In the mid-1980s, a stone was found in Latin America with an ancient map, which depicts a very different picture of the continents than today. Experts say that the oldest globe is at least 12,000 years old. Many believe that it could have been created just on the eve of the death of Atlantis.
Is there a map of forgotten continents in the jungles of Ecuador?
In 1984, a small group of gold prospectors, led by Ecuadorian Minister of Mines and amateur archaeologist Elias Sotomayor, set out on a perilous journey to the hard-to-reach region of the La Mana mountain range (Ecuador). Here, in the mountains covered with impassable jungle, in an underground tunnel, at a depth of over 90 meters, they were lucky in the form of 300 most valuable exhibits.
Was Plato right?
Particular attention was drawn to a huge boulder, the lines on which resembled the outlines of continents. The Apennine and Balkan Peninsulas, the Persian Gulf, the Dead Sea, and Hindustan were quite clearly distinguished. All of them differ little from modern images, except that they are less clear.
But the other side of the Earth - from the coast of Southeast Asia towards America - looks completely different. The stone artifact lacks the Caribbean and Florida.
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Just below the equator, in the Pacific Ocean, there is a giant island, roughly the size of modern Madagascar. Modern Japan is part of a gigantic mainland that stretches to the shores of America and stretches far south. All these vast land areas are depicted on a stone globe where the boundless ocean and sea waters now stretch. According to unconventional views on history, it was on this territory in ancient times that a powerful civilization existed, possessing mysterious knowledge. Perhaps this piece of land is nothing more than the mysterious country of Atlantis.
Perhaps it is difficult to find a person who has never heard of the legendary island. Disputes about him have not ceased for two millennia. But many researchers believe the existence of Atlantis is quite probable.
Great scientists of antiquity left evidence about this country. For example, the ancient Greek philosopher and historian Plato wrote in the 5th century BC: “On this island, called Atlantis, a kingdom of amazing size and power arose, whose power extended to the entire island, to many other islands and to part of the mainland and in addition, on this side of the strait, they captured Libya up to Egypt and Europe up to Tyrrenia."
In total, more than ten thousand books have been written on various topics related to the sunken continent. Each of them indicates a new place of the disaster and a new date of the death of the legendary country. They placed Atlantis in completely different places - in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, at the North and South Poles, in the Mediterranean, Black and even the Caspian Seas. Many islands were called Atlantis - Crete, Sardinia, Sicily, Canary Islands. But they never came to an agreement.
The images on the "Sotomayor's Globe" may well be perceived as a map of the continent that once existed on the planet and as a result of a natural cataclysm sank to the bottom of the ocean. They say that Plato had a map of Atlantis, but it has not survived to this day.
It is even more interesting that in the Ecuadorian tunnel, among the artifacts, images and objects were found that have nothing to do with the culture of South America.
Egyptian souvenir
For example, a pyramid with an eye and a stone cobra were found in the treasure. The shape of the pyramid resembles the famous Egyptian monumental buildings in Giza. But her mysteries do not end there. There are thirteen rows of masonry carved into the pyramid. In the upper part there is an image of an open eye. In the mystical tradition, such a symbol is called the "all-seeing eye". Most of all, the pyramid found in La Mana is similar to the sign known to most of mankind thanks to the one US dollar bill. Another striking find of the expedition of Elias Sotomayor is the image of a king cobra with great skill made of stone. And it's not even about the high level of skill of ancient artisans. Everything is much more mysterious, because the king cobra is not found in America! Its habitat is the tropical rainforests of India. However, the quality of her image leaves not the slightest doubt that the artist personally saw this snake. Thus, either the object with the image of a snake applied to it, or its author, had to move from Asia to America across the ocean in ancient times, when, as it is believed, no means existed for this.
Treasure in the light
Among other things, Sotomayor found a "service" of thirteen bowls. Twelve of them are ideally equal in volume, and the thirteenth is much larger. If you fill 12 small bowls with liquid to the brim, and then drain it into a large one, then it will fill up to the brim. All bowls are made of jade. The purity of their processing makes us assume that the ancients had a technology for processing stone, similar to the modern lathe.
The specialists were surprised by the fact that all artifacts (products, sculptures, household utensils) glow in ultraviolet rays. Later it turned out that in this light, new layers of drawings can be seen on them. Then, on some of the products, multicolored images of stars open to the eye, or rather - the constellation Orion, the star Aldebaran and the brightest stars in the constellation Gemini - Castor and Pollux. Why this particular region of the sky attracted the attention of ancient masters remains a mystery.
A number of finds depict converging circles, which many associate with Buddhist mandates. However, concentric circles were also central to Indian ideas about the structure of the world. “Everything that a person does is in a circle, because this is the Power of the World. Everything happens in circles, and everything tries to be round … Everything that the Power of the World does is done in a circle, said the famous Indian shaman Black Elk.
Amateur archaeologists have built a whole system of hypotheses around the Ecuadorian finds. In their opinion, the treasure proves not only the existence of Atlantis, but also the links between America and Eurasia that existed many thousands of years ago. In particular, they believe that the name "La Mana" is not typical of the places where this mountain range is located. It does not carry any semantic load in local languages and dialects. But in Sanskrit "mana" means "mind" in the meaning of "mind". If we assume the possibility of ancient transcontinental ties, it is possible that the name of the area was inherited by the peoples living in it now from their predecessors, who may have come to America from Asia.
Alas, no serious academic study of the finds made by Elias Sotomayor has yet been carried out. Therefore, it is difficult to say even whether they are genuine or are they just fakes, created to increase interest in the country from tourists.
The Secret of the Pacifis
The "sister" of Atlantis is the so-called Pacifida, or My Continent, in the existence and destruction of which many supporters of exotic views on the distant past of human civilization also believe. Unlike Atlantis, Pacifis, as its name suggests, was located in the Pacific Ocean. Since the lines on the "Sotomayor's globe" are extremely indistinct, the image can be interpreted as you like - including the outlines of the Continent My. The name "My" appeared in the 19th century and arose from a misinterpretation of the Mayan manuscripts by some researchers. Easter Island is often considered one of the surviving fragments of the My Continent. The most daring theories suggest that Pacifis was the homeland and foremother of all human cultures that exist today. Those peoples who managed to escape from the dying continent took their knowledge with them,the rest disappeared to the bottom of the sea. Serious scientists also use the term "Pacifida". This is what they call the prehistoric continent that broke away from the supercontinent of Gondwana about 150 million years ago. From this Pacifida, Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Oceania were subsequently formed. But this happened long before the appearance of man on the planet.
Mysteries of history, №36 - 36 September 2015, Irina Erofeeva