After the last ice age,
the ‘great melt’ flooded the landscape of Britain for over ten thousand years. This flooding started a chain reaction and as a consequence,
the sea level slowly increased and vast areas of land were lost including
a land mass known as ‘Doggerland.'
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Doggerland sinks LONG after the Northern Ice Cap melts |
Throughout the 19th century, oyster dredgers working the shallow waters off the north east coast of England recorded frequent finds of animal bones caught up in their nets.
These discover- is became a regular
occurrence as the fishing technology
increased and the trawlers at a later date and in deeper waters of the North
Sea also found traces of civilisation and a lost continent. Sadly, the location and accuracy are rarely
recorded with any degree of accuracy;
this material appeared to come from some
areas within the North Sea.
One area where the greatest number of finds discovered is known as the ‘Dogger Bank’ which lies just 90km – 110km (60-70 miles) from the coast of the British Isles. This shoal
(a shoal, sand- bar, sandbank or gravel bar is a somewhat linear
landform within or extending into a body
of water, typically composed of sand,
silt or small pebbles.) rises
about 45m (150 ft) above
the North Sea bed, to the north it plunges into
deeper water and forms a subterranean plateau covering 17,600 sq.
km. (6,800 miles) With a maximum dimension being 260km (160
miles) from North to South and
95 km (60 miles) from East to West. Over time, the number of finds
reduced as the same area was dredged day after day and any artefacts
sitting on the surface would have been scooped
up and either returned as a curiosity or in a majority of the time just thrown back in a different location.
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Doggerland/Atlantis |
Even so, items such as;
bear, wolf, hyena, bison, woolly
rhino, mammoth, beaver, walrus, elk, deer and most importantly horse has been collected. This precious
collection of findings gives us a
fantastic insight into what Doggerland looked
like, the environment that supported these animals and the climate of this unique area of the world.
It would be impossible to talk
about Doggerland and its environment without understanding if there was
a written history of a land that flooded
thousands of years ago, and this comes in
the works of the ancient Greek
Philosopher Plato. Over the years, Atlantis has grown to be both a legend and the source of
many science fictions; this is neither correct nor helpful in tracing the
history of humanity, as it moves
the debate from scientific observation to fantasy and the degrading of
the most important time in our history.
Plato is a source of credible information as he is not a ‘story teller’ like some other historical writers. He is
fundamentally a philosopher, whose writings
are still studied even now, some 2,000 years
after his death at the most famous and prestigious universities throughout the
world. This
man is not prone to fantasy or exaggeration, his writings, therefore,
must be accepted as true evidence that once in the distant past a great ancient civilisation, did, in fact,
exist, and that they changed the course of humanity
in ways which I believe we do not fully
understand to date.
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Plato (Left) |
Consequently, we need to look at the probability that
Plato’s ‘Atlantis’ is a genuine reference to this land, as it is the
oldest written source and may give us clues of
how this civilisation lived and traded.
Fortunately, for us, Plato gave some detail about this civilisation, such as how they lived and what they believed, which will allow us to
compare what we know; from known
landscape and archaeological finds and moreover, look for more elusive areas of investigation the texts
might reveal.
Plato’s most famous line from
‘Timaeus’, a dialogue between Critias and Socrates, in which ‘Critias’ tells a
story, he learned through his family,
about the Greek statesman ‘Solon,' while he was studying with the most
scholarly of Egyptian priests during a visit to Sais in Egypt in about 590BC.
The priests claimed to have access to secret records about a lost
civilisation called ‘Atlantis,' which only they were allowed to read, for it was written
on the pillars within their most sacred
temple.
Now Sais was one of
the oldest cities in the ‘old kingdom‘ of Egypt, and the city’s patron goddess was ‘Neith,' whose cult is
attested as early as the 1st Dynasty,
ca. 3100- 3050 BCE.
The Greeks, such as Herodotus, Plato and Diodorus Siculus, identified her with Athena and hence postulated a primordial link
to Athens. Diodorus recounts that Athena built
Sais ‘before’ the ‘deluge’
(flooding) that supposedly destroyed
Athens and Atlantis. While all Greek
cities were destroyed during that cataclysm, the Egyptian cities,
including Sais survived. As we can see
from this connection, the deluge has incredible
importance to ancient civilisations, clearly indicating that any prehistoric
civilisation that wanted to ‘stay alive’
would possibly build boats, not for
some, but for everyone. Sadly, the city of Sais has been recently destroyed by farmers who
used the house and temple mud bricks, as
free fertiliser for the fields – to this date, the temple and its writings have never
been found.
The most famous line from Plato’s dialogue is “in
front of the mouth which you Greeks say ‘the pillars of Hercules’ there lay an
island which is much larger than Libya
and Asia together” translated by W.R.M. Lamb 1925 or “in front of the straits which are by you
called the Pillars of Hercules; the island was bigger than Libya and Asia
together” B. Jowett 1871.
This single sentence has caused no end
of the debate about the location
of Atlantis. Some suggest that ‘the pillars’
can refer to water flows, thus allowing the speculation (which is current) that Atlantis is a Greek
Island. Others suggest (including myself)
that the ‘pillars of Hercules’ is the mouth of the Mediterranean between
Morocco and Spain. Now this is a case
of translation and interpretation; the word
‘mouth’ is sometimes called ‘strait,'
in other quotations Plato refers to the
Mediterranean Sea as “within the straits of Hercules.”
According to some
Roman sources, while on his way to the island
of ‘Erytheia’ Hercules had to
cross the mountain that was once Atlas
(the Atlas Mountains are in Northern Africa overlooking the Mediterranean),
instead of climbing the great mountain, Hercules used his superhuman strength to smash through
it. By doing so, he connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and
formed the Straits of Gibraltar.
However, the best evidence is in
the name itself ‘Atlantis’ for Herodotus
(an ancient Greek historian, 484 BC – c. 425 BC) in a time before Plato’s
writings call the Sea outside the Pillars of
Hercules the ‘Atlantis Sea’ (Cyrus, 557-530 BC: Book 1). Moreover, even
today we call it the Atlantic Ocean and in history C’s and S’s are
commonly transposed.
So we are left with a clear understanding that Atlantis was
in the Atlantic Ocean, but then come the next problem with this description “the island
was bigger than Libya and Asia together” this is where most Atlantis claims fall
flat. Libya was well-known
in Plato’s time as a big country as it bor- dered the Mediterranean, but the
reference to Asia cannot be the Asia we know as it was unknown to the old world and the Greeks, therefore, the Asia that Plato was referring to, is now called Asia Minor.
‘Asia Minor (from Greek: Μικρồ ồσία, Mikrá Asía, small Asia) is a geographical location
at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to
the western two-thirds of the Asian part
of Turkey. It is a peninsula bounded by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to
the north- east, the Armenian
Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the
south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the
west.’
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Europe 14,000 BCE - A large PENINSULA in the Atlantis Ocean (NEP) |
The size of this
‘island’ is consequent, a major problem
for historians to date, as the only two island
possibilities are the Caribbean in
America or a continent that was once in
the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that has disappeared without a trace.
Well, the islands of the
Caribbean are far too small and the trek across the middle of the Atlantic Ocean without landmass to guide the ships, eleven thousand years ago,
would have been quite daunting with ‘Bronze Age technology’ as Plato suggests.
Some researchers have speculated an island in the middle
of the Atlantic between America and Europe, but to date there has been only evidence of small islands and
nothing to the scale of either Libya or Asia Minor (let alone both!) under the ocean that has
sunk in the last 10,000 years according to Plato’s text.
This is why the search has failed, to date, and all various ‘silly’ hypotheses based on
the Mediterranean make news headlines.
If we look again at this passage and the exact wording of Atlantis, we find something most researchers have overlooked in the translation, and it’s
the word ‘island,'
the original Greek word is ‘nesos’ which can mean either island or peninsula.
If we are looking for a ‘Peninsula’ (which is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides
but connected to the mainland) that is outside the Mediterranean, then there
are only two possibilities - Africa or
Europe. These are both outside the
Pillars of Hercules and can be easily navigated
by sticking to the shorelines. The
African continent has shown no signs of any peninsula on its Atlantic side; that has
disappeared in the past 10,000 years - but Europe has!
If we look at a map of Europe at the end of the Ice Age, we notice that the water levels were about 160m
lower than today, so much lower that extra coastlines are added to both Spain and France. However,
when we look at the British Isles, we notice Britain has completely vanished and been replaced by a new landmass.
This ‘peninsula of Europe’ protrudes into the Atlantic Ocean, for the English Channel,
Irish Sea and the North Sea as we
know it today has been replaced by a single land
mass. Moreover, the waters to the
west of Ireland and North West from Scotland have
also been reclaimed from the sea.
This peninsula which
includes not only Britain, Norway, Sweden
and Finland, but also Denmark and the
Baltic Sea, creating a continent about
the same size
of Libya and Asia Minor,
which correlates to Plato’s writings.
We know from our
history that the rising of sea waters over the last 10,000 years, caused
flooding that created the island nation we know today. But, do the writings
contain any other information, which will allow us to confirm this peninsula is
the land mass Critias is talking about?
Plato adds “yonder (beyond the pillars of Hercules)
is a real Ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the
fullest and truest sense, a continent” in this sentence the ‘island.' is turned
into a ‘continent’ so this proves that
the translation of ‘nesos’ is a peninsula, not
island and in today’s terms we
are looking at a land mass that
incorporates British Isles, Scandinavia and the Northern European countries of France, Germany,
Holland, Belgium, Poland, Netherlands,
Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and
the Baltic, North and Irish seas, that were at the time one great land
mass, which I call the North European
Peninsula (NEP).
Therefore, do the other descriptions of Plato’s Atlantis
match this new continent?
He does give us an indication of some other features for this lost continent, “and it is possible
for the travellers of that time to cross from it to the other islands and from
the islands to the whole of the continent” if NEP is correct, this could mean
either one of two different continents.
For about 2,000 years (between 10,000 BCE
and 8,000 BCE) you could travel from the North West end of the NEP to the Faroe Islands, which was
about five times larger than the islands we know today (due to the drop in sea
levels) and then a short hop west to Iceland, which again, for the same
reasons, was twice as wide as it is today, then finally, over the short distance to Greenland and then
America.
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Map of Common 'O' blood group (blue and red) |
The coastal route
would then allow you access to the ‘New World’ down the entire east side of America. The most
interesting and controversial aspect is
that the Atlanteans would have discovered
America 11,000 years before
Columbus, which may seem farfetched, but
it will answer an evolutional mystery that has
confused geneticists and anthropologists for many years. This mystery
involves the spread of the A- blood group in Northern American Indians and
ancient skeletons that have European
features and stone tool kits.
Other illustrations of Atlantis, in Plato’s writings, can
now be compared for further comparison such as
the famous plane of Atlantis. “The whole
country was said by him to be very lofty and precipitous on the side of the sea,
but the country immediately about and surrounding the city was a level plain, itself surrounded by
mountains, which descended towards the sea;
it was smooth and even, and of an
oblong shape, extending in one direction three thousand stadia, but across the
centre inland it was two thousand stadia.”
So the level oblong shaped plain that was surrounded by mountains, which were by the sea and the plain measured about 250 miles by
350 miles. The current North Sea (Doggerland) would
be comfortably incorporate a flat plain of that size, and hence it sinking below the rising sea levels, for it measures 450 miles by 1200 miles.
There are mountains in the North in both Scotland and Norway which
‘descended towards the sea’ not even taking
into account the mountains of Doggerland
in the North which are now the ‘Viking’
and ‘Berger’ sandbanks, between Shetland
and Norway.
Another indication that we
are talking about a peninsula or part of a continent is the line ’lofty and
precipitous on the side of the sea’ if
this was an island would not ALL sides be on the side of the sea? Our newly discovered Atlantis has one side by
the sea where the city and plain lay, and that is in the north, the area we know now
as Scotland, Shetland, Orkney across to Norway, where it always rains.
He continues; “This part of the peninsula looked towards the south, and was sheltered from the north. The surrounding
mountains were celebrated for their
number and size and beauty, far be- yond
any, which still existed, having in them
also many wealthy villages of country
folk, and rivers, and lakes, and meadows
supplying food enough for every animal, wild or tame, and much wood
of various sorts, abundant for every single
kind of work.” Modern
sonar readings of the North Sea floor have
shown this land of ‘rivers and lakes and meadows’ and with the mountains in the north,
the great plain would naturally face south.
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Doggerland with it;'s vast plains and hills |
Even when we search the description for the most obscure
references to test this hypothesis, we find correlation; “There was an
abundance of wood for carpenter’s work, and sufficient maintenance for tame and
wild animals. Moreover, there were a great number
of elephants in the island; for as there
was the provision for all other sorts of animals, both for those who live in lakes and marsh-
es and rivers, and also for those who live in mountains and on plains, so there was for the animal which is the
largest and most voracious of all.”
Plato is clearly referring to tropical animals such
as Elephants and Lions and anyone
living in Britain today would find this unlikely and therefore,
rule out
this continent, but again, we
found in the catches of North Sea trailer men
the bones of Elephants, Mammoths; Lions and Tigers have been found in the last 100 years in
Doggerland making this scenario ‘quite probable’ and it would not take much of a stretch of the imagination to
classify ‘the largest and most voracious
of all’ as the ferocious Sabre-Toothed Tiger, which coincidently
went extinct during the ‘Atlantean period’ 14,000 BCE – 4,000BCE.
So we are looking at the civilisation of megalithic builders
who once lost their ‘homeland’ and no
doubt a great number of friend’s family and
loved ones in the deluge. This being the case - how would we expect a
civilisation to mark such a momentous occasion?
We are a civilisation that has
had great losses through war and tragedy in the past, 9/11 in America we commemorated with a memorial garden and here in Britain the
losses of war are remembered by the Cenotaph in London, where we come annually to remember the dead with a minute’s silence.
How would future archaeologists view the cenotaph, if all
written records are lost 10,000 years in the future - when the wind and rain
had wiped the stone monument bear, but still resembling the stone pillar it
once was?
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Kazarac War Memorial - Does it remind you of something? |
Radiocarbon dates of post holes in the visitor’s car park, which Stonehenge was built about 8500 BCE as a place for the sick and dead, we also know that the site was remodelled some four to five thousand years later roughly at the time that Atlantis/Doggerland finally ‘disappeared.' What I am suggesting is that the new monument continued its commemoration to the dead, but not to the individual dead but the death of Atlantis, which would explain how and why this historically massive construction was erected.
Furthermore, it will explain
some of the features of Stonehenge; we
have not mentioned to date in this
book. The
popular view of Stonehenge is a completely round monument with lintel
stones completing the circle - but there is a massive problem, for not all the stones or the stone post holes are present. Some people have suggested that the monument is incomplete, but those individuals do not understand the monument and the reason for its construction.
A monument to the dead does not
face the Summer Solstice Sunrise it faces the Winter Solstice Sunset to mark the shortest day - when light overcomes the darkness the symbolism of
life after death. That being the case, a
monument to the dead should face either
Winter Sunrise of Win- ter Sunset and Stonehenge faces the latter. Another
reason to ignore the reference to the Sun is that the Sun is usually a representation of life and a completed circle, where through a
crescent the Moon represents the dead and a crescent. So, the monument would be
crescent shaped and hence the reason for the lack of two stones in the South
West Quadrant.
So why is there a horseshoe crescent in the centre of the
monument?
The ‘crescent within the crescent’ that faces the Summer solstice sunrise; this is
very symbol- ic as it represents reborn
or reincarnation, it’s a poignant message through the ages to us (the dece-
dents of the Atlanteans), that their homeland may be dead, but the survivors
are still alive and began again. So the ‘open’ end of the horseshoe points to the Solstice Sunrise, but the ‘main’
direction of the symbol points in the
opposite direction – the winter solstice sunset.
Furthermore, in the centre of the Circle lays a very special
stone - the altar stone, the reason it’s special is two-fold. Firstly, it’s made of a material unlike the other Sarsen
standing stones, called mica. ‘Hawkins makes
note that while all the other stones were either bluestone or Sarsen, the so-
called altar-stone is ‘of fine-grained pale green sandstone, containing so many
flakes of mica that its surface, wherever freshly exposed, shows the typical mica glitter’ Currently, geologists are trying to locate
the source of this sandstone in Wales. Sadly, they are probably looking
in the completely wrong direction as I
would imagine it’s from their homeland and under currently less than 30m
of water in Doggerland.
This is how Stonehenge used to look when new in 4200 BCE |
But this is not the
only piece of Sarsen that is made of
‘mica-sandstone’. The most
important piece of this special mica-sandstone lies by the moat of the monument to the northeast and is called the ‘Slaughter Stone’ I will
not delve into
the reason why this stone is called the slaughter stone, but it is
interesting that even the druids
some 4000 years after the stone was laid
on the ground still associated it with
death.
Most archaeologists believe that the slaughter stone was
once a standing stone at the en- trance of the monument, these flawed ideas are the result of a hypothetical drawing by Inigo Jones in 1655. This drawing shows Stonehenge
as a perfect circle with hexagon shaped trilithon interior (a trilithon is two
standing stone with a third suspended on top of the two uprights) and three entrances
into the site with six erect standing stones as access points, which the
slaughter stone was one. This idea was incorporated in John Aubrey’s drawing in 1666, which was more
accurate, but again had the
tendency to place all the fallen stones in upright positions.
This false assumption was
further compounded by William Cunning in 1880, when (it was
re- ported) that he suggested his grandfather “saw” the upright slaughter stone
in the 17th Century). This mistake was
later corrected, yet the myths among
archaeologists remain (Stones of Slaughter, E Herbert Stone, 1924 pp120).
The reality is that
the slaughter stone was always (like the Altar Stone) a deliberate recumbent as the excavations of this stone by
Hawley and Newall in the 1920s clearly
show as the chalk subsoil was also deliberately flattened before it was placed in its current position. Hawley presumed that the Slaughter Stone was once ‘buried’, this idea is understandable as the stone does lay below
the ground level, but what Hawley never understood is that the reason the stone
was in this position was for the same
reason the ditch was built around
Stonehenge, as it was made to be full of
water.
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The Slaughter Stone - as it would have looked when first laid in water |
This can be observed
by the size of the stone hole called ‘E’
(WA1165) which lays two metres, North
West of the Slaughter stone, but still within
the ‘hollow’ that also contains the stone. Most stone holes at Stonehenge are quite shallow – less than
a metre in depth, but stone hole ‘E’ is twice as deep, over 2m. If
the Slaughter stone were placed in it (as
some have suggested) it would only be 3m
high on the surface, compared to 4.57m for the Heel Stone a few
yards away. The only other place
in Stonehenge with these larger
pits is within
the Ditch section that surrounds the site, which is the same depth allowing access to the ground water
levels.
In the past when the Slaughter stone was placed in this ditch, like the moat, water would have
surrounded the stone like an island - what we see today at Stonehenge is a
6,000-year-old model of the land we call Atlantis that lay in the current North
Sea.
Not only did they place a piece of special mica-sandstone in a
watery ditch surrounded by water, but they also carved out the contours of the island,
showing high and low ground like a
contour release. Archaeologists have always believed these features were
‘weather worn’ by age (although the other recumbent stones have not been weathered in the same fashion), but recent laser technology has confirmed
our belief that this stone was carved as
the markings from the tools used can still be seen at microscopic levels.
Finally, and more importantly,
the stone has been placed in a very strange position, almost in the way of The
Avenue. This
shows that this stone and the Avenue have a connection, this type of
connection we see in association with
Egyptian Pyramids when ‘slight lines’
are cut into the sides of the burial
chambers to important star constellations to show their associations with the Gods.
At Stone- henge, the Slaughter Stone and
the Avenue are important as they link
rebirth with the death of this Great
Civilisation, for if we look at the Major Sightline stone the Altar Stone and
look towards the Slaughter Stone, it is quite remarkable a direct line POINTING
TO the location of Atlantis in the North Sea, a place we now call Doggerland.
Yet, when you read the two detailed accounts of Plato’s work in ‘The Timaeus’ and ‘Critias’ where some of the narratives are repeated, you get a sense that Plato is talking about two different times of Atlantis’ - the ancient history, with the original landscape and people and then suddenly the demise, flood and war. As we have seen his dialogue are not fixed in time, or example: “and it was possible for travellers OF THAT TIME to cross from it to the other islands,” “Many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years, for that is the number of years, WHICH HAVE ELAPSED since the time of which I am speaking.”
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A line from the Alter Stone through the Slaughter Stone - points to Doggerland |
Yet, when you read the two detailed accounts of Plato’s work in ‘The Timaeus’ and ‘Critias’ where some of the narratives are repeated, you get a sense that Plato is talking about two different times of Atlantis’ - the ancient history, with the original landscape and people and then suddenly the demise, flood and war. As we have seen his dialogue are not fixed in time, or example: “and it was possible for travellers OF THAT TIME to cross from it to the other islands,” “Many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years, for that is the number of years, WHICH HAVE ELAPSED since the time of which I am speaking.”
So are we hearing about the original Atlanteans of 9000
years ago who lived in this green and pleasant land or are we being told of
a land that was once great during that time then sunk overnight leaving nothing?
The secret is in the
text at the start of the story of Solon and what
the Egyptians told him “As for
those genealogies of yours which you just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of
children. In the first place, you remember a single deluge only, but there were many previous
ones; in the next place, you do not
know that there formerly dwelt in your
land the fairest and noblest race of men who ever lived and that you and your whole city
are descended from a small seed or remnant of them, which survived.
And this was unknown to you, because, for many generations, the survivors of
that destruction died, leaving no written word.”
What the priests were trying to tell Solon,
is that the Deluge that Greek
history remembers was the one that wiped out
Athens once and that many such deluges happened in the past - so we can see
the confusion with the dates of these
floods. Again, we see this two-fold
story unveiling with Atlanteans referred to as “in your land dwelt the fairest and noblest race of men who ever lived”
does this give us a description of an Atlantean?
We know from DNA the Scandinavians are descended from blonde and blue-eyed ancestors with pale complexions – this description seems
to confirm that fact, as when we use the word fair, we generally are referring to their hair and features. Moreover, it also shows that two stories are
being recited here as within the same
book, the Atlanteans are also
called “various tribes of Barbarians,” “a mighty power unprovoked” and “invaders.”
Moreover, does the line “And this was unknown to you,
because, for many generations, the survivors of that destruction died, leaving
no written word.” Suggest this race had
no written language? It is well known
that the Nordic races relied on the verbal storytelling
for their histories; I believe this confirms a ‘Nordic’ Atlantean. However, the most explosive revelation
not picked up by most scholars is the
line “and that you and your whole
city are
descended from a small seed or remnant of them, which survived.” The priests are telling Solon that the Greeks
are ‘seeds’ of their great nation, are they, therefore, implying that they were the
first people to colonise Athens and leave their philosophy
and beliefs?
The writing then goes on to say,
“Solon marvelled at his words, and earnestly requested the priests to
inform him exactly and in order about these former citizens” and it continues
to reinforce this suggestion by saying,
“You are welcome to hear about
them, Solon," said the priest, "both for your sake and for that
of your city, and above all, for the sake of the goddess who is the
common pa- tron and parent and educator of both our cities.” So we now, not only have
the Atlanteans ‘seeding’ the Greek population but also the Egyptian
population a thousand years later. The only question left to answer is when, and
that is revealed just a paragraph later when he writes, “And the duration of
our civilisation as set down in our sacred writings is 8000 years."
“As touching your citizens of nine thousand years ago.” So we have our
answer, probably the most astonishing revelation in the history of world civilisation, the Atlanteans “from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean was insolently advancing to attack the whole
of Europe and Asia, to boot” in boats
from a land beyond the “Pillars of
Hercules” seeded and established the kingdoms
of Greece nine thousand years ago and Egypt a thousand years later.
The interesting aspect of this two-fold story is
that some scholars get confused and
believe that Atlantis sunk 9000 years ago, when clearly, Plato was talking about the colonisation of Greece
and Egypt and then goes on to talk about the Atlanteans coming to conquer and
enslave the Greeks and Egyptians, which is clearly a later date. When he does talk
about Atlantis sinking, no dates
are
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The Pillars of Hercules |
offered. This is when the second story totally conflicts
with the first, initially they were “the fairest and noblest race of
men which ever lived” but within a paragraph
or two become “For these histories tell
of a mighty power which
unprovoked made an expedition against
the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your
city (Athens) put an end. This power
came forth out of the Atlantic
Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was
navigable; and there was an island situated
in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles...
The dialogue continues “This vast power, gathered into one,
endeavoured to subdue at a blow, our country and yours and the whole of the
region within the straits; and then,
Solon, your
country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among
all humanity. She was pre-eminent
in courage and military skill and
was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery
those who were not yet subjugated, and generously
liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars.”
This dichotomy does not make sense unless we are talking about two
separate time periods. Nine thousand years ago, Athens was being seeded, and Egypt did even exist as a
civilisation for another one thousand years.
However, the Atlantean army set forth to conquer and enslave, but was defeated
by a nation that was in its infancy!
Clearly, this shows two stories with independent timelines. With this in mind, we can date the end of Atlantis after the armed conflict and
deluge that destroyed Athens. For Plato writes,
“But afterwards there occurred violent
earthquakes and floods; and in a single day
and night of misfortune, all your warlike men
in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis, in like manner, disappeared
in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable,
because there is a shoal of mud in the
way; and this was caused by the
subsidence of the island.” B.Jowett
(1871)
But another interpretation is
“But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one
grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your
warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis, in like manner, was
swallowed up by the sea and vanished; wherefore also the ocean at that spot has now become impassable and unsearchable, being
blocked up by the shoal mud which the
island created as it settled down.”
W.R.M.Lamb (1925)
I think the key, here is ‘But afterwards’ or ‘But at a later
time,' this was a period unknown ‘after’ the conflict, and I would imagine that conflict would be many thousands
of years after the establishment of Greek and Egypt
with independent armies and leadership.
We know from geologists that the last piece of Doggerland sank in about 4000 BC, which is about the time
that the Greece Empire was at its height,
and the Atlantis Empire was all but gone,
so it’s my opinion this is the period Plato was referring
to. This would also make sense
of the line “For which reason the sea in
those parts is impassable and impenetrable
because there is a shoal of mud in the way, and this was
caused by the subsidence of the island.”
For even today some 6,000 years later, we refer to the area as
the ‘dogger sandbank’.
Finally, there is evidence
within Plato’s writing that there was
contact with the Atlanteans even after the flood had taken away their major city Atlantis, for a line in Critias talking about
the final flood gives us get another
clue to the location of this legendary land, for Plato writes, “ there are remaining in small islets
only the bones of the wasted body, as
they may be called, all the richer and softer parts of the soil having fallen
away, and the mere skeletons of the country being left.”
So what was left after Doggerland disappeared?
We have to remember this sea level increase was happening all over the lost continent, so much so that the Irish
Sea separated Ireland from Wales; the English
Channel was formed separating Britain from mainland Europe, and the North Sea took the last of the peninsulas’ land mass
and island to become a vast watery landscape – but the British Isles
remained. In comparison would you
not call that the ‘bones’ of what was formerly there, and does the makeup of this island
look like a ‘skeleton of a country’?
Hyperborea
It would be wrong to imagine
that Plato’s writings are the only one who mentions an advanced ancient civilisation that lived in
prehistory, although he is the only one to mention Atlantis by name. The Greek scholar Herodotus (Histories, Book IV,
Chapters 32-36) some 500 years BEFORE
Plato talks about a myth of an ancient
land called Hyperborea. Remembering that the Atlanteans had ‘seeded’ this culture in about 9000BC such as myths
should be considered, if not as solid as Plato’s works, but just as valid to endorse the location and
description of the land, for the more pieces of the jigsaw, we find the clear
the picture we will obtain.
The Hecataeus of Abdera in the 4th Century BC, believed
Hyperborea was in Britain as:
“In the regions beyond the land of the Celts there lies in
the ocean an island no smaller than Sicily.
This island is situated in the
north and is habited by Hyperborean’s,
who are called by that name because their home is beyond the point whence the north wind blows; and the island is
both fertile and productive of every crop, and has an unusually
temperate climate.”
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Map of Hyperborea by Abraham Ortelius 1572 |
From Diodorus Siculus
(ii.47.1-2). Also, the sun was supposed to rise and set only once a year – as it does in the North Eastern
area of Atlantis known today as northern Sweden and Norway. Hecateaus
of Abdera, also, wrote that the hyperborean’s had a ‘circular temple’ on
their island – is this Stonehenge or the
temple of Apollo on the Plain of Atlantis?
Gothicism ( is the name given
to what is considered to have been a cultural movement in Swe- den, centred
around the belief in the glory of the Swedish ancestors, originally considered to
be the Geats, which were identified with
the Goths)in the 17th century in Sweden, declared the Scandina- vian
peninsula was both Atlantis and Hyperborean land. Ptomolemy
(Geographia, 2.21) and Marcian of
Heraclea (perplus, 2.42) both placed
Hyperborea in the North Sea which they called the ‘Hyperborean Ocean.'
In conclusion, Hyperborea was a fabulous realm of eternal spring located in the far
north beyond the land of winter. Its people were tall and blessed, a long-lived
race free of war, hard toil and the ravages of old age and disease. The land is
usually described as a continent-bound land, bordered by the great
earth-encircling river to the north (The
Atlantic), and the great peaks of the mythical Rhipaion Mountains to the
south (The Alps). Its main river was the
Eridanos (The Danube), which flowed south, drawing
its waters directly from the Ocean-stream
(The Norwegian Trench). The shores of
this stream were lined by amber-bearing
poplar trees (as the Baltic Sea is at
its source) And its waters inhabited by flocks of white swans. Blessed with
eternal spring, the land producing two crops of grain per annum. However, most of the country was wild, covered
with rich and beautiful forests, “the Garden of
Apollo.”
The Golden Age
According to some modern
thinkers (Blavatsky, Guenon and Evola),
Hyperborea was the terrestrial and celestial beginning of civilisation. The home of original Man. Some
theories postulate Hyperborea was the original ‘Garden of
Eden,' the point where the earthly and heavenly planes meet. And it is said man transgressed Divine Law in this
‘Golden Age’ civilisation, the ultimate price being
his banishment to the outside world.
Man ventured into other regions of
Earth, establishing new civilisations,
bringing to an end this great and glorious Golden Age.
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Utopia |
The Golden Age is central
to manifold ancient traditions and myths. Significantly, the Golden Age appears
most frequent in the traditions of cultures stretching from India to Northern
Europe — the area directly beneath the Polar Regions. Joscelyn Godwin, in Arktos, The Polar Myth
in Science, Symbolism and Nazi
Survival, says:
“The memory or
imagination of a Golden Age seems to be a particularity of the cultures that
cover the area from India to Northern Europe… but in the ancient Middle East, there is an obvious relic of the Golden
Age in Genesis, as the Garden of Eden where
humanity walked with the gods before the
fall. The Egyptians spoke of past epochs ruled by
god-kings. Babylonian mythology… had a
scheme of three ages, each lasting while the vernal [spring] equinox precessed through four signs of the zodiac; the first of these, under
the dominion of Anu, as a Golden Age,
ended by the Flood. The Iranian Avesta texts tell of the thousand-year Golden Reign of Yima,
the first man and the first king, under
whose rule cold and heat, old age, death and sickness were unknown.”
The memory of a Golden
Age, although rendered in an archetypal or mythological form, serves a
super-historical purpose. This is why the remembrance of the ancient
civilisation of Atlantis is sometimes enmeshed
with that of Hyperborea. All myths are known to have a historical basis. Transmitted primarily
by oral tradition, they are wrapped in a catchy and simple tale that ensures their survival and transmittal down through the
ages. Myth
serves an extremely vital function
— a recollection
of our beginnings, knowledge of where we are heading, and what we are supposed to do.
This I believe is the
final piece of evidence that proves Doggerland, and the NEP was the continent and peninsula that are referred to in
history as Atlantis.
Doggerland is a name given by archaeologists
and geologists to a former landmass in the North Sea that connected the island
of Great Britain to mainland Europe during and just after the last Ice Age,
surviving until about 6,500 or 6,200 BCE and then gradually being flooded by
rising sea levels. Geological surveys have suggested that Doggerland was a
large area of dry land that stretched from Britain's east coast across to the
present coast of The Netherlands and the western coasts of Germany and Denmark.
For the last 100 years, vessels have dragged
up mammoth and lion remains, among other remains of land animals, and small
numbers of highly sophisticated prehistoric tools and weapons that were used by
the region's inhabitants. The
pre-Socrates Greeks called this land ‘Hyperborea’ - land of the North; Plato
called it ‘Atlantis’.
What connection did it have with ancient Greek myths and legends?
ReplyDeleteAccording to Iman Wilkens in his book 'Where Troy Once Stood', (and others before him), England was the original Troy and was attacked for its mineral wealth by enemies on the continent. These were the original Greeks etc who eventually migrated to present day Greece but kept a memory of their ancient myths and transposed them to the Mediterranean.
He does a great deal of work on place name analysis to link places in the Illiad with western Europe.
The Greeks never migrated from Britain to the Mediterranean. The link of interest for me is the descriptions of some of the characters such as Achilles who was blue eyed and blonde (just like Brad Pit in the film Troy) and Helen of Troy (blonde and blue eyed again) genetically these people are not of Mediterranean origin but from Northern Europe.
ReplyDeleteIman is incorrect on some aspects of his book as Troy is not Cambridge but the capital city of Atlantis according to the Aristotle school and my last book - The Stonehenge Enigma firmly places Atlantis in the Middle of the North Sea in a place called Doggerland.
Are you aware of anything to disprove the idea of it being in Cambridge, or do you just have some conflicting/superior evidence for Doggerland?
ReplyDeleteWasn't Doggerland long gone by 1200BC? Or do you put the war further back?
I read your article on Troy/Atlantis btw and loved it.
I don't believe Cambridge fits the description - although the river names are similar. As for the dates - these 'guestimates' revolve around the known Mediterranean Bronze age cultures - such as the Minoan culture which was dated about 1200 - 1700Bc originally but now is believed to be much older 2700BC.
ReplyDeleteThe poems are dateless and therefore I believe they date back to Doggerland/Atlantis times when the original culture had fragmented into tribal warfare as there beloved island slowly sank and the inhabitance moved to other places to live in new tribes. This is one of the stories of two tribes at odds with each other. If I was to attempt to date it - I would go for 4000 BC.