Atlantis: Myth or Fiction?
98686
Haha, you're lucky I happen to think it is fiction...or a myth. You're not giving people much of a choice, here.
620999
A legendary triangle of Ocean lies between 3 countries upon the Atlantic ocean. The Cities are Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale. Ships, people and aeroplanes have been reported mysteriously disappearing off the face of the earth whilst travelling inside this triangle. It soon acquired the name "Devils Triangle" owing to peoples superstitions that the devil was at play on this stretch of ocean and gobbling up weary and lost travellers with great delight, but what actually was at play inside this triangle of rough water, is it really the devil?, or perhaps aliens are using this spot as their home base on earth. Maybe it really does contain a mystical vortex that sucks people down into a third dimension.\n\nThe myth of the mysterious triangle was first begun in an Associated Press dispatch of September 16, 1950. Reporter E.V. W. Jones wrote of "mysterious disappearances" of ships and planes between the Florida coast and Bermuda. Two years after this article appeared Fate magazine ran an article by George X. Sand about a "series of strange marine disappearances, each leaving no trace whatever, that have taken place in the past few years" in a "watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico".\n\nIt was not long before ideas and suggestions started forming about this piece of ocean. M.K. Jessup wrote about the disappearances and gave ideas about alien intelligences being behind them in the book "The Case for the UFO. The view was also echoed by Donald E. Kyhoe who is noted for his "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy" of 1955. Frank Edwards (Stranger Than Science) agreed with the theory of aliens having a local hangout in the triangle as well. Finally a man by the name of Vincent H. Gaddis came up with the phrase "Bermuda Triangle".\n\nVincent Gaddis wrote an article in February 1964's edition of Argosy and incorporated the story later in his book "Invisible Horizons" titled "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle". And there was the birth of the now world famous myth of the Bermuda Triangle.\n\nThroughout the years it has featured in many many articles, books, television series and movies and always portrayed as a very real and mysterious thing, but anyone out there with any sense surely will ask themselves " how in this day and age could boats, planes and other travellers just go mysteriously missing in a certain piece of water?" "wouldn't an aeroplane full of international travellers be afraid to travel over this part of the ocean"....Well let me tell you I've always asked the same questions myself and I personally have come to the conclusion that the entire thing is nothing more than a myth hyped up over the years by wrong facts and silly overexaggerated stories told down through the generations of people willing to listen to any kind of mysterious story with a unknown edge to it.
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If the links between myths and religion are of interest to you the  PBS interview series "The Power of Myth" (with Bill Moyers) based on the writings of Joseph Campbell is a must.  There is a book by the same title, and my public library in a town, pop. 5000, has both the series on VCR and his books.  \n\nCampbell has many other writings from a lifetime of fascination with myth.  He taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence\n\nI taught religion for several years, and was ignorant of the common threads between what is now called mythology and today's religions until I explored his writings.  It was truly a life altering experience and one of the finest elements of my education.  \n\nYour  perception of  "Mythology" will evolve and 'write-off' won't be meaningful if you delve into this subject, so I can't answer the question you posed except to say that the peoples of the world have had religion forever.\n\nBe prepared to be addicted, and transformed.\n\nPS \nCharlie Rose  interviewed Bill Moyers and his wife last night.\nThey will present about 13 persons of all religious persuasions on a new program about religion tonight on PBS
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No.  There isn't the slightest scrap of evidence that a worldwide flood occurred.  Nor is there any possible physical way to construct a wooden vessel the size described by the Bible without it cracking apart under its own mass in the water.  Nor is there any reaonably possible way for such a vessel to be ventilated by a single tiny window.  Or even have enough for two--or seven--of every species in the world.  Or an even remotely believeable method for a handful of people to actually be able to take care of all the animals aboard the Ark for nearly a year.  \n\nNot to mention the many ancient civilizations like the Chinese and the Summerians who somehow managed to keep right of going and not even notice their own desrtruction.\n\nThe more you look closely at the tale, the more "Godmagic" you have to invoke in your effort to explain away the real-world problems of the story.  Since there's no such thing as magic, it's safe to chaulk the entire story as fiction.  A secondary creationist tale.\n\nBTW:  Yes, there are many civilizations that have tales of floods.  Floods were a near-universal experience for our ancestors, so naturally they would be incorperated into mythologies.  What the Creationists convienently overlook is the wide variety of differences between all the flood stories...the number of survivors ranges from two to entire tribes, the details of the source of the floods and the motives of the gods that cause them are all different, etc...  The only commonality of the tales is the involvment of a lot of water.
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Not a myth...........................................
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The greek philosopher Plato was the first to describe Atlantis (Timaios and Kritias). According to Plato, it disappeared about 9.000 years before him. Strangely enough there are no other sources to confirm that, so most probably, Plato invented the story himself, maybe inspired by a natural disaster, like the explosion of the volcano Thera 1.500 b.c.\nDonnelly revitalised the story in a book from 1882. And later Madame Blavatsky.\nOceanologists have not found any profe of Atlantis, though they know the oceans quite well. So how interesting the story about Atlantis is, most probably it is just another good story!
32054
All myth, not reality. Get over it.
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myths and the minotaur
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"and this whole The Bible is a myth garbage... Did you ever know that archaeologists have found countless cities, names,etc. mentioned in the bible that they didn't think existed?"\n\nThe Da Vinci Code mentions Paris and a Louvre museum and they happen to exist. Does that mean the whole Da Vinci Code is true? According to your "logic", it seems so.\n\nTroy has been found. Does that mean the greek gods exist?\n\nChichen Itza was found too, should we offer maidens to Kukulkan? When is Kukulkan second coming? It was predicted he'd do so.\n\nYou can't prove the miracles happened.
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I see it as myth.  Of course, myths have different purposes, such as explaining where we came from (Genesis) or exaggerating the tales of a hero (The New Testament).  I don't think the world was created in 6 days or that the human races began with Adam and Eve, but I think Jesus was real.  I don't think every thing the NT says happened actually happened the way it says it did, but there's some truth in it.
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I think the story would still be in because I don't believe it is truly fictional.  In my opinion, the story is based upon the fall of Atlantis.  We were living in harmony because we were connected directly to God/Source through these axiatonal lines in our energy bodies.\n\nOur energy bodies are comprised of energy lines of force.  The sanskrit word for this is nadis. (accupuncturists tap into these lines in our bodies, facilitating the flow of energy).  These energy axiatonal lines allowed for us to be able to create our desires.  But somewhere along the way, we became too powerful (some psychics say we were able to harness the power in crystals and blew ourselves up)...when this happened, we lost the axiatonal line connection....our direct connection go God/Source....lost our ability to create our desires at will.....or as the story goes, we ate from the tree and got kicked out of Eden.....again, we did it to ourselves....we screwed up....not God getting ticked and kicking us out.\nOnly now do we have the ability to reconnect those axiatonal lines.....you may have heard of DNA Activation...start reconnecting and you can start making things happen as long as it's good for all.
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There were many theories regarding relationships between Egypt and Mezoamerican cultures.  Yes, there are pyramids, but it only makes sense to worship the sun and what better way to worship than to build structures that point TOWARDS the sun?  \n\nBack in the 70s and 80s a man named Thor Heyerdal built boats out of papyrus and sailed them from Cairo to Yucatan.  He proved that they COULD have sailed to the Americas, but there never was any conclusive evidence of it.  By now, with genetic mapping, someone would have tried to link the Maya or Aztec markers to Pharaonic times.  I have not heard or seen anything to persuade me otherwise.  \n\nIt is much more likely that peoples from later than the Egyptians, with an empire based on sailing and trade, reached the Americas.  Those would be the Phoenicians.  With their origins in the far Eastern Mediterranean (present day Lebanon), a branch split off and founded the empire of Carthage in northern Africa.  They had a trading and sailing monopoly in the ancient world, and a large enough power base that the Greeks gave them a wide berth, and it wasn't until the Romans that they were subdued.  \n\nBut I digress.  Phoenician sailing vessels were rowing galleys with a large sail, similar to a Viking ship, but with several tiers of rowers.  Biremes (two rows) triremes (three tiers), all the way to quintiremes (five), were capable of carrying hundreds of troops.  They were technologically advanced enough that they could have reached the Americas.  Again, no proof.\n\nAs for Atlantis, who knows where Atlantis is.  Some say it was in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.  If that is the case, that was not very far from Egypt, or Northern Africa, but pretty durn far away from Mexico.\n\nSo to asnwer your question:  There is no conclusive evidence of any relationship between the Aztecs or Mayas and the Egyptians.  A pyramid is a fairly basic shape, pointing skyward at the "sun god".  Could simply be coincidence.
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No one knows for sure.  But odds are that some civilization did represent Atlantis at some time in the past.  And that the ancient greeks did repeat the legend of this civilization as a warning to others.  Also, as a play, it was a best seller (no kidding) so it was a very popular story to replay and talk about.  Plato placed it beyond the Pillars of Hercules which is OUTSIDE the Mediterranean in the Atlantic, however, most scientist believe it originated in the Greek or Agean Sea when Thera (or Santorini) exploded destroying everything in a 50 mile radius (even the Island of Cypress).\n\nAlso, the Olmecs in South America at this time used "ATL" (ATLantis) in their city names to mean "of the Sea."  So, perhaps when Plato mentioned in the Atlantic, he didn't know how far away in the Atlantic he was talking about.
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LOL...Good point! Give em something to think about!\n\n********\n\nNoah and his ark was actually a true story.....notice, I said STORY....not EVENT.\n\nThe Fertile Crescent had spring floods every year, due to the snows melting from the Ural mountains to the north. The story was a tale told at the time to get locals to prepare for the spring floods by moving to higher grounds or to build barges/floats, to keep above the flood waters.\n\nThe "story" says it was the "whole world" that flooded.....actually it was THEIR whole world.....people didn't use to travel a lot, ya know. the whole bible is a compiled group of stories just like this one.
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The Egyptians are said to have done this in cooporation with the atlantians of atlantis before it sank. Either way, the technology is atlantian. This is also found in the mayan civilization and is said to be spread to the four corners of the earth before it (atlantis) sank.
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No, the island of Atlantis was supposedly near the Azores island and a tsunami or hurricane wiped it out. The Bermuda triangle is on the other side of the world.
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No.\nThere is none.\nBut there are a bunch of reasons to believe it as fiction.