It also figures in the
Celtic myths concerning Mererid, the sinful daughter of King Gradlon, whose
scabrous conduct led to the sinking of the land of Ys. So, in the Americas
(Bochica, etc.) and elsewhere.
If we read the Bible attentively, we note
that it also speaks of two creations, exactly as Plato also tells of two
different Atlantises (cf.
Gen. 1 and 2). Moreover, the Bible also
tells of two destructions of the world by the Deluge. These two different
narratives are quaintly embroidered on each other in
Gen.
6, and
comprise the Elohist and the Jahvist accounts of the Flood, which relate
two visibly different events.
The Bible Is Right After All
We see, then, that the tradition (or traditions)
narrated by Plato exactly coincides with the Biblical lore. Moreover, as
we said above, the two traditions also exactly agree with the prehistoric
events observed in the geological and the archaeological records. And,
when we trace the worldwide legends to their source, we always end up in
India and Indonesia, the two Atlantises of legend, no matter where we start
from.
In truth, continents don t sink. It is
the sea that rises, flooding entire continents, as it did in Lemurian Atlantis
and, to a great extent, in the Indus Valley, the site of the second Atlantis.
Relativists will say that both events sea level rise and continental
sinking are one and the same thing, at least from the point of view of
the observers. But geologists will hotly debate the issue, and claim, as
they have long done, that actual sunken continents are a geological impossibility.
It is all a matter of perspective, of relativistic illusion. But the best
ancient sources say, for instance that magnificent Hindu saga, the
Mahabharata
speak of sea level rising rather than of continents sinking.
The Elusive Sunken Continent Revealed
However, anyone who inspects a chart of
the oceanic bottoms in the region of Indonesia such as the Ice Age Map
of Indonesia shown in Fig. 1 below, will readily concede that the South China
Sea encircled by Indonesia indeed formed a continent during the last glaciation,
which ended some 11,600 years ago. This chart clearly shows the sunken
continent of Lemurian Atlantis in Indonesia, as well as the extensive sunken
strip of Indian Atlantis at the Indus Delta.
The map leaves no room for
doubt about the reality of what we are affirming concerning Lemurian and Indian
Atlantis, one almost wholly sunken, and the other sunken to a very considerable
extension. We remark that this map in contrast to most others presenting proposed sites for Atlantis and/or Lemuria is purely scientific, rather than an invention of ours or of others. It is based on the detailed geophysical reconstruction of the seabottoms in the region in question, and portrays the areas of depth under 100 meters, which were obviously exposed during the Ice Age, when sea level dropped by that amount and even more.
In fact, several strictly scientific, similar maps exist, and can be seen elsewhere, inclusive in the Internet. One of these maps, was published in the
National Geographic Magazine (vol.174, no.4, Oct. 1988, pg. 446-7) and is reproduced, for comparison, in Fig. 2 below. It shows the world as it was some 18,000 years ago, at the peak of the last glaciation of the Pleistocene Ice Age. As can be seen, this map corresponds quite closely with ours, shown in Fig. 1.
In particular, please note the huge chunk of land, of continental dimensions, to the south of Southeast Asia, and which became sunken when sea level rose, at the end of the Pleistocene. Another sizable piece of land in the Indus Delta, the site of the second Atlantis, also disappeared likewise, at that occasion. No other regions of the world display a similar event, including the Americas (not shown). The conclusion is that Atlantis, if Plato was in fact speaking truthfully, could only have been located in that region of the world.
As both maps above show, a huge extension of continental
size prolonged Southeast Asia all the way down to Australia. This continental-sized
land was indeed "larger than Asia [Minor] and Lybia [North Africa] put together", exactly as Plato affirms. It is seen to have been about two or three times
larger than continental-sized India. It was also far larger than Australia,
shown exagerated due to the peculiarities of the projection utilized.
The Indonesian Islands and the Malay Peninsula
that we nowadays observe are the unsunken relicts of Lemurian Atlantis,
the lofty volcanic mountains that became the volcanic islands of this region,
the true site of Paradise in all ancient traditions. The sunken portion
of continental extension now forms the muddy, shallow bottoms of the South
China Sea.
