In each of the world's four oceans, hypothetically, there was a huge continent, now sunken. We will try to figure out what treasures these lands hide and where the ideas about them came from.
Atlantis
Atlantis is perhaps the most famous of the legendary sunken or disappeared lands. There are hundreds of pseudo-historical and conspiracy theories around Atlantis, and it is no coincidence: after all, it was about it that humanity first learned not from somewhere, but from the manuscripts of Plato himself. The famous Athenian philosopher and scientist described in detail a mysterious island that existed for eleven and a half thousand years somewhere in the ocean, to the west of the Pillars of Hercules, opposite the Atlas Mountains. According to Plato, Atlantis has existed since time immemorial and was at war with Athens. Atlanteans enslaved many countries and tried to conquer Athens, but the Greeks defended their homeland and repelled the attack, and then freed all the lands from the influence of Atlantis. After that, a catastrophe happened, after which Atlantis went under water. Therefore, somewhere under the water there are still giant golden temples and statues of the Atlanteans, the children of Poseidon. Most likely, Plato in his dialogues spoke in allegories and meant by Atlantis the eternal enemy of the Greeks - Persia, the country of arrogant and richest kings. Having flooded the Persian fleet, the Greeks performed a feat similar to what the legendary Athenians did in the war with the Atlanteans. In describing Atlantis, Plato could also criticize the Athenian Empire of his day, which used its power after the war with the Persians and forcibly formed an alliance of states that it freed from the rule of Persia. The image of a hostile maritime state, one way or another, was extremely relevant for the Athens located on the coast, constantly being attacked both from land and from the sea. Plus, it's worth rememberingthat Plato very often used allegorical descriptions in his works, and even the famous "State" is actually not a description of an ideal state structure, but a mockery of the possibility of its creation and an allegory of the structure of the human soul.
Pacifida - continent of Mu
Mu is a continent that allegedly sank in the Pacific Ocean. The origins of ideas about him are myths about a certain country in the middle of the ocean. The legends of Easter Island tell about the enormous size of the then island, which gradually went deeper and deeper under the water. However, modern science rejects this version, since the coastline of the famous island has remained the same for thousands of years. Thor Heyerdahl noticed that the Polynesians in their legends often touch upon the theme of ancestors who came from the East. If we build a hypothesis based on this myth, then it is necessary to assume the presence of some kind of land lying in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is possible that the small volcanic islands that form the Pacific Ring of Fire are remnants of a former continent. However, no studies have confirmed this point of view. Auguste Le-Plongeon claimedthat while studying the Mayan ruins in Yucatan, he found texts proving that this people has a more ancient history than Egypt, and that its original land was a mysterious continent called Mu. According to Plongjon, Queen Mu founded Egypt, and her other subjects, who fled from the sinking mainland, became the pioneers of the Mayan civilization.
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Lemuria - the mystery of the Indian Ocean
Lemuria is a mysterious continent, lost somewhere under the waters of the Indian Ocean. Its name is based on the name of a lemur primate that lives on the island of Madagascar. The spirits of the dead were called lemurs in Rome, and when Europeans in the sixteenth century encountered unusual primates with sparkling eyes and strange tails, they named them after ancient supernatural beings. Soon, species of primates related to lemurs were discovered in India and Southeast Asia, which prompted researchers to think about the unusualness of such a distribution area. How could lemurs, who cannot swim, swim across the Indian Ocean? Such a habitat could be explained only on the basis of their hypothesis that previously there was a kind of continent that united Asia with Africa. English scientist Philip Latley Scleter suggestedthat Lemuria - that very continent - was just such a place. According to modern concepts, a single continent uniting Australia, Africa, Antarctica, South America, the Indian subcontinent and the island of Madagascar really existed at the end of the Paleozoic. This is the so-called Gondwana. Its disappearance, or rather, splitting, is explained by drift. Since the Mesozoic, the huge continent began to disintegrate into separate parts of the land, which we now call continents and islands. But the ancient Gondwanese fauna preserved on them, representatives of which are considered modern lemurs and their closest relatives, and now bear common features, despite the many miles of the World Ocean dividing it. Similar assumptions are confirmed by the fact that the inhabitants of Madagascar in terms of body structure are much closer to the eastern equatorials, that is, the inhabitants of Indonesia,and not to negroids. This version was supported by the famous materialist scientist Friedrich Engels, who believed that since ancient times an intermediate link between man and ape lived on the sunken continent: “Many hundreds of millennia ago, in an epoch that still cannot be precisely defined, that period in the development of the Earth, which geologists call Tertiary, presumably by the end of this period, lived somewhere in a hot zone - most likely on the vast continent, now located at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, - an unusually highly developed breed of humanoid apes.in an epoch not yet amenable to precise definition of that period in the development of the Earth, which geologists call Tertiary, presumably by the end of this period, she lived somewhere in a hot zone - most likely on a vast continent, now located at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, - an unusually highly developed a breed of humanoid monkeys”.in an epoch not yet amenable to precise definition of that period in the development of the Earth, which geologists call Tertiary, presumably by the end of this period, she lived somewhere in a hot zone - most likely on a vast continent, now located at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, - an unusually highly developed a breed of humanoid monkeys”.
Arctida - the land of the Hyperboreans
Hyperborea, along with other lost lands in Earth's oceans, is one of the most famous submerged continents. The legendary northern country is mentioned by the Greeks as a continent inhabited by the powerful Hyperboreans, the sons of the titans, close to the gods. According to Greek myths, Apollo, the god of the sun, shooting, fine arts and disease, is often in Hyperborea. Pliny the Elder, a Roman scholar, also held a high opinion of the sacred tribe: “Beyond these mountains, on the other side of Aquilon, a happy people called the Hyperboreans are reaching very advanced years and glorified by wonderful legends. It is believed that there are loops of peace and extreme limits. circulation of the luminaries. The sun shines there for half a year. This country is all in the sun, with a favorable climate and devoid of any harmful wind. Death comes there only from satiety with life. One cannot doubt the existence of this people. Scientists do not confirm the existence of Hyperborea, however, since the nineteenth century, it is assumed that a continent previously existed in the North, called by the researchers Arctida. This land connected the New World with Eurasia, and now only pieces of land remain from it - the New Siberian Islands and Wrangel Island. According to various estimates, from about one hundred to five thousand years ago, Arctida sank. Thus, opinions about the existence of Arctida are only a scientific hypothesis - which did not prevent occult thinkers from combining the idea of Arctida with the ancient myths of Hyperborea.named by the researchers Arctida. This land connected the New World with Eurasia, and now only pieces of land remain from it - the New Siberian Islands and Wrangel Island. According to various estimates, from about one hundred to five thousand years ago, Arctida sank. Thus, opinions about the existence of Arctida are only a scientific hypothesis - which did not prevent occult thinkers from combining the idea of Arctida with the ancient myths of Hyperborea.named by the researchers Arctida. This land connected the New World with Eurasia, and now only pieces of land remain from it - the New Siberian Islands and Wrangel Island. According to various estimates, from about one hundred to five thousand years ago, Arctida sank. Thus, opinions about the existence of Arctida are only a scientific hypothesis - which did not prevent occult thinkers from combining the idea of Arctida with the ancient myths of Hyperborea.