There is much more to the atlantis myth than is generally known.
One tid bit I have found in readings relates to the account from solon referring to atlantis being destroyed 9000 years before the plato account (as related by the egyptian scibes to solon). At the time the egyptians used 4 different calander methods, one of which was to use lunar months as "years". This is cited quite a bit in the old testament when it refers to alot of the early patriarchs living 500+ years, what they meant was 500+ lunar months, so a patriarch that lived for 720yrs lived for 60 solar years.
Another tid bit is the guanches who lived on the canary islands, they spoke a language that has or is possibly the root of alot of mediterranian languages. They had a local legend about their homeland being swallowed by the sea. They were fair skinned and had red or blond hair. Unfortunately they were exterminated by the portugese before much could be learned.
The portugese also had in their possession advanced maps such as the pieri reis map as well as others, indicating that at some point in the past far more exploration of the planet had been done that is commonly accepted.
The exploration done during the early chinese dynastic period relates visiting many strange lands which with some "creative interpretation" can be set in many locals. But the point here is that exploration to far off lands was government policy for at least one chinese dynasty.
Prodidious pyramid building seems to occur literally across the planet at almost the same latitude from central america to north africa, across the middle east and india and southern china. All the cultures that built such pyramids had a fanatical reverence for precession, calenders, time keeping, astronomy and how to relate them all into their religeon. For the most part the only other pyramids in quantity occur in chile and those are located within a very localized spot. Almost implying a new cultural growth that died out or the decay of an older transplanted culture.
There are many tales and legends of fair skinned people with red or blond hair in north america who came from across the sea to trade with north american indians in the bronze age. The so called white indians.
Many new world tribal myths held that teachers, civilization givers, "gods" came from across the sea and taught new world cultures advanced knowledge then they left. A group of these people apparently ran the full lenght of north and south america interacting with locals along the way.
There are many anomolus structures around the world that bear remarkable symalarities in construction technique and antiquity that seem to imply that all were either in contact at construction or were an amazing coincidence. A case in point is the building lintel staples made from copper used in the orsiron in egypt and the city of Tiahunaco. No one knows who built the Osiron but it was under Ramses II's buildings at that site. Tiahunaco on the other hand has marks on the stones implying that the builders had first hand or at least records of what mastadons looked like as well as other late ice age animals.
The number 72 or multiples of this number appear in many buildings around the world and in many civilization creation myths. The number 72 has great significance for preccession of the zodiac.
There is growing evidence to support the theory that the bronze age ended with litterally a ball of fire, or several hundreds. I have read several sources that seem to indicate, believe it or not, that Circa 1198 B.C.E. about late october or early november, fragments from the comet Encke impacted earth from the mid atlantic to northern australia over the course of several days. Some evidence of this is scattered acrosss europe but is not limited to carbon dating of entire forests that burned to the ground, hundreds of townships and villages, significant depopulation across the entire european land mass, complete collapse of at least 6 different bronze age cultures and also multiple legends/myths that refer to the "sea people" stricking out on conquest after their homeland was destroyed. The months of late oct and early nov were indicated as being the time of impact in the theory related to two things, the second comming of the taurid meterors and the universal reverence of this time of the year for death and death related festivals world wide.
If Solon's account is to be given any credence then there may have been a world trade in copper at the time of the end of the bronze age. It would make sense that the culture that commanded or navigated the oceans with some level of competency would be in a very good position to control and interact with many diverse cultures with whom they traded.
There is enough evidence of myth to support a world trading culture at the end of the bronze age. Whether they were known as the sea people, the pirates, the phonecians, the viracocas, the white indians, the guaranche's ancestors or many other such names, all myths tend to agree that they suddenly and irrevocably dissappeared either after complete loss of contact or after a suicidal military attack.
Refer to this tid bit for you who dont know some local history for michigan....(note that the mines were abandoned circa 1200BCE)
http://www.exploringthenorth.com/cophistory/cophist.htmlThere are many things out there to make you go hmmmmmmmm.
Remember Iliios was a legend till Schiemann found it.
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