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Jim Allen's
Historic Atlantis in Bolivia
Introduction
Plato (Greek
philosopher 380BC) writing in his works
Timaeus
and
Critias described a
large continent with a wonderful civilisation which he
said existed at one time at "a distant point in the Atlantic Ocean" opposite the
Strait of Gibraltar. He called the continent Atlantis and said it sank into the
sea in the space of a single day and night. Thus arose the legend of the lost
continent of Atlantis.The Problem: Modern geology says a continent cannot sink beneath the sea in the space of a single day and no such continent has sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Real Problem: The question has always been, was Plato's Atlantis based on a real place and real events, or was it simply a story he made up?
The Test: The test must be this, is there a geographic location or sequence of events that matches the actual description given by Plato?
The Solution: The lost continent of
Atlantis is still there opposite the Pillars of Hercules (Strait of Gibraltar) only now it has
been re-named South America.
The key to the mystery of Atlantis is that Plato is describing both a large continent and a small volcanic
island of the same name. The continent had a large, level rectangular plain at its centre and in the
centre of the plain was the small volcanic island which later became the city of Atlantis. It was only
the small island city which sank into the sea and not the entire continent.
the island city of Atlantis
Background: Plato's description exactly fits South America because that is the continent which is opposite the Pillars of Hercules and because the level rectangular plain he described is to be found in the centre of that continent, midway along the longest side exactly as he described it. The city in turn lay on the level rectangular plain, five miles from the sea which is an inland sea and according to Plato the whole region was high above the level of the Ocean sea, rising sheer out of the ocean sea to a great height on that side of the continent. Thus we have both a lost city of Atlantis as well as a lost continent of Atlantis.
Therefore: It was not the continent of Atlantis which sank into the sea, but the island capital of the same name, built around a volcanic island which sank into the inland sea of Lake Poopo which exists on the edge of the rectangular plain presently called the Bolivian Altiplano.
Modern satellite mapping shows the plain, now called the Altiplano to be of rectangular configuration, perfectly
level, enclosed on all sides by mountains and these mountains contained the
metals gold, silver, copper, tin and the mysterious Orichalcum" (an alloy of
gold and copper which occurs only in the Andes) which Plato said were used to
plate the walls of the circular city. The words "Atl" and "Antis" are themselves
of native America origins meaning "water" and "copper" respectively and the
plain is subject to earthquakes and floods such as Plato said sank the city in a
single day and night of rainfall.
Sinking into the Sea
People sometimes say; "How can Atlantis be in the Andes when
it is supposed to have sunk into the sea?" We must remember that Atlantis
according to Plato was on a level plain which was "high above the level of the sea and
surrounded by mountains". Yet the city was on a level plain and only 5 miles from the sea and connected to
the sea by a canal.
The only way the city can be on a level plain and 5 miles from the sea and yet at the same time "high above the level of the sea"
is if there are in fact two seas, that is here, the Ocean Sea enclosing the island continent and the inland sea adjacent to the city.
In fact the entire plain has been periodically submerged beneath the sea ie it became a giant inland sea at various
dates going back thousands of years succeeded by dry periods.
Atlantis was "at a distant point in the Atlantic Ocean, larger than Libya and Asia together
and it was possible for the travellers of that time to cross from it to the other islands,
and from the islands to the whole of the continent encompassing the veritable ocean." - meaning from Atlantis via the Pacific islands to the continent of Eurasia
continue to page 2 for the evidence