In 1910, a French ship was shipwrecked off the coast of Cuba. Freeman Lane, one of the surviving team, was washed up on the coast of the island of Pinos, south of Cuba. Making his way through the thickets, he suddenly saw the entrance to a cave that went far underground. Freeman entered the mysterious cave and froze with surprise and admiration. The walls and ceiling of the underground hall were completely painted with incomprehensible round targets, pierced by arrows, spirals like flying kites.
Many years later, in 1998, this cave called Cueva No. 1 was examined by the British scientist Andrew Collins, who devoted twenty years to the study of Atlantis. This area was called Punta del Este. What he saw there once again confirmed his long-standing hypothesis that traces of the mythical Atlanteans should be looked for in Cuba and the nearby islands.
In his new book, The Gates of Atlantis (2000), Collins discusses in detail the translation options for Plato's two dialogues Timaeus and Critias. They say that the kings of Atlantis (ten sons of Poseidon) had power "over other islands and regions of the opposite continent." Descendants of Poseidon "ruled as princes on countless islands in the ocean besides their own." The scientist identifies the kingdom of the Atlanteans with the legendary Antilia - the Island of the Seven Cities. However, information about Antilia was known to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Moors long before the island began to appear on medieval navigational maps. Robert Stacy-Judd, Lewis Spence and others considered Antilia to be the wreckage of Atlantis, which was located in the Greater and Lesser Antilles.
According to Collins, Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti) and Puerto Rico are the three largest islands of Atlantis (according to the ancient testimony of Marcellus-Proclus), the other seven are the remains of that land archipelago that stretched from Cuba to the Bahamas. Subsequently, a colossal catastrophe recorded in the folklore of the African American communities of the Antilles finally destroyed the former colonies of Atlantis. According to the scientist, the cataclysm occurred in the region of 8600-8000. BC e. due to the fall of a huge comet.
Collins believes that in ancient times a highly developed civilization developed in Cuba, which left us with stone sculptures, earthen monuments and no less mysterious cave paintings. She also possessed a complex set of religious beliefs. Recent studies have shown that people in Cuba lived around 6000 BC. e. (Lewis culture), which was absorbed by the broader Guayabo Blanco culture (5000 BC).
Plato's description of the Atlantean capital, according to Collins, is quite similar to the relief of western Cuba. To the west of Havana, a fertile valley stretches up to Pinar del Rio for almost 540 km. This plain about 10,000-8,000 years ago stretched south to the shores of Molodost Island (Pinos Island) and was almost 160 km wide.
The myths and legends of the peoples of Central America tell of the beautiful gods, the people of the Serpent, who came from somewhere from the East. The pale-faced "leaders" were tall, slender, blue-eyed and wore "big beards. The Mayan priests called them ah-ttsai, "the people of the rattlesnake." According to the astrological concepts of the Maya, the constellation of the Pleiades corresponds to the rattlesnake. This is how the islands in the Western Ocean were once called. These peoples called their homeland in different ways: Aztlan, Tulan, Tlapallan. where the mysterious Seven Caves were located. But the name Aztlan is just an allusion to other names, which contain the root "atl" - "in the middle of the water." The ancestors of these peoples moved to the continent along the so-called "Stone Route" - a land bridge that existed 4000-5000 years ago between the Greater Antilles and the coast of modern Honduras. Mosquito shores in Honduras and Nicaragua stretched 250 km further in the direction of Jamaica than they do today, but then these shoals were submerged due to rising ocean levels.
According to legend, the capital of the Atlanteans consisted of seven parts, converging to a certain central cave, which was located in the bowels of the "mountain" surrounded by water. The Island of Youth (Pinos), located 100 km south of Cuba, is, according to Collins, the citadel of the capital of Atlantis, and the caves of Punta del Este served as the grotto in which Leucippa gave birth to Clito, the progenitor of the Atlanteans.
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But the most striking sight is the Cuban caves. Of particular interest are abstract geometric compositions: concentric rings, spirals, triangles, squares and rhombuses. The drawings date back to between 5000 BC. e. and 250 AD e. According to other estimates, their age is at least 30,000 years! Cuban archaeologists Ernesto Tabio and Estrella Rai reported that the nature of the rock paintings in Cueva No. 1 has no analogues among the styles of Guayabo Blanco culture known to science.
Collins entered the cave and looked around. Immediately behind the entrance was the central hall with an area of 12 by 15 meters. A corridor began near the wall that led to seven small caves or chambers, which is a reflection of the seven-dimensional symbolism of Chicomoztok (Seven Caves). A cross was inscribed on the wall of a side corridor, formed from diverging rings. The same cross was found three years later by Polina Zelitskaya in the Guanajasibes Bay in the western part of Cuba. It is curious that an even more ancient people of the Guacanabibs existed on the Antilles, who managed to survive in this part of Cuba after the Spanish invasion. By the similarity of their name and customs, Lewis Spence compared them with the Guanches of the Canary Islands.
Another drawing depicted a target consisting of approximately 50-55 concentric rings of alternating red and black colors. On top of this figure, nine more groups of rings are applied, as well as a double arrow, as if coming out from the center and reaching the outer ring. According to Collins, the orbits of the planets and the central sun are shown here. The composition of the target resembled raindrops falling into water. Such "solar arrows" are found in many caves in the United States. Through the windows made into the caves, the sunbeam on the days of the spring and autumn equinox, as it were, slides along the surface of the "target" after the arrow.
Another pattern consisted of concentric rings connected to an oddly shaped S-shaped tail, which was also surrounded by rings. This image looked like a comet, and the raindrops resembled falling fragments of a celestial body. Such "bowls and rings" of the Mesolithic era are found in Scotland. All these comets were perceived in antiquity as a fierce celestial serpent, so, in Mayan mythology, the rattlesnake had a celestial twin, emanating from the seven stars of the Pleiades constellation. Undoubtedly, Cueva No. 1 was a kind of sanctuary that kept the memory of a terrible disaster.
Cuba is still fraught with mysteries. In the 1950s, the remains of cyclopean structures were seen here, but due to lack of technical means, research work was not carried out. There have already been reports in the press about a certain complex of underwater structures with an area of four hectares north of this island. Famed marine archeologist Manson Valentine explored the western part of the Grand Bahamas Bank in 1972 by plane. Near the islet of Cay Guinchos, he noticed terraced slopes, the streets on which ran more or less parallel to each other. Approaching Cuba at a distance of 20 km, the scientist and his colleagues saw the correct outlines of some trapezoidal structure, surrounded by a fence. In the distance, they found "many more dark rectangles and straight lines stretching into the distance."Valentine would later call this find "the architectural plan of an extremely complex urban complex." He was the first to express the idea that in prehistoric times the land mass of the Great Bahamas Bank and Cuba was connected by a strip of land.
It was also necessary to take into account the political isolation of the Cuban state from other countries of the world. Collins cautiously writes that according to unconfirmed reports, this "complex of buildings" has already been investigated with the help of a Soviet submarine. And no matter how incredible this story may seem, the fact remains: it was followed by the publication of a book by the Soviet scientist and atlantologist NF Zhirov "Atlantis" (1957). A more thorough work entitled Atlantis. The main problems of atlantology”appeared in 1964. It was at that time, Collins says, that the Soviet Union, relying on these findings, was actively searching for evidence of the existence of Atlantis in various regions of the Atlantic.
The Russian almanac "Atlantis: Problems, Searches, Hypotheses" has unique documents from the personal archive of NF Zhirov (1903 - 1970). Among them is an unpublished biography of a Russian scientist. Judging by the papers that are in the editorial office of the almanac, such research work was actually carried out, but they were strictly classified. Zhirov's former colleagues also speak about this.
Among those people in the West who immediately realized that the Soviet Union had already carried out research into an underwater structure in Cuban waters was Leicester Hemingway, the brother of the famous writer Ernest Hemingway. During his flight to Cuba, Leicester noticed at the bottom "ruins of stone, covering an area of several acres and having a strange white color, as if they were made of marble." Perhaps these buildings were located on the vast bank of Cai Sal, 70 km north of Cuba. As ocean levels rose markedly, the Kai Sal Bank sank after the end of the ice age around 8000-6000. BC e. Subsequently, Herb Savinski, deputy director of the Florida Museum of Science and Archeology, discovered two more structures resembling the famous "Bimini Road" on this bank, as well as two huge machined and polished stone blocks.
It is curious that Polina Zelitskaya was born in Poland, but studied engineering at one of the institutes of the Soviet Union. During the Cold War, she was assigned to work for a secret submarine that was then in Cuban waters. After which Zelitskaya got married and moved to Canada. This proves once again that the discoveries of the Cuban-Canadian company under the leadership of Polina Zelitskaya in the western waters of Cuba were based on the results that were made several decades ago by Russians and Cubans. It is no secret that the area of the Seven Caves on the island of Molodost is still controlled by the military, and tourists are not allowed access here.
The famous treasure hunter Mel Fisher also knew the location of the capital of Atlantis. He did not specify where she might be, but made it clear to his friends that he would be able to go in search of her only when the authorities of a certain unnamed country established more friendly relations with the United States. In 1998, Collins managed to talk to Fisher. The latter confirmed that the desired object was first discovered thanks to images taken from a space satellite, and its existence was then confirmed by sonar instruments. Sadly, in December 1998, Mel Fisher died, taking the secret of Atlantis to his grave.
Most recently, former US President Jimmy Carter made a friendly visit to Cuba and met with Fidel Castro. It is noteworthy that before this visit, no American diplomat had ever set foot on Cuban soil. This happened just at a time when the long and painstaking work of Cuban and Canadian researchers on the secret Atlantis program was being carried out. But more strikingly, Carter gained access to literally every facility in Cuba, including military bases. Americans are true to their traditions of secrecy and secrecy in such frontier areas as legendary civilizations and the esoteric teachings of antiquity.
Since 1989, several organizations, including the Search for Atlantis group (Joan Henley, Wanda Osman), the GAFA project (Joan Henley), and the Alta project (Bill Donato, Donnie Fields) have begun to use new techniques in underwater research. Within the framework of the Alta project, 4 expeditions were carried out to the Bahamas region: in October 1997, in June 1998, in May 1999 and in 2001. Within the framework of the GAFA project, 3 expeditions were sent to this area in 1998, 1999 and 2001. Some materials of such studies and discoveries were recently received by the editors of the almanac "Atlantis: Problems, Searches, Hypotheses", which are still awaiting publicity.
These expeditions are coordinated and financed by the Association of Scientists and Educators (Virginia, USA). This organization (ARE) was created in 1932 on the basis of the Edgar Cayce Foundation, where research, experiments, seminars and lectures are still conducted related to the famous "readings" of the great seer and other problems, in particular, the problem of Atlantis.
In June 1998, Project Alta researchers made a sensational discovery off the islet of Anguilla Key (Kai Sal Bank). They discovered an unusual arc-shaped structure ("Anguilla's Arch"). It looks like an architectural entrance to a man-made cave. A row of stones located in one line is like a continuation of the arch. One of the pictures shows a channel between huge stones. These straight lines of stones are very reminiscent of the Bimini road. It is only 70 km from Cuba. Are these the ruins of the capital of Atlantis? Let's wait for new research.