one
terrible day and night of misfortune;
the
extraordinary inundation of Atlantis, Attica and Hellas
By Leon Flying Eagle
& Mary Whispering Wind
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Introduction
to Great Atlantis Flood Theory
The
Great Atlantis Flood Theory presents scientific evidence which
supports
the truth of the history of Atlantis, as recorded in the Dialogues
of Plato. According to the Dialogues, the history of
Atlantis, Attica
and Hellas was recorded in ancient sacred Egyptian records.
The Dialogues
reveal that an aged Egyptian priest showed these records to a
visiting
Greek statesman named Solon, known as the wisest of the Seven Greek
Sages and “Lawgiver” of Athens.
Solon translated the records
and wrote
an unfinished epic poem containing all the details of these
ancient
civilizations. This poem was subsequently recited by Critias
and recorded
in The Dialogues of Plato.
The Dialogues affirm that these
historical
records are not fiction but are indeed fact, and that the
perseverance,
tragedies and triumphs of the inhabitants of these ancient
nations,
as revealed in the records, are absolutely true!
The
Egyptian priest described the founding of ancient Atlantis by
Poseidon
and Cleito and the founding of ancient Athens by Hephaestus
and Athene,
at some date which was lost in antiquity.
Many generations of
empire
builders created their great kingdoms and established their
provinces.
These kingdoms grew and prospered, however as their cultures
evolved,
they formed vastly different governmental control systems.
In
9,600 BC, the burgeoning military-minded, male-dominated
aristocracy
of the Empire of Atlantis sought to subjugate the
freedom-loving, ecologically-friendly
and equality-minded Athenians.
This began a great war between
the two
empires. Battles raged throughout the provinces, and then as
the Athenians
were marching against the mighty City of Atlantis, Mother-Nature wrought
a dramatic end to the hostilities, the combatants and their
empires.
Suddenly the magnificent City of Atlantis was destroyed by an earthquake
and the Island of Atlantis sank into the sea, and the modest
homes and
fertile farmlands of the Hellenes were washed into the sea by
an “extraordinary
inundation,” which left only a remnant of Attica.
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Overview of the Great Atlantis Flood,
and the extraordinary inundation of
Atlantis, Attica and Hellas
1.
Caspian Sea 2. Manych-Kerch
Gateway 3. Atlantis 4. Diverse
islands
The
Great Atlantis Flood Theory presents evidence which supports
the truth
of the history of Atlantis. We propose that the Dialogues of
Plato
present an accurate account of geological events, occurring
in 9,600
BC, in the Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridor, extending from
the Caspian
Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
Glacial melt-waters, at the end of the Younger Dryas Ice
Age, raised
the level of the Caspian Sea (1.). An earthquake caused the
Manych-Kerch
Gateway (2.) to fracture, allowing the Caspian Sea to break
through
into the farmlands of Atlantis (3.).
Simultaneously the
earthquake
caused the Atlantean farmlands
to sink,
thus increasing the intensity of the flood waters from the
Caspian
Sea. The Island of Atlantis “disappeared” beneath the flood
waters
which filled the Azov
depression. The earthquake and resulting tsunami washed
away diverse islands (4.) in the Black Sea (5.).
The
earthquake and
tsunami also caused the Black Sea to flood into Attica (6.),
via the Sakarya
River Delta
and/or
to burst up through a proposed subterranean outflow channel
causing
the farmlands of Attica and Hellas (7.) to be washed away
into the
Mediterranean Sea (8.).
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The
Great Atlantis Flood of 9,600 BC
The
aged
Egyptian priest presents an accurate account of the
torrential flooding
which occurred 9,000 years before Solon’s journey to Egypt. The priest
displayed an uncanny knowledge of history by citing the date
for the
catastrophic destruction of Atlantis at 9,600 BC. This date
coincides
with scientific evidence of catastrophic global flooding at
the end
of the Younger Dryas ice age, in exactly 9,600 BC.
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An aged Egyptian priest set the date for
the destruction of the empire of Atlantis and
the
empire of the Hellenes at 11,600 years
ago (9,600 BC.).
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Glacial
Ice Melt caused the level of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea to
rise dramatically.
Glacial
ice-melt from a vast drainage area caused the water level of
the Black
Sea and the Caspian Sea to rise dramatically at the end of the
Younger
Dryas ice age, in 9,600 BC.
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The catastrophe begins when
One
beautiful morning, in 9,600 BC, a devastating impulse
rupture earthquake
suddenly hit Kerch, Crimea,
Ukraine; the
ancient location of the City
of Atlantis. The Tectonics of the Kerch
Peninsula reveal evidence of this
catastrophic
earthquake. The city of Atlantis was immediately leveled.
The earthquake
caused the southern portion of the Island of
Atlantis, north of the
City, to drop 8 to 10 meters; forming the Sea of Azov
depression. Just the day before the mighty City of Atlantis
was a
thriving metropolis; where people were laughing, crying,
being born
and dying, waging war and praying for peace; they were all
suddenly
silenced…..
The
area
surrounding the city of Kerch,
site of ancient
Panticapaeum
(Mithridat Hill) is located on Orogene
formation. This is a stable area of original earth
crust. The City did not sink because it is located on this Orogene
formation. The Kopet-Dagh tectonic
thrust
fault runs along the northern edge of Kerch
Peninsula, in Crimea and the Taman
Peninsula,
in Russia. Rupture zones run along the northern coast of the Kerch
peninsula, and also transverse to it in the Kerch
Strait and the Kazantip peninsula.
Scientific evidence reveals that an earthquake,
estimated at magnitude
8.9, hit Crimea during the late Pleistocene or early Holocene,
the date
of 9,600 BC rests comfortably within the middle of this time
frame. (see
refs. 1,3,5 + 6)
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The
Island of Atlantis and diverse islands in the sea
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The
Sea of Azov was a vast well-watered plain, covered with
fertile alluvial
soil, before 9,600 BC. This wide expanse was an inviting
habitat, where
the Island of Atlantis was created by the excavation of a
navigable
ditch around the fertile plain.
The earthquake caused the
major portion
of the plain to sink. The earthquake generated massive tidal
waves in
the Black Sea. The tidal waves met flood of waters overflowing
from
the Caspian Sea and created a churning backlash which
inundated the
Island of Atlantis.
These giant waves drove inland inundating
the provinces
and sending waves up the river channels, which were already
swollen
from the glacial melt waters. The fertile plain disappeared
beneath
the sea, just as described by the sacred Egyptian records.
Plato’s dialogues
present an accurate geological account of how the Sea of Azov
was formed.
The diverse islands were located on the broad continental
shelf in the
north-western Black Sea (Danube Delta area). The waves from
the tsunami
washed away these islands and their inhabitants.
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The Egyptian priest accurately described the
creation
of the original Archipelagos; which was the ancient name of
the islands
in the Aegean Sea. He accurately described the geological
transformation of the
former Aegean fertile plain into the modern Aegean
Sea.
This description is supported by scientific evidence that
the
area of the Aegean Sea was above sea level in 9,600 BC. How
could
these events have been so accurately recorded in ancient
times, unless
the sacred Egyptian records actually existed?
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Modern geography
of Bosporus,
Marmara and Sakarya river Delta.
The waves generated by the tsunami in the
Black Sea,
broke through the Sakarya River
Delta; into Lake Sapanca
and Izmit Basin.
This explains the presence of Caspian Sea mollusks in
the Black
Sea, Sea of Marmara and the
Dardanelles.
The Egyptian priest reported that a river called the Asopus
ran through the fertile farmlands of the Empire of the
Hellenes. This
river was fed by overflow from the Black Sea and water
seeping up
through many fractures in the proposed subterranean channel,
which
had many smaller tributaries.
The Egyptian priest reported that there
were
abundant fountains and springs of fresh water in the fertile
plain
of Attica. In our scenario these fountains and springs
were created
by various fractures in the proposed subterranean channel.
The increased hydraulic pressure from tidal
waves
in the Black Sea, possibly aided by the earthquake and
aftershocks,
catastrophically fractured the proposed subterranean outflow
channel
into the Mediterranean Sea.
The subterranean channel
ruptured from
the hydraulic pressure of the surging waters within the
channel beneath.
A series of three magnificent fountains, as geysers, broke
through
the fractures and erupted in the heartland of Attica. The
hydraulic
pressure of the immense geysers excavated the present-day Sea
of Marmara.
The farmlands of the Hellenes were washed
away by
the mixture of churning water and debris from the combined
fury of
the gushing geysers and the tidal waves, flooding into the Sakarya
River Delta, from the Black Sea. This catastrophic event
washed away
the fertile farmlands of the Aegean Sea area; leaving
only the bare bones as islands.
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The Great
Atlantis Flood instigates
migrations
The putrid debris generated by this
catastrophe caused
wide spread disease, further decimating the small diverse
populations
of people and animals which had survived the earthquakes
and floods.
Atlantis was destroyed causing the remnant of the populous
to migrate
in every direction, away from the treacherous and putrid
seas.
The small bands of survivors from Atlantis began rebuilding their civilizations. They formed the cultures of the Neolithic age, as described by Prof. Siegfried Schoppe and Christian Schoppe in their Black-Sea-Atlantis Hypothesis. Once again the remnants of Atlantis were assailed by floods, as the rising sea level inundated many settlements, and instigated increased migrations. However, we propose a strikingly different theory of the opening of the Bosporus, than the controversial Noah's Flood theory by American Marine-Geologists Walter Pitman and William Ryan.
Mt. Athos is
proposed as original city of Athens
Athens, the ancient capital city of the
Hellenes was destroyed during the catastrophe and was relocated to its
present location. The Dialogues of Plato describe the re-founding of
Athens by Athene alone, in 9,600 BC.
The ancient location of Athens
may have been near Mt. Olympus, thus generating the myth of the
habitation of the gods being located on Mt. Olympus. However, due to
confusion generated over the passing millennia, and the migration of
place names (for example; Memphis, Egypt and Memphis, Tennessee), and
our own intuitive insight, we propose that the original site of Athens
was located on Mt. Athos, Greece.
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After the earthquakes and floods, the level
of the
Black Sea lowered to the level of the outflow channel.
During the
next four millennia, the sea level of the Black Sea
fluctuated due
to varying climatic conditions.
The water levels of the
Black Sea
and the Caspian Sea rose quickly again, at the same time as
the world
ocean level rise, in about 5,600 BC.
The increased hydraulic
pressure,
generated by the rising water level and possibly with the
aid of tectonic
activity, in and around the Sea of Marmara, caused the
Bosporus land
bridge to fracture causing the opening of the Bosporus to
surface
flow from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean Sea.
The
initial
breach of the Bosporus land bridge instigated another
thunderous
discharge of flood waters cascading into the Mediterranean
Sea,
from the Black Sea; this great flood was another one of
the many
great deluges, described by the Egyptian priest, in the
long history
of misfortunes which have befallen, and still plague, the
ancient
motherland of the honorable Hellenes.
The modern straits of the Bosporus connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara. The opening of the Bosporus was the final step in uniting the Black Sea with the world oceans. After this breach the formerly fresh-water Black Sea began to become a salt water sea. |
In
summation,
our Great Atlantis Flood Theory presents the hypothesis that
The Dialogues
by Plato present an accurate detailed description of the
history and
geography of the ancient empires of Atlantis, Hellas and
Attica. We
present evidence that these ancient empires now lay, for the
most
part, beneath the Sea of Azov (Atlantis), the Black Sea
(island provinces),
the Sea of Marmara (Attica) and the Aegean Sea (Hellas).
Our hypothesis is supported by the correlation of modern scientific evidence with Plato's account of the ancient earthquakes and floods which devastated these ancient empires. The torrential flood described in Plato's ancient writings was truly a flood of biblical proportions! It destroyed the bulk of Human civilization in “one terrible day and night of misfortune.” |
The
Great Atlantis Flood Theory
by
Leon Flying Eagle & Mary Whispering Wind,
published
by COSMIC VORTEX, June 6, 2005, updated Oct. 11, 2009, Sept. 15,
2010.cybershamans (karmapolice) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
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