ATLANTIS MYTH OR REALITY?.
Wüldenmar
By Gabriel Ortiz
The philosopher Plato, in his "Timaeus and Critias" Solon collects information from the Egyptian priest of Sais files based on the temple. "At that time, the sea was navigable. And there was an island in the straits which you call the Pillars of Hercules - the Strait of Gibraltar - larger than Libya and Asia put together - refers to the coastal strip of north Africa except Egypt and Asia Minor -. And travelers of that time could pass easily from this island to the other - the West Indies - and of these, the entire continent beyond bordering the inland sea - arguably America -, then what is this part of the Strait we are talking about - the Mediterranean, small compared to the real ocean - it seems a natural harbor with the narrow entrance - the Strait of Gibraltar - while the other side is a sea - Atlantic Ocean - and the land surrounding it - the Americas - we can rightly say that is a true continent. "
Plato explains that Atlantis was an island of 370 km long by 185 km wide surrounded by high mountains, deep trench surrounding a large central plain - a little action of nature and a little human work for several reigns -. The moat was 30.826 meters deep and 184.8 wide at all points and was its length of 1,850 km This system channeled water from the mountains converge on the city in a controlled and then pouring them into the sea through navigable channels about 30.8 m apart by 18.5 km
Obviously there are too many specific details and unnecessary for this to be a utopia symbolic. If the product of his imagination or that of others (a legend), do not understand how he could know real geographic data as there is a huge ocean that dwarfs in comparison to the Mediterranean, which in effect are the West Indies as a string of islands, which they will reach a much larger continent (America), that runs along the entire Atlantic continent. It is clear that in those days the Atlantic was not known, nor the West Indies or America. Of course neither Plato nor the Greeks or the Egyptians knew nothing of this, because otherwise appear in many of his writings are limited to collecting an ancient tradition. The question then arises if these details are geographically accurate and true with respect to the Atlantic, the Caribbean and why America would be false as regards the existence of Atlantis?.
Plato The biggest criticism is that no other source confirms what he says, but this review may have its days numbered with what we have discovered in Sumerian sources. You can confirm that the Sumerian world Plato speaks of an island continent in the sea beyond the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar in Europe Jebel Sidi Moussa in Africa). Indeed, there is evidence that the end of Atlantis is related in many ways with the flood. Well, in the epic of Gilgamesh in the Hittite version rescued by Johannes Friederich, when the hero, in search of immortality, wants to see the Mesopotamian Noah Utnapishtim (the Sumerian Ziusudra), he is still alive, must cross the "great sea of the waters of death ", ie a big sea where there was a plague, which in the myth of Atlantis, sunk catastrophically, but can not mean the Atlantic Ocean.
generally believed that the sea represents the journey to the afterlife, but not, it is an actual sea (more than While an ocean), since 1) Utnapishtim is not dead but alive, like Gilgamesh, 2) it takes a month and fifteen days by boat from somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean (probably Lebanon, since it comes from forests cedar, exclusive there) where the hero had crossed by land, 3) a goddess Siduri, Gilgamesh tells "the sea is impossible to cross. For a long time nobody has come across the sea "but the sun god (Shamash) and obviously if the sea represents step further, those words would be meaningless because people constantly passing road traffic death.
To confirm that this is the same sea Plato said, we see that Gilgamesh, towards the "Great Sea, which is far" should follow "the usual way" (obviously not talking about death because Gilgamesh is not dead, nor that the searcher) and as signals "that lead you to the destination" there were two "pillars of stone, just as Plato says, that the Pillars of Hercules give way to the Atlantic where was Atlantis. Once past these columns had to turn and coming to a city (obviously in the sea) called "ITLA" which has to be the Mesopotamian way of referring to "Atla" or "Atlantic" Atlantis. Obviously all this is in the West, as Shamash, the sun crosses the Great Sea and helps once past the two stone columns. The only Great Ocean almost impossible to cross, having two columns and the West, can only be the Atlantic. The myth, of course, mixing past with present and so the Atlantis as still existing. It is therefore a confirmation of the existence of Atlantis.
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