I've recently spent 10 days away from the media, television, the internet, the "news", everything. Aliens could have landed and I probably wouldn't have known. A politician could have said something sensible. I've just been walking, swimming in the sea, eating freshly caught fish and drinking local wine. When you return to simplicity the absurdities of modern life are even more absurd but at the same time so ridiculous you know they cannot last. They are not like the rock in the first picture or the sea in the others, not parts of solid reality. They are seen as terrible aberrations but essentially trivial, even childish. They will be swept away eventually though they may do a good deal of damage before that happens. But they will pass.
This is one of the supposed sites of Atlantis before its destruction. I don't believe that theory because, for one thing, it is in the Aegean not 'beyond the Pillars of Hercules' (i.e. Gibraltar), and, for another, the volcanic eruption that put paid to the Bronze Age site in present-day Akrotiri was in the 16th century BC and Atlantis went down long before that. But archaeological digs have revealed a thriving, well-developed and prosperous prehistoric city that probably traded with Minoan Crete and ancient Cyprus, a major source of copper. Apart from the usual pottery vessels and, less romantic but more practical, advanced (for the time) drainage system, the site has revealed numerous beautiful frescoes such as the ones below.
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| Minoan City and Ship |
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| A Fisherman |
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| A Saffron Gatherer |
All the men in the paintings have ruddy skin while the women are white which perhaps reflects ideas of masculine and feminine beauty. Or maybe the men just worked outdoors more. There are also pictures of blue monkeys, now in the local museum. When you consider these are over three and a half thousand years old it makes you curious to hear their music too. Would it have been of the same quality?
It's spiritually healthy to get off the internet completely and away from the world for a while but one can't remain lotus-eating for long or one becomes soft. That doesn't mean we should spend too much time online but we are here to overcome the world both out there and within ourselves, and so for now it's back to what is amusingly called reality.
It's a pity some of the pictures overlap with the text at the side but they look better bigger.
Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThere was an ancient usage of Plato's beyond the pillars of Hercules/Gibralter that could be applied to an area near Sicily.
Regarding the date of collapse there was in the time of Plato a lunar solar calendar that by another interpretion does fit that time of the volcanic eruption.
Note the ship!
I have wondered if one of the outposts of the Atlantis Confederation was the Faroe islands.
What are the signs, if any, of Atlantis in Great Britain?
Yes, that was it.
ReplyDeleteIf you read about the 'Minoans' - remember that is a totally made-up name by a researcher of the culture - and replace it with Atlanteans it becomes clear.
The Atlanteans had that Auric magic for a while.
Although I don't think the Minoans were Atlanteans I do think it possible that they were distant descendants of that seafaring people and that their culture retained aspects of the old country. As for Atlantis in Great Britain, there is the story of the sunken land of Lyonesse off the Cornish coast and maybe other parts of the West had Atlantean settlements at one time.
ReplyDeleteYes, it could be descendents of, distantly.
ReplyDeleteI think there is a kind of timeline overlap with Plato's dates depending on the type of calendar used. The events may be mixing in time too, such as there being no Athens during the time of Atlantis yet there was supposedly a great war between the Athenians and Atlanteans which would make more sense if they were the Minoans.
There would be an Atlantis 1 of the 11,600 years ago and the other the Minoan remnant, an Atlantis 2.
Which spawned the pyramids is unclear but it would seem more likely the earlier global network was the one.