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. When studying this problem, it is necessary to take into account many factors: geological, paleobiological, comparative mythology. The task of scientific atlantology, writes N. F. Zhirov, is, first of all, to reveal what is true that is in various historical sources and myths, including the legend of Plato, and to find confirming facts and considerations in the information received from various scientific disciplines. To solve these problems, atlantology widely involves a large number of sciences: geology, archeology, oceanology, history, astronomy, astrophysics, anthropology, ethnography, mathematics, geophysics, volcanology, and many others.
In the West, literature about Atlantis, from the younger contemporaries of Columbus to modern research, literally swept the whole world. Seidler is already talking about the "worldwide flood of Atlantological literature." For two and a half thousand years, about 25,000 works on Atlantis were written, according to Z. Kukal, only 3600. Over 95% of the literature about Atlantis refers to modern times, of which 85% - to the 20th century.
Z. Kukal divided the entire atlantological literature into four groups. The first includes purely scientific books with an extensive bibliographic base, practically containing no inaccurate or fictional data. These are, first of all, the books of N. F. Zhirov (1964), G. Luce (1939, 1969, 1975), Yu. Shpanut (1953), L. Germain (1955), V. Brandenstein (1951), K. Krestev (1966), H. Imbellone and A. Vivante (1942), A. Bessmertny (1935), A. Galanopoulos and E. Bacon (1959). The second group includes books of a popular science character, where, nevertheless, scientific processing of the material predominates, although there is arbitrary argumentation and even fantastic assumptions by the authors. This includes most of this kind of literature, including the "Bible of Atlantologists" - I. Donnelly's work "Atlantis. The World Before Potp "(1882). In addition to them, one can point to the works of A. Bragin (1946), J. Bramwell (1937), P. Lecur (1950), R. Malese (1951). The third group includes books with fantastic hypotheses and fictions, the most famous of them: L. Spence (1924), O. Mook (1956), D. Sor (1954). The fourth group will include books of the science fiction genre and various kinds of occult and esoteric sources, including the works of H. P. Blavatsky "Isis Unveiled" (1877) and "The Secret Doctrine" (1888).
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 Atlantis Research Center 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.
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 many countries of the world, magazines about Atlantis are still being published, centers and societies of atlantologists are being created. 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.
In recent years, in various countries, in particular in Russia, secret projects have been developed to conduct exploration 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. In Russia, the Atlantis problem is dealt with by the Russian Society for the Study of Atlantis Problems (ROIPA).
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Russian atlantologists have become more active. Since 1999, the almanac "Atlantis: Problems, Searches, Hypotheses" has been published in Moscow - the first Russian periodical, specially devoted to Atlantis and the main problems of Atlantology. All points of view, both traditional and non-traditional, are presented in this publication. The almanac introduces the reader to new discoveries in the field of ancient archeology and history, bold hypotheses, rare archival materials about Russian and foreign atlantologists or famous cultural figures who somehow covered the topic of Atlantis in their works and works.
The almanac tells about the unknown pages of Russian atlantology. Russia has enriched the world image of "Atlantis" with great names: A. Norov, V. Kapnist, E. Blavatskaya, D. Merezhkovsky, V. Bryusov, K. Balmont, V. Khlebnikov, V. Rozanov, Vyach. Ivanov, D. Andreev, A. Tolstoy, A. Belyaev. We have tried to illuminate the unexplored layer of Russian culture associated with the esoteric knowledge of the most ancient civilizations on Earth.
Within the framework of the almanac, a unique and unique Museum of Atlantis named after V. I. N. F. Zhirova. The museum has an extensive library of books in Russian and other materials devoted to Atlantis. Books, manuscripts, photographs from the family archive and other things belonging to the most prominent Soviet scientist and atlantologist Nikolai Feodosyevich Zhirov are carefully kept here.
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.
Searches and finds
Oddly enough, but it was archeology that developed a criterion for separating myths, behind which are real events, from myths that have no points of contact with history. Rich excavations in Crete and at the sites of Troy, Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos and others have shown that the legends about these cities are based on historical data. And the inscriptions of this era suggest that some of the heroes, like Priam, Hector, Paris, and perhaps Eteocles and others, were historical figures. The Italian historian E. Peruzzi's attempt to present the history of Rome through the reigns of Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Anca Marcia brings us back to the long-overcome tendency to perceive Roman etiological myths as reality.
In recent years, scientists and researchers have increasingly turned to the psychology of mythology. The images of myths in poetic form reflect common human experience and basic models of the development of human society. Such models are called "archetypes", they are universal and inherent in people of all cultures and in all historical periods.
Despite the obvious fiction and verbal lies, the myth can contain the truth at the inner level, as a kind of subjective experience. The appearance of the myth, thus not devoid of lies, does not in the least interfere with its inner truth and its idea of plausibility (Timaeus, 59 p.). Foreign scientists speak about such myths, for example, G. Perls, W. Tyler, W. Otto, R. Graves and others.
Many years passed when Z. Kukal's book "Atlantis in the light of modern knowledge" (1985) was written. During this time, science has managed to push the boundaries of the Unknown, attracting the rich mystical experience of all mankind.
After the death of HPB Scott-Elliot published the no less famous book The History of Atlantis (London, 1896). He used in it the writings of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society on the origins of the Fifth Root Race. A. P. Sinnett, in the preface to the book by Scott-Elliot, writes: “All the facts stated in this book were collected gradually, - with unremitting attention during research; and this research was carried out not by one, but by several well-known persons, and, moreover, for several years. To facilitate their undertaking, these persons were given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with some geographical maps and other documents that have been preserved since time immemorial in safe places far from those restless peoples. Later Felon (1903), Manzi (1922), Steiner (1923), Bramwell (1937), A. Bragin (1946) and other Atlantologists have significantly supplemented the occult legend of Atlantis.
Much earlier, before Jung's discovery of the collective unconscious, HPB spoke of "those shaky memories that connect the broken links of the chain of time, forming from them the mysterious basis of our collective consciousness woven from dreams." In the book The Power of Myth, J. Campbell writes: "Freud and Jung equally believed that the myth is rooted in the unconscious." In Nature, nothing ever disappears at all, but traces of the deeds of a person or other unreasonable beings who lived, live and future inhabitants of the Earth remain forever. This is the so-called "Memory of Nature". Such memory of events - cosmic, historical, personal - is stored in various natural objects. In order to come into contact with this object, it is necessary to apply the highest psychic powers and abilities. Is it not from the depths of collective myth-formation that people get access to the history of Atlantis and other pre-civilizations?
Further discoveries of the twentieth century in various fields of science and culture only confirmed the exceptional versatility and universality of the secret esoteric knowledge contained in the "Secret Doctrine". This book has absorbed all the ancient wisdom not only of the Atlanteans, but also of the previous human races that once lived on Earth. Already in our time, an alchemical society has been created at the Chemistry Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the Secret Doctrine is systematically studied, and students and teachers draw up lesson plans based on this book. According to our information, one of the closed institutes in the United States is also studying the legacy of H. P. Blavatsky and other occultists, theosophists on the Atlantis problem and searching for unknown historical documents associated with this island.
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.
Modern historian William Henry writes in his book that in his youth Franklin Roosevelt bought shares in a company that was trying to find the treasures of the Knights Templar. As president, Roosevelt came under the strong influence of Nicholas Roerich, who believed in the reality of Atlantis. There is information that the so-called Stone of Destiny was delivered to America, which fell to earth from Sirius. According to legend, the Stone was in the hands of the rulers of Atlantis, then passed on to King Solomon. “The stone was hidden in a tower in Shambhala, in Tibet, it emitted waves that influenced the fate of the world,” writes V. Henry in his book.
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), those 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 research, I have identified the connection between the sacred relics of Atlantis and other civilizations with Crete. The path to the ancient relics is closed - they are guarded by the golden dog of Zeus. Apollinary Ivanovich Mikhailov, a representative of an old noble family, and his son Mikhail Apollinarievich Mikhailov knew the secret of the enchanted place. But a strange, premature death interrupted their search and research.
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.
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, are discovered in all parts of the world: in North and South America, in England, Crimea, on the Kola Peninsula and near Nakhodka (Russia), China, Tibet, Morocco, Sudan, Namibia, Mozambique, Australia, in the Bermuda region and on the seaside of Easter Island. Before our eyes, the prophecies of Donnelly and Blavatsky are coming true that structures like pyramidsexisted on the "four corners of the world" and have never been the monopoly of the land of the pharaohs. Under the pyramids in underground dwellings, according to Blavatsky, lived Adepts and "Wise" people of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Races.
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.
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.
American Egyptologists claim that the design and construction of the Sphinx and the pyramids began in 10450 BC. e. And this was done under the supervision of the Atlanteans. It was in this year that a new round of precession of the earth's axis began with a duration of 26,000 years, and the star Zeta Orion occupied the lowest point above the horizon. The location of the stars in the Orion belt in 10450 BC e. relative to the Milky Way coincides with the location of the pyramids relative to the Nile - its counterpart among the Egyptians. In ancient drawings, the Sphinx was depicted lying on a stone building. At the base of the pedestal of the Sphinx, traces of water erosion were revealed. But this was not the flood of the Nile, but a real flood, and it went from north to south (8000 BC). The latest data allow us to say that for several million years the Nile did not flow into the Mediterranean Sea, but into the Atlantic Ocean,and the river waters came closer to the pyramids and the Sphinx, which is confirmed by the prediction of E. Cayce on May 28, 1925.
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. Edgar Cayce at one time 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."
Changes broke out at the end of the 20th century. It seems that the prophecies of the great clairvoyant are beginning to come true before our eyes. At the end of 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, which 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?
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 Atdanthis. Thus, such a spread in the geography of the 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).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).peninsulas or even regions (one must think 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).
In his new book "The Gates of Atlantis" (2000), British scholar Andrew Collins discusses in detail the options for translating Plato's dialogues. 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." 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.
In 1973, an American submarine off the coast of Spain near Cadiz discovered the ruins of the legendary Atlantis. There were 4 expeditions in total, the last one took place in 1997. After that, US President Richard Nixon classified all information about this discovery. But only now some details of such studies have become known. Scientist Jeremy Horwick published the book Mission - Atlantis: What Sailors Know About the Lost Continent, in which he writes about this operation. He refers to declassified official documents and interviews with former sailors from the submarine. According to Horvik, “the ruins lie at a depth of 1,600 meters and cover a huge area of about 50 square meters. km . The Americans were able to raise to the surface and take out samples of the antediluvian technology and weapons of the Atlanteans. Subsequently, they wanted to use the unique technology of Atlantis in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. All this knowledge was used by US scientists to create powerful military equipment, including stealth aircraft, an anti-missile system, and space technologies. The media have already reported such finds. In the mid-1970s, south of Cadiz, the archaeologist M. Asher discovered, at a depth of 30 meters, the remains of four huge buildings with stone-paved roads. Asher discovered at a depth of 30 meters the remains of four huge buildings with stone-paved roads. Asher discovered at a depth of 30 meters the remains of four huge buildings with stone-paved roads.
The French scientist Jacques Collina-Girard stated that Atlantis was in the Strait of Gibraltar. For 19,000 years, the level of the world's oceans was 130 m lower, and Gibraltar at that time was much narrower and longer. In fact, such a strait was the “inner sea” that Plato spoke of. In the western part of the ancient "strait - the sea" 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, which correlates well with the esoteric tradition and legend of Plato.
But the most sensational discovery, probably, should be considered the find on September 7, 2001. A group of Spanish-American geologists discovered an underwater plateau that stretches for more than 90 km at a depth of 1 km southwest of the Azores, 250 miles. In the center of the plateau, they found an intact temple with nine columns about 1 meter in diameter. The columns support a flat stone roof measuring 6 by 10 meters. Nearby were the remains of five circular canals with bridges. Between the canals there are four more groups of buildings, also similar to temples.
As Dan Clarke told our almanac, he has sensational photographs of mysterious structures at his disposal. But the materials and photographic documents on this find have been blocked by the US special services and are currently unavailable. Nevertheless, Dan Clark promised to send us photographs of the discovered temples, and we can publish them in the near future.
Recent studies have shown that the Azores were once an island massif equal in size to Spain. It had mountains that rose 3655 meters above sea level, as well as an ancient river system. Rivers flowed down the southern slopes of San Miguel and gathered in a huge valley. One of the river channels stretched for 288 km! In the southeast was the so-called Great Plain, similar to the description of Plato, with an area of about 9065 km; here flowed a river comparable in size to the Thames.
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.
Many scientists and Atlantologists have long identified Atlantis with the Caribbean archipelago (the Greater and Lesser Antilles). According to Collins, the Atlantis archipelago included Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico, the remaining seven kingdoms were the remnants of that land archipelago that stretched from Cuba to the Bahamas. According to the scientist, the cataclysm occurred in the region of 8600-8000. BC e. due to the fall of a huge asteroid. It was in Cuba that a highly developed civilization existed, which built stone sculptures, earthen monuments, and inscribed no less mysterious rock paintings. 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). It is believed that the paleo-Amerindi (Guayabo Blanco) have reached a high level of development,comparable to the hunter-gatherer communities of the Paleolithic era that lived in Europe during the period approx. 40000-9000 years BC e. Some of the monoliths are reminiscent of the Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in Europe. Their age is at least 4000 years. 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! The petroglyphs symbolize the orbits of the planets and the Sun, as well as the fall of a giant comet. 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! The petroglyphs symbolize the orbits of the planets and the Sun, as well as the fall of a giant comet. 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! The petroglyphs symbolize the orbits of the planets and the Sun, as well as the fall of a giant comet.
The scientist locates the capital of Atlantis to the west of Havana on a fertile plain stretching up to Pinar del Rio for almost 540 km. This plain, about 10,000-8,000 years ago, extended south to the shores of Molodosti Island (Pinos Island) and was almost 160 km wide. It is here, in the western waters of Cuba, in the Gulf of Guanajasibes, that a joint Cuban-Canadian expedition in May 2001 discovered, at a depth of almost 700 meters, the ruins of an urban complex on an area of 40 square kilometers. On a huge plateau, a scanning device recorded an underwater city with clearly planned streets and squares. On the squares one could see architectural structures in the form of pyramids, buildings, huge balls made of processed granite blocks. The size of the largest blocks reaches 2 × 2 × 5 m. The stones resemble the ancient buildings of Easter Island and Stonehenge. The stones are ideally cut and represent, as it were, the base of a pyramid or some other large structure. This city may have been built by an unknown Atlantean race around 6000 BC. e.
The researchers found mysterious inscriptions on the stones. Some depict the "American cross", consisting of two ovals superimposed on each other at right angles. In America, this "cross" has been known since ancient times, long before the discovery of Columbus. The same crosses and signs are found in the caves of the Cuban archipelago. Some inscriptions are very similar to Central American and ancient Greek writing. Still, researchers are inclined more towards the Cretan-Mycenaean Linear B (III-II millennium BC), which has not yet been deciphered. Most likely, such signs were left in various regions of the Earth by the so-called "sea peoples" who left the shores of the Aegean Sea due to a terrible disaster.
After the cataclysm, the climate changed dramatically, and intense melting of polar ice began. Huge masses of water poured into the east coast of North America, the Gulf of Mexico and Europe. The ice age was over. After the sea level rose, the island massifs of the Bahamas and Caribbean archipelagoes were flooded. The formation of bottom sediments around the circumference of the flooded land masses in the Bahamas began in 10,000-8000. BC e. Around 3000 BC e. ocean level has settled at about the current level. than today, but then these shoals were submerged due to rising ocean levels.
In recent years, it is in the Bahamas that the most sensational discoveries have been made. Since the 1960s, the following objects have been found here: several structures similar to the "Bimini road", the remains of ancient temples, several dozen marble columns, a huge number of processed and polished stones and granite blocks, pottery and ceramic figurines created around 5000-3000 years BC e. Two processed stone blocks, found in 1975 and 1995, represent the building blocks of a structure. Their ribs have “complex connecting elements” in the form of a deep triangular tongue or groove.
D. Manson Valentine, a specialist in underwater archeology and antiquities of pre-Columbian America, French oceanographer Dmitry Rebikoff and other researchers have discovered, described and recorded about 60 objects located in the shallow waters of the Great Bahamas Bank, which may be of archaeological interest. 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."
Researchers immediately recalled the predictions 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 near 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."
Recent studies of the Bimini road have shown that it was built on a flat surface; the road crosses underwater geological formations where minerals are located; the stones were located in such a way that we can talk about their astronomical orientation; traces of metal and an artificial trench were found under the road; a large stone was discovered, which can be the Main in the entire structure, performing a ritual or other role; a stone with drilled holes was found, which has no analogue in any of the known cultures. Rebikoff claims that the large stones of the Bimini Road are supported, in turn, by pyramidal pillars. There is no doubt that the road was built by unknown builders with the help of technical means and is similar to the engineering system of the Mediterranean. Based on the fact that most of the stones were about 2.3 and W, 45 m,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.
Valentine believed, for example, that the Bimini road was made of so-called composite - special concrete! The latest studies of the Egyptian pyramids showed that they (and not only them, but also many temples, obelisks) were built of concrete, which, when solidified, turned into a solid monolithic rocky structure. Many blocks of the Egyptian pyramids show traces of wooden formwork. Scientists have found human hair inside the block.
There are several organizations currently operating in the Bahamas, including the Search for Atlantis group (Joan Henley, Wanda Osman), the GAFA project (Joan Henley), the Alta project (Bill Donato, Donnie Fields). From 1997 to 2001, in about ten expeditions were carried out in this area. These expeditions are coordinated and financed by the Association of Scientists and Educators (Virginia, USA).
In 1998, scientist Bill Donato discovered three concentric circles south of the island of Andros, which other researchers had previously been able to observe. But the point is that such structures are very difficult to fix in water and determine their coordinates. Underwater structures can be seen at a certain time of the day, at a certain viewing angle and light illumination. As Bill Donato told the Russian almanac “Atlantis: Problems, Searches, Hypotheses”, 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 "Kritiy" dialogue. Museum of Atlantis. NF Zhirova, created under our almanac, has unique photographic documents of these expeditions. Remnants of a pentagonal structure and traces of an ancient waterfall were also found at the bottom.
The latest research shows that humanity is not standing still. From colored pieces of the antediluvian heritage of the most ancient civilizations, an integral mosaic canvas called "Atlantis" is gradually being formed. Once again, humanity is convinced that it is impossible to consider History without interconnection with the ancient Tradition and Esoteric Teaching. 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. Once E. Blavatsky said that only in the 21st century the contours of the dead Atlantis will be revealed to people. Humanity is still waiting for "future discoveries and" finding ". Indeed, the 21st century is already beginning to present surprises that are hard not to believe.
Delphis