Scientific Atlantology
For the first time, the famous Soviet scientist and atlantologist Nikolai Feodosyevich Zhirov (1903-1970) spoke about atlantology as a science. In 1964, his famous book Atlantis was published. The main problems of atlantology”, where the scientist formulated its principles and methods. According to him, atlantology as a science can be considered one of the sections of biogeography of the modern, Quaternary period (anthropogen) of the geological history of the Earth.
At the end of the 19th century, probably the most famous book of the American congressman and politician Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901) “Atlantis. The world before the flood "(1882). He came to the conclusion that at the heart of many myths and legends about the events of prehistoric times there is a grain of truth. Donnelly suggested that the gods and goddesses of ancient Greek myths, for example, are personifications of the historical kings of Atlantis and other civilizations of the past. A few years later, in 1877 and 1888, Helena Blavatsky published two major books of life "Isis Unveiled" and "The Secret Doctrine", which describes the esoteric-occult history of the development of the Fourth Race of Atlanteans.
Atlanteans declared strongly at the Vancouver Congress (1933): “We will never abandon the idea of Atlantis just to please geologists and botanists. Atlantis has won too honorable a position in literature to be shaken by boring scientific arguments."
In 1923, the first Atlantis magazine devoted to Atlantis began to be published in Paris, and on June 24, 1926, the Society for Atlantological Research (Société d'Études Atlantéennes) was founded there, whose main task was “to provide a critical and scientific analysis of all the problems associated with the existence of Atlantis, collecting literature and providing support for all scientific research concerning this extremely interesting problem."
In 1948, a new magazine, Atlantean Research, appears in London. For a long time, the journal was directed by the well-known atlantologist, member of the Royal Geographical Society, Edgerton Sykes (1894-1983), who also founded the "Center for Atlantis Research" in the English city of Brighton. Here Sykes has collected the largest collection of classical sources, monuments of ancient literature and collections of legends related to Atlantis.
In recent years, a large number of magazines and other periodicals have appeared, specially dedicated to Atlantis. In Europe, America, Africa, at one time even in the Azores, magazines about Atlantis and the most ancient mysteries of mankind were published and are still being published. In many countries, societies, organizations and clubs are being created that are actively working on the problem of the Poseidonis Island. One of the main such centers is located in Virginia (USA). The Association of Scientists and Educators (ARE) was founded in 1932 on the basis of the Edgar Cayce Foundation, which conducts research, experiments, seminars and lectures related to the famous "readings" of the great seer and other problems, in particular, the problem of Atlantis. After Sykes' death, all materials and books from England were transferred to the library of the Association, where they are now.
According to our information, one of the closed US institutes is studying the legacy of H. P. Blavatsky and other occultists, theosophists on the problem of Atlantis and the search for unknown historical documents associated with this island.
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Russia is also developing secret projects for conducting reconnaissance and research work in the Atlantic Ocean (and not only in it). “Black archeologists” are actively engaged in this plan, whose finds are unlikely to appear in the near future before the eyes of scientists and specialists. Russian atlantologists have become more active. Since 1999 the almanac "Atlantis: Problems, Searches, Hypotheses" has been published in Moscow.
In the summer of 1998, the Institute of Methistory together with the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences P. P. Shirshov was preparing an expedition to search for the legendary island. Scientists had to test the hypothesis of Vyacheslav Kudryavtsev, a full member of the Russian Geographical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences, according to which Atlantis was located in the Celtic shelf, south of what is now England and Ireland and west of France. But the expedition did not take place due to financial difficulties.
First of all, Kudryavtsev compared several English and Russian translations of Plato's dialogues, highlighting the most contradictory passages in them. As a result of such comparisons, the researcher found that the speech in Plato's dialogues is not about an island, but about a certain "land" located "on the other side of the Pillars of Hercules." There is also a significant difference in Plato's description of the capital of Atlantis. In the Greek translation, it is a city located high above sea level, on a steep hill with a cliff towards the sea. The whole city is surrounded by a flat plain, in turn, bordered on three sides by a chain of high mountains. This plain is now on the Celtic shelf south of the British Isles, with the edge of the continental plate facing south-southwest.
Not far from this edge, about 48º 16-29´ s. sh. and 8º 46-59´ w. is located underwater hill Little Sol. Its top rises from the surface at 57 meters, at the same time it is surrounded by depths of 16 - 170 meters. This hill is located almost in the middle of the long side of the plain. This area, south of Ireland, was dry land during both ice and post-glacial times, about 10,000 years ago. Kudryavtsev believes that Atlantis died as a result of a strong rise in the level of the World Ocean during the melting of ice, when the last Ice Age ended.
It was Russia that gave the world those writers - M. Lomonosov, D. Merezhkovsky, V. Bryusov, K. Balmont, V. Khlebnikov, V. Rozanov, Vyach. Ivanov, D. Andreev, A. Tolstoy, A. Belyaeva - who used their creative talent to show the mysterious world of Atlantis in all its glory, to express bold and unexpected hypotheses.
Russia has its own Atlantis - Belovodye. Belovodye is a secret Russian concept that was found among Old Believers, pilgrims, a sacred country in the East, a place where cherished human desires are fulfilled, where holy sages and righteous people live, who have kept spiritual knowledge and true faith pure. To find Belovodye means to find the White Water of Eternal Life and spirituality, to find inner harmony, a source of health, happiness and wisdom in your soul.
Russia has long been one of the earliest colonies or lands of Atlantis, if we remember that the outlines of the present continents and continents were completely different several tens of thousands of years ago. It is the Slavic legends that tell us about the once great land of Veles-Svyatogor-Dazhbog that was lost.
Therefore, we consider the Russian Atlantis, first of all, as a kind of timeless phenomenon, born on the Slavic land and inherent in any other people. Isn't this what the genetic memory, hidden in the deepest layers of the "collective unconscious" of humanity, tells us? Undoubtedly, there is the archetype of Atlantis, like the archetypes of other primitive civilizations. But the Slavic people and their best representatives somehow more sincerely, sincerely were able to show and express the innermost mystery of Atlantis, creating their own, different from the West, a unique and inimitable image of Russian utopianism.
Lomonosov first mentions Atlantis in his works "Letter about earthquakes" (St. Petersburg 1756) and "The word about the birth of metals from the earthquake (St. Petersburg 1757). The great poet describes the underwater palace of Neptune in his poem Peter the Great (1760-1761).
The idea of a proto-culture was originally developed by another famous Russian poet Vasily Kapnist in his "A Brief Study of the Hyperboreans" (1815). In the article, Kapnist raises the question of the origin of the Slavs from the Hyperboreans and Atlanteans.
“On the Ancient Kingdoms” is recalled by the muse of another Russian poet, Semyon Bobrov. He speaks of the Blessed (Canary) Islands: "where the souls of the ancients were cooked in bribes for Amurozia." An even more majestic picture of dying states is recreated by Bobrov in his poem "The Fate of the Ancient World, or the World Flood" (St. Petersburg, 1804).
In the first half of the 19th century, Abraham Norov made an attempt to scientifically search for Atlantis in the Mediterranean area, based on hard-to-reach Arab and Greek sources.
A prominent role in the creation of the occult legend about Atlantis was played by our compatriot H. P. Blavatsky, whose monumental works "Isis Unveiled" (1877) and "The Secret Doctrine" (1888) contributed to the further study and dissemination of the esoteric heritage.
The works of Russian atlantologists: V. Shcherbakov, A. Kondratov, A. Gorodnitsky, V. Kudryavtsev, A. Asov, V. Demin, A. Voitsekhovsky, D. Panchenko, A. Rybin, and others made it possible to approach the solution of the centuries-old mystery myth …
In 2000, the First Russian Congress of Atlantologists was held in Moscow, which mainly dealt with organizational issues. Nevertheless, it has been prioritized in the leadership of Russian atlantology at the moment. The leading atlantologists of Russia were the writer, President of the Moscow Club of Mysteries, academician of the International Academy of Informatization Vladimir Shcherbakov and laureate of the USSR State Prize, full member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. K. E. Tsiolkovsky Alim Voitsekhovsky. At its meeting, the congress noted the revival of interest in Russia in the problem of Atlantis. The development of the science of Atlantology will inevitably in the near future lead to a practical goal - to the discovery of the mysterious Atlantis.
Incredible relics of antediluvian peoples
Today, the most promising areas for the search for Atlantis are: Cuban and Bahamas, the Bermuda Triangle, Central and South America, the island of Sao Paulo, the Celtic shelf, the Spanish coast, the mouth of Gibraltar, the Atlas region and Tritonida (North Africa), Macaronesia, Crete and Santorini.
The esoteric tradition, as it were, confirms the words of Plato. Theosophists (including H. P. Blavatsky) tell us about four ancient continents that periodically disappear after every cataclysm on Earth. This is the Indestructible Sacred Country (the only one of the four, which is destined to stay from beginning to end of Manvantara, during each Round), Hyperborea, Lemuria and Atlantis. In ancient times, Atlantis was a huge archipelago, consisting of "a cluster of many islands and peninsulas." At the beginning of Atlantean history, Blavatsky says, the vast Mainland was divided into seven peninsulas and islands (called Dvipa). The mainland (Atlantis) included all the North and South Atlantic regions, as well as parts of the North and South Pacific Ocean, and even had islands in the Indian Ocean (the remnants of Lemuria). Blavatsky once again emphasizesthat it is impossible to draw a clear line that would mark the geographical border of the archipelagos of dying Lemuria and the nascent Atlantis. Such a spread in the geography of finds tied to the history of Atlantis is understandable. The ten kingdoms of the sons of Poseidon could arise on seven islands, peninsulas, or even regions (presumably on the continental shelves, which later disappeared), later turning into numerous colonies on all continents ("East Atlantis" by V. Shcherbakov, Crete and other Mediterranean countries).later disappeared), later turning into numerous colonies on all continents ("East Atlantis" V. Shcherbakov, Crete and other Mediterranean countries).later disappeared), later turning into numerous colonies on all continents ("East Atlantis" V. Shcherbakov, Crete and other Mediterranean countries).
Esoteric tradition speaks of the mysterious treasures of the world, supposedly hidden in the reliable, secret vaults of the Earth. Esotericists report that the Atlanteans received the sacred relics from the previous races: Hyperboreans and Lemurians, and then were transferred to the best representatives of our Fifth Race. Only the Great Initiates know where the precious heritage of the extinct Races is hidden. These repositories are located in South America, Africa, Europe, Russia and Tibet.
Jorge Livraga in the book "Thebes" writes that about 12,000 years ago, as a result of another cataclysm, the last fragment of Atlantis - Poseidonis - disappeared, but most of the libraries and some objects of the Atlanteans were already in Egypt.
Some of these relics, somehow associated with Atlantis, have already been found: these are the gold of Troy, geographical maps of Ptolemy, Piri Reis, Orontius Phineus, Mercator, the Isis Bembo Tablet, Noah's Ark, the famous crystal skull "Mitchell Hedges" or "Skull of Doom" (discovered in 1927 in a Mayan temple in British Honduras, now Belize) and other skulls found in Central America, Europe and Tibet.
According to modern reconstruction, the remnants of the last glaciation can be observed on the Ptolemy's map in Northern Europe. If this is the case, then the picture shown on this map refers to a period 10,000 years away from us. The geographic maps of Piri Reis and Orontius Phineus had prototypes dating back to the late Ice Age; neither the Phoenicians, nor the Egyptians, nor the ancient Greeks had such knowledge. They clearly show the rivers that flowed in Antarctica about 6,000 years ago! The Piri Reis map shows a large island in the Atlantic Ocean east of South America near the island of São Paulo. According to Russian and Italian researchers, Atlantis was located in this very place. Here, Holocene shifts of the planetary crust have been discovered over the past 12,000 years after the end of the Ice Age. Granite found at the bottom of the oceancarbonaceous shale, which could only have formed on land. Lithospheric blocks sank to the bottom recently and are not covered with marine sediments. Plato's description of the relief of the capital of Atlantis is surprisingly reminiscent of the local structure of the volcanic caldera. Arcuate concentric uplifts and underwater valleys in circumference are hundreds of kilometers in diameter.
The Isis Tablet was found in 1530 and sold to Cardinal Bembo. There have been many interpretations of the Tablet. Divided into three panels, it can represent the plan of the halls where the mysteries of Isis were performed. Plato, passing the ritual of initiation in the underground hall of the Great Pyramid, stood in front of the altar on which the Isis Tablet lay.
Literally all experts claim that the skulls originate from Atlantis. "Skull of Doom" is a repository in which some information is written in an incomprehensible way. The fact is that this skull sometimes glows, and inside it images of unfamiliar landscapes and mysterious structures similar to the temples of the Atlanteans appear.
Sensational findings still stir people's imaginations. One of these finds should be recognized as the treasury of unknown kings from Dorak on the Asia Minor coast of the Sea of Marmara in the 1950s. According to experts, the age of the relics of unknown gods, seen and partly described by Professor James Mellart, was 45 centuries! Dorak's gold floated away to private collections and, apparently, lost to science forever. In the 1980s, an exhibition opened at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which displayed Croesus' treasures that were taken out of Turkey 18 years ago. In 1999, in Turkey, where the kingdom of Phrygia was once located, the golden tomb of King Midas was discovered. It is made of gold blocks, its size is 9.5 by 4.5 meters. The walls of the tomb are embossed with the royal sign of Midas, as well as texts about the life of the Phrygian king. In the center of the burial room was a large golden sarcophagus with a coffin inside. The Austrian expert on ancient civilizations, Dr. Wolfgang Reistein, said that the body of King Midas still has an amazing ability to turn all objects into gold when touched.
Fidel Castro - King of Atlantis?
In the book "The Gates of Atlantis" (2000) British scientist Andrew Collins discusses in detail the options for translating Plato's dialogues. According to Collins, Plato was trying to tell us that the rulers of Atlantis, and the "other" islands, held under their rule ocean territories equal in size to Libya and Asia! Therefore, the kingdom of the Atlanteans was not a single island massif, but a huge number of islands.
Traditionally, the southwestern part of Europe and the northwestern tip of Africa are considered the home of the legendary Atlantis. Atlas, for example, was the king of ancient Mauritania, located in what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. It was here that J. Mayol found stone walls stretching for 16 km at a depth of 40 meters in the waters of Morocco. In Plato, the twin brother of Atlas, Eumel (Gadir), received the "tip of the island directly in front of the Pillars of Hercules, the very area that today is called Gadir". Atlantologists usually identify him with Tartess-Atlantis. In the later Roman era, the Iberian port of Hades was named Cadiz.
The French scientist Jacques Collina-Girard stated that Atlantis was in the Strait of Gibraltar. 19,000 years ago, the level of the oceans was 130 m lower, while Gibraltar was much narrower and longer at the time. In fact, such a strait was the “inner sea” that Plato spoke of. In the western part of the ancient "sea-strait" Jacques Collina-Girard found an island stretched from west to east, where, in his opinion, the Atlanteans lived. To the east of this island, at the bottom of the strait, there is a series of elevations, which then represented an archipelago consisting of four or seven islands.
For a long time Russian and American geologists have studied the seamounts Ampere, Josephine, Atlantis, which are part of the Horseshoe Archipelago. On the slopes of these mountains, the remains of some structures, walls, terraces, built of huge rectangular stone blocks, were found. Basalt samples showed that such a rock could have formed only on land 12,000-15,000 years ago. Thus, for almost 12,000 this archipelago was above water and stretched from the Azores to Gibraltar. Here Zhirov placed "his" Atlantis, being unfamiliar with the latest research.
Andrew Collins stated that the most famous Atlantis was in Cuba! He identifies the kingdom of the Atlanteans with the legendary Antilia - the Island of the Seven Cities. Information about Antilia was known to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Moors long before the island began to appear on medieval navigational maps.
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.
It was in Cuba that, according to Collins, a highly developed civilization existed, which built mysterious stone statues and earthen monuments. In the eastern part of the province of Santiago, for example, archaeologists have discovered "circles, squares, burial mounds and hedges." All these finds in general terms resemble the remains of earthworks in the Mississippi Valley (USA). Some of the earthen structures that are found in this valley and have come down to us in varying degrees of preservation are completely unique monuments dating from about 4000-3000 BC. e. Recent studies have shown that people in Cuba lived around 6000 BC. e. (Lewis culture), which was then absorbed by the broader Guayabo Blanco culture (5000 BC).
At the site of ancient people (2000 BC) at the Cueva Funche cave in the city of Guanajasibibes, in the western province of Pinar del Rio, archaeologists discovered in 1966 two vertical stone pillars that were once part of a vast earthen structure. These monoliths are reminiscent of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in Europe.
Rock paintings, unique petroglyphs (abstract forms) and pictographs (images of animals and humans) have been preserved on the walls of the caves. But 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!
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 extended southward to the shores of Molodost Island and was almost 160 km wide.
An echo of the ancient tradition is reflected in the legends of the peoples of Central America, dedicated to their mythical ancestral home Aztlana, where the Seven Caves were located. 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.
One of these Seven Caves was accidentally discovered in 1910. Collins visited her in 1998. This is a cave called Cueva No. 1, one of the "Seven Caves" group in Punta del Este, on the island of Molodosti, about 100 km off the coast of Cuba. This island, according to Collins, occupied the position of 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.
A cross was inscribed on the walls of the cave, formed from gradually diverging rings. But most striking was the target pattern, consisting of about 50-55 concentric rings alternating between red and black. On top of this figure, nine more groups of rings are applied, as well as a double arrow, as if coming out of 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 day of the summer solstice falls exactly on the drawing. Another pattern consisted of concentric rings connected to a strange S-shaped tail, which was also surrounded by rings. This image was like a cometand the raindrops resembled falling fragments of a heavenly body. Such "bowls and rings" of the Mesolithic era are found, for example, in Scotland. In Mayan mythology, the rattlesnake had a celestial counterpart, emanating from the seven stars of the Pleiades constellation.
The rise in the level of the World Ocean after the disaster and the end of the ice age caused the flooding of the island massifs of the Bahamas and Cuban archipelagoes. The formation of bottom sediments around the circumference of the Bahamas began in 10,000-8000. BC e. (end of the 9th millennium BC). Around 3000 BC e. ocean level has settled at about the current level.
In the northern coastal waters of Cuba, back in the 1950s, the remains of Cyclopean structures were seen here, but due to a lack of technical means, research work was not carried out. There have already been reports in the press about a complex of underwater structures four hectares north of Cuba. Collins cautiously writes that according to unconfirmed reports, this "complex of buildings" has already been investigated with the help of a Soviet submarine. Perhaps these buildings were located on the vast Cai Sal bank, 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, the deputy director of the Museum of Science and Archeology in Florida Herb Savinski discovered two more structures on this bank, reminiscent of the famous "Bimini Road"as well as two huge machined and polished stone blocks.
And no matter how incredible this story may seem, the fact remains: it was followed by the publication of the 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 seeking evidence 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 these documents, such research, strictly classified, work was actually carried out.
Leicester Hemingway was among those people in the West who suggested that the Soviet Union had already conducted research on an underwater structure in Cuban waters. During his flight to Cuba, Leicester Hemingway, brother of the famous writer Ernest Hemingway, noticed at the bottom of the vast bank of Kai Sal "stone ruins covering an area of several acres and having a strange white color, as if they were made of marble."
The famous American treasure hunter Mel Fisher also knew the location of the capital of Atlantis - where, he did not specify, but made it clear to his friends that he would be able to go in search of it only when the authorities of a certain country established more friendly relations with the United States. In 1998, Collins managed to talk to Fisher. The latter confirmed that the sought object was first discovered thanks to images taken from a space satellite, and then its existence was confirmed by sonar instruments. Sadly, in December 1998, Mel Fisher died, taking his secret of Atlantis to his grave.
Most recently, former US President Jimmy Carter made a friendly visit to Cuba and met with Fidel Castro. Before this visit, no American diplomat had yet 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. Strikingly, Carter gained access to literally every facility in Cuba, including military bases.
In May 2001, an expedition of the Canadian company "Advanced Digital Communications" (ADC) was working in Guanajasibes Bay, in the western part of Cuba. The Canadian company is one of four companies that are now officially looking for Spanish galleons in the Cuban waters. But the main purpose of such searches is strictly classified. According to rumors leaked in the Western press, researchers are looking for the remains of Atlantis and its capital. The expedition is headed by oceanologist Polina Zelitskaya. She is working with the Cuban Academy of Sciences to map a relatively unexplored area of the ocean floor. It is assumed that these works will not only help the geographical and archaeological study of the region, but will also allow the development of measures to lift the cargo from the sunken Spanish galleons, which is estimated at $ 3 trillion.
When scanning horizontally, deep-sea vehicles recorded at the bottom of the Cuban Gulf of Guanaacabibes a huge stone structure, similar to an underwater city with clearly located, as if specially lined streets and squares. 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, 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's no secret that the area of the Seven Caves on the Island of Youth is still controlled by the military,and tourists are denied access here.
For underwater filming, the Canadians brought the Illuminant remote-controlled submarine, which was located on the Ulysses oceanographic vessel. They used sophisticated scanning (sound) equipment for the first time and came to sensational conclusions.
Polina Zelitskaya said that at a depth of 670 meters, the researchers found a city spread over an area of 40 square kilometers. It was “a huge plateau with clear outlines, reminiscent of huge architectural structures, partially covered with sand. From above they look like pyramids, roads and buildings. The video monitor showed structures in the form of pyramids, rectangles, huge spheres, seemingly made of processed granite blocks. The deep-sea Illuminant, put on wheels, even drove several kilometers along a paved underwater road. But the sub was not the first. Traces of an unknown vehicle that passed here shortly before its descent are captured on the highway.
The city is about 1500 years older than the pyramids of Egypt. At that time, the seabed was dry land and the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula was connected to Cuba. The study area is now dotted with submarine volcanoes. Near Yucatan, researchers also found huge caves with statues carved into them. Straight roads can also be seen through the water, they start in the jungle and go deep into the water. According to calculations, Cuba itself went under water three times.
The stone blocks are clearly human made. But the most sensational thing is that mysterious inscriptions were found on the edges of these stones. The size of the largest blocks reaches 2 x 2 x 5 m. The structures resemble the ancient buildings of Easter Island and Stonehenge. Huge and smooth stones do not fit into the environment in any way, they are very evenly cut and, in the form of the bases of the pyramids, are ideally located one above the other.
Some blocks have images of the "Central American Cross", consisting of two ovals superimposed on each other at right angles. This is a very ancient symbol. The cross and signs are also found on the walls of the caves of Cuba and on the nearby islands. Some of the images are similar to symbols of Central America and to signs of archaic Greek writing. But there is no other similarity with the written signs of the native inhabitants of America so far. On the contrary, scientists suggested that the mysterious signs found are similar to the Cretan-Mycenaean Linear B (III-II millennium BC), not yet deciphered. Most likely, such signs were left in various regions of the Earth by the so-called "Sea Peoples", who poured out from the shores of the Aegean Sea.
Frank Joseph, editor-in-chief of Ancient America magazine, believes that the "overseas" possessions of the Atlanteans were located in Spain, Ireland, and Yucatan. In his opinion, Atlantis finally perished as a result of a catastrophe that occurred 3200 years ago, which caused the end of the Bronze Age on the entire planet.
At a 1997 Astronomers Symposium, scientists concluded that around 1200 BC. e. Halley's comet collided with Earth. The meteor shower destroyed most of the earthlings, leaving behind huge destruction. Several asteroids from this hail collided in the East Atlantic where Atlantis is believed to be.
Several scholars have voiced many criticisms of the Cuban finds. Polina Zelitskaya herself recently said: “This is a truly amazing sight, the building looks like a huge city center. However, it is too early to draw any conclusions, until we have any evidence yet. Andrew Collins is more optimistic. The discovery only confirms his many years of research about the links between Cuba and Atlantis. In September 2002, the expedition will start exploring the Cuban waters again.
Currently, ships of the United States and Great Britain are on alert near these places. Some optimistic Atlantologists say that the underwater inhabitants of Atlantis can live in the depths of the Cuban Gulf. We will wait for new results.
Rival Bahamas
In recent years, the most sensational discoveries have been made in the Bahamas. The Bahamas are made up of 700 large and nearly 2,000 tiny islets and rocky cliffs. The most famous islands are: New Providence, Big Abaco, Big Bahama, Cat, Long Island, Eleuthera, Big Exuma, San Salvador, Aklins, Crooked Island, Big Inagua and the largest of them is Andros.
In the summer of 1968, Captain Robert Brush and co-pilot Trigg Adams, flying slightly north of Andros Island, saw the outline of a regular rectangle. After the flight, they reported this discovery to D. Manson Valentine, a specialist in underwater archeology and antiquities of pre-Columbian America, and the French oceanographer Dmitry Rebikoff. Valentine and Rebikoff found that a rectangle measuring about 30 by 24 m is precisely oriented along the east-west axis. There were also discovered processed limestone blocks with a thickness of about 1 m.
Researchers immediately recalled the prediction of Edgar Cayce, made by him in 1933 and 1940, that in 1968 or 1969 it would be possible to find the wreckage of an underwater Atlantean temple near Bimini. Thus, Valentine and Rebikoff recognized the find off the island of Andros as an important evidence of the return of Atlantis in 1968. Valentine, in a press release issued in Miami on August 23, 1968, announced that “an ancient temple had been found, the walls of which were slightly sloped. The walls are masonry and, without a doubt, are the work of human hands."
A little later, the same Robert Brush, southwest of the coast of the island of Andros, noticed a huge dark ring 300 m in diameter and about 1 m wide. Inside it were two more concentric rings of the same thickness. The scuba divers confirmed that the rings were made from a "three-row" layer of stone.
On September 2, 1968, at a distance of 800 meters from Paradise Point on North Bimini, Valentine and his colleagues were able to discover another mysterious underwater object - the so-called "Bimini Road". The length of the road is about 638 meters, it is composed of a double row of stone blocks. Some blocks are up to four meters wide and have a smooth surface. Further, the road is paved with rectangular blocks about 2 m wide. The highway then turns almost at right angles towards the coast and resembles the letter J. The road itself is at an angle of 14º relative to the coast, and the structure is oriented to the south-west. The thickness of the blocks varies from 60 to 90 cm. As a rule, there are gaps of 10-15 cm between the blocks, but some of them are 67-78 cm apart from each other.
Charles Berlitz in his book "The Mystery of Atlantis" writes that the chemical composition of these stones is not ordinary coastal and, according to Valentine, they were specially processed or were a composite like concrete. In 1969, scientists D. Gifford and D. E. Hall studied the road. They concluded that the site was a "Pleistocene coastal cut," a characteristic feature of the Bahamas coastline.
In the Moselle Bank area (5 km north of Bimini), Valentine and his friend Jim Richardson recorded a number of clearly artificial underwater objects from the air. They were "a complex system of squares, rectangles and semicircles." Nearby, a structure was found, consisting of many cells, almost 100 meters long. In shape, it resembled a human foot with toes. The structure was composed of hexagons, the smallest being 3.5 meters.
Several rectangular, triangular, and other structures have also been found along the northern edge of the Grand Bahamas Bank, near North Bimini. 100 km southeast of Bimini, two parallel roads extend nearly 11 km to Russell Light House. These lines were part of a huge star-shaped composition hidden under dense algae. Near the islet of Cay Guinchos, the researchers from a flight altitude saw terraced slopes, the "streets" on which ran almost parallel. Valentine defined this place as a kind of "ceremonial center". Closer to Cuba, they noticed "many dark rectangles and straight lines stretching into the distance." Valentine would later call this find "the architectural plan of an extremely complex urban complex." Over the course of his research, Manson Valentine (died 1994.) managed to enter into its dossier about 60 objects located in the shallow waters of the Great Bahamas Bank, which may be of archaeological interest.
In the early 1970s, Alan Landsburg was informed by scuba divers that they had found about 14 artificial objects in the water area of Andros. Landsburg described his quest in the entertaining book In Search of Ancient Mysteries (1974). These structures had walls "built of large square-shaped limestone blocks, tightly fitted to each other." The walls were 1.3 m thick. The largest building was 81 m long and 27 m wide and was divided into 3 separate halls or parts. In the same place, the divers came across "burnt pottery and ceramic figurines." Analysis showed that the figurines were created around 5000-3000. BC e.
In the 1970s, a group of scuba divers, together with Dr. David Zink, conducted annual surveys as part of the Poseidia Project. Subsequent expeditions "Poseidia-75" and "Poseidia-77", led by E. Zink, revealed that the "temple" found by Valentine is a pile of rubble. The Bimini road was also explored. Proceeding from the fact that most of the stones were about 2.3 and 3, 45 m in size, the researchers received a conventional building unit - 1, 15 meters This ancient unit exactly equaled two Phoenician cubits, or 1.14 meters. Radiocarbon analysis of the rock showed 15,000 years! Therefore, the members of the expedition considered that the road was more of an architectural than a geological origin.
In 1975, David Zink discovered a hewn and polished piece of masonry near the southern branch of the Bimini Road. The stone was a square with a side of 32 cm, its thickness was about 8 cm. The block was made of a mixed rock, which includes siliceous shale and limestone; this breed is not found in the Bahamas. On both sides of the block, grooves are visible along the entire length, and on the third there is a long longitudinal groove, into which the tongue of another block should have entered. Several marble and granite blocks have been found in the area, although this rock is not found on the islands. These include hexagonal slabs about 1 m in diameter and only a few centimeters thick, as well as collapsed stone monoliths. Among such finds, a block of marble weighing from 90 to 135 kg stands out. It looks like a stylized image of some feline.
The famous scuba diver Rob Palmer in his book "The Blue Abyss of the Bahamas" (1985) stated: "Man moved to the Bahamas long before the level of the oceans rose significantly about 5,000 years ago." In the vicinity of Grand Bahama Island, he discovered a "public burial mound" in the so-called Hall of Heavenly Light, a huge underwater cave complex. It consists of many caves and about 10 km of connecting canals. The hill is a large cone-shaped mound, built of large stones and located in a huge cave, which, according to Palmer, was once an underwater lake. Above this embankment is a round window. A sunbeam, penetrating under the arches of the cave, falls on special petroglyphs exactly on the days of the equinox. There is an undeniable connection between this cave and Cave No. 1 in Punta del Este. This ancient structure is undoubtedly the creation of an unknown civilization.
In 1995, at the southern branch of the Bimini road, scuba diver Billy Keefe found a hewn and polished block 56 by 47 cm in size, and about 11 cm thick. The weight of the artifact is 25 kg. The black stone was a "fine-grained black granite" of the same type as the granite found in the states of Vermont, New Hampshire and Washington, as well as in Italy. On one side of the block there were "complex connectors" in the form of a deep triangular tongue or groove. E. Collins, who saw this stone, however, stated that it was not granite, but hornblende (slate), and it could hardly have been used on a ship as ballast.
Currently, the expedition of the American archaeologist Douglas Richards is exploring the Bimini underwater shelf.
Douglas Richards and Joan Henley led an expedition to the Bimini Islands (North Bimini and South Bimini) in the summer of 1996 at the initiative of the Association of Scientists and Educators (ARE). Dr. Richards teaches faculty at Oriental University and is the Research Director for the Meridian Institute. Dr. Henley is the President of the GAFA Project and has been researching the Biman Islands for many years.
They reported "many anomalous features (underwater) that could provide evidence of an ancient civilization." D. Richards and J. Henley studied a large cliff, the base of which on the echolocation map goes 300 meters deep, and its top - 40 meters. At one point, they noticed a rectangular fragment 15 m long and 8 m wide. Inside it were smaller rectangular segments. Immediately, another object was discovered protruding from this cliff. Scientists speak of them as archaeological ruins. The main thing is not to confuse artifacts with wrecks of sunken ships. The satellite tracking system recorded rectangular growths fairly accurately.
10,000 years ago, there was dry land on the site of the Great Bahamian Bank, and people could live on this cliff. Most geologists believe that the cliff is composed entirely of limestone or organic material. But this type of rock has never been seen on the Bahamas Bridge.
A few years ago, team member John Holden saw what looked like a pylon or rectangular object made of granite or concrete? It measures 15 by 5 meters and also protrudes from the edge of the cliff. Unfortunately, it has not yet been found, since it is very difficult to fix this or that object during the first dive.
Not far from the coast, mysterious mounds rise above the ground, which have attracted researchers. The work was carried out with the help of Gypsy Graves, an archaeologist and curator of the Graves Museum in Airward Country, Florida. These are the so-called "shark" and "rectangular" mounds. A seismic study of a rectangular mound was carried out. Although there are salty mangrove swamps around them, these mounds are 3.5-4 meters above the ground. Scientists talk about the artificial origin of earth embankments. They resemble the ornate mounds of North America, such as the great Serpentine Mound in Ohio. Strange is the fact that these mounds grow plants that are not found anywhere else in Bimini. Biminskie kurgans are astronomically precisely oriented. The tail of the "shark" hill is rectangular in shape, and its corners accurately point to north, south, east and west.
Order of the Knights of Atlantis
More than one expedition was coordinated by Steve Heath, marine biologist, diving specialist, representative of the Association of Scientists and Educators (Virginia, USA). This organization (ARE) was created in 1932 on the basis of the Edgar Cayce Foundation, which conducts research, experiments, seminars and lectures related to the famous "readings" of the great seer and other problems, in particular, the problem of Atlantis.
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.
In 1998, Bill Donato decided to find three concentric circles south of Andros. A year ago, he managed to photograph them. As Bill Donato told our almanac, these ruins resemble the rounded capital of Atlantis, outlined by Plato. In size, the three circles exactly correspond to the description of the capital in the "Kritias" dialogue.
They could soon discover the remains of an underwater rock structure called the Pentagon (Pentagon). The same Pentagon was recorded at South Bimini. There are probably several of the same structures. The question is whether they are remnants of ancient structures like the Olmec hexagonal structures.
At the Mosell Bank, researchers stumbled upon a massive structure made up of 19 huge blocks. Donato has established that they were made by man. On the first stone, a cut was found that began at the bottom, continued to the very top and ended on the side of the stone. On the other stone, the cut was in the corner. The first stone was discovered in October 1997. The second stone was found recently. The scientist proves that other stones may have signs left by man. If the Bimini road is about 15,000 years old, then these stones may be much older. Traces of an ancient waterfall were also revealed.
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.
What are pyramids made of?
The Egyptian pyramids still surprise researchers. At one time, al-Mamun (786-833), when opening one of the pyramids, found a statue of green stone and an emerald bowl. In our opinion, it was a symbolic image of the Atlantean, and the bowl is the famous Antediluvian Grail. Historical sources claim that the Grail, once presented to the Buddha, comes from Egypt (c. 12000 BC), where it was kept as a symbol of the esoteric spiritual culture of antiquity. Napoleon saw, for example, in the Great Pyramid such that he was shocked and struck to the core of his soul. The great emperor never told anyone else about his meeting with the Unknown.
Recently, a very popular hypothesis is that the blocks on the Egyptian pyramids were made of special concrete, which then turned into a very hard rocky rock. As you know, cement was invented only in the 19th century! Not only pyramids were made from this concrete, but also temples, monuments, huge statues. Researchers found in the pyramid the remains of the formwork into which the ancient Egyptians poured their "secret" solution. Perhaps that is why the scientists on the Bima shelf could not determine accurately the nature and age of the man-made road?
In the 1980s, the Swiss chemist professor Joseph Davidowitz first suggested that the blocks of the Cheops pyramid were made of concrete. One of the steles of the III dynasty allegedly even contained a recipe for making such concrete. A Swiss scientist identified 13 components of the ancient Egyptian recipe, patented it, and began commercial production. Most likely, for the "ancient cement" Egyptian craftsmen took crushed limestone with the addition of 5% limestone powder and 5% river silt.
A huge number of artifacts have accumulated in the world, proving the existence of pre-civilizations in ancient times, and it is simply unacceptable not to notice this. The findings of recent years prove that it is urgently necessary to revise the chronological framework of the development of famous civilizations. The recent discovery of giant pyramids in Peru pushes back the emergence of the culture of ancient American peoples several millennia ago. Currently, the pyramids, in addition to the well-known in Egypt and Mexico, have been discovered in all parts of the world: in North and South America, England, Crimea, on the Kola Peninsula, in Tibet, Morocco, Namibia, Mozambique, Australia, in the region of Bermuda and on the seaside of Easter Island.
According to some data, there are twelve "pyramidal regions", which, being included in the general system, ensure the existence and regulation of life on the planet. Here are the locations of the pyramids on earth: Eastern Hemisphere - Egypt, Morocco, Namibia, Mozambique, England, Crimea, Tibet, Australia; Western Hemisphere - Bermuda region, Mexico, central part of Brazil, seaside near Easter Island. The eastern hemisphere was inhabited much earlier than the western one. It is also possible that some similar pyramids were built on other planets. Built according to a single plan, the pyramids stabilized the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun, reducing the level of global cataclysms to local and harmless to humanity. There are not twelve such "pyramidal regions" around the world, but much more. There are pyramids in Sudanin the Canary Islands and in China. In recent years, pyramids have been found in Peru, and even in Nakhodka (Russia, Primorsky Territory).
The pyramid was fed with energy from the earth's core. It was the inner core that was the "eternal accumulator" that for millions of years provided energy supply to the pyramidal structures. Thus, the pyramids were constructed in turn by representatives of the most ancient civilizations on Earth: Hyperboreans, Lemurians and Atlanteans! Each time when some Root Race perished, the next one restored the pyramids destroyed by the greatest catastrophes and thus fulfilled its mission of protecting and protecting the Earth from natural disasters. This kind of pyramids existed at the "four corners of the world" and were never a monopoly of Egypt.
One of the underwater pyramids in the Bermuda Triangle was recorded in the 1990s by American oceanographers using sonar instruments. After processing the data, the scientists suggested that the surface of the pyramidal structure is perfectly smooth, possibly glass! In size, it is almost three times the size of the Cheops pyramid! According to the characteristics of the echoes reflected from its surface, the sides of the pyramid are composed of some mysterious material, similar to polished ceramic or glass. The famous atlantologist and researcher Charles Berlitz was sure that such a mountain is located at a depth of 400 meters, its height is 150 meters, and its base is about 200 meters. Unfortunately, C. Berlitz did not manage to carry out underwater research.
It remains to find records
Edgar Cayce once predicted that in one of the temples of Egypt some of the special records for the Initiated times of Atlantis would be found (record 5750-1 of November 12, 1933). Casey wrote: "The time of great change is approaching."
In 1993, a crawler robot discovered a miniature stone plug or door at the end of a narrow ventilation duct in the Great Pyramid. The inlet is 20 by 25 centimeters. Copper pins are visible in the door. Scientists have suggested that a secret chamber is hidden behind a stone plug. The Egyptian authorities immediately banned further research. One of the sects of adepts E. Casey declared that the prophecies of the great Teacher that the secret archive of the Great Priests from the dead Atlantis should be preserved in the pyramid is coming true. However, the camera should be opened on the night of 2012.
At the end of the 20th century (1999), the Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass discovered a vertical shaft between the Cheops pyramid and the Great Sphinx. A burial chamber with a black granite sarcophagus was found at the bottom of the mine. Hawass suggested that this is the tomb of Osiris and there may be sacred records.
In September 2002, American specialists, with the participation of the same Zaha Hawass, finally drilled a stone plug. They saw the same traffic jam behind it. On the top of the second stone, two axes were found that coincide with the copper inserts of the first stone, if you mentally draw a straight line. Atlantology magazine editor Dan Clark suggests that the stones look like a miniature copy of some megalithic structure. The two axes of the second stone refer symbolically to the copper inserts of the first stone, for example, as two stars. Perhaps it has to do with the Book of the Dead. The second stone, thus, is like a door to heaven, and this door has its own door bolts to heaven - axes. Symbolically, such axes are a path to other worlds, but to which ones?
Epilogue
In his keynote article “The Lords of Ogenon. Mythology of Atlantis”I consider two directions in the study of the problem of Atlantis: mythological and occult-esoteric. I managed to isolate from a great variety of myths and legends (first of all, ancient Greek), such that directly point to Atlantis. If there was a legend about Atlantis, told by Plato, then it had to be passed down from generation to generation in the form of genealogical schemes, behind which there is a historical reality and the primordial memory of mankind, hidden in the deepest layers of the "collective unconscious". Most likely, it was the most ancient civilization on Earth, the real name of which is known only to the Initiates. And it doesn't have to be called Atlantis.
Such famous atlantologists as I. Donnelly, E. Sykes, S. Bellamy, L. Spence, L. Stegeni, L. Seidler, N. Zhirov, V. Shcherbakov and others have repeatedly turned to Greek mythology (and not only Greek), seeing in it a direct indication of the maritime (mainly "Poseidon") origin of the Atlanteans. But, unfortunately, they did not go further than such evidence, and could not unwind the most complex tangle of mythical genealogies, reveal the esoteric meaning and purpose of ancient legends and legends.
The article identifies and deciphers mythological and genealogical schemes and tables of gods, heroes and historical figures who were directly related to the kingdom of the Atlanteans and their hidden treasures. Among such persons: Sankhuniaton, Philolaus, Ferekid, Pythagoras, Socrates, Gelon Syracuse, Pindar, Aristotle, Xenocrates, Xenophon, Theopompus, Cyrus, Cambyses, Mita (Midas), Alexander the Great, Nonn Panopolitan, the brothers Zeno, Apolina Valery, his son Mikhail Mikhailov and many others.
In the same article, for the first time, a place was established where the sacred relics of Hyperborea, Lemuria and Atlantis are hidden. According to folklore tradition, one of the promontories of Crete contains "the greatest treasures of antiquity." Through historical and genealogical research, the connection of the sacred relics of Atlantis and other primitive civilizations with Crete was revealed. The path to the ancient relics is closed - they are guarded by the golden dog of Zeus.
The culture of Atlantis, thus, having absorbed the culture of the lost civilizations of Hyperborea and Lemuria, transformed into the European one, and then into the global one (according to Donnelly). Therefore, for the majority of researchers and scientists, the traces of the Atlanteans are not found, because they are among us, the people of the Fifth Race, for we came out of the Fourth Race of Atlantes.
From colored pieces of the antediluvian heritage of the most ancient civilizations, an integral mosaic canvas called "Atlantis" is gradually being formed. You just need to see this wonderful creation among the many pictures of human and earthly History.
Question Mark, A. A. VORONIN