Wherever tireless explorers have found Atlantis! And in the Canaries, and in Spain, and on the island of Santorini, and even on the shores of the Caspian Sea. And recently the Italian Marco Francesco Bulloni found the island described by Plato … on our Solovki! And he substantiated his discovery on the pages of the book "The Arctic Circle: Discovery of Atlantis".
What Plato wrote about
As Bulloni notes, the destruction of Atlantis is presented by Plato in a very impressive way and his words are full of drama. The philosopher talks about the devastation of the island, which took place mainly for natural reasons. Plato wrote that the island had become "impassable mud, preventing the passage of ships," so that it became completely impossible to reach the ocean. In another passage, he argued that "during the night there was as much rainfall as the earth could not bear, and this stream from the sky washed away the entire land of the island, making it naked."
When Plato described the area around the island, also subject to devastation after the flood, he said that the soil was separated from the mountains and floated down, plunging into the sea. “As happens on small islands, in comparison with what happened, then the parts that remain are like a damaged body under the influence of disease, because all the earth around that place, everything that was fertile and soft, escaped, and the whole region remained only bare skeleton."
Then the philosopher wrote that there are visible traces of dense forests that grew on the mountains. Some of these mountains were completely deserted - so, according to Plato, “today they provide food only for bees. Moreover, the soil can no longer hold water as it used to, and it flows to the sea. The sanctuaries, once built near various water sources, are still visible today."
In all these descriptions, Plato argued that the territory of Atlantis was forever immersed in the sea, at the same time he wrote about the still inhabited island, whose ruins were visible many centuries after its destruction. This confirms the hypothesis that the expression "he sank" refers to an island that sank under water, but then reappeared, or partially sunk.
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Rain and tsunami
Bulloni comes to the conclusion that, very likely, the cause of the destruction of Atlantis was a huge tsunami that hit the island, giving the impression that the island is sinking under water. But from Plato's description, it becomes obvious that after the immersion, the island appeared again, completely devastated.
Therefore, according to the Italian researcher, those who are looking for Atlantis under the sea or ocean are wrong: Plato did not say that the island disappeared forever. He made it clear to us that the island still exists and can be visited.
Special attention should be paid to the marine cataclysm in the form of rain, which lasted 24 hours. The philosopher wrote that rain contributed to the destruction of the island, shattered it into pieces and made it unstable. This means that rain was not the primary cause of the destruction. Bulloni's view is that there was a violent tropical-like storm, accompanied by a long rain that occurs with a sudden change in climate.
Obviously, during the destruction of Atlantis, the climate of the area, which was very humid, suddenly changed from very mild to very cold, which caused a prolonged and destructive rainfall.
If you look at the position of Bolshoy Solovetsky Island in the middle of the White Sea, you can see that the tsunami waves heading towards Karelia will not be able to bypass it. The existence of underwater earthquakes in the White Sea region is very likely, since this area is the border between the Ural and Finnish tectonic platforms. However, Bulloni is inclined to believe that the trouble came from the Barents Sea.
Plato mentioned the story of Phaethon, the son of Helios, who lost control of the celestial chariot, fell to the Earth and destroyed it. The Egyptian priest interpreted the myth, saying that sometimes celestial bodies deviate from their trajectory around the Earth and fall on our planet, causing death and destruction. Perhaps this is the real mystery hidden in the words of Plato: did the Egyptian know that the cause of the destruction of Atlantis was associated with a blow from space?
Perhaps this hypothesis was strange for Plato, who understood it only as a myth about Phaethon and for this reason did not recognize in it a true historical fact associated with the collapse of Atlantis. The entire history of Atlantis seemed incredible to the philosopher, and it is unlikely that he could believe the hypothesis that celestial bodies can revolve around the Earth and sometimes fall on it. Perhaps it was too difficult or unbelievable for him.
The death of the capital on Solovki
The fact that in the past Bolshoi Solovetsky Island suffered from a huge tidal wave from the Barents Sea has already been proven by scientists who believed that such a cataclysm happened millions of years ago. Bulloni believes that a similar disaster happened on the island at a closer time - 3300 years ago, and this was the destruction of Atlantis. There are precedents for the fall of asteroids and large meteorites into the Arctic Ocean.
So, about halfway between Sweden and the Svalbard Islands at the bottom of the Barents Sea, geologists found traces of a meteorite impact - a crater with a diameter of 40 kilometers. This crater was created by a meteorite fireball with a diameter of 1 to 3 kilometers and a mass of 1 billion tons. The impact released energy equivalent to 400,000 megatons of trinitrotoluene.
According to research by scientists, the impact devastated the entire area around, causing earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.7-8.7 points, movements of earth layers, tsunami waves up to 10 meters high and erosive effects on the coast of Greenland, the islands of Novaya Zemlya and Scandinavia.
According to the reconstruction of the Italian, part of the giant tsunami entered the White Sea from the 350-kilometer-long “channel” connecting it with the Barents Sea and headed for the Solovetsky archipelago. Bulloni notes that the White Sea has different depths: in the northwest -350 meters, while in the southeast, where the archipelago is located, only 16 meters.
Moreover, a few kilometers from Bolshoy Solovetsky Island, the depth suddenly changes - the bottom drops by 300 meters. In such cases, the height of tsunami waves rises sharply and, instead of 10, can reach 60 meters. Such a superwave would completely destroy the fragile earthen ring structures of the capital of Atlantis.
Waves of this type are called long waves because they travel at high speed, rising suddenly above sea level, and last long. For anyone who escaped at that moment on a boat or a small ancient ship, the appearance of a long wave that engulfed the entire island gave the wrong impression: he seemed to be submerged in the sea.
The death of the Great Plain in Karelia
The described disaster affected not only the coastal capital of Atlantis, located somewhere on the Solovetsky Islands. The Great Plain, 350 by 500 kilometers in size, described by Plato, the Karelian Plain, was also to be destroyed. A giant wave passed through the Solovetsky archipelago and then entered Karelia, the plain of which then went much east of the present coast. The entire plain was very low, and therefore no one was saved from the tsunami.
Karelia
An Egyptian priest who spoke about Atlantis recalled that after the flood, city dwellers were carried away into the sea by streams of rivers and only the shepherds survived; that is, those who were in the mountains. He spoke about the plain of Karelia, which suffered first from a wave, and then from a long rain. Rivers overflowed, flooding and devastating coastal villages. People were carried away to the White Sea and fell on rocks and into impassable mud.
The mud, which interfered with navigation, came not only from the island, but also from the Karelian plain. The fact that the Karelian rivers still carry a large amount of sediment into the sea is well confirmed by modern photographs from space. As an example, Bulloni gives a photograph of the sediments of the Kem River, which flows opposite the Bolshoi Solovetsky Island. She has applied a huge amount of silt, and the depth of the sea varies greatly. Here you can find sea cliffs and large shoals only one meter deep.
What does archeology say? There is evidence that the level of Lake Onega in Karelia in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC rose significantly, by several meters. This was due to heavy rains and the destruction of the drainage system.
Archaeologists have recorded a significant change in the style of the petroglyphs of the population of Karelia associated with this event. For science, this is evidence that people who lived in Karelia left this region after the water level in Lake Onega rose, and a new culture appeared later.
Andrey CHINAEV