Friday, August 11
I find Atlantis very fascinating.
I'm looking on the web to check out more about it.
They say it is in the Atlantic Ocean.
'Atlantic' is very close to "Atlantis", which makes me wonder which came first. City of Atlantis or the Atlantic Ocean?
Interestingly enough there is a map of an island in the Atlantic drawn by Plato or his student or some such showing a very large land mass that is labeled "Atlantis" in the Atlantic Ocean.
Though for some reason it appears to have been drawn upside down. Whether or not that has significance, I don't know.
"Map of Atlantis by the 17th-century German scholar Athanasius Kircher. Kircher based his
map on Plato's description of Atlantis as an island west of the Pillars of Hercules - the
Strait of Gibraltar - and situated Atlantis in the ocean that has since been named after the
legendary land. Unlike modern cartographers, he placed south at the top of the map, which
puts America at the right."
Now... Australians believe the world is drawn upside down on the maps today, and even today they draw their maps with north pointing down. This could imply that the Atlantians drew their map upside down because they, like the Australians are, were perhaps in the southern hemisphere.
One more interesting thing is that the atlantic ocean has a mysteriously large piece that looks like a very large sunk island. AND you know the bermuda triangle? It seems to me that the strange wave patterns might have been caused by the absence or dissapearence of Atlantis.
Yes, so now I want to impose the map upside down that I found of Atlantis over top of where the sunken island is.
bah. I need to eat.
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