centuries, when the inhabitants of those times had already become accustomed to the idea that the Earth extended beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, copies of these detailed and accurate maps appeared in Western Europe: they depict Northern Europe with its lakes and ice, as well as with unknown islands in the Atlantic Ocean. In other words, the northern European lands are shown as they were around 10,000 BC. when the glacier melted.

Summing up the above, we can conclude precisely in the words of S. Andrews: “In their detailed descriptions Atlantis, I relied on reliable data gleaned from many different studies, including those acquired through intuitive communication by mystics.

To imagine how S. Andrews relates to the history of the existence and development of Atlantis, that is, how she perceives the picture of the life of our distant ancestors and how, in particular, she relates to the problem of the appearance of aliens from outer space on Earth, you need, for example, to familiarize yourself with the table which is given in her book and which is given below.

CHRONOLOGY OF ATLANTIS

(all dates are approximate)

65 million years ago - Extinction of dinosaurs.

450,000 BC e. - The appearance on Earth of aliens from outside.

100,000 BC e. - The emergence of modern man - homo sapiens

55,000 BC e. - Cro-Magnons.

52,000-50,722 BC e. -52,000-50,000 years BC e. - Unification of the five major peoples, the development of sciences and crafts among the Atlanteans.

50,000 BC e. - Pole shift. Atlantis loses part of the land and turns into a group of five islands.

35,000 BC e. - The appearance of rock art in caves in southwestern Europe and South America.

28,000 - 18,000 BC e. - Atlantis is changing the climate again due to the change in the magnetic axis of the Earth, the ice age begins. Part of the land shifts and turns into a group of small islands, stretching in a chain from it to the mainland of North America.

16,000 BC e. - The peak of the ice age.

12,000 BC e. - War of the Bird-Snake.

10,000 BC e. - The final destruction of Atlantis. The magnetic axis of the Earth is shifting again, the glaciers are beginning to recede.

6000 BC e. - Disaster in Bimini.

3800 BC e. - The emergence of a highly developed civilization in Sumer.

So, what kind of people lived in Atlantis in the period from 100,000 to 10,000 BC? e., who managed to survive in a terrible catastrophe that destroyed their civilization? What do we know about our ancestors and how do we imagine their life?.. To answer these questions, let us turn to a summary of some sections of the book by S. Andrews.

PEOPLE

The Atlanteans were very similar to us: no less intelligent than we are, they also laughed, smiled, loved, got angry, got angry and made serious decisions. They knew how to calculate, evaluate, dream, reflect on the past, present and future. Strong in body and spirit, they strove to lead a balanced and harmonious life.

When they managed to cope with everyday worries in a shorter time than expected, they devoted the rest of the day not to work that would bring them extra earthly benefits, but to mutual communication, love and joy, to comprehend their purpose on Earth and their place in the Universe. These people were tall and slender, and their outer beauty reflected their inner strength and beauty.

Their race was distinguished by greater longevity in comparison with the pre-existing ones. For example, the Cro-Magnons, considered representatives of the Atlanteans, lived up to 60 years in the difficult climatic conditions of Western Europe, while the Neanderthals who preceded their culture died, on average, not even reaching the age of 45.

A life devoted to love for other people and for beauty inevitably led to the development of various hobbies. Remarkable examples of painting and sculpture, which the Atlanteans and their descendants left on the European mainland, testify to their extraordinary artistic talents, fertile cultural environment and high standard of living.

The unusually highly developed spiritual and intuitive abilities of the Atlanteans made their existence very different from ours. All of them were very receptive and able to transmit thoughts over a distance. They managed to achieve complete mutual understanding even without the help of words. They were able to convey messages and figurative concepts over long distances, without interrupting communication and in separation. The ability to control their brain, most likely, allowed them to communicate on an equal footing with aliens from outer space.

Let's do it here small digression... The question of possible contacts of the Atlanteans with aliens is rather complex and ambiguous. But we must note that this, in fact, is the point of view of the author of the book we are considering, S. Andrews. Many scientists note the sudden appearance of high knowledge among ancient people, which, it would seem, could not have been the result of their practical activities. There is reason to believe that all this knowledge was obtained in antiquity from communication with representatives of other inhabited worlds. The opinion of the author of the book on this will be discussed later.

Thanks to their extremely developed abilities for perception (far superior to ours), the Atlanteans easily comprehended mathematics and philosophy, as well as the secrets of the unknown. Along with the knowledge received from space advisers, this allowed the Atlanteans to achieve tremendous success in various scientific areas, reaching an advanced level, including in aeronautics, which seems incredible to us.

The photo above shows how big the Atlanteans were compared to us, who once landed in Central America and placed these large statues. The Atlanteans were characterized by such qualities as ingenuity, self-control and resilience, that is, properties developed by people who survived natural disasters - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and floods, which, according to S. Andrews, gradually “absorbed” their country.

Two groups of people of different physical types lived in Atlantis. The first of them, the Cro-Magnons, were characterized by elongated narrow skulls, which contained a brain with a volume significantly exceeding that of a modern (on average) human brain. They had small even teeth, quite long noses, high cheekbones and protruding chins. The men were tall - much more than two meters, and the women were more miniature. The structure of the body was so similar to ours that if a Cro-Magnon had to walk through the streets of our cities in modern clothes, he would not stand out from the crowd in any way - except perhaps for his beauty.

Another race of Atlanteans, who lived in the eastern mountainous regions of Atlantis, was significantly different from the Cro-Magnon: they were dark-skinned, squat and very strong people. Their main occupation was mining. They were famous for their excellent sense of humor, which not least helped them survive in the harsh mountainous regions. These mighty people were excellent fighters and valuable help for the army of Atlantis!

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS AND BELIEFS

Understanding how high the moral value of the family is and how important it is to share earthly time with another being, people of different sexes in Atlantis sought to choose a companion for life. Marriage was called "union". Two lovers who wanted to unite forever went to the local priest, who, using his spiritual abilities, penetrated the essence of their souls and determined the compatibility of the couple. Having approved the marriage, the priest blessed the lovers and gave them a pair of bracelets, which the spouses were supposed to wear on their left forearms. The spouses were equal, however, it was believed that the husband should take care of his wife when she was carrying children.

Same-sex relationships were also widespread in Atlantis. The Atlanteans believed in reincarnation and that in their next life they would be reborn in the body of the opposite sex. Gays and lesbians preferred not to connect with a person of this sex during their next life. They were truly revered for their loyalty, as they sought to remain true to the former part of themselves.

Apparently, due to the fact that too many men fought in a foreign land, Atlantis was allowed (especially in the sunset hour of the existence of civilization) to take two wives. Harmony usually reigned in such families, since children were taught to love not only their mother, but also their father's second wife, who in turn tried to take care of them in the same way as her children.

If the Atlanteans turned out to be unhappy in marriage, then they believed that it was not at all necessary to suffer all your life because of a mistake made in your youth. In this case, both of them went to the priest, who tried to reconcile them so that they continued to live with each other. However, if nothing worked out of this, then the religious leader took away the marriage bracelets from them, and both were freed from marriage bonds.

When spouses who had children parted, and neither side wanted to take care of their offspring, older strangers, whose own children had already grown up, took responsibility for their upbringing.

In the heyday of Atlantis, under the influence of the Emperor-Adepts, the people achieved the most pure and true understanding of the Divine idea. According to Plato, the religion of the inhabitants of Atlantis was simple and pure; The Atlanteans worshiped the Sun. The only offerings were flowers and fruits. The cult of the Sun was a divine symbol of that essence of the Cosmos, which, being inexpressible, penetrates everything. The solar disk was the only emblem worthy of depicting the head of the Deity. This golden disk was usually placed in such a way that the first ray of the Sun illuminated it during the spring or summer solstice, symbolizing the greatness of such a moment.

N.K. Roerich. Atlant. 1921

LOOK and CLOTHING

The inhabitants of Atlantis belong to the Fourth Root Race of mankind, and their origin comes from the descendants of the Lemurians. In The Secret Doctrine H.P. Blavatsky is given information about the multiplicity and diversity of the Atlanteans. They represented several "humanities" and an almost innumerable number of races and nationalities. There were brown, red, yellow, white and black Atlanteans, giants and dwarfs.

Approximately one million years ago, the Third Sub-Race of the Atlanteans arose. It was called "Toltec". The growth of the Atlanteans of that time was 2 - 2.5 meters. Over time, it has changed, approaching the modern look. Such an atlas is shown above in the picture by N.K. Roerich with the same name. The descendants of the Toltecs are now pure-blooded representatives of the Peruvians and Aztecs, as well as the red-skinned Indians of North and South America.

Due to the warm climate that prevailed in most parts of the country, the Atlanteans usually wore simple and comfortable clothes. The outfits of women and men, most often linen, were similar. As a rule, a spacious dress or shirt with long or short trousers served as a garment for them. People wore sandals, but sometimes they went barefoot. The Atlanteans preferred to wear long hair, as they believed that they retained physical and spiritual strength.

During the last stage of their civilization, when the Atlanteans began to attach more and more importance to material wealth, appearance also acquired special importance in their eyes. Men, women and children began to diligently decorate themselves with various necklaces, wrists, brooches and belts made of pearls, silver, gold and multi-colored precious stones.

The vestments of the priests in Atlantis emphasized their position and level of spiritual experience. The main color of their clothes, as well as belts, earrings, pendants, rings, wrists or headbands, indicated who the person wearing them was: a healer, student or mentor.

Newcomers who had just entered the path of the priesthood wore pale green robes. Then, having reached a higher degree of initiation, they dressed in blue, and in the end they were allowed to dress in white clothes: this was the prerogative of the highest rank.

Let us try to imagine the inhabitants of Atlantis. Dressed in a well-ventilated white dress or trousers with an elegant purple trim, in addition, decorated with embroidery. Our feet are protected by soft sandals woven from palm leaves. Both men and women wear long hair fastened with ivory barrettes, adorned with radiant rock crystal.

When the Atlanteans moved to the colder regions of southwestern Europe, they needed more solid clothing. They wore well-tailored shirts with collars and buttoned sleeves, skirts, jackets, long dresses with belts, and pants with pockets. Socks, shoes and fur boots warmed their feet. Women wore cotton scarves or caps on their heads, while men wore warmed hats.

FUN

As the Atlanteans began to pay more and more attention to material wealth, they began to arrange sanctuaries in exquisitely decorated places, as well as in temples. For such structures, places were chosen where energy came from both the Earth and the Universe. The Atlanteans understood that a person is influenced by invisible forces emanating from all natural spheres.

Majestic temples everywhere adorned the landscape of Atlantis. Although the Atlanteans preferred simplicity and modesty in the construction of their private homes, they tried to build their favorite temples with great splendor, because they knew that future generations would have to admire these buildings.

Masters laid out the inner walls and ceilings of the sanctuaries with mosaic paintings of gold and silver or inlaid them with precious stones. Men, women and children gathered to tend the magnificent gardens that brought life to streams and pools.

A large place in the social life of the Atlanteans was occupied by religious holidays, rituals of honoring the gods and rites associated with birth and death. The terrible gods of volcanoes rumbled very often, so a lot of time was devoted to their propitiation. On certain days, all the inhabitants came to the appointed place, holding dishes with fresh fruits and vegetables, and then took them to the mountain peaks or placed them in niches carved into the rocks.

One of the favorites in Atlantis was the celebration of the New Year, which fell on the time of the spring equinox and lasted seven days. New Year's celebrations began at sunrise in the spacious gardens surrounding the capital's temple of Poseidon. With the appearance of the first rays of light, the assembled crowd turned to the east, and a large choir began to sing a melodious song. This ceremony ended with the fact that all those present knelt down, bowed their heads in mute admiration before the power of the Sun - this source of all life and strength. After the morning celebration, people indulged in friendly communication, games, disputes and talked on religious, philosophical or scientific topics.

At noon, everyone turned to face the temple, where the priests swayed high tower a crystal that caught the sun's rays and sent a powerful stream of light in all directions. The crowd focused on the majestic power source and gave thanks for its presence. In the evening, at sunset, people turned towards the west and, accompanied by stringed instruments, sang a farewell song to their beloved heavenly body. On the last evening after the sunset rite, the temple choir sang another song corresponding to this event, and the priest delivered a speech about the power of the Sun, and the meanings of his words were perceived more sharply due to the gathering twilight.

Apart from new year holidays, the life of the Atlanteans was decorated with local celebrations of spring crops, rituals dedicated to Hephaestus - Vulcan (the god of fire, the personification of volcanoes), religious ceremonies on the day of the summer solstice, celebrations on the night of the full moon and other similar events.

In Atlantis, there were many ways to have a good time. free time. For example, a favorite, albeit dangerous pastime, was a walk in the mountains, which could always meet daredevils either with the stench of poisonous gases erupting from the bowels, or with flows of liquid lava emanating from cracks. Furthermore, along southwest coast Atlantis was a pink sandy strip, which coral reefs protected from a powerful onslaught ocean waves. Atlanteans loved to bask on these beaches under the shade of palm trees or swim in quiet backwaters.

In the pre-sunset years, the civilization of the Atlanteans was carried away by other amusements. Crowds gathered all over the country to stare at the bloody battles with the bulls or at the horse races. In the last years of the existence of Atlantis, many of its inhabitants became more addicted to gluttony, wine and communication. Memories of those turbulent days have not been erased without a trace from the collective human memory. The descendants of the Atlanteans, who lived in the West Indies millennia later, claimed that Atlantis was a land where they feasted, danced and sang, and Welsh legends say that, to some special music, the Atlanteans could dance in the air, like leaves in the wind.

PETS

Atlanteans could communicate with animals and birds in a telepathic way, which they sometimes resorted to transmitting thoughts to each other. Deer, lions, goats, pigs and other animals roamed free, and countless flocks of songbirds fluttered among the houses and sat trustingly on the shoulders of people. Animals helped their human counterparts in every possible way and protected them from dangers.

Cats, dogs, and snakes were favorites, as these animals are sensitive to earth wobbles and the increasing electromagnetic activity that has occurred, foreshadowing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The priests involved in various sacraments, who knew how to find mutual understanding with animals like no one else, kept lions and other large cats in the temples. Almost every family had a domestic cat, as it was believed that the hidden abilities of this beast protect the owners from the hostile forces of the inhabitants of the other world. It is also believed that the Chow Chow was the oldest dog breed, as a result of skillful breeding of which strong animals with heavy bones and very sharp claws appeared. Sheep served as a help to the economy of the Atlanteans, although they were kept a little away from the dwelling. Pillows were stuffed with their wool, spun and woven. And the manure of these animals served as an excellent fertilizer for gardens and orchards.

Among the special favorites in Atlantis were dolphins. The Atlanteans arranged ponds near the houses for these creatures and treated them as equals. Having learned to recognize their fast speech, they were filled with respect for the mental abilities of these “animals” (the author of the book put the last word in quotation marks for a reason, since it is known that the volume of the brain of dolphins exceeds that of a human!). The dolphins that lived off the coast of Atlantis served as an excellent source of information about the sea for its inhabitants, we can only dream of this.

Horses were also used in Atlantis. They worked on arable land, transported people and participated in the races, which were held on a huge running field in the capital of the country - the City of the Golden Gate. The descendants of the Atlanteans, having settled after the death of Atlantis on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, that is, on the American and European continents, retained the ability to communicate with wild animals for a long time.

LANGUAGE AND WRITING

Making voyages to foreign lands, the Atlanteans communicated everywhere with other peoples, and gradually their dialect became the COMMON LANGUAGE of culture and trade. The former dialects became obsolete, while the Atlantean lexicon turned into a basic lexicon, from which many languages ​​of the world subsequently originated. The existence of a single language is mentioned in the Bible: it was the time of the construction of the Tower of Babel, when "the whole earth had one language and one dialect."

At first, the Atlanteans did not have a written language. Their spiritual existence was in perfect harmony with the natural world, and the continuity of such relations did not need written support. The Atlanteans believed that writing breeds forgetfulness. In other words, to write down a thought would mean not to enrich it, but, on the contrary, to impoverish it.

Little by little, to denote abstract feelings or certain events, as well as other concepts that required several words, Atlantis began to use various symbols - spirals, swastikas, zigzags, which the Atlanteans used when communicating with strangers.

Moreover, with the help of pointed stones, hammers and bone chisels, prehistoric Atlantean sailors in many places painstakingly carved distinct petroglyphs on rocks and boulders.

Repeating signs along ancient riverbeds, carved before 10,000 B.C. e., can be found today in Africa, in the Canary Islands, around the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in many other areas where rivers once flowed into the Atlantic Ocean.

Gradually, in Atlantis, LETTERS proper began to develop from pictographic symbols, more or less similar to the designations familiar to us. The oldest icons were based on the sounds of living beings. Many references to prehistoric writing have come down to us. And the Phoenicians, traveling around the neighboring countries of Atlantis, "picked up" fragments of these ancient signs and symbols developed in Atlantis, and then made up a phonetic (sound) alphabet from them.

UPBRINGING AND EDUCATION

As everywhere and always, in Atlantis, children began to learn about the world around them from their parents. Considerable attention was paid to oral stories. The inhabitants of the island (or islands) from generation to generation passed on stories about Poseidon, Kleito and Atlanta, which they heard from their great-grandfathers, or stories about earthquakes, floods, solar and lunar eclipses, about the fight against wild animals - in a word, about all that that fell to the lot of the people of Atlantis in the past.

The children exercised their memory by memorizing many songs that the Atlanteans used to perform at various ceremonies. Children talked to flowers, made friends with birds and animals, sensed hidden life in stones and rocks, and explored other hidden and complex manifestations of the earthly world.

However, all civilizations "grow up", and by 14,000 BC. e. in Atlantis the importance of science increased. In this regard, for the general welfare, an orderly education was recognized as necessary. Children went to classes in temples, where they learned reading, writing, astronomy and mathematics. A favorite method of teaching in the temples was telepathy - the transmission of thoughts at a distance. For records in temple schools, a flexible writing material like parchment was used, which was folded into scrolls and fastened with a clay ring.

On the day of their twelfth birthday, each child was allowed to talk alone with the high priest of the local temple, who encouraged the young creature to choose an occupation for himself. After such a conversation, teenagers most often entered various kinds of "vocational schools", where they learned farming, fishing and other useful skills. Some of them attended scientific institutions, where the usual school curriculum was replenished with the study of the medicinal properties of plants and herbs, as well as the development of spiritual abilities, such as healing.

In the capital of Atlantis, the City of the Golden Gate, text-align:justify t, there was a magnificent university, where access was open to all who were prepared - regardless of religion or race. The university consisted of two colleges (or faculties): the College of Sciences and the Privy College of Inkal. Education at the College of Sciences was highly specialized, that is, its students immediately chose the subject of their studies (medical art, mineralogy, mathematics, geology or other scientific field).

The Inkal Collegium dealt with occult phenomena. Here they studied astrology, practiced predicting the future, reading thoughts and interpreting dreams, transmitting thoughts to a distance and materializing the thoughts of individuals. Healers who studied at this faculty acquired very different skills than those who studied the medical arts at another faculty, that is, at the College of Sciences. Various methods of recognizing and curing both bodily and mental ailments turned to the benefit of all Atlanteans.

ART

The favorable climate allowed the Atlanteans to do without the grueling daily struggle for food and shelter, and therefore they had “free time” for art and music. So that the fellow tribesmen could admire the works of talented artists, they were exhibited in temples, which today are buried under deposits of volcanic lava, under the thickness of ocean waters.

However, some examples of the art of that distant time were still lucky enough to survive to this day in the lands adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. In the south-west of Europe, a number of graceful statues of Atlanteans, unique rock art, as well as lovely jewelry carved from bone and precious stones have been discovered. All these products testify to the long period of existence of a certain artistic tradition in Atlantis. The found samples of painting, sculpture and jewelry are by no means the first timid attempts of artisans, but masterpieces of skilled and experienced craftsmen.

Today we are deprived of the opportunity to admire the paintings that the Atlantean settlers created in the open air and in the light of warm sunlight, but the wonderful paintings made by them in the period from 30,000 to 10,000 BC. e., preserved in some caves in France and Spain. Near the cave entrances, the walls are decorated with hunting scenes, gatherings of people, as well as detailed images of various seasons. However, the most magnificent paintings are hidden in almost inaccessible cave passages.

Creating their masterpieces there, ancient artists suffocated from lack of ventilation, strained their eyes due to poor lighting. And despite such seemingly unbearable working conditions, the bodies of animals depicted by them show amazing freedom, lightness, liveliness and also naturalistic credibility, which rarely anyone can achieve today.

One of the strongest motives that prompted ancient artists to work for hours on end in the dank darkness of deep European caves was SHAMANISM. Far from the noise and fun, birds, animals and people painted with bright colors seemed to come to life in the quivering and unsteady light of the trembling flame of oil lamps. It was easier for priests or shamans to make contact with the other world of spirits here in the caves.

Evidence of the existence of exhausting rites of initiation (initiation) and the hallucinatory visions captured in pictorial images that the artists visited in these sacred places when they managed to “go beyond” their own bodies - all this suggests that occultism once dominated Atlantis. At the same time, intuitive shamanistic abilities allowed these artists to create unsurpassed examples of painting.

The images of artists who migrated from Atlantis to South America are for the most part not as expressive as the works of those who sailed from Atlantis to the east. But still, both the plots themselves and the paintings of artists in Peru, Chile and Brazil are very reminiscent of European counterparts.

Atlantes depicted on the walls of caves in Europe and near the Amazon River in South America, that is, on both sides of the ocean, "the cycles of the seasons." Such a cycle was a circle divided at right angles into four parts, and each segment denoted some one season. And although there were only two seasons in the Amazon region, and not four, as it was in Atlantis and Western Europe, the Atlanteans continued to draw this cycle of four in particular, as before at home. In other words, the penchant of ancient South American artists for occult creations was evident.

Another material used by craftsmen in Atlantis was quartz, a fairly common volcanic rock in Atlantis. In 1927, in the ruins of Maya buildings in Lubaantum, an expedition of the famous archaeologist Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges discovered a life-size skull carved from crystalline quartz. The skull was found by a young American who helped Ann Mitchell-Hedges' father work.

Here is how one of the Bulgarian magazines describes this item: “The skull is made of colorless transparent rock crystal and consists of two parts. The lower jaw is mobile. The skull weighs 5.19 kilograms, and in size it fully corresponds to a normal human skull. It is striking that masterfully made lenses and prisms are placed in the cavity of the skull and at the bottom of the eye sockets, which make it possible to transmit images of objects. When a light beam is directed into the cranial cavity, the eye sockets begin to sparkle brightly, and when the beam is directed to the center of the nasal cavity, the skull glows completely. The structure of the find indicates that it is a female skull. With the help of a thin thread threaded through tiny holes, you can make the lower jaw move ... "

According to F.A. Mitchell-Hedges, the perfection of the crystal skull and the Maya's lack of raw materials for its manufacture (the skull was created from a giant rock crystal, which is not found in Central America) can be explained by the fact that the skull came to the Maya ... from Atlantis. Found other man-made quartz skulls, of less fine workmanship, are exhibited in two places: in the British Museum of Man and in the Anthropological Museum in Paris.

Since the radiocarbon method is not applicable to quartz, the age of these skulls cannot be established. However, after a thorough examination of the Central American skull, scientists from the Hewlett-Packard laboratory in California concluded that it was made by people who belonged to a civilization that had knowledge of crystallography no less (if not more) than modern civilization.

Scientists examining the quartz skull under powerful microscopes found no scratches that would indicate that it had been carved with metal tools. Perhaps, in its manufacture, a certain mixture was used that dissolves the rock. Some of the researchers came to the conclusion that, even with such advanced technology as we have today, it is almost impossible to reproduce this unique skull. According to their calculations, its creation, that is, turning it from a single piece of quartz rock, would require at least ... three hundred (?!) years of continuous labor of one person.

The quartz skull has some strange properties. Sometimes people who are sensitive to such things see a peculiar aura around him, others catch a sweetish-sour smell near him. At times, it may seem that the skull seems to make sounds like the ringing of a bell or a barely audible choir of human voices. In his presence, realistic visions appear to many people, and he has a beneficial effect on those who are endowed with the gift of healing and divination. The crystal also promotes meditation: it serves not only as an amplifier of radio waves, but also perceives them, influencing the energy emitted by thought waves. Skulls and other similar objects, carefully carved from quartz crystals, helped the Atlanteans and their descendants to achieve increased susceptibility and sensitivity when contemplating their own place in the universe.

MUSIC

occupied an important place in the life of the Atlanteans, as it helped to maintain their health and peace of mind. They sang, played harps, lutes, guitars, flutes and trumpets, cymbals, tambourines and drums, and musical vibrations had a spiritual and physical effect on their mind and body.

In addition, the Atlanteans knew that harmonious musical tones promote the growth of plants and have a good effect on the well-being of domestic animals.

The Atlanteans, who settled in Europe and America, also attached importance to pleasant musical sounds in their lives. This, in particular, is evidenced by the fact that many whistles, pipes, drums and other stringed instruments were found among their personal property.

The sweet sounds of the flute, the monotonous and deaf drum roll, the calm string picking of harp-like instruments helped to tune in to meditation even during the temple service. In addition, healers used music along with medical and psychological methods of treating illness. So, for example, drum beats and singing songs allowed one to plunge into a state of deep trance, in which bleeding stopped, the body regained strength and physical and mental ailments were cured. The Atlanteans sang special songs to sick children, and their steadfast belief in the healing power of music helped bring recovery closer.

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES

The last civilization in Atlantis flourished for 20,000 years - much longer than our civilization has so far experienced. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and even the Arabs inherited bits of scientific knowledge accumulated in Atlantis and then preserved in the oldest libraries of the Western world, as well as in the esoteric teachings of the castes of priests of various countries or their religious figures. This knowledge testifies to the remarkable scientific and technical talents of the Atlanteans and their advisers who came from heaven.

Subsequently, for example, in the Renaissance, inquisitive and hungry for a wide variety of wisdom, humanist scientists, having thoroughly studied and rethought this fragmentary heritage of antiquity, laid the foundations of our scientific thinking. Today, we are rediscovering and mastering - albeit only in part - the scientific experience of our distant ancestors and predecessors.

The ancient Atlanteans received energy in several ways, the main of which were, for example, the following:

Reception of vital energy released by "living matter";

The use of the energy of "sound levitation", manifested by the use of sound pulsations and tensions of mental effort, used to move heavy objects of the festival in space. The cult of the Sun also existed in ancient Ireland and throughout Scandinavia, where it acquired special importance also in view of the fact that long days of darkness and light alternately reign in those parts ...

The Atlanteans (probably not without the practical help of space aliens) used the energy of the Sun in flying machines. In a later period, aircraft like "airplanes" were controlled by powerful beams from special stations, which in turn were powered by solar energy.

Another aircraft of the Atlanteans, in appearance resembling a "low flat sled", could carry heavy loads over long distances, flying at a height of ten meters above the ground in a straight line. This machine was controlled from the ground with the help of a special crystal.

The rays from such a crystal also sent energy to small "airplanes" - to one or two riders flying just one meter above the ground. Another type of Atlantean airships was called "Valix". These ships differed in length, varying from 7–8 to 90–100 meters.

They looked like hollow needles with points at both ends and were made of sheets of shiny, lightweight metal that glowed in the dark. These "passenger liners" had rows of windows in the floor and sides - like loopholes, as well as light holes in the ceiling. Books helped passengers brighten up the flight time, musical instruments, potted plants, comfortable chairs and even beds. A special system was built into these aircraft, which in stormy weather allowed the "liners" to avoid accidental collisions with mountain peaks. Flying over the earth in such planes, the Atlanteans often threw down seeds - as dedicatory offerings to the setting sun. This is a laconic description of the “aeronautical fleet” of the Atlanteans, who, in principle, could fly and explore both near and far space ...

MEDICINE

While the Atlanteans maintained a close relationship with the natural environment, they were famous for their excellent physical and mental health. The regular performance of religious rites among the standing stones in the temples allowed them to join the boundless harmony of the Universe. The inhabitants of Atlantis believed that the powers endowed with these sacred stones enhance fertility, perform miraculous healings, prolong life and cure mental ailments.

Conscious of the power of the mind over the body, the spirit over the flesh, healers in Atlantis developed unique ways to recognize disease. In addition, the Atlanteans used many methods for the practical treatment of physical ailments.

First of all, they turned to nature for help. The great variety of plants that grew in the prehistoric era in Atlantis and its colonies provided healers with many opportunities to treat various diseases and ailments, as well as to improve healing itself. Among these remedies were antiseptics, narcotics, quinine against malaria, hallucinogens, herbs to stimulate the heart, etc. Medicinal plants were also used in the treatment of fevers, dysentery and most other disorders of the human body.

Atlantean healers and, in particular, priests knew how to use energy from higher sources to treat various ailments. At the same time, healers often practiced in pyramids (at a distance of one third from the top of its height), where it was easier to accumulate energy captured from space.

For the treatment of some other diseases, the Atlanteans successfully used color and sound, as well as metals - copper, gold and silver. Precious stones were also used: sapphires, rubies, emeralds and topazes.

The Atlanteans understood that, like the human body, every substance (and sometimes phenomenon) has its own characteristic vibrations caused by the movement of internal tiny atomic particles. People by instinct determined which of these materials suited them best, and wore jewelry made from it, which gave them strength and contributed to their receptivity.

In Atlantis, crystals were widely used to treat many diseases. The color change in the large "healing" crystals helped experienced doctors to determine in which part of the body the pain originated. Medical manipulations with the use of "healing" crystals, which focused beneficial energy on the patient's body, were very common, as they helped to "pour" new forces into the human body and extended its lifespan.

Naturally, at times in Atlantis there was a need for surgical intervention. However, it was not associated with unpleasant sensations, since the "therapeutic hypnosis" used by healers served as an excellent pain reliever - so reliable that the patient did not feel pain either during the operation or after it.

Since the ancient Sumerians, in particular, in the treatment of patients with various methods, space aliens helped, then, most likely, they also helped the Atlanteans...

So, using the materials of the book “Atlantis. In the footsteps of a vanished civilization”, we quite fully and thoroughly got acquainted with some aspects of the multifaceted life of the Atlanteans, as well as with some of the conditions of their life. We also want to end this essay with the words of Francis Bacon, quoted in the book by Shirley Andrews:

“... I believe that someday most of this information will be confirmed - for the benefit of our own civilization. So, opening your mental eyes wider, fixing your eyes on distant Atlantis and - ... read not in order to contradict and refute, and not in order to believe a word, - but in order to weigh what you read and reflect ... »

Furious disputes, measured discussions, assumptions, myths and versions - all this has been disturbing mankind for many centuries. Mysterious land called Atlantis, haunts neither pundits nor researchers who love to dream up. Didn't miss Atlantis lost world, and a simple layman. It seems that today every second person has heard about this mysterious island, about the fact that in ancient times there was lost Atlantis, a civilization that knew no equal in technological and scientific development, in the culture of life. The Atlanteans inhabited it, a free people, but not devoid of human vices, which, in the end, destroyed the mysterious empire. It is believed that the secrets of Atlantis lie somewhere at the bottom of the oceans. Let's try to figure out if this is true or not.

Atlantes and their appearance on the pages of history.

In 428 BC, in a rich and noble family, in the city-state of Athens, a seemingly ordinary boy was born, who received the name Plato. The father of the child was Ariston. His family originates from the legendary king Kodru. Mother - Periktiona, great-great-granddaughter of no less great Solon. Not Atlanteans, of course, but very revered and important people, both by the standards of Athens and by historical canons.

The child grew alive in every sense; he was sociable, cheerful and inquisitive. Surrounded by all sorts of blessings, he did not know what hard work and want were, spending most of his time on physical exercises and education. Having matured, the young man wished to give development not only to his body, but also to his mind. You and I know that the result of this decision will be the Atlanteans and many other discoveries no less important for history, philosophy and other sciences. However, the guy had yet to figure out his own thoughts, ideas and plans. At the age of 20, fate gave the young Plato a chance to answer many questions that tormented him, among which were the Atlanteans: at this time, Plato met Socrates, the greatest philosopher of antiquity, fell under the influence of his ideas and became his faithful student and follower.

All these events, which subsequently gave birth to the Atlanteans, take place against the background of the Peloponnesian War, which shakes the ancient world, starting from 431 BC. The last battle of this long war took place already in the year 404, when the troops of Sparta entered Athens. Power in the city is seized by thirty tyrants; freedom of speech, democracy and the right to choose disappear from the lives of local residents. But only a year passes, and the hated regime of tyranny collapses. The invaders are driven out of the city in disgrace, restoring its independence. Having defended their freedom and independence, Athens, the city where they first started talking about the Atlanteans, regains strength and influence among other Greek settlements.

The victory is given to Athens, the city where the Atlanteans were “born”, with heavy losses: many famous, noble and courageous men perish. Among the dead are many friends of Plato, the “father” of the Atlanteans, a future figure, thinker and activist. The young man hardly survives the loss, and promises himself to change this cruel world. In order to recover and escape from the darkness of days alone, Plato, who discovered the “Atlanteans” to the whole world, sets off on a long journey. He goes to Syracuse, then he visits the colorful villages and cities of the Mediterranean. At the end of his journey, our hero, who discovered the Atlanteans to the world, ends up in Egypt. Plato has a special interest in this country and its people - his great ancestor, Solon, studied here for many years.

The excellent upbringing, manners and education of the young Plato, the man to whom the Atlanteans owe their fame, impress the local elite. After some time, the young man is introduced to representatives of the highest priestly caste of Egypt. It is difficult to say exactly how this acquaintance influenced the views of the future great philosopher, to whom the Atlanteans owe their place in history, but Plato returns to Athens a completely different person. It is quite possible that it was in Egypt that Plato learned who the Atlanteans were and how human civilization actually developed. By the way, the priests of Ancient Egypt were revered not only by the local people, but by all ancient world, as the keepers of the most valuable information about the distant past and the peoples who inhabited the Earth. Who knows, maybe the Egyptians really knew who the Atlanteans were, how they lived, and how their story ended.

Long decades pass, but Plato did not tell in one of his works what the great priests of the pyramids told him, whether they told about the Atlanteans or discovered some other secrets of the ancient world. Plato's teacher, Socrates, has long gone to another world, and the philosopher himself has grown old, covered with gray hair and has become much wiser than in his youth. During this period, he already introduced his own philosophy and opened the corresponding school, which eventually turned into an academy. However, the Atlanteans are still not open to the scientific world. Plato's influence on the minds of young men and even old men is inestimable, he is revered as one of the greatest minds that ever lived in Athens and Greece. But the philosopher is tormented by internal conflicts. He struggles with the desire to tell the whole world about what ancient Atlantis is, to discover the true story human race. And now, half a century after visiting Egypt, Plato writes two of the most important dialogues in his life - Critias and Timaeus. A similar unique genre of philosophical treatises was introduced by Plato himself. He asks questions and answers them himself. This method, in which the Atlanteans will be opened to the world, better reveals the whole essence of the doubts tormenting a person and the inconsistency of judgments.

Atlantes are finally becoming a world-famous phenomenon. It is in Critia and Timaeus that Plato talks about the mysterious land that existed about 9 thousand years ago, about the land that the Atlanteans inhabited, about the land that does not exist now. It is a huge island with a mountainous terrain. The mountains encircled the perimeter, which was once inhabited by the Atlantean people, their land smoothly turned into gentle foothills, and those, in turn, into the widest plain. It was here that the Atlanteans lived, it was here that they built their way of life, science and civilization.

Atlantis is the land of great minds and no less great wonders.

The secret city, at one time opened only to the Egyptian priests and the young Plato, was called Atlantis. The people who inhabited it descended from the very god of the seas and oceans, Poseidon. It is believed that the progenitor of Atlantis, Poseidon, allegedly once turned to Zeus for help, he asked the supreme god to give him a place on earth. The king of all the gods favorably reacted to the request of the god of waters and allowed him to settle on a huge island, Atlantis, with a favorable climate, but to a greater extent with rocky and infertile soil for crops.

Here Poseidon met local residents, the Atlanteans. First, he met a small people who inhabited the great and mountainous Atlantis, and then, in peace and tranquility, he took up sheep breeding. At first, he suffered from loneliness, but soon a daughter grew up in one of the neighboring families of Atlantis. She turned out to be a girl of extraordinary beauty and intelligence, her name was Kleito. God took her as his wife, and after a while they had five twins, all boys, beautiful, smart and healthy, like gods. What else could be expected from a girl for whom Atlantis was her home, and from the almighty god of the seas, oceans and waters.

When the children grew up, the island, Atlantis, was already divided into ten parts. Each son got a small part of the land, on which he became the ruler. The best piece of land went to the eldest son and at the same time the wisest - Atlan. It was in his honor that the ocean surrounding Atlantis on all sides was named the Atlantic.

Very soon, the island, or rather its seventh and largest part, the lost city, Atlantis, turned into a densely populated state, an empire. The people who inhabited this state, Atlanta, built huge cities with amazing architecture, created magnificent sculptures, embodied luxurious temples in reality. The most majestic of them was the temple of Kleito, dedicated to the father of Atlantis, Poseidon. It was located in the center of the island, on a hill, and was surrounded by a wall made of gold.

To protect themselves from external enemies, the Atlanteans built a serious defense system. The plain was surrounded by two water rings and three earthen ones. Numerous canals were dug through the entire island, Atlantis, connecting the ocean waters with the central part of the land. The main, widest channel ended near the marble steps of Atlantis, which led to the top of the hill, that is, to the temple of Poseidon.

Having strengthened and strengthened, the population of Atlantis created the strongest army in the history of mankind. This army consisted of 1200 ships with a crew of 240 thousand people, whose homeland was Atlantis, and a ground force of 700 thousand people. For comparison, this is twice as much as the world average today. All these people Atlantis had to somehow feed, clothe and shoe. In most cases, funds were sought on the side: the Atlanteans built their economy and politics on constant and bloody wars that could bring profit.

Successful conquests further strengthened the city-state; Atlantis has become stronger than ever. It seems that not a single enemy could be found who would be able to offer worthy resistance to the aggressor. But the universe does not like the proud, it did not forgive pride and Atlantis: proud Athens stood in the way of the island people.

Plato wrote that 9 thousand years ago Athens was a powerful state that could not be compared with the current state of affairs. However, Civilization-Atlantis was strong and it was impossible to defeat such a large army alone. The ancient ancestors of the philosopher turned for help to neighboring states that inhabited at that time Balkan Peninsula. An unprecedented military alliance was created, the main task of which was the destruction of Atlantis, or at least the weakening of its military power, in order to conclude a peace treaty.

On the decisive day of the battle, the allies opposed by Atlantis were afraid to enter the battle, betraying their neighborly alliance. The Athenians were left alone with the millionth army of the Atlanteans, whose number continued to grow and grow. Courageous Greeks without fear and looking back rushed into battle and in an unequal struggle still lost to the aggressor. It seems that everything, here it is a victory, Atlantis won, and it is time to blow the horn victoriously, but then the gods intervened in human affairs. The great and immortal did not want Atlantis to become higher than the land of Greece subject to and guarded by them.

Zeus and his closest associates have been closely watching Atlantis and the people that inhabited this land for centuries. If at the beginning the local population did not cause negative emotions among the celestials, then centuries later, the situation changed radically. Atlanteans from noble, highly spiritual and moral people gradually turn into selfish, greedy, greedy for power and gold, depraved individuals, brazenly and shamelessly ignoring basic human laws and values. The lifestyle and the general situation in which Atlantis found itself, thousands of years after its settlement, caused a sharp negative reaction among those who, according to their status, were supposed to monitor the purity and morality of human civilization.

Atlantis was on the brink of an abyss. Today, in our humane and progressive 21st century, fallen and low personalities are treated quite tolerantly, for many of us such behavior has become the norm, but in those distant times the mentality was completely different. The pantheon of supreme gods and demigods decided to destroy the whole continent, Atlantis was to be wiped off the face of the Earth. Which was done by the celestials - quickly and imperceptibly for most people.

Atlantis was sinking, both in its own greed and literally. The earth opened up, stormy ocean waters poured onto land. The mysterious island plunged into the eternal abyss. No luck and proud Athens. The wrath of the gods, who did not forgive their wards for the loss, was no less cruel than the fate to which Atlantis, once mighty and beautiful civilization. The gods brought down a catastrophe on Greece and neighboring Earths, the state of Athens was just as erased from the map as Atlantis , wallowing in their own sins. There were no Athenians left capable of celebrating the fall of the aggressor, Atlantis, everyone fell, everyone died.

Secrets of Atlantis, a civilization that has disappeared from the pages of history.

This information can be gleaned from two extensive dialogues that reveal the secrets of Atlantis, and written by Plato at the very end of his life. It seems nothing special - there is no direct evidence based on serious scientific research, no references to any ancient manuscripts or authoritative sources. At first sight secrets of Atlantis, like the ancient civilization itself - a funny myth, a fairy tale. However, in spite of everything, the secrets of Atlantis and the legends about this civilization survived not only the philosopher himself, they survived centuries, millennia, giving rise to a huge number of discussions, theories and assumptions.

The main opponent who opposed the existence of this nation and dispelled the secrets of Atlantis was Aristotle, who lived in the period from 384 to 322 BC. Aristotle was the teacher and mentor of Alexander the Great. He was one of the main students of Plato, who began his studies at the Academy in 366 BC and completed it in 347.

For almost 20 years, this venerable man, who in every possible way unraveled the secrets of Atlantis, listened to the speeches of philosophers, himself preached the theory of eternal good, and treated with great respect both the works and the statements of his mentor. As a result, Aristotle expressed disagreement with Plato's dialogues, calling them the delirium of an old man. Allegedly, the secrets of Atlantis are not secrets at all, but a rebellion of fantasy and imagination of an honorary elder.

Such a negative reaction had its continuation. In Western Europe in the middle of the centuries, Aristotle had unquestioned authority. His judgments and theories were taken as the ultimate truth. Therefore, one can imagine that until the end of the 8th century, the beginning of the 9th century, the mysterious land, the secrets of Atlantis, although they spoke, were spoken with reluctance, with an eye on representative adherents of the philosophical concepts of Aristotle, one of the greatest, if not the most important philosopher of ancient Greece.

What is the reason for such an attitude to the mystery of Atlantis, to the existence of this civilization? Why did Plato's honorary student, Aristotle, categorically reject the possibility that city ​​of Atlantis existed and flourished for several millennia? Maybe he had irrefutable evidence at his disposal that did not leave a trace of the secret of Atlantis? But there is nothing in the writings of the venerable man to point to these proofs. On the other hand, it is also impossible to dismiss the judgments of Aristotle. As a man and philosopher, he was too authoritative to turn a blind eye to what he said and wrote.

In order to understand everything, you need to imagine the pundits of the past, shrouded in dreams and an unclouded look directed to the future, as ordinary mortals, people who are characterized by envy, greed, selfishness and other things that do not fit with philosophers and such respectable men things.

Who was Plato, who gave rise to the mysteries of Atlantis, disturbing the minds of even modern scientists? Plato was the darling of fate, the favorite of fortune. He was born into a wealthy family, from childhood he did not know worries, lack of attention and need for money. Due to his origin, he received all the blessings of life easily, with a wave of his hand. Without any effort, he created the Academy, surrounded himself with admirers and people who sincerely revere him. All doors were open for him in Athens. He could shout at the top of his voice that the sunken city, Atlantis, exists, and he would be believed. Today, such people are usually called the masters of life, golden youth and oligarchs, earlier, such concepts did not exist, however, a biased attitude towards the rich and wealthy of this world can be traced even before our era.

And who was Aristotle, who did everything possible to dispel the secrets of Atlantis, introduced by his mentor? The son of an ordinary doctor at the court of the Macedonian ruler, already by birth doomed to a miserable existence in poverty and social helplessness. From childhood he knew, if not need, then at least the need for money and livelihood. Each new step upward was given to him with great difficulty. Only thanks to his perseverance, willpower, determination and hard work, which the Atlanteans themselves would envy, this man achieved everything that he deserved: money, fame, respect.

Carefully concealed hostility and envy for a prosperous and kindly mentor, in the end, played with Aristotle the worst joke that the human mind and fate are capable of. Atlantis, the lost civilization, became his Achilles' heel. He forgot all the good and good that the mentor did for him, he, if he did not betray Plato, then certainly defiled his eternal memory with his doubts and distrust. After all, in the end, the secrets of Atlantis might not have interested Aristotle at all, however, he did not just turn his attention to them, he considered it his duty and duty to refute the latest works of Plato. God be his judge, the truth is that, with all his striving, Aristotle did not have more than one fact that could refute the statements of the mentor. Atlantes remained unproven, but not refuted, no matter how hard the envious student tried.

Lost Atlantis and the mystery of its existence.

For two millennia, the question of the mysterious continent either came to life in the minds of individual researchers, or died out under the influence of militant antagonists of Plato's instructions. The most serious opponent, parrying any evidence of the presence of the mystical and lost Atlantis on earth, has long been the church. The servants of the Lord considered the official date of the creation of the world to be 5508 BC. Plato, in his theories, climbed into the darkness of centuries, indicating a time interval of 9 thousand years, when, according to the church, neither the Earth, nor people, nor the universe, much less some kind of lost Atlantis could not physically exist.

Only in the second half of the 9th century, when the church split and its influence began to wane, did lost Atlantis may exist, they spoke again, and then in a whisper. The first who again loudly began to talk about the possibility that the lost Atlantis took place in the history of human civilization was Elena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) - theosophist, explorer, writer and famous traveler. Being a gifted, talented nature, no matter how you look at it, a bright and outstanding personality, this amazing woman categorically asserted that the lost Atlantis existed, and Plato was not mistaken when talking about this mysterious island. True, there were discrepancies in her theories with the Platonic version of Atlantis, the researcher assigned two continents to her at once - one in the Pacific, and the other, located in the Atlantic Ocean. The remains of the once great and ancient empire the islands of Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, individual islands of Polynesia and the famous Easter Island turned out to be in her understanding.

Many other researchers followed Blavatsky, arguing furiously about where the lost Atlantis is located, and about the very fact of its existence on the map of antiquity. However, the researchers could not present anything specific, evidence-based and definite to the scientific community.

Beautiful, but as it seemed to many a mythical legend, the world of Atlantis came to life and received rapid development only at the very end of the 19th century. This is the period of the beginning of powerful progress, both scientific and technical. It is no wonder that it was in this era, when more and more new resources appeared at the disposal of people, that interest in adventure arose again in the minds of many. And the lost Atlantis in their eyes became just that adventure. In fact, humanity has just entered a new phase of its existence. Heavy and light industry developed by leaps and bounds, science showed tremendous interest in what this lost Atlantis really was, technology, finance - all this required more and more advanced means of communication not only between individual cities and countries, but also between entire cities. continents.

In 1898, a landmark event in history took place around the lost Atlantis and research aimed at finding it. This year, from Europe to America, they pulled under water telegraph cable. And suddenly, for some obscure technical reasons, it broke off; as a result of which one of the ends sank to the very bottom of the ocean. They lifted it as is customary with steel crampons. Surprisingly, along with the cable, an unexpected surprise was also pulled out of the water, presumably related to the lost Atlantis: These were small pieces of vitreous lava stuck between the paws of the mechanisms used to lift the cable.

Good luck or not, but at that moment there was a geologist on the ship, and a very, very experienced specialist. In addition, he was familiar with what underwater city Atlantis knew firsthand about the hype around him. He took pieces of a strange rock, the origin of which was almost immediately associated with such a phenomenon as the lost Atlantis, and took them to Paris to his colleague, the French geologist Termier. He carefully studied the samples presented, and soon made a detailed report at the Oceanographic Society, in the capital of France.

As you might guess, his speech was truly sensational and the main topic of this speech was the lost Atlantis, which at that time was the main bone of contention in the research world. In fact, Termier stated with all responsibility that lava takes this form only when it hardens in air. During an underwater eruption, it would be completely different and would not have a vitreous, but rather a crystalline structure. Thus, the conclusion suggested itself that once, in the boundless waters of the Atlantic, somewhere between Iceland and Azores earth existed, it is obvious that we are not talking about some unknown island, but about such a phenomenon as the lost Atlantis, which disappeared in the depths of the oceans.

It seemed that the question of the presence and location of the mysterious mainland should be resolved by itself. It would be time to open a bottle of expensive champagne and celebrate such a serious and important discovery for science as the lost Atlantis, but that was not the case. To make it clearer what exactly is the snag, it is worth going in from afar and telling about everything in order.

Atlantis is a lost world, a bone of contention for the scientific community.

The status of a discoverer in that era was almost the main, cherished dream of the whole life of every respectable man of science. So, in 1900, an English archaeologist named Evans excavates in the Cretan city of Knossos and, surprisingly, finds traces of the most ancient civilization in the entire Mediterranean. He calls it Minoan, but at the same time claims that Atlantis, the lost world, famous in scientific circles, and his Minoan are one and the same.

In his research, the archaeologist refers to a layer of ash found in the sea soil, which is more than three thousand years old. Santorini Island is located 120 kilometers from Crete. It was here, according to the assurances of Arthur Evans, was Atlantis, the lost world, famous in scientific circles. In 1400 BC the Santorini volcano exploded. The entire middle of the island sank to the bottom of the sea, destroying Atlantis, the lost world that haunts the minds of scientists. But what about the fact that Plato's writings speak of the age of Atlantis, the lost world, which is at least 5 thousand years older than the age of the remains of the civilization discovered by Evans. It's simple, according to Evans, Plato simply made a mistake, indicating 9 thousand years instead of 900 years.

Throughout the century, scientists from various countries have tried to seize the palm from each other, competing in their inventions, the ingenuity of the mind, and pseudo knowledge about the ancient world. Wherever the tireless search took them. mysterious Atlantis, the lost world, famous in scientific circles, has been found in the Canary Islands, and off the coast of Iceland, and predictably in the central waters of the Atlantic Ocean. But all to no avail. No one has been able to point to the specific location of the mysterious ancient continent. Atlantis, the lost world, has not been discovered, but what is there, the researchers failed to find even a single piece of evidence or clues that could indicate the location of the mysterious island.

Disputes about the mysterious Earth, about what is lost city- Atlantis, do not subside and today is the day. Theories appear and disappear, legends are born and die, and with them more and more scientists, archaeologists and historians climb the research Olympus, and then fall from it. Some of their assumptions are very similar to the truth, others are more like a fantastic story or a good invention of a sick mind. One of these is this story: the basis of everything in Atlantis, the lost world, was a huge crystal that accumulates and transforms the energy of the universe into a more familiar earthly one. Was this crystal artificial or natural origin- unknown, or maybe deliberately kept silent. This source of endless energy was kept in the central temple of Poseidon under the watchful eye of the best, chosen warriors.

The crystal completely satisfied all everyday and not only the needs of people whose homeland was Atlantis, the lost world, but they did not want to be content with little. Being aggressive and warlike by nature, the inhabitants of the ancient empire used it as a powerful weapon, destroying and burning the lands of their enemies.

Nowhere and no one around had such a means of protection that could protect them from the power of the crystal, and very soon all neighboring states were enslaved by power-hungry invaders. The mysterious Atlantis, the lost world, turned into a magnifying empire, its borders expanded and expanded until they ran into endless steppes, behind which lay no less boundless China.

Atlantis is the birthplace of the conquerors.

The process of capturing a new, unknown country and race was slow, and ancient atlantes decided to send a powerful beam of energy across the planet. Choking with impatience and greed, people who believed that Atlantis was their home, in a hurry went to the crystal and the main keeper activated the energy weapon.

A pillar of hellfire struck the rocky ground. But instead of piercing the earth like a knife through butter, he split Atlantis itself into several parts. The foaming waters of the ocean quickly poured onto the island, sweeping away everything living and inanimate in its path. The ancient city, Atlantis, sank to the bottom of the ocean in the blink of an eye. All the Atlanteans perished with her, taking into oblivion the greatness and heritage of their civilization. This is such a colorful legend. It is clear that it is based on real facts. All this, most likely, is an invention of some researcher tired of fruitless searches.

Centuries and millennia have passed, but the question of whether the ancient civilization of Atlantis existed or not is still unanswered? Perhaps the most serious and evidence-based theory was put forward by Thor Heyerdahl, the famous Norwegian traveler. He turned his attention and the attention of the scientific world to the similarities between the ancient cultures of Asia Minor, Egypt, Crete and the ancient civilizations that inhabited Central America. Indeed, if we reject skepticism and look at all this from the outside, these cultures have many similarities. Atlanta, or rather their empire, was a state where the cult of the sun occupied no less important position in society than the cult of Poseidon, who was the father of the inhabitants of this city. We can observe the same thing in Central America, Asia Minor and Crete. They also worshiped the god of the sun, practiced marriages between family members to preserve the purity of the family. We do not know what the ancient language of Atlantis was, but we can see that the writing of the cultures of Crete, Central America and Egypt is like two drops of water.

An important similar factor are the pyramids, sarcophagi, mummification, masks. These pagan symbols and pieces of art, uncharacteristic of European states, were often found in Egyptian, Asian and American settlements. Again, we do not know if Atlantis was proud of the pyramids, we only find common features between seemingly different ancient empires at first glance. In addition, it has long been proven that sometime between the American and European continents there was a connection. We all once lived on one large continent, why shouldn't it be the same Atlantis that researchers have been unsuccessfully looking for for two thousand years already?!

Could it be that Atlantis was not destroyed, but simply reborn in the Egyptian pyramids and American counterparts? Who knows?! Perhaps we will get an answer to this question in the very near future. Now, we, like the entire scientific world, can only assume that Atlantis existed, and was not an invention of the old mind of one philosopher from Athens.

The "fatal" mistake of Plato (Critias or Solon) is revealed, which led to confusion with the location of Atlantis.

Atlantis has not disappeared, it exists and lies in the depths of the sea. A lot has been said about Atlantis, thousands of research materials have been written. Historians, archaeologists, searchers have proposed fifty versions of a possible location around the world (in Scandinavia, in the Baltic Sea, in Greenland, North and South America, in Africa, the Black, Aegean, Caspian Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and so on), But exact location not named. Why such confusion?

Starting to figure it out, you discover one pattern that all assumptions are initially tied to some kind of similarity, a find of antiquity, a single description, under which (which) the materials were subsequently “fitted”. As a result, nothing worked. There is a similarity, but Atlantis cannot be found.

We'll go the other way

Let's look for Atlantis in a different way, which in this case (judging by the well-known proposals), has not been used by anyone before. First, let's take the method of elimination, where Atlantis could not be. As the circle narrows, we will use all the "benchmarks" that were proposed by the ancient Greek scientist, the sage (428-347 BC) Plato (Aristocles) in his works - Timaeus and Critias. In these documents, the only and rather detailed description of Atlantis, its inhabitants and historical events related to the life of the legendary island is given.

“Aristotle taught me to satisfy my mind only with what reasoning convinces me, and not just the authority of teachers. Such is the power of truth: you are trying to refute it, but your attacks themselves elevate it and give it great value, ”said the Italian philosopher, physicist, mathematician Galileo Galilei in the 16th century.

Below is a map of the world, as it was presented in Greece during the time of Plato, Herodotus (IV - V century BC).

Mediterranean Sea

So, let's start "cutting the ends." Atlantis could not be in any far corner of the world, and even it was not in the Atlantic Ocean. You will ask why? Because the war (according to the history of the story) between Athens and Atlantis could not be anywhere except in the Mediterranean Sea on this “patch of civilization” due to the limited development of mankind. The world is big - but the developed one is small. Close neighbors fight among themselves more often and constantly than distant ones. Athens simply could not, with her army and navy, reach the limits of Atlantis if she were somewhere far away. Water and vast distances were an insurmountable obstacle.

“This barrier was insurmountable for people, because ships and shipping did not yet exist,” Plato narrates in his work Critias.

In ancient Greek mythology, which arose many thousands of years later than the time of the death of Atlantis, the only (!) Hero Hercules (according to Homer in the XII century BC) performed a feat, traveling to the farthest western point light to the edge of the Mediterranean.

“When the Atlas Mountains arose on the path of Hercules, he did not climb them, but made his way through, thus paving the Strait of Gibraltar and connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic. This point also served as a border for navigators in the ancient era, therefore, in a figurative sense, “Hercules (Hercules) pillars” is the end of the world, the limit of the world. And the expression to reach the pillars of Hercules "means" to reach the limit.

See picture The Strait of Gibraltar today is the place reached by the historical hero Hercules.

In the foreground is the Rock of Gibraltar on the edge of mainland Europe, and in the background on the coast of Africa is Mount Jebel Musa in Morocco.

What western limit of the earth reached Hercules (“end of the world”) was unattainable by other mortals. Thus, Atlantis was closer to the center of the ancient civilization - it was in the Mediterranean Sea. But where exactly?

Pillars of Hercules (according to Plato's story, behind which lay the island of Atlantis) in the Mediterranean Sea at that time there were seven pairs (Gibraltar, Dardanelles, Bosphorus, Kerch Strait, Nile Mouth, etc.). The pillars were located at the entrances to the straits, and all had the same name - Heracles (later Latin name - Hercules). The pillars served as landmarks and beacons for ancient sailors.

“First of all, let us briefly recall that, according to legend, nine thousand years ago there was a war between those peoples who lived on the other side of the Pillars of Hercules, and all those who lived on this side: we will have to tell about this war ... How we have already mentioned that it was once an island that exceeded the size of Libya and Asia (not their entire geographical territory, but rather the areas inhabited in antiquity), but now it has failed due to earthquakes and has turned into impenetrable silt, blocking the way for sailors who would try to swim from us to the open sea, and making navigation unthinkable. (Plato, Critias).

This information about Atlantis, which dates back to the 6th century BC. came from the Egyptian priest Timaeus from the city of Sais, located on the coast of Africa, in the western delta of the Nile. The current name of this village is Sa el-Hagar (see below the picture of the Nile River Delta).

When Timaeus said that the barrier from the remains of the sunken Atlantis blocked the way "from us to the open sea", then speaking about us (about himself and about Egypt), this clearly testified to the location of Atlantis. That is, it lies in the direction of travel from the Egyptian mouth of the Nile to the wide waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

In ancient times, the Pillars of Hercules were also called the entrance to the main navigable (western) mouth of the Nile, nicknamed the mouth of Heracles, that is, Hercules, where the city of Heracleum was located and there was a temple in honor of Hercules. Over time, the silt and floating material from the sunken Atlantis was blown across the sea, and the island itself went even deeper into the abyss.

“Since in nine thousand years there have been many great floods (namely, so many years have passed from those times to Plato), the earth did not accumulate in the form of any significant shoal, as in other places, but was washed away by waves and then disappeared into the abyss.” (Plato, Critias).

Crete

Next, we exclude other, impossible locations. Atlantis could not be in the Mediterranean north of the island Crete. Today in that area there are countless small islands scattered over the water area, which does not correspond to the story of flooding (!), and by this very fact excludes the entire territory. But even this is not the main thing. There would not have been enough space for Atlantis (according to the description of its size) in the sea north of Crete.

Expedition famous researcher sea ​​depths of the French oceanographer in the area north of Crete on the periphery of the islands of Thira (Strongel), Fera discovered the remains of an ancient sunken city, but from the above it follows that it belongs to another civilization rather than Atlantis.

In the archipelago of the islands of the Aegean Sea, earthquakes, catastrophes associated with volcanic activity, which led to local subsidence of the earth, are known, and according to new evidence, they occur in our time. For example, a recently sunken medieval fortress in the Aegean Sea near the city of Marmaris in a bay on the coast of Turkey.

Between Cyprus, Crete and Africa

Narrowing the search circle, we come to the conclusion that only one thing remains - Atlantis could only be in one place opposite the mouth of the Nile - between the islands of Crete, Cyprus and the northern coast of Africa. She is there today at a depth and lies, having fallen into a deep basin of the sea.

The failure of an almost oval water area with influx from the coast, horizontal wrinkling (from sliding) of sedimentary rocks to the center of the "funnel" is clearly visible from the Internet survey of the seabed from space. The bottom in this place resembles a pit, sprinkled with soft sedimentary rock on top, there is no solid "crust of the continental mantle" under it. Only visible on the body of the Earth is a hollow inside that is not overgrown with firmament.

The Egyptian priest Timaeus, in his story about the location of the silt from the flooded Atlantis, gives a link to the Pillars of Hercules (it was logical for him to say - closest to him), located at the mouth of the western Nile.

In another case (later already in Greece), when Plato described the power of Atlantis, we are already talking about other pillars, as mentioned above, there were seven of them in the Mediterranean at that time. When Plato expounded the text of the work (according to the retelling of Solon and Critias), the Egyptian priest Timaeus (the primary source of the story) had not been there for 200 years by that time, and there was no one to clarify the information about which pillars they were talking about. Therefore, the subsequent confusion arose with the location of Atlantis.

“After all, according to our records, your state (Athens) put an end to the insolence of countless military forces that set off to conquer all of Europe and Asia, and kept their way from the Atlantic Sea. […] On this island, called Atlantis, there arose a kingdom amazing in size and power, whose power extended to the whole island, to many other islands and to part of the mainland, and moreover, on this side of the strait they took possession of Libya (northern Africa ) as far as Egypt and Europe as far as Tirrenia (west coast of Italy). (Plato, Timaeus).

The sea that washed the island of Atlantis (between Crete, Cyprus and Egypt) was called the Atlantic in ancient times, it was located in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the modern seas: the Aegean, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian.

Subsequently, due to an error in tying Atlantis not to the Nile, but to the Pillars of Gibraltar, the name "Atlantic" Sea automatically spread to the ocean beyond the strait. The once inland Atlantic Sea, due to the inaccuracy of the interpretation of the story of Timaeus and the description (Plato, Critias or Solon), became the Atlantic Ocean. As the Russian proverb says: “We got lost in three pines” (more precisely, in seven pairs of pillars). When Atlantis went into the abyss of the sea, the Atlantic Sea disappeared with it.

Timaeus, narrating the history of Atlantis, noted that the victory of Athens brought freedom from slavery to all other peoples (including the Egyptians), who had not yet been enslaved by the Atlanteans - "on this side of the Pillars of Hercules", speaking about himself - about Egypt.

“It was then, Solon, that your state showed the whole world a brilliant proof of its valor and strength: all, surpassing all in fortitude and experience in military affairs, it first stood at the head of the Hellenes, but because of the betrayal of the allies, it turned out to be left to itself, met alone with extreme dangers and yet defeated the conquerors and erected victorious trophies. Those who were not yet enslaved, it saved from the threat of slavery; all the rest, no matter how much we lived on this side of the Pillars of Heracles, it generously made free. But later, when the time came for unprecedented earthquakes and floods, in one terrible day, all your military strength was swallowed up by the cracked earth; likewise, Atlantis disappeared, plunging into the abyss. After that, the sea in those places has become unnavigable and inaccessible to this day due to the shallowing caused by the huge amount of silt that the settled island left behind. (Plato, Timaeus).

Description of the island

You can even more clarify the place of Atlantis from the description of the island itself.

“Poseidon, having received the island of Atlantis as his inheritance ..., approximately in this place: from the sea to the middle of the island, a plain stretched, according to legend, more beautiful than all other plains and very fertile.” (Plato, Timaeus).

“This whole region lay very high and steeply cut off to the sea, but the whole plain that surrounded the city (capital) and itself surrounded by mountains that stretched to the sea, was a flat expanse, three thousand stadia long (580 km.), And in the direction from the sea to the middle - two thousand (390 km.). All this part of the island was turned to the south wind, and from the north it was closed by mountains. These mountains are praised by legend because they surpassed all the present ones in their multitude, size and beauty. The plain ... was an oblong quadrangle, mostly rectilinear. (Plato, Critias).

So, following the description - approximately to the middle of the island of Atlantis stretched a rectangular plain measuring 580 by 390 kilometers, open to the south and closed from the north by large and high mountains. Fitting these dimensions into a geographical map north of the mouth of the Nile, we get that southern part Atlantis could well adjoin Africa (near the Libyan cities of Tobruk, Derna and Egyptian cities on the coast west of Alexandria), and its northern mountainous part could be (but not a fact) the island of Crete (in the west) and Cyprus (in the east).

In favor of the fact that Atlantis in earlier times (than its mention in the ancient Egyptian papyri), namely tens of thousands of years ago, was connected with Africa - says the story of the animal world of the island.

“Even elephants were found on the island in great numbers, for there was enough food not only for all other living creatures that inhabit the swamps, lakes and rivers, mountains or plains, but also for this beast, of all the animals, the largest and voracious.” (Plato, Critias).

It should also be taken into account that with the end of the ice age, with the beginning of the melting of the northern glaciers, the level of the world's oceans rose by 100-150 meters and, probably, the part of the land that once connected Atlantis and the mainland was gradually flooded. Elephants and the inhabitants of the island of Atlantis (named after their king Atlanta), who came here earlier from the depths of Africa, remained on a large island surrounded by the sea.

The Atlanteans were ordinary people of a modern look, and not four-meter giants, otherwise the Hellenes from Athens would not have been able to defeat them. The insular, isolated position of the inhabitants prompted civilization to a separate active, ahead of external warring barbarians, development (fortunately, everything needed was on the island).

On Atlantis (in its capital, similar to the hill of an extinct volcano), hot springs of mineral water flowed from the ground. This indicates a high seismic activity of the territory located on the "thin" mantle of the earth's crust... "a spring of cold and a spring of hot water, which gave water in abundance, and, moreover, amazing both in taste and in healing power." (Plato, Critias).

Immersion under water

I will not now assume what caused the internal "hiccups" of the Earth, as a result of which Atlantis sank into the basin of the Mediterranean Sea in a day, and then even deeper. But it should be noted that exactly in that place along the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea there is a fault boundary between the African and European continental tectonic plates.

The depth of the sea there is very large - about 3000-4000 meters. It is possible that a powerful impact of a giant meteorite in North America in Mexico, which, according to the US National Academy of Sciences, occurred 13 thousand years ago (about the same time) and caused an inertial wave and plate movement in the Mediterranean.

Just like continental plates, crawling on top of each other, breaking edges, uplift mountains - the same process, but in reverse side when diverging, it forms subsidence and deep depressions. The African plate slightly moved away from the European one, and this was quite enough to lower Atlantis into the abyss of the sea.

The fact that Africa in the history of the Earth has already moved away from Europe and Asia is clearly evidenced by the huge intercontinental fault that runs through the Mediterranean Sea. The fault is clearly visible on the geographical map along the lines (seas) of the split in the earth's crust, which go in the directions - the Dead Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Persian and Oman.

See the picture below, how the continent of Africa moves away from Asia, forming the above seas and bays at the break points.

Crete - Atlantis

It is possible that the current island of Crete was earlier that very northern, high mountainous part of Atlantis, which did not fall into the abyss of the sea, but, having broken away, stayed on the "European continental cornice". On the other hand, if you look at Crete on a geographical map, then it does not stand on the very cliff of the mantle of the European mainland, but about 100 kilometers from the basin of the Mediterranean (Atlantic) Sea. This means that there was no catastrophic break of Atlantis along the current coastline of the island of Crete.

But here we must also take into account the fact that since then the sea level has risen by 100-150 meters (or more) due to the melting of glaciers. It is possible that Crete and Cyprus, as independent units, were part of the archipelago of the island Atlantis.

Historians and archaeologists write: “Excavations in Crete show that even four or five millennia after the alleged death of Atlantis, the inhabitants of this Mediterranean island sought to settle away from the coast. (Memory of ancestors?). Unknown fear drove them to the mountains. The first centers of agriculture and culture are also located at some distance from the sea”…

The former proximity of the location of Atlantis to Africa and to the mouth of the Nile is indirectly evidenced by the extensive Kattara depression in North Africa in the Libyan Desert, 50 km from the Mediterranean coast, to the west. Egyptian city Alexandria. The Qattara depression is minus 133 meters below sea level.

See the picture above - the huge Qattara depression near the Mediterranean coast in Egypt.

There is also another lowland on the tectonic fault line - this is the Dead Sea (minus 395 meters) in Israel. They testify to a once-completed territorial catastrophe, common to all, associated with the subsidence of large tracts of land from the divergence in different directions of the European and African continental plates.

What gives the establishment of the exact location of Atlantis

Mediterranean depression in place former Atlantis too deep. At first, the silt that rose and then settled to the bottom and subsequent sedimentary deposits somewhat covered Atlantis. The golden capital with its countless treasures in the temple of Poseidon turned out to be at great depths.

The search for the capital of Atlantis in the southern part of the Mediterranean Sea in the "triangle" between the islands of Crete, Cyprus, the mouth of the Nile will bring a useful result to the "treasury" of the world history of mankind, but this requires research by deep-sea vehicles.

There are guidelines for the attentive reader to search for the capital... There are two Mir underwater stations in Russia that could survey and study the bottom.

For example, Italian explorers-oceanographers in the summer of 2015 on the shelf of the island of Pantelleria, located approximately in the middle between Sicily and Africa, at a depth of 40 meters at the bottom of the sea found a giant man-made column 12 meters long, weighing 15 tons, broken in half. Traces of drilling holes are visible on the column. Its age is estimated at about 10 thousand years (comparable to the era of the Atlanteans). Divers also found the remains of a pier - a ridge of stones half a meter in size, laid out in a straight line, protecting the entrance to the ancient ship harbor.
These findings suggest that the search for the capital of Atlantis is not hopeless.

It is also encouraging that the confusion with the "Pillars of Hercules" has been successfully resolved and the location of Atlantis has finally been established.

Already today, for the sake of historical truth, the Mediterranean basin, at the bottom of which lies the legendary island in memory of Atlantis and its inhabitants, can and must be returned ancient name— the Atlantic Sea. This will be the first important world event in the search and discovery of Atlantis.

The real facts of the existence of a huge continent of high intellectuals modern world with all its technical capabilities and did not receive. Atlantes, as they were the mystical heritage of the times before our era, so they remain. The vast majority of the scientific world compete for the opportunity to provide evidence against the words of Plato and his followers.

To be or not to be Atlantis. History of an unknown civilization

According to the ancient gods, the available land was distributed among the central terrestrial gods. That is how Poseidon got into his power the beautiful island of Atlantis, which he later settled with people from his underwater world. The natural conditions on the island were conducive to a peaceful life - from the coast to the very center stretched a plain ideal for agriculture, without rocks or cliffs, there was only one elevation on the island - a steep mountain, on top of which the first of the wisest men, Evenor, settled. In earthly life, the man was bound by marriage to Leucippe, a young and incredibly beautiful woman. During the years of marriage, they had a daughter, Kleito, of indescribable beauty and liveliness of mind.

After the death of her parents, Kleito was seduced by Poseidon, who had been watching the inhabitants of the mountain all this time. In order to protect his most tender lover from other men, the god of the sea depths enveloped the hill with several ditches and embankments, which were not easy to cross even for the strongest of people. Soon Kleito gave birth to five pairs of children from Poseidon, all sons. In honor of this, God created two springs on the body of the island: with hot water and cold.

Poseidon wisely divided the entire perimeter of the island between his sons in turn of their birth. The firstborn got the most fertile part of the earth, so they called him Atlas. The descendants of a strong heir became Atlantes, people of unreal wealth and intelligence. The land allocated by the father fully provided the people with food and even mountain copper, which the Atlanteans traded with coastal states.

For several centuries of their existence, the Atlanteans have adorned their island with unprecedented buildings, communicating channels and bridges. The built-in line of defense by Poseidon himself over time became just a legend, the chain of ditches began to shrink, and the embankments themselves were leveled by skillful Atlanteans. Soon the land of Atlantis was covered with sacred monasteries, temples and palaces, the greatness of which was described by the craftsman Plato in his creation.

A selection of popular science documentaries
The Flood or the Search for Atlantis

Mysterious revelations of a lost civilization. The battle of civilizations.

Atlantis, Lemuria and Hyperborea

The mighty country of Atlantes. The collapse of the great empire.

In Search of Atlantis (National Geographic Documentaries)

Atlantis of the Russian North/ 1080p

Atlantis. Reality or fantasy. Documentary

Mystical Artifacts of Disappeared Civilizations - Documentary about Atlantis.

Atlantis. Secret stories

fantasy stories. Atlantis. The Mystery of a Lost Civilization Fantastic Stories