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Atlantis: We Will Ever Know

Fantasy is a tough sell in the twentieth century.

        The world has been fully discovered and fully mapped. Popular media has
effectively minimized the legend and the fantastic rumor, though to make up for
this it has generated falsities not as lavish but just as interesting.
Satellites have mapped and studied the earth, leaving only a space frontier
that is as yet unreachable.
But standing out is a charming fantasy the modern world has yet to verify or
condemn: the lost continent of Atlantis.
        The father of the modern world's perception of Atlantis is Plato (circa
428-circa 347 b.c.). (1)  The Greek philosopher spoke in his works Timaeus and
Critias of a continent in the Atlantic ocean larger than Africa and Asia Minor
combined which rivaled Athens as the most advanced in the world. (2)  According
to the legend surrounding Plato's dialogues, the island of Atlantis was
violently thrown into the sea by the forces of nature, and its few survivors
managed to swim ashore and relate their story. (3) There the legend was passed
by word of mouth until an Egyptian priest related the story to Solon, a
character in Timaeus. The priest admired the achievements of prehistoric
Athenians, because when the rulers of Atlantis threatened to invade all of
Europe and Asia the Athenians, on behalf of all Greeks, defeated the Atlanteans
to avoid enslavement. (4)
        The works of Plato opened the floodgates to endless speculation on
whether the continent described was fact or fiction. Atlantis has since been
placed in Spain, Mongolia, Palestine, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden,
Greenland and Yucatan. Every nook and cranny of the globe has been
hypothesized; mountain peaks, desert lands, the ocean floor and even the barren
wasteland of Antarctica have been mentioned in theories. (5)
        While some of these theories are compatible with Plato's works and are
within relative reason, numerous crackpot theories have been developed using
the lost continent as a basis. One of these theories, posted on the computer
internet where it has access to over fifteen million people, talks in twenty-
one pages of pre-historical lands with names like Oz and Luxor. These world
wide web pages list over two hundred separate articles of proof for the
existence of Atlantis, as in the following: (6)
        “Most all ancient civilizations believed  in the TITANS, the race of
giant humans that inhabited Earth long ago. Different races knew them by
different names. These 7 to 12 foot humanoids were thought to be legendary
until the excavation of over a dozen skeletons 8 to 12 feet tall, around the
world, shocked archeologists. These skeletons were positively human. Some of
these skeletal remains are on Maui in lava caves near Ulupalakua and Olowalu.
The Spanish Conquistadors left diaries of wild blond-haired, blue-eyed 8 to 12
foot high men running around in the Andes during the conquest of the Incas. A
couple were reportedly captured but died en route to Europe. If giant animals
(dinosaurs) were possible then why not giant men? And why are these goliaths
populating both Eurasia and the Americas? Only on a land bridge c...

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