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Lost civilization

Atlantis - reality or dream?

Everything that is hidden now will someday be revealed by time.

Quintus Horace Flaccus, “Epistle”, 6:20

A country that, thousands of years ago, could have conquered all of Europe. Huge marble palaces, multi-deck ships, tall, strong people, unprecedented weapons, the mysterious magic of priests, nobility and ambition - all this could have become the reality of our history, if not...

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the ancient country of Atlantis, buried by the ocean depths. What was Atlantis? An ancient and powerful human civilization? Or maybe a refuge for aliens from distant worlds? Why did Atlantis perish? Was she the victim of a natural disaster or a devastating war using mysterious weapons?

Other ancient authors also wrote about Atlantis and its inhabitants. True, almost all of them lived after Plato, which means they most likely relied on the data he provided.

An exception is the “father of history” Herodotus (485-425 BC), who mentioned the Atlanteans who lived in North Africa. However, this tribe received its name from the Atlas Mountains.

A surge of interest in the problem of Atlantis occurred at the end of the 19th century. In 1882, the American Ignatius Donnelly published the book “Atlantis - antediluvian world”, where he asserted that this legendary land is the ancestral home of all humanity. To prove the theory, he used data from archeology, biology and mythology, compared legends, languages ​​and customs of peoples on both sides Atlantic Ocean. Donnelly's work marked the beginning of the modern view of the problem of Atlantis and became a source of inspiration for other authors. The result is more than 5,000 titles of scientific, popular science and fiction books.

Broken phone

As we see, atlantology is based on a shaky foundation. You are especially convinced of this when you soberly analyze Plato’s texts. The philosopher learned about Atlantis from hearsay, and the whole story resembles a children's game of “broken telephone.”

So what does Plato say? His great-grandfather Critias, as a 10-year-old boy, heard about Atlantis from his then 90-year-old grandfather, also Critias. And he, in turn, learned the tragic story of the Atlanteans from a distant relative, the great Athenian sage Solon (640 - 558 BC). Solon received the “baton” from the Egyptian priests from the temple of the goddess Neit in the city of Sais (not preserved to this day), who from time immemorial allegedly kept historical records in the form of hieroglyphs on temple columns. It turns out to be quite a long chain of intermediaries...

If we assume that Plato did not invent anything, there is still plenty of room for error. Critias the Younger claimed that the story of Atlantis shocked him, so he remembered it in detail. However, there are direct contradictions in the dialogue. For example, in one place Critias says that: “... the story was indelibly imprinted on my memory,” and in another - that: “... after such a long time, I did not remember enough the contents of the story.” Then it turns out that he had some notes. Memorable notes from grandfather or Solon? And Critias’s grandfather, in his 90s, could well have mixed up a lot of things, not to mention the fact that many details of the legend about the sunken land may be the fruit of senile boasting. “And I’ll tell you, grandson, a great-a-wonderful fairy tale!”

So perhaps Aristotle was completely or partially right. Plato could indeed have invented the story of Atlantis to illustrate his views (remember Thomas More's Utopia). Or, with all his honesty, the philosopher compiled dialogues from some other sources about Atlantis that have not reached us, historical and geographical works of various authors, legends, myths and his own conjectures. Well, Plato could simply have invented a chain of storytellers for greater reliability.

True, the ending of Critias is most likely lost. Perhaps the “lost files” contained all the answers?

"Pros and cons"

Plato describes the land of the ancestors of the Hellenes as follows: “It stretches from the mainland far into the sea... and is immersed on all sides in a deep vessel of the abyss.” But the ancient Greeks did not know about the presence of depths of more than a few tens of meters! Atlantologists believe that Plato’s words about the “deep vessel of the abyss” are evidence of knowledge preserved from the time of the Atlanteans. However, Plato could have used this phrase as a poetic comparison. Or, based on the presence of the steep shores of Attica, independently conclude that if the rocks drop sharply into the sea, it must be very deep there.

On the other hand, the war of the ancient Hellenes with Atlantis is very reminiscent of the wars of the Greeks with the Persians. The thought involuntarily creeps in that the philosopher projected the events of real history onto the distant past. The description of Atlantis in terms of relief and natural data resembles the island of Crete. Temple of Poseidon, the main cult building of the Atlanteans, is very similar to the sanctuary of Aphrodite in Cyprus. The sculpture of the god of the seas on a chariot drawn by six winged horses is reminiscent of the very real statue of Poseidon by Scopas (4th century BC). Random coincidences or fraud?

Where is this street, where is this house?

Atlantologists also argue about the location of the legendary land, although from Plato’s dialogues it would seem to be extremely clear that the island was located precisely in the Atlantic.

Plato says that to the west of the Pillars of Hercules (the ancient name of the Strait of Gibraltar) lay a huge island, larger than Libya and Asia combined, from which one could easily cross over other islands to the “opposite continent” (America?).

Therefore, many atlantologists believe that traces of Atlantis should be looked for somewhere at the bottom of the ocean of the same name. Possibly near existing islands that may have been high mountain peaks sunken land.

At the same time, atlantologists stubbornly ignore the simplest fact - if an asteroid capable of flooding a hefty island crashed onto Earth, it would cause such an increase in atmospheric temperature that almost all life on the planet would be destroyed.

Myths of the peoples of the world

The “father” of Atlantology, Donnelly, and his followers consider mythology, or more precisely, several legends that coincide among many peoples, to be the key evidence for the existence of Atlantis.

Firstly, these are legends about the flood, which are found among almost all of humanity. The gods, tired of human dirty tricks, flood the entire earth with water, adding a number of other weighty means of re-educating sinners - in the form of fire rain, for example.

Secondly, legends about aliens from distant lands (not to be confused with aliens!). An unknown man arrives from somewhere far away, speaking an incomprehensible language and teaching the natives various useful things.

Thirdly, legends about cosmic cataclysms. Something huge falls from the sky - a stone, the Moon, the Sun, a Dragon. It doesn't bring anything good to people. The people left out of business are scattering in all directions...

Atlantis in the Mediterranean?

In addition to the Atlantic Ocean, the sunken island is also placed in other parts of the world. The Mediterranean Sea is especially loved.

Upon closer examination, this theory does not look crazy at all. Plato wrote that after Atlantis sank, “the sea in those places became... unnavigable and inaccessible due to shallowing caused by the huge amount of silt that the settled island left behind.” It is unlikely that in the Atlantic Ocean, with its considerable depths, muddy shallows would serve as a serious obstacle to shipping. But in the Mediterranean there are plenty of such places. And the nature of Atlantis can easily be correlated with almost any Mediterranean island.

The god of the seas, Poseidon, fell in love with a simple girl, Cleito, who bore him 5 pairs of twins, who laid the foundation for the Atlantean people.

The Atlantean state was similar to Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea - an archipelago of several islands, the length of the main one was 1110 km, width - 400 km. The climate is presumably tropical, as there were elephants on the island. On the southern side of Atlantis was its capital - the city of Poseidonis with a diameter of about 7 km. In the center of the city there was a lake, in the middle of which lay an island with a diameter of 965 meters, pierced by canals, with the Acropolis palace complex surrounded by two earthen ramparts. The outer shaft was covered with copper, the inner one with tin, the walls of the acropolis were lined with orichalcum (a metal unknown to us). The Acropolis included the joint temple of Cleito and Poseidon, surrounded by a golden wall, and the temple of Poseidon himself with a huge statue of the sea god inside. Outside around the temple were images of the wives and relatives of the kings of Atlantis, offerings from their vassals.

The population of Atlantis was about 6 million people. The state system is a monarchy: 10 king-archons, the highest of whom bore the title “Atlas” and lived in Poseidonis. Every 5-6 years, council meetings were held - “courts” of the kings, before which “bull sacrifices” were organized (a similar custom existed in Crete).

The Atlantean army consisted of 660 thousand people and 10 thousand war chariots. Fleet - 1200 combat triremes with a crew of 240 thousand people.

Are Atlanteans the ancestors of the Russians?

Some scientists go their own way, placing the legendary land in the most exotic places. In 1638, the English scientist and politician Francis Bacon, in his book Nova Atlantis, placed Atlantis in Brazil, where, as is known, there are many wild monkeys. In 1675, the Swede Rudbeck argued that Atlantis was in Sweden, and its capital was Uppsala.

Recently, due to the lack of virgin places, they have turned to our endless expanses - the Azov, Black and Caspian Seas have also been honored to accept the completely lost Atlantis into their arms. There is also a charming theory that the Atlanteans are the ancestors of the ancient Russians, and the legendary land of Plato... the sunken city of Kitezh! True, after the stories that Adam and Eve were from somewhere in the Moscow region, the Russian-Atlantic version no longer looks sensational enough.

R. Silverberg in “Letters from Atlantis” shows the events of a thousand years ago through the eyes of modern man, whose mind has moved into the body of an Atlantean prince (an obvious remake of Hamilton's Star Kings!).

A time traveler can also become a witness to the events of the past (“Dancer from Atlantis” by P. Anderson, “Atlantis Endgame” by A. Norton and S. Smith).

Sometimes Atlanteans became aliens from outer space (A. Shalimov, “Return of the Last Atlantean”), or were the first earthlings to come into contact with alien intelligence (V. Kernbach, “Boat over Atlantis”; G. Martynov, “Time Spiral”) . Perhaps it was vile aliens who destroyed Atlantis? Here is the hero of the "Atlantis" series by G. Donnegan, the tough special forces soldier Eric, together with his comrades from the Navy Seal squad, is trying to stop the insidious shadow aliens who once treacherously sank the unfortunate Atlanteans.

Many books tell about the adventures of outcasts who survived the disaster. Some have preserved the remnants of civilization under water (“Atlantis under water” by R. Kadu, “Marakot’s Abyss” by A. Conan Doyle, “The End of Atlantis” by K. Bulychev). Others ran away. To America (“The Temple. A Manuscript Found on the Coast of Yucatan” by H. P. Lovecraft), to Africa (“Tarzan and the Treasure of Opar” by E. R. Barrows); to Spain (“This distant Tartessus” by E. Voiskunsky and I. Lukodyanov); even to Britain ("Stones of Power" by D. Gemmell). For some Atlanteans, the shock from the death of their homeland turned out to be so strong that other planets seemed to them to be the best refuge (A. Tolstoy, “Aelita”; A. Shcherbakov, “Chalice of Storms”).

In V. Panov’s recent novel “The Pulpit of Wanderers,” the catalyst for powerful forces turns out to be ancient artifact Atlanteans Throne of Poseidon. Even Batman ("The Black Egg of Atlantis" by N. Barrett) joins the battle for the Atlantean legacy when the Penguin Man tries to take possession of an ancient object that gives dark power.

Why did Atlantis perish?

There is also no agreement on the reasons for the death of the island.

In addition to the basic, albeit completely unrealistic version of the fall of a giant meteorite, the hypothesis of a powerful earthquake is very popular. In history, there are known cases of sudden subsidence of the earth by several meters as a result of such a natural disaster. For example, the death of the pirate capital of Port Royal in Jamaica in 1692, when the city sank 15 meters into the sea. Large earthquakes, especially those with their epicenter on the seabed, can cause a tsunami. A typical example of such a disaster is the tsunami resulting from the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia in 1883, when the wave height was about 40 meters. Such a wave is quite capable of burying the coastal zone of the mainland or even an entire island.

In addition to more or less scientific explanations, there are also occult and fantastic theories about Atlantis, sometimes very specific. For example, members of the Rising Atlanteans sect, founded in the 70s of the last century, believe that the Atlanteans are the descendants of aliens, who then laid the foundation for the Egyptian civilization.

The bestsellers of the terribly popular ophthalmologist Ernst Muldashev among some Russians also contain amazing discoveries. It turns out that the Atlanteans had extrasensory perception, and 75,000 years ago they built the Egyptian pyramids with the help of psychokinetic energy. A number of great personalities - Krishna, Buddha, Christ - were also Atlanteans. And somewhere in the depths of Tibet, in caves, the surviving Atlanteans are still sleeping in a special type of suspended animation - samadhi.

Is Atlantis a myth?

Despite all the numerous disagreements, the only thing that cements the discordant ranks of atlantologists is the idea that Atlantis really existed. However, there are many who declare: Atlantis is a myth!

Their main arguments are as follows. Firstly, apart from Plato’s dialogues, there are no other reliable references to Atlantis. Secondly, the island had to be too large, and it would not be easy to fit it somewhere in terms of geography. Thirdly, modern geological and oceanographic studies do not confirm the sinking of large parts of land to the ocean floor. Fourthly, 10 thousand years ago there was no developed human civilization. But for any of these arguments, if desired (and many have it!), no less logical counter-arguments can be easily found.

The most impartial scientists still admit that Plato’s dialogues contain a rational grain and they describe real natural disasters that befell the Mediterranean - the same Crete.

The only thing that can draw a line under many years of discussions, indisputably proving the veracity of the legend, is the discovery of the remains of Atlantis on the sea or ocean floor. But is this possible?

Remnants of former luxury

Scientists from many countries constantly explore the seas and oceans, making valuable archaeological discoveries from time to time. True, nothing has yet been found that would prove the existence of a sunken continent or a huge island. Considering the constant improvement of the technical equipment of such expeditions, epoch-making discoveries may not be far off. Another question is what can scientists find at the bottom?

The main building materials of antiquity were marble, granite, basalt and sandstones. Over thousands of years, most buildings will completely dissolve in sea water, except for some marble structures. In addition, certain types of shellfish and the presence of strong underwater currents can have a destructive effect on sunken buildings.

In salty sea water, metals undergo accelerated corrosion. Iron oxidizes after 200 years in the sea, copper and copper alloys disappear after 400 years. True, if copper products have big sizes(bells, cannons, anchors), a layer of carbonates forms on their surface, which can protect the object. But high-grade gold can lie in water for a very long time.

Wooden objects die within a couple of centuries, and high-quality ceramics lie at the bottom for thousands of years. At the same time, many objects, if they are quickly overgrown with corals, can also be stored for a long time - however, it is difficult to detect them in this case. In general, some of the Atlantean heritage can theoretically survive to this day.

Perhaps a miracle will still happen, and humanity will take a fresh look at its history? They also once made fun of Schliemann, but he, despite everything, discovered the legendary Troy...

Atlantis

Atlantis - according to the ancient Greek legend preserved by Plato, a once-existent huge fertile densely populated island in the Atlantic Ocean west of Gibraltar, which sank to the bottom due to an earthquake. Questions about the existence and causes of the death of Atlantis remain controversial in science. (BES).

The search for Atlantis began in 50 AD and has actually continued for two millennia. During this time, a huge number of versions were expressed, but then scientists agreed to count only 40-50 points on the map of the Earth that corresponded to the legend with the greatest degree of plausibility. A version was expressed that similar events could have occurred at different times, in different places and a chronology of the alleged events is built. Presumably the events could have developed in the following order:

south of the islands Cape Verde, opposite the city of Conakry (Africa);

- near the southern part of the Mendeleev Ridge, but north of the island. Wrangel (Arctic Ocean);

- in the Caribbean Sea, west of the island. Haiti;

– in the northeast of Taimyr;

– north of the island. Crete;

– in the center of Bolivia (South America);

– in the South China Sea;

– in Novorossiysk Bay (Krasnodar Territory).

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 BC) in his two works “Timaeus” and “Critias” described a glorious history and a tragic end island state Atlantis. The plot is based on a story in the form of a dialogue conducted by Plato's great-grandfather Critias with his grandfather, who heard the story of Atlantis from his contemporary Solon, an Athenian legislator and poet, who, in turn, heard the story from an Egyptian priest. This island state was, according to Plato, beyond the Pillars of Hercules, as the Strait of Gibraltar was previously called.

Plato gives enough detailed description the island itself, its capital. In the center of the island there was a hill on which stood temples and the royal palace of the Acropolis. Upper town protected by two rows of earthen embankments and three water rings-channels. The outer ring was connected to the sea by a 500-meter canal through which ships entered the inner port. The harbor could accommodate up to 1,200 ships, which could wait out any bad weather here.

The central part of the island was surrounded by stone walls. Molten copper was applied to the stone walls around the outer earthen ring of the Atlantean Canal, and the inside of the wall was covered with cast tin. The wall of the Acropolis was covered with orichalcum (an alloy of copper and zinc), which gave off a “fiery glow.” The floors of the temple of the main deity of the Atlanteans, Poseidon, were lined with gold, silver and orichalcum. Another temple dedicated to Poseidon and his wife Cleito, the ancestor of all Atlanteans, was also surrounded by a golden wall.

In the dialogue “Timaeus,” Plato explains some of the political structure of the island state: “On this island, called Atlantis, arose a great and amazing alliance of kings, whose power extended over the entire island, to many other islands and to part of the mainland, and beyond that , on this side of the strait they captured Libya as far as Egypt and part of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia...”

If you do not take into account a number of late geographical names(Europe, Tyrrhenia, Libya, Egypt), which can be attributed to translators, the narrative looks quite convincing, and Plato himself repeatedly repeats that he is writing the true truth. There is some doubt about the information that underground passages led to the African and American continents.

The Olympian gods, angry at the greed of the islanders and Athens, who fought with them, decided to punish them for greed and violence. A monstrous earthquake and flood “in one terrible day and one night” destroyed the Athenian army and the entire Atlantis, which sank under the ocean waters.

Such is the legend. Many researchers were attracted by the treasures of Atlantis; everyone wanted to take possession of them. Most of the signs described by Plato pointed to the existence of something sunken in the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean; some believed that they had misinterpreted the main landmark and tried to look in the Mediterranean Sea, which in the old days could be compared to the ocean. New versions also appeared that the ancient philosopher did not know about: Brazil and the sea coasts of Siberia.

Interest arose with renewed vigor after the First World War in connection with the development of new underwater technology. This prompted adventurers to organize search companies in several countries at once. The companies failed one after another, but the interest did not wane; each new one believed that it was closer to the goal of the previous search engines. In the Soviet Union, the search for the sunken island began several decades ago. “The Russians found Atlantis!” - such sensational headlines circulated all the world's newspapers in 1979 and were accompanied by photographs of the seabed. In the photographs, longitudinal ridges were clearly visible under the layer of sand, reminiscent of the walls of a destroyed city. The impression of ancient city ruins was enhanced by the fact that other ridges ran along the bottom at right angles to the first. The underwater images were taken by scientists from the Moscow University research vessel Akademik Petrovsky. The place itself fit perfectly with Plato’s version and was located “behind the Pillars of Hercules” in the area of ​​the shallows near the underwater volcano Ampere. Scientists were able to establish that the volcano once protruded above the water and was an island.

Three years later, the better-equipped Soviet vessel Rift launched the Argus submersible submersible at this location. A message from the commander of the Argus, V. Bulyga, was sent to the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences: “We were presented with a panorama of the ruins of the city, since the walls very much imitated the remains of rooms, streets, and squares.” Unfortunately, such encouraging impressions of the aquanaut were not confirmed by the subsequent expedition of the “Vityaz”, which took place in the summer of 1984. Two stones of regular shape were raised to the surface from one of the walls, but their analysis showed that these were the creations of human hands, but volcanic rock. The commander of the Argus crew, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences A. Gorodnitsky, will write in his report: “Most likely, the stone is solidified lava that once poured out through the cracks of the volcano.”

This expedition examined another seamount, Josephine, an equally ancient volcano, and previously an island. A. Gorodnitsky proposed his vision of a geological catastrophe of the distant past: it occurred as a result of a sharp shift in the northern direction of the African tectonic plate. Its collision with the European plate caused the eruption of the Santorini volcano in the east, and in the west - the immersion of the named volcanic islands into the ocean. This hypothesis does not contradict the geological and geophysical data of modern science. Meanwhile, once again, the version of Atlantis turned out to be just another myth and scientists did not find traces of material culture.

The most plausible version of the study is worthy of attention by the Swiss archaeologist Eberhard Zangger, who, having compared some data relating to Troy and Atlantis, considered them identical. Quite close and important coincidences (the number of ships was “twelve hundred”, strong northern winds that interfered with rowing boats when passing into the Black Sea).

Not long ago, the wealthy English athlete T. Severin decided to follow the path of the Argonauts in a galley built according to an ancient model. Before entering the Sea of ​​Marmara, the rowers at the latitude of Troy were exhausted several times, struggling with the oncoming northern current coming from the Dardanelles Strait. Such a natural obstacle could allow Troy to firmly hold an important trade artery in its hands and levy tolls on merchant ships. The information we have confirms that the maritime tax was an important source of income for the Trojans. This also explains the presence of a large fleet and a spacious harbor. Currently, scientists using aviation and other equipment are looking for traces of the proposed canal to the inland port, 500 meters long.

An article by E. Milanovsky was published in one of the collections of Moscow State University, in which the author quite convincingly gives his version: “Many facts and details reported by Plato make it possible to identify the ancient metropolis of Atlantis, consisting of several rounded rings, as if “nested” into each other and horseshoe-shaped in terms of mountainous islands and polygenic straits, that is, for a long time and repeatedly active volcano central type". Each volcanic eruption was accompanied by partial subsidence of the central volcanic structure, which turned into a caldera - a basin left after the eruption. Repeated ejections of the volcano have piled up the calderas, like bowls of different diameters inserted into each other. The gaps between the edges of the bowls are those ring channels, if we talk about the structure of the port of Atlantis. From the standpoint of geology, we can reasonably assume that the island or archipelago described by Plato with a concentric relief structure and thermal springs and its sudden collapse into the depths of the sea, accompanied by an earthquake, tsunami and the appearance at the site of the failure of large masses of floating “fossilized mud” (pumice) are quite correspond to what has become known to geologists in the last 100-150 years."

In his works, E. Milanovsky sets out arguments in favor of the complete correspondence of geological events on the island of Thira to what Plato wrote about the catastrophe of Atlantis. He gives a detailed description of the ongoing excavations of the Tyrian city of Akrotiri, much like modern cities. The version of E. Milanovsky was recently confirmed by the Greek seismologist G. Galanopoulos. While studying the caldera on the island of Thira, he became convinced that a volcanic explosion of incredible force had occurred here, causing a tsunami up to 100 meters high. This wave washed away everything on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean.

The materials obtained by the famous underwater explorer J. Cousteau gave him the opportunity to build his own hypothesis: “The power of the Minoan empire rested on its coastal cities conducting trade. Therefore, even if the palaces and cities located in the center of the island (Crete) were not damaged, if not all Cretans died (as well as the inhabitants of the Cretan colonies in Greece, the Cyclades or Asia Minor), if not all the fields were covered with ashes, the greatest civilization of King Minos was ended. They began to forget about Crete. The Cretans moved from real life into the realm of myth. They were turned into a semi-legendary people and expelled from history. In Egypt they became Atlanteans. Solon or Plato had already forgotten about the greatness of Crete when the story of the greatness and fall of Atlantis was written down from the lips of the priest of the goddess Neith. There is other evidence that speaks in favor of identifying Crete with Atlantis.” Further, the scientist refers to the Bible, which contains the parables “about the ten plagues of Egypt” set out in the book “Exodus”. The parables can be interpreted as describing the consequences of a grandiose catastrophe in the eastern Mediterranean.

The hypotheses of the Russian and French scientists, as much as possible, complement each other and work in the same direction. The question inevitably arises: what is the point in continuing the search for Atlantis in other places? I think it’s worth it, at least for science to gain new information about the life of our ancestors.

In 2000, the August issue of the Megapolis Express newspaper published a sensational article by Yevgeny Surkov, “But a piece of Atlantis has surfaced!” Due to its small volume and solid information content, I present it without abbreviations.

“echoes of strong underground tremors were recently recorded by seismological stations in Russia and Canada. They did not cause any particular concern: the epicenter of the earthquake was in a remote corner of the Arctic Ocean. In photographs taken from space, in the zone of natural disaster, the outlines of some unknown land were clearly visible.

However, this did not cause any surprise. As they explained to the correspondent of the Exotic News Agency at the Institute of Physics of the Earth, unexpected rises and falls of the planet's surface under the influence of underground forces often occur. In general, it is one thing when the earth sinks into the abyss of water, carrying entire cities with it, and another when a small section of the bottom rises. What could be interesting here? But this time nature brought a surprise. An ancient civilization “surfaced” along with the “earth”.

Such an unusual event was witnessed by the crews of several ships sailing in a caravan from Murmansk to Pevek, accompanied by the icebreaker Ob. The sight of rising ice and “boiling” water plunged the crews into a state of mild shock.

- Look, Atlantis! – the watchman on the icebreaker suddenly shouted. In fact, right before the eyes of the sailors, an island with ruins emerged from the water. Massive columns in the Egyptian style were interspersed with gigantic buildings made of huge blocks. Piles of stone fragments stuck out from under the broken ice floes. The “streets” of the ancient city were filled with silty slurry that flowed into the ocean. Above all this chaos reigned a huge structure of regular geometric shape.

The captains of the ships gave the command “stop”. But even approaching the newborn island was out of the question: sometimes such “babies” behave too insidiously. Indeed, the sailors did not have to admire the fabulous spectacle for long. A few minutes later, shuddering, the island also suddenly began to slowly sink into the ocean.

The International Association for the Study of the Arctic Ocean (with headquarters in London) learned about what had happened only after the caravan returned to its home port. However, scientists interviewed eyewitnesses.

“It is reliably known,” commented the vice-president of the Russian branch of the association, Mikhail Buynov, “that it was in those latitudes that one and a half ten thousand years ago one of the highly developed cultures existed.” This is the so-called Arctida. Once, as a result of a global catastrophe, it was gradually flooded by the waters of the Arctic Ocean. However, evidence of it has been preserved in the myths of various peoples. Now, by a lucky coincidence, exactly that section of the bottom that archaeologists and historians have dreamed of for so long has risen from the deep.

By the way, seismologists predict a number of serious tectonic upheavals in the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in the near future. Therefore, the emergence of new islands with traces of Arctida between Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land may resume.

The news of such an unusual find excited the scientific world. Any archaeologist dreams of finding the treasury of the ancient Aryans who inhabited Arctida. After all, according to legend, sacred knowledge written on gold sheets is stored in it. The Golden Library of the Aryans was located, according to the ancient traveler Pytheas, on the island of Thule, somewhere in the Spitsbergen region. According to Harry Smith, a doctor at the Illinois Archaeological Institute, this is nothing more than a bank of high technologies developed by one of the first civilizations on the planet. For those who master them, magic will become a simple routine.

A similar hypothesis is confirmed by another find. In 1935, Norwegian fishermen fishing in the Barents Sea discovered three “golden papyri” with unknown inscriptions among crabs and fish in their trawl. They disappeared during the occupation of Norway: apparently, the Germans tried to use them in their secret developments.

That is why the observation of Russian sailors interested not only scientists, but also the Russian General Staff. According to some reports, it was at his instigation that military experts are urgently calculating where the ruins of prehistoric cities may surface in the near future. And the research ship “Georgy Sedov”, without wasting any time, set off to “patrol” the harsh waters of the Arctic.”

I cannot ignore one more version regarding the location of the legendary Atlantis. It is so customary in science that versions that belong exclusively to scientists are considered. Even the finds in Troy of Heinrich Schliemann were repeatedly called into question due to the “lack of learning” of the self-taught archaeologist. Despite this, Schliemann rendered an invaluable service to science by finding Troy and conducting excavations in Mycenae and other cities of antiquity. These circumstances forced the world of science to recognize the significance of his work.

In the port city of Novorossiysk lives our modest compatriot, who found his Troy and his Atlantis without leaving the city. V. Vladykin, having carried out a comparative analysis of all the above sources, came to the conclusion that in ancient times these objects were located on the territory of modern Novorossiysk. His analysis is striking in the depth of his research using the length measures of that time and the correspondence of the values ​​given in the works of ancient authors. It is impossible to argue with the logic and accuracy of the author. He found absolutely all signs of disappeared cities within and around Novorossiysk, including existing ones. thermal springs. In other countries such a person would be carried in their arms, but historical places They would have erected buildings from the corresponding period and turned the city into a tourist Mecca, but things are still there...

The reluctance of the state to deal with such objects involuntarily leads to reflection: these facts do not fit into the plans of the Global Predictor, which determined our life according to the biblical concept. For the same reason, they continue to impose on us the history of Rus', limited by a thousand-year framework. I have always been outraged by the loose use of the words “prehistoric” and “antediluvian.” In S.I. Ozhegov’s dictionary, the first means “Belonging to the most ancient period, about which there is no written evidence,” and the second means “Outdated, old-fashioned, backward (literally: existing before the mythical flood).” Thus, the Cretan-Minoan civilization, with its multi-story buildings equipped with water supply and sewerage on all floors of the buildings, corresponds to the prehistoric period. All the “incomprehensible” objects of antiquity that could not fit into the consciousness of the nomadic Arabian people also belong to this period. You will involuntarily believe in the meaning of the word “history”, which is interpreted as “from the Torah” and fits perfectly into the biblical concept.

Concluding our excursion to the possible locations of Atlantis, I would like to draw your attention to the presence of “Russian” components of this name “from lan ida” meaning “land cut off from the mainland” or sea and ocean islands, in contrast to small river islands-sich. That is why globalizers are afraid to conduct serious searches for ancient civilizations, because they belong exclusively to the Russian people. The descendants of the “earth men” cannot, even in their wildest fantasies, “fly away” beyond five and a half thousand years of their history, and here are tens and hundreds of thousands of years of flourishing civilizations...

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« Atlantis (ancient Greek Ἀτλαντὶς) is a mythical island-state. N The most detailed description of Atlantis is known from the dialogues of Plato of Athens; mentions and comments of Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, Strabo, and Proclus are also known.

The testimony of the ancients about the location of Atlantis is uncertain.

According to Plato, the island was located to the west of the Pillars of Hercules, opposite the Atlanta Mountains. During a strong earthquake, accompanied by a flood, the island was swallowed up by the sea in one day along with its inhabitants - the Atlanteans. Plato gives the time of the catastrophe as "9000 years ago", that is, about 9500 BC. e.

Interest in stories about Atlantis began during the Renaissance. In modern science, questions about the existence of Atlantis are controversial. There is a doctrine of atlantology, specially developed in the late 1950s. People involved in searching and summarizing any information about Atlantis are called atlantologists.

Atlantis is a popular subject in art."

There are NO reliable sources and evidence that Atlantis existed. There is evidence of those who lived in times not far from the life of Atlantis, there are assumptions, there is “ undersea world", a city in the ocean on the site of the supposed island(s), there are thousands of theories and legends about how everything was and where the continent disappeared, but there is no clear answer and convincing evidence that Atlantis existed.

Phrases from the film “National Geographic: “We consider the arguments of adherents and skeptics equally ...”, “A place where many generations lived in prosperity of equality”, “Then, over the course of one night, the island and its inhabitants sank to the bottom.”

It is believed that the continent was equal in size to Asia, consisting of fertile plains with a palace surrounded by moats in the middle. This island was a paradise created by the son of the Greek god Poseidon. The venerable residents worshiped bulls, feasted on coconuts, and walked with elephants. But the divine traits were supplanted by human nature, and they became warlike and greedy. Then, within one day and one night, as a result of an earthquake and flood, Atlantis sank to the bottom. This is a great legend, but how reliable is it? Some are confident in the existence of Atlantis.

The conviction of adherents of the idea of ​​the reality of the continent is not limited to the belief in the existence of Atlantis; some also believe that the Atlanteans (the inhabitants of Atlantis) survived and later left a historical, architectural, and cultural heritage in the form of various monuments.

The most likely assumption is that Atlantis was located in the Mediterranean Sea, the location is indicated on the maps. The most common versions: Strait of Gibraaltar, lake bottom Dominican Republic, the Canary Islands, the Ozores and, in principle, any point in the world... The Atlantic Ocean most succinctly fits the size of the island described by Plato (the central island is 3000 × 2000 stadia (530 × 350 km)), a number of researchers agree with this.

Plato does not give an exact answer regarding the existence of Atlantis, but describes the island in detail in the dialogues: “Timaeus” (briefly) and “Critius” (more extensively).

The Legend of Atlantis. Ancient world: Atlantis - myths and scientific hypotheses:

So, many versions, information, assumptions about the existence of Atlantis as a cornerstone rest on the search for a specific place where the island was, in the search for evidence of the reality of the island. There are a lot of studies, theories, films, articles on this issue, but no one has yet established exact location Atlantis and especially did not find irrefutable evidence of the existence of the island.

But the mythical touch, or better yet, the mystical, leaves an alluring trail of attraction and increases interest in one of the most global mysteries of modernity and the prehistoric period. Legends, prototypes, inexplicable phenomena, beautiful stories - that’s what surrounds this island. What worries people so much and keeps Atlantis from sinking to the bottom in the memory and imagination of many?

The fact is that this continent is connected (or people themselves have connected it) with many things that are absolutely important for humanity. Therefore, about the list of evidence of the reality of Atlantis, historical facts We won’t talk further - why list something that is described in thousands of articles and mentioned in millions of sources? We will talk about the philosophical aspect of the existence of Atlantis.

From the film (link above): “A healthy dose of skepticism will not hurt us. Perhaps Plato invented Atlantis to show the political and ethical side of violence, aggression, greed ... but deep down I want to believe that Plato simply inspired the folk legends about the destruction of the high culture of the island of Thira.

Is Atlantis just a fiction? But then why was it invented? Probably because people, even according to well-known psychological facts, need faith in something mystical, global-historical, in the existence of a grandiose past (sunk in one day), a higher race, a superman, superpowers, treasures and chests with gold and noble relics under earth. Therefore, there are myths, legends, and science fiction that inspire people with hope and support faith in all other legends. Bermuda Triangle, Mariana Trench, Atlantis, The spools of the Cheops Pyramids…

“The most common opinion among historians and especially philologists is that the story of Atlantis is a typical philosophical myth, examples of which are replete with Plato’s dialogues. Indeed, Plato, unlike Aristotle and even more so historians, never set out to communicate to the reader any real facts, but only ideas illustrated by philosophical myths. To the extent that the story is verifiable, it is not supported by all available archaeological material.

Indeed, there are no traces of any advanced civilization in Greece or in western Europe and Africa, either at the end of the glacial and post-glacial periods, or in the subsequent millennia.

As for the death of Atlantis, it is obvious that, having invented this country, Plato had to destroy it simply for external plausibility (to explain the absence of traces of such a civilization in the modern era). That is, the picture of the death of Atlantis is dictated entirely by the internal tasks of the text.”

Atlantis, in addition to scientific, theosophical, philosophical, psychological reasons for its appearance, also has more banal ones - we need Atlantis, we simply need it, on an everyday and dreamy level.

“The myth of Atlantis gives enormous scope for imagination; we dream of an ideal society where people live peacefully and amicably... We wonder why, if people lived like this before, we can’t live the same way today?”

This island is a prototype of Paradise after the Fall... the Atlanteans lived there - people with superpowers, they were looking for the origins of a higher race, Atlantis is called the cradle of the world, world culture.

Sometimes assumptions arise that if they eventually found Atlantis and reliably established that it existed, everyone would be disappointed: you never know, maybe a couple of pegs and ruins stuck out at the bottom of the sea. And so - emptiness, abyss, everything and nothing - space for imagination and admiration.

Both fiction and complete acceptance of the existence of the island are two extremes, which essentially give nothing to mere mortals. What, for example, did Atlantis exist for the villagers today or not? As for the great cultural heritage to the population of impoverished areas of Africa, where people are dying of hunger?

But in general for the world (for the scientific, prosperous part of the population) - Atlantis is a separate planet, with values ​​that cannot be found today, people-geniuses lived there - Atlanteans, who made achievements and discoveries incomparable even with the modern century, and confirmation of the fact of existence Atlantis would radically change the whole history.

Therefore, according to adherents of the idea of ​​​​the reality of the continent, it is worth believing that the island was worth it, if only because it gives hope that in the future we will be able to achieve more than the Atlanteans.

None of us can either deny or confirm the existence of the island in the past. Therefore, different versions have the right to life - not only those saying that Atlantis is a fiction.

Helena Blavatsky saw Atlantis as far from being a myth; moreover, the island, in Blavatsky’s opinion, was considered a myth by narrow-minded and uninitiated people. And other followers of mystical teachings gave Atlantis a special place in world history:

“In the book of H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, it is stated that the evolution of the Fourth Root Race, which preceded modern humanity, took place in Atlantis.

In 1882, the famous theosophist A.P. Sinnett stated that he allegedly received an answer to his questions about Atlantis from the Tibetan Mahatma K.H. K.H. wrote:

“The subsidence of Atlantis (a group of continents and islands) began during the Miocene period - (as now, there is a gradual subsidence of some of your continents) - and it reached highest point first in the final disappearance of the largest continent - an event that coincided with the rise of the Alps, then came the turn of the last of the islands mentioned by Plato.

The Egyptian priests of Sais told Solon that Atlantis (the only remaining big Island) died 9000 years before their time. This was not an imaginary number, for they had carefully guarded their achievements for thousands of years. But then, I say, they only mentioned Poseidonis, and would never have revealed their secret chronology even to the great Greek legislator...

The great event - the triumph of our “Sons of Light”, the inhabitants of Shambhala (then an island in the Central Asian Sea) over the selfish - if not completely vicious - magicians of Poseidonis happened exactly 11,446 years ago. Read the incomplete and partially veiled explanation in this regard in Isis, Volume 1, and some things will become clearer to you.”

Theosophists believe that the Atlantean civilization reached its peak between 1,000,000 and 900,000 years ago, but collapsed due to internal contradictions and wars resulting from the illegal use of magical powers by the Atlanteans.

W. Scott-Elliot, in The History of Atlantis (1896), states that Atlantis eventually split into two big islands, one of which was called Daitya and the other Ruta, which was later reduced to the last remnant known as Poseidonis.

Charles Leadbeater claims that in Tibet there is an occult museum that contains samples of the cultures of all civilizations that have ever existed on Earth, including the civilization of Atlantis.

The four maps of the continent, showing the history of its destruction, included in Scott-Elliot's History of Atlantis, are copies of maps from the Tibetan museum mentioned."

In addition, a number of researchers talk about the cyclical nature of earthly processes and phenomena, about the patterns of certain events. For example, that previously the percentage of land was much higher, many cities went under water, and Atlantis also disappeared. And also: Atlantis, how

the world during the global flood, like Sodom and Gomorrah and many other “sinful” areas with a concentration of “corrupt” people, went under water precisely in order to punish from above for its corruption.

After all, many say that the inhabitants of the island lost human dignity, committed lawlessness, went mad with power, subjugated nearby areas, wanted more, having already had so much - for which they paid. This story has both a moralizing and philosophical meaning: people are always people, they are not perfect, money, wealth, power spoil everyone. And even the most beautiful paradise will always collapse, because at the root of human nature lies a deviation from virtues.

Excerpt from the book “Atlantis Unveiled” by E. Blavatsky:

“These people [initiates] believed in the story of Atlantis, they knew that it was not a fable, and they argued that in various eras of the past, huge islands and even continents existed where now only deserted waters rage.

In their sunken temples and libraries the archaeologist would find, if he could explore, materials to fill in the gaps in what we imagine to be history.

It is said that in a distant era a traveler could cross what is now the Atlantic Ocean almost its entire length by land, moving only by boat from one island to another, where at that time there were only narrow straits.”

Fierce debates, measured discussions, assumptions, myths and versions - all this has been exciting humanity for many centuries. Mysterious land called Atlantis, haunts neither pundits nor researchers who love to fantasize. Atlantis did not pass by, the lost world, and the common man in the street. It seems that today every second person has heard about this mysterious island, that in ancient times there was a lost Atlantis, a civilization that had no equal in technological and scientific development, in culture of life. Its Atlanteans were inhabited by a free people, but not without human vices, which, in the end, destroyed the mysterious empire. It is believed that the secrets of Atlantis rest somewhere at the bottom of the world's oceans. Let's try to figure out whether this is true or not.

Atlanta and their appearance on the pages of history.

In 428 BC, in one rich and noble family, in the city-state of Athens, a seemingly ordinary boy was born, who received the name Plato. The child's father was Ariston. His family takes its roots from the legendary king Codru. Mother - Periktiona, great-great-granddaughter of the no less great Solon. Not Atlanteans, of course, but very revered and important people, both by the standards of Athens and by historical canons.

The child grew up alive in every sense; he was sociable, cheerful and inquisitive. Surrounded by all sorts of benefits, he did not know what hard work and need were, spending most of his time on physical exercise and education. Having matured, the young man wanted to develop not only his body, but also his mind. You and I know that the result of this decision will be the Atlanteans and many other discoveries no less important for history, philosophy and other sciences. However, the guy had yet to understand his own thoughts, ideas and plans. At the age of 20, fate gave young Plato a chance to answer many questions that tormented him, among which were the Atlanteans: at this time Plato met Socrates, the greatest philosopher of antiquity, fell under the influence of his ideas and became his faithful student and follower.

All these events, which later gave birth to the Atlanteans, take place against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War, which has shaken the ancient world since 431 BC. The last battle of this long war took place in 404, when the troops of Sparta entered Athens. Thirty tyrants seize power in the city; freedom of speech, democracy and the right to choose are disappearing from the lives of local residents. But only a year passes, and the hated regime of tyranny collapses. The invaders are expelled from the city in disgrace, returning its independence. Having defended its freedom and independence, Athens, the city where they first started talking about the Atlanteans, regained strength and influence among other Greek settlements.

Victory is given to Athens, the city where the Atlanteans were “born,” with heavy losses: many famous, noble and courageous men die. Among the dead were many friends of Plato, the “father” of the Atlanteans, a future leader, thinker and activist. The young man finds it difficult to cope with the loss and promises himself to change this cruel world. To come to his senses and escape from the darkness of days alone, Plato, who discovered the “Atlanteans” to the whole world, goes on a long journey. He goes to Syracuse, then he visits the colorful villages and cities of the Mediterranean. At the end of his journey, our hero, who discovered the Atlanteans to the world, ends up in Egypt. Plato has a special interest in this country and its people - his great ancestor, Solon, studied here for many years.

The excellent upbringing, manners and education of young Plato, the man to whom the Atlanteans owe their fame, impress the local elite. After some time, the young man is introduced to representatives of the highest priestly caste of Egypt. It is difficult to say exactly how this acquaintance influenced the views of the future great philosopher, to whom the Atlanteans owe their place in history, but Plato returns back to Athens as a completely different person. It is quite possible that it was in Egypt that Plato learned who the Atlanteans were and how human civilization actually developed. By the way, priests Ancient Egypt were revered not only by the local people, but also by the entire ancient world, as keepers of the most valuable information about the distant past and the peoples who inhabited the Earth. Who knows, maybe the Egyptians really knew who the Atlanteans were, how they lived, and how their story ended.

Long decades passed, but Plato did not tell in any of his works what the great priests of the pyramids told him, whether they told him about the Atlanteans or discovered some other secrets of the ancient world. Plato's teacher, Socrates, has long gone to another world, and the philosopher himself has aged, turned gray and become much wiser than in his youth. During this period, he already introduced his own philosophy and opened a corresponding school, which over time turned into an academy. However, the Atlanteans are still not open to the scientific world. Plato's influence on the minds of young men and even elders is invaluable; he is revered as one of the greatest minds that ever lived in Athens and Greece. But the philosopher is tormented by internal conflicts. He struggles with the desire to tell the whole world what it is ancient Atlantis, to discover the true history of the human race. And now, half a century after visiting Egypt, Plato writes two of the most important dialogues in his life - Critias and Timaeus. A similar unique genre of conducting philosophical treatises was introduced by Plato himself. In it he asks questions and answers them himself. This method, in which the Atlanteans will be revealed to the world, better reveals the whole essence of doubts and inconsistency of judgments tormenting a person.

Atlanteans are finally becoming a world-famous phenomenon. It is in Critias and Timaeus that Plato talks about a mysterious land that existed about 9 thousand years ago, about a land that was inhabited by the Atlanteans, about a land that does not exist now. It is a huge island with mountainous terrain. The mountains surrounded the perimeter in a ring, which was once inhabited by Atlantean people; their land smoothly passed into gentle foothills, and those, in turn, into a wide plain. It was here that the Atlanteans lived, it was here that they built their life, science and civilization.

Atlantis is a land of great minds and no less great miracles.

The secret city, at one time opened only to Egyptian priests and young Plato, was called Atlantis. The people who inhabited it descended from the god of the seas and oceans himself, Poseidon. It is believed that the progenitor of Atlantis, Poseidon, allegedly once turned to Zeus for help, he asked the supreme god to give him a place on earth. The king of all gods responded favorably to the request of the god of waters and allowed him to settle on a huge island, Atlantis, with a fertile climate, but mostly with rocky and infertile soil for crops.

Here Poseidon met local residents, Atlanta. First, he became acquainted with the small people who inhabited the great and mountainous Atlantis, and then, in peace and tranquility, he began raising sheep. At first he suffered from loneliness, but soon one of the neighboring families of Atlantis had a daughter. She turned out to be a girl of extraordinary beauty and intelligence, her name was Cleito. God took her as his wife, and after a while they had five twins, all boys, beautiful, smart and healthy, like gods. What else could you expect from a girl for whom Atlantis was her home, and from the almighty god of the seas, oceans and waters.

When the children grew up, the island, Atlantis, was already divided into ten parts. Each son got not most of sushi, where he became the ruler. The best piece of land went to the eldest son and at the same time the wisest, Atlan. It was in his honor that the ocean surrounding Atlantis on all sides was named Atlantic.

Very soon the island, or rather its seventh and largest part, lost city, Atlantis, turned into a densely populated state, an empire. The people who inhabited this state, Atlanta, built huge cities with amazing architecture, created magnificent examples of sculpture, and brought luxurious temples into reality. The most majestic of them was the temple of Kleito, dedicated to the father of Atlantis, Poseidon. It was located in the center of the island, on a hill, and was surrounded by a wall made of gold.

To protect themselves from external enemies, the Atlanteans built a serious defense system. The plain was surrounded by two water rings and three earthen rings. Numerous canals were dug across the entire island of Atlantis, connecting the ocean waters with the central part of the land. The main, wide canal ended near the marble steps of Atlantis, which led to the top of the hill, that is, to the temple of Poseidon.

Having become stronger and stronger, the population of Atlantis created the strongest army in the history of mankind. This army consisted of 1,200 ships with a crew of 240 thousand people, whose homeland was Atlantis, and ground forces of 700 thousand people. For comparison, this is twice the world average today. All these people of Atlantis needed to somehow feed, clothe and put on shoes. In most cases, funds were found on the side: the Atlanteans built their economy and politics on waging constant and bloody wars that could bring profit.

Successful conquests further strengthened the city-state; Atlantis has become stronger than ever. It seems that there could no longer be a single enemy who could provide worthy resistance to the aggressor. But the universe does not like the proud; it did not forgive pride and Atlantis: proud Athens stood in the way of the island people.

Plato wrote that 9 thousand years ago Athens was a powerful state that could not be compared with the current state of affairs. However, Civilization-Atlantis was strong and it was impossible to defeat such a large army alone. The philosopher’s ancient ancestors turned for help to the neighboring states that inhabited the Balkan Peninsula at that time. An unprecedented military alliance was created, the main task of which was the destruction of Atlantis, or at least the weakening of its military power, in order to conclude a peace treaty.

On the decisive day of the battle, the allies who were opposed by Atlantis were afraid to engage in battle, betraying their neighboring alliance. The Athenians were left alone with a million-strong army of Atlanteans, the number of which continued to grow and grow. The courageous Greeks rushed into battle without fear or hesitation and, in an unequal struggle, nevertheless lost to the aggressor. It seems that everything is victory, Atlantis has gained the upper hand, and the time has come to blow the horn victoriously, but then the gods intervened in human affairs. The great and immortals did not want Atlantis to become higher than the land of Greece they controlled and cared for.

Zeus and his closest associates have been closely monitoring Atlantis and the people who inhabited this land for centuries. If at the beginning the local population did not evoke negative emotions among the celestials, then centuries later the situation changed radically. The Atlanteans from noble, highly spiritual and moral people gradually turned into selfish, greedy, greedy for power and gold, depraved individuals, brazenly and shamelessly ignoring basic human laws and values. The lifestyle and general situation in which Atlantis found itself, thousands of years after its settlement, caused a sharp negative reaction among those whose status was supposed to monitor the purity and morality of human civilization.

Atlantis was on the edge of the abyss. Today, in our humane and progressive 21st century, fallen and base individuals are treated quite tolerantly, for many of us such behavior has become the norm, but in those distant times the mentality was completely different. The pantheon of supreme gods and demigods decided to destroy the entire continent; Atlantis was to be wiped off the face of the Earth. This is what the celestials did - quickly and unnoticed by most people.

Atlantis was drowning, both in its own greed and literally. The earth opened up and stormy ocean waters poured onto the land. The mysterious island has plunged into an eternal abyss. Proud Athens was also unlucky. The wrath of the gods, who did not forgive their charges for the loss, was no less cruel than the fate to which Atlantis, a once powerful and beautiful civilization, was doomed. The gods unleashed a catastrophe on Greece and the neighboring lands; the state of Athens was just as erased from the map as Atlantis. , mired in her own sins. There were no Athenians left capable of celebrating the fall of the aggressor, Atlantis, everyone fell, everyone died.

The secrets of Atlantis, a civilization that disappeared in the pages of history.

This information can be gleaned from two extensive dialogues revealing the secrets of Atlantis, written by Plato at the very end of his life. It seems nothing special - there is no direct evidence based on serious scientific research, no references to any ancient manuscripts or authoritative sources. At first sight secrets of Atlantis, like the ancient civilization itself, is a funny myth, a fairy tale. However, in spite of everything, the secrets of Atlantis and the legends about this civilization survived not only the philosopher himself, they survived centuries, millennia, giving rise to a huge number of discussions, theories and assumptions.

The main opponent who opposed the existence of this nation and dispelled the secrets of Atlantis was Aristotle, who lived from 384 to 322 BC. Aristotle was the teacher and mentor of Alexander the Great. He was one of Plato's main students, who began studying at the Academy in 366 BC and completed it in 347.

For almost 20 years, this venerable man, who in every possible way dispelled the secrets of Atlantis, listened to the speeches of philosophers, himself preached the theory of eternal good, and treated both the works and statements of his mentor with great respect. As a result, Aristotle expressed disagreement with Plato’s dialogues, calling them the delirium of an old man. Allegedly, the secrets of Atlantis are not secrets at all, but a rebellion of the fantasy and imagination of an honorable elder.

This negative reaction continued. In Western Europe in the middle of the centuries, Aristotle had unquestioned authority. His judgments and theories were accepted as the ultimate truth. Therefore, one can imagine that until the end of the 8th century, the beginning of the 9th century, although they talked about the mysterious land, about the secrets of Atlantis, they spoke with reluctance, with an eye on the representative adherents of the philosophical concepts of Aristotle, one of the greatest, if not the most important philosopher of Ancient Greece.

What is the reason for such an attitude towards the mystery of Atlantis, towards the existence of this civilization? Why did Plato's honorary student, Aristotle, categorically reject the possibility that Atlantis city existed and flourished for several millennia? Maybe he had irrefutable evidence at his disposal that left no trace of the mystery of Atlantis? But there is nothing in the writings of the venerable husband that would point to this evidence. On the other hand, it is also impossible to dismiss Aristotle’s judgments. He was too authoritative a man and a philosopher to turn a blind eye to what he said and wrote.

To understand everything, you need to imagine the learned men of the past, shrouded in dreams and an unclouded gaze aimed at the future, as mere mortals, people who are characterized by envy, greed, selfishness and other things that do not fit in with philosophers and such respectable men.

Who was Plato, who gave birth to the secrets of Atlantis, exciting the minds of even modern scientists? Plato was the darling of fate, the favorite of fortune. He was born into a rich family, and from childhood he knew no worries, lack of attention and no need for money. Thanks to his origin, he received all the benefits of life easily, with a wave of his hand. Without any effort, he created the Academy, surrounded himself with fans and people who sincerely revere him. All doors were open for him in Athens. He could shout at the top of his lungs that the sunken city, Atlantis, exists, and they would believe him. Today, such people are usually called masters of life, golden youth and oligarchs, but before, such concepts did not exist, however, a prejudiced attitude towards the rich and wealthy of this world could be traced even before our era.

And who was Aristotle, who did everything possible to dispel the mysteries of Atlantis brought by his mentor? The son of an ordinary doctor at the court of the Macedonian ruler, already by birth doomed to a miserable existence in poverty and social helplessness. From childhood he knew, if not need, then at least the need for money and livelihood. Each new step upward was given to him with great difficulty. Only thanks to his perseverance, willpower, determination and efficiency, which the Atlanteans themselves would envy, this man achieved everything he deserved: money, fame, respect.

Carefully hidden hostility and envy towards a prosperous and caressed mentor in life ultimately played the worst joke on Aristotle that the human mind and fate are capable of. Atlantis, the lost civilization, became his Achilles heel. He forgot everything good and good that his mentor did for him; if he did not betray Plato, then he certainly desecrated his eternal memory with his doubts and mistrust. After all, in the end, the secrets of Atlantis might not have interested Aristotle at all, however, he not only turned his attention to them, he considered it his duty and obligation to refute the latest works of Plato. God will be his judge, but the truth is that with all his efforts, Aristotle did not have a single fact that could refute the statements of his mentor. The Atlanteans remained unproven, but also not refuted, no matter how hard the envious student tried.

Lost Atlantis and the mystery of its existence.

For two millennia, the question of the mysterious continent either came to life in the minds of individual researchers, or faded away under the influence of militant antagonists of Plato’s instructions. The most serious opponent, fending off any evidence of the presence of the mystical and lost Atlantis on earth, has long been the church. The servants of the Lord considered the official date of the creation of the world to be 5508 BC. Plato, in his theories, climbed into the darkness of centuries, indicating a time interval of 9 thousand years, when, according to the church, there was no Earth, no people, no universe, much less some lost Atlantis could not physically exist.

It was only in the second half of the 9th century, when the church split and its influence began to wane, that lost atlantis may exist, they started talking again, and then in a whisper. The first who again loudly began to talk about the possibility that the lost Atlantis took place in the history of human civilization was Elena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) - theosophist, researcher, writer and famous traveler. Being a gifted, talented person, a bright and extraordinary personality, this amazing woman categorically asserted that the lost Atlantis existed, and Plato was not mistaken when talking about this mysterious island. True, there were discrepancies in her theories with Plato’s version of Atlantis; the researcher assigned her two continents at once - one in the Pacific, and the other, located in the Atlantic Ocean. The remnants of the once great and ancient empire The islands of Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, individual islands of Polynesia and the famous Easter Island ended up in her understanding.

Many other researchers followed Blavatsky, furiously arguing about where the lost Atlantis was located, and about the very fact of its existence on the map of antiquity. However, the researchers were unable to present anything concrete, evidence-based and definite to the scientific community.

A beautiful, but as it seemed to many a mythical legend, the world of Atlantis came to life and received rapid development only at the very end of the 19th century. This is the period of the beginning of powerful progress, both scientific and technical. It is no wonder that it was in this era, when more and more new resources appeared at people’s disposal, that interest in adventure arose again in the minds of many. And the lost Atlantis in their eyes became exactly that adventure. In fact, humanity has just entered a new phase of its existence. Heavy and light industry developed by leaps and bounds, science showed enormous interest in what this lost Atlantis really was, technology, finance - all this required increasingly advanced means of communication not only between individual cities and countries, but also between entire continents.

In 1898, a significant event took place in history around the lost Atlantis and research aimed at finding it. This year, a telegraph cable was pulled underwater from Europe to America. And suddenly, for some unclear technical reasons, it broke off; as a result of which one of the ends sank to the very bottom of the ocean. They lifted it as usual with steel cats. The surprising thing is that along with the cable, an unexpected surprise was also pulled out of the water, presumably related to the lost Atlantis: These were small pieces of glassy lava, stuck between the legs of the mechanisms used to lift the cable.

Luck or not, at that moment there was a geologist on the ship, and a very, very experienced specialist. In addition, he was familiar with what the underwater city of Atlantis was and knew firsthand about the hype around it. He took pieces of a strange rock, the origin of which was almost immediately associated with such a phenomenon as the lost Atlantis, and took them to Paris to his colleague, the French geologist Termier. He carefully studied the presented samples and soon made a detailed report at the Oceanographic Society in the capital of France.

As you might guess, his speech was truly sensational and the main topic of this speech was the lost Atlantis, which at that time was the main bone of contention in the research world. In fact, Termier stated with full responsibility that lava takes this form only when it hardens in air. In an underwater eruption, it would have been completely different and would not have had a glassy, ​​but rather a crystalline structure. Thus, the conclusion naturally suggested itself that once upon a time, in the boundless waters of the Atlantic, somewhere between Iceland and the Azores, there was land; it is obvious that we are not talking about some unknown island, but about such a phenomenon as the lost Atlantis , perished in the depths of the world's oceans.

It seemed that the question of the presence and location of the mysterious continent should be resolved by itself. It would be time to open a bottle of expensive champagne and celebrate such a serious and important discovery for science as the lost Atlantis, but that was not the case. To make it clearer what exactly the catch is, it’s worth going from afar and telling about everything in order.

Atlantis is a lost world, a bone of contention for the scientific community.

The status of a discoverer in that era was almost the main, cherished dream of the entire life of every respectable man of science. So, in 1900, an English archaeologist named Evans conducts excavations in the Cretan city of Knossos and, surprisingly, finds traces of the most ancient civilization in the entire Mediterranean. He calls it Minoan, but at the same time claims that Atlantis, the lost world famous in scientific circles, and his Minois are one and the same.

In his research, the archaeologist refers to a layer of ash discovered in the sea soil, the age of which exceeds three thousand years. The island of Santorini is located 120 kilometers from Crete. It was here, according to Arthur Evans, that Atlantis, the lost world famous in scientific circles, was located. In 1400 BC, the Santorini volcano exploded. The entire middle of the island sank to the bottom of the sea, destroying Atlantis, a lost world that excites the minds of scientists. But what about the fact that Plato’s works speak of the age of Atlantis, a lost world that is at least 5 thousand years older than the remains of the civilization discovered by Evans. It's simple, according to Evans, Plato simply made a mistake, indicating 9 thousand years instead of 900 years.

Throughout the century, scientists different countries tried to steal the palm from each other, competing in their inventions, ingenuity of mind, and pseudo knowledge about the ancient world. Wherever their tireless searches took them. Mysterious Atlantis, the lost world, famous in scientific circles, was found on Canary Islands, and off the coast of Iceland, and predictably in the central waters of the Atlantic Ocean. But all to no avail. No one has been able to pinpoint the specific location of the mysterious ancient continent. Atlantis, the lost world, was not discovered, and what’s more, researchers were unable to find even one single piece of evidence or clue that could indicate the location of the mysterious island.

Disputes about the mysterious Earth, about what it is lost city- Atlantis, they don’t subside even today. Theories appear and disappear, legends are born and die, and with them more and more scientists, archaeologists and historians climb to the research Olympus, and then fall from it. Some of their assumptions are very similar to the truth, others are more like a fantastic story or a good invention of a sick mind. This story is one of these: the basis of the entire Atlantis, the lost world, was a certain huge crystal that accumulates and transforms the energy of the universe into the more familiar earthly one. Whether this crystal was of artificial or natural origin is unknown, or maybe it is deliberately kept silent. This source of endless energy was kept in the central temple of Poseidon under the watchful supervision of the best, chosen warriors.

The crystal fully satisfied all the everyday and other needs of the people whose homeland was Atlantis, the lost world, but they did not want to be content with little. Being aggressive and warlike by nature, the inhabitants of the ancient empire used it as a powerful weapon, destroying and burning the lands of their enemies.

Nowhere and no one around had such a means of protection that could protect them from the power of the crystal, and very soon all the neighboring states were enslaved by power-hungry invaders. The mysterious Atlantis, a lost world, turned into a majestic empire, its borders expanded and expanded until they reached the endless steppes, beyond which lay the no less endless China.

Atlantis is the homeland of conquerors.

The process of taking over a new, unknown country and race was slow, and ancient atlanteans decided to send a powerful beam of energy across the entire planet. Choking with impatience and greed, people who believed that Atlantis was their home, hurriedly went to the crystal and the main custodian activated the energy weapon.

A pillar of hellfire hit the rocky ground. But instead of piercing the earth like a knife through butter, it split Atlantis itself into several parts. The foaming waters of the ocean quickly rushed onto the island, sweeping away everything living and inanimate in its path. The ancient city of Atlantis sank to the bottom of the ocean in the blink of an eye. All the Atlanteans disappeared along with her, taking the greatness and heritage of their civilization into oblivion. This is such a legend, a colorful legend. It is clear that it is based on real facts. All this, most likely, is the invention of some researcher tired of fruitless searches.

Centuries and millennia have passed, and the question of whether the ancient civilization of Atlantis existed or not is still unanswered? Perhaps the most serious and demonstrative theory was put forward by Thor Heyerdahl, the famous Norwegian traveler. He drew his attention and the attention of the scientific world to the similarities between the ancient cultures of Asia Minor, Egypt, Crete and the ancient civilizations that inhabited Central America. Indeed, if you reject skepticism and look at all this from the outside, these cultures have many similar features. Atlanta, or rather their empire, was a state where the cult of the sun occupied no less important position in society than the cult of Poseidon, who was the father of the inhabitants of this city. We can observe the same thing in Central America, Asia Minor and Crete. The sun god was also worshiped there, and marriages between family members were practiced to preserve the purity of the family. We do not know what the ancient language of Atlantis was, but we can note that the writing of the cultures of Crete, Central America and Egypt is as similar as two peas in a pod.

An important similar factor are pyramids, sarcophagi, mummification, and masks. These pagan symbols and examples of art, unusual for European states, were often found in Egyptian, Asian and American settlements. Again, we do not know whether Atlantis was the pride of the pyramids, we only find common features between ancient empires that seem different at first glance. In addition, it has long been proven that there was once a connection between the American and European continents. We all once lived on one large continent, why shouldn’t it be the same Atlantis that researchers have been unsuccessfully searching for for two thousand years now?!

Could it be that Atlantis was not destroyed, but was simply reborn in the Egyptian pyramids and in their American counterparts? Who knows?! Perhaps we will get an answer to this question in the very near future. Now we, like the entire scientific world, can only assume that Atlantis existed, and was not an invention of the old mind of a philosopher from Athens.

ATLANTIS OR ANTER FLOOD CIVILIZATION?

ABOUT THE ANTERFLIDUS SATANIC PROJECTAND ITS MODERN “REMAKE”

Research experience

In this study we will try, to the best of our ability and with hope in God’s help, to reveal a number of important but little-studied issues concerning the history and causes of the death of the antediluvian world, or, more precisely, perhaps, to say, the antediluvian civilization. In our opinion, there is every reason to consider this topic extremely relevant for modern people.

Author group

Preface

1. Pyramids

2. A single pre-flood civilization

3. Global energy information system?

4. About the project of creating a religion of Satan

5. Babylonian pyramid

6. Beast from the Sea

7. About the collider, HAARP and “parallel worlds”

8. Logic of darkness

9. Technotronic magic

Conclusion

And I looked at the age, and behold, there was danger from the plans that appeared in it

(3 Rides 9, 20.)

PREFACE

In this study we will try, to the best of our ability and with hope in God’s help, to reveal a number of important but little-studied issues concerning the history and causes of the death of the antediluvian world, or, more precisely, perhaps, to say, the antediluvian civilization. In our opinion, there is every reason to consider this topic extremely relevant for modern people.

By the will of the Lord, today, to the extent necessary for us, the essence of the antediluvian civilization is revealed to us, that is, that civilization that was created on earth before the Flood, during which, as follows from the Bible, all humanity perished, except for the family of the righteous Noah. And the main thing that is revealed to us today is that the pre-Flood civilization was not just opposed to God, but downright anti-God, that it began the construction of a global occult-Satanic system aimed at the implementation of some kind of God-fighting, Satanic project. That is why the Lord God destroyed this civilization, causing a flood of water to cover the entire earth, so that almost the entire territory in which the objects built by that civilization were located still remains under water. After all, before the flood, as stated in the Third Book of Ezra, water occupied only one-seventh of the earth’s surface, but now it occupies two-thirds.

Why right now do we need to know the essence of the civilization that perished during the Flood and about the projects that were implemented in it? Because in our time, when the end of the world is near, active implementation of the same satanic program has begun, the same atheistic plans and projects that were before the flood - only, naturally, with the addition of the use of modern methods and means. And the general, strategic plan is a plan to create a global satanic religion, i.e. by the “reign” of Satan over humanity, universal worship of him and recognition of him as the “god of the Earth”.

But God will give us more details about this, let’s say later, closer to the end of our study. Let's start our research with this - with the pyramids.

1. PYRAMIDS

We know from school that there are pyramids in Egypt. They stretch for tens of kilometers south of Cairo. The highest and most famous - “ great pyramid» Cheops, its height is 146 meters (before construction in 1889 Eiffel Tower The Cheops Pyramid was considered the tallest structure on earth). Of the so-called “seven wonders of the world,” this pyramid is the oldest and only “miracle” that has survived to this day. School textbooks say that the Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves and are nothing more than religious buildings - tombs intended for the burial of pharaohs. Actually this is not true.

As studies conducted by Egyptologists and other scientists show, even many thousands of slaves could not erect such structures. In addition, no one found not only mummies in the pyramids, but nothing at all confirming the theory of tombs and only tombs[i]. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine that such huge structures were erected just to bury one person (even a pharaoh). Many modern scientists, categorically disagreeing with the theory of tombs, put forward other versions, which, in their opinion, can fundamentally shake the generally accepted ideas about the history of mankind.

Careful measurements of the spatial position and parameters of the pyramids, carried out by many researchers, have provided amazing information. Thus, in pyramids, the ratio of the length of the side of the base to the height is the proportion of the “golden ratio” (which provides the pyramids with a powerful energy effect, recognized by all researchers). The perimeter of the pyramid divided by twice the height gives the number pi. Various inexplicable phenomena have been repeatedly observed near the pyramids and inside them. Inside the pyramids, during experiments, points were found that were favorable for health, or vice versa - depressing living organisms.

It should be noted that currently there is a general increase in interest in pyramids - this “gift ancient civilizations" Recently, many books and articles have appeared in the foreign and domestic press on the extraordinary properties of ancient and modern pyramids (see, for example: Yu. O. Lipovsky, “Pyramids heal and protect”; “Pyramids and a pendulum to guard your health: Practical guide by application").

Office and residential buildings and other structures (gazebos, etc.) of a pyramidal shape are built, pyramids and pyramids of different sizes are made from various materials (glass, plastic, plywood, metals, natural stone). Someone places blades in pyramids made like Egyptian ones (i.e., maintaining the same proportions), and they sharpen themselves (scientific publications have also written about this phenomenon), someone germinates seeds in pyramids, hoping for better results. O higher germination and yield than usual, some preserve perishable products in the same way, others “charge” water, creams and other cosmetical tools. It is believed that the pyramids bring healing to the physical body and increase the level of human spirituality, protect against geopathogenic radiation (for example, from harmful radiation from computers and cell phones), protect, remove “damage” and other negative influences, and develop “clairvoyance.” But in most publications on this topic, a (very appropriate) disclaimer is made that if the pyramids are used “incorrectly,” harm to health can be caused, etc.

But let's return to the Egyptian pyramids. Everything suggests that they were not built by primitive manual labor, but thanks to the use of very developed, fantastic (in the words of modern experts) construction technologies: almost perfect right angles, incredible symmetry of four huge faces, amazing technology creation and processing huge number stone blocks weighing from 2.5 to 15 tons or more. Some stones are made from very hard rocks (granite, quartzite, basalt, etc.).

There are monoliths in Egypt, carved from solid rock and processed, weighing 800 and even 1000 tons (these are gigantic weights). The dimensions of the blocks from which the pyramids are made are maintained with an accuracy of about 0.2 mm, the blocks are smoothly polished on all sides, and the joints are adjusted (without using any cementing material) so that even a needle cannot be inserted into them.

Research conducted by modern professional builders has shown that the pyramid builders had some unimaginable tools. Thus, examining holes in granite blocks, experts came to the conclusion that the drills of the pyramid builders were 500 times more powerful than the most powerful modern drills. The builders of the pyramids could, with amazing speed and ease, not only carve out huge stone blocks, but also cut into solid rocks like butter (researchers even coined the expression: “plasticine technology”). Some are inclined to believe that the builders of the pyramids were able to move and lift enormous weights to heights because they had at their disposal levitation technology, which the myths and traditions of many peoples of the world allegedly speak of.

Some researchers believe that the builders of the pyramids were able to influence the wave nature of the stone, counteracting gravity.

Modern science is forced to admit not only that it does not know what technologies the pyramid builders used to achieve such results, but also that it is now impossible to achieve such results using even the most advanced scientific developments. How did the ancient Egyptians, who did not have cranes, trucks, other construction equipment and special equipment, mine huge stone blocks, transport them over long distances, process them at a higher level than the modern technical level, and lift them to great heights? What force - spiritual, political or economic - pushed the ancient Egyptians to such monumental work? And if not the Egyptians, then who created the pyramids? And what is their true purpose? All this is still considered the “greatest mystery” of humanity. Let us try, with God's help, to make this secret clear to some extent.

2. UNITED PREDFLOOD CIVILIZATION

First of all, it is important for us to know that Egypt is not the only place where pyramids remain. Similar structures have been found in many other places on the planet.: in Mexico, in South America, in China, in India, in countries South-East Asia, at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Sea of ​​Japan... All this suggests that it was a single, global civilization.

Almost every culture has legends about sunken cities and continents, about ancient developed civilizations lying on the ocean floor, about supermen, “cities of the gods,” about a global catastrophe (flood) that our planet experienced several thousand years ago. " When the gods were angry with the people they created, the land in which these people lived sank under water,” it is said, for example, in one ancient Egyptian papyrus (dating back to the end of the second millennium BC) . In fact, almost all of these legends (myths, tales, traditions) speak of one civilization - antediluvian.Numerous finds, theories and assumptions of “atlantologists” - seekers of the lost Atlantis, as well as Lemuria, Mu, etc., speak about it. Remains of antediluvian civilization are scattered around the world. It's not only grand pyramids, but also other inexplicable objects: numerous monuments, obelisks, megaliths and other structures, undeciphered writings, ancient maps, giant ground geometric figures and lines, amazing images and objects. Among the most famous mysterious objects: statues on Easter Island, Stonehenge in England.

To create Stonehenge, stone blocks of 5 and 25 tons and several slabs of 50 tons (with a processed, polished surface) were used. And these huge builders not only brought them from afar (it is believed that they were more than two hundred kilometers away, because the building material that was used in the construction of Stonehenge cannot be found closer), but also dug huge long stones into the soil, installing them vertically. Stonehenge translated from Old English means “hanging stones.” In ancient times it was also called “The Dance of the Giants” and its creation was attributed to the sorcerer Merlin, a mythological character in British legends.

According to legends, the stones of Stonehenge were transported through the air - this may be an indication of some ancient levitation technology. In the 60s of the last century, astronomer Gerald Hopkins put forward a hypothesis and substantiated it very convincingly: he suggested that Stonehenge is an ancient astronomical observatory. Some believe it was a computer center. Megalithic structures, similar to Stonehenge, exist in many other places in the world (“stonehenges” in Egypt, America, Yemen, Russia and other countries).

On Easter Island, located in the eastern part Pacific Ocean, there are more than a thousand giant stone statues - some of them reach the height of a five-story building and weigh more than 100 tons. Researchers are perplexed: how could the ancient islanders create and move such massive works? And the legends of the Indian tribe living on the island say: the statues themselves came from the quarry in which they were carved, they were moved by a certain mysterious power- manu. Also in legends there are many references to strange bird people who descended from the sky; From these legends it follows that the bird people had advanced flight technology.

At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the very center of the Bermuda Triangle in the early 1990s, a giant pyramid was discovered - it is three times larger famous pyramid Cheops. Perhaps this underwater object is the key to solving the “mystery of the Bermuda Triangle,” that is, the inexplicable phenomenon of disappearance in this “ anomalous zone» ships and aircraft. The edges of the pyramid are made of a material similar to glass or polished ceramics (it can hardly be a mere coincidence that this is exactly how the Egyptian pyramid of Cheops was described in Arab sources, the cladding of which sparkled in the sun). The famous American atlantologist Charles Berlitz writes in his books: the pyramid in Bermuda Triangle has existed since the times of Atlantis, and in the frame of this pyramid there is some kind of very powerful energy installation.

It turns out that China also has huge pyramids. Several dozen of these ancient structures are located in the middle of agricultural fields a few kilometers west of the city of Xianyang. Their height is greater than that of the Egyptian pyramids, the highest is 300 m (i.e., twice as high as the Cheops pyramid).

Why don’t the Chinese announce loudly and to the whole world about the existence in China of such grandiose objects, which seem to expressly testify to how great and developed the ancient Chinese culture was? Yes, because, first of all, they know that it was not the Chinese who built the pyramids located in China - just like not the Egyptians in Egypt, not the Mayans and Aztecs in Mexico, not the Incas in Peru, etc. For many years, the Chinese authorities deliberately concealed the existence of a large number of pyramids in China. Only in 1997, the German archaeologist Hartwig Hausdorff managed to obtain the consent of the authorities and visit the Chinese “Valley of the Pyramids”. One of China's leading archaeologists, Professor Khia Nai, believes that these pyramids are not being explored today because “this is work for future generations.” Some researchers believe that Chinese scientists are afraid to invade the pyramids for fear of finding something there that could change all our ideas about life on Earth. Chinese archaeologist Wong Shiping claims that the pyramids are located in accordance with astronomical aspects and are an example of the incredible knowledge of geometry and mathematics that ancient people had.

From here it is clear how weak the “traditional” explanation of the purpose of the pyramids, proposed by “Egyptologists with Chinese characteristics,” looks - as “the tombs of Chinese emperors.” According to more serious researchers, pyramids are just part of a giant system“holy lines”, known in China as “feng shui”[v]. In ancient scrolls five thousand years old, researchers find information according to which the authors grandiose project of which the pyramids are part, there were the so-called “sons of heaven”, who several thousand years ago descended to earth on their metallic “fire-breathing dragons”.

The “Sons of Heaven” (like the “bird people” from the legends of the Indian tribe living on Easter Island) are, presumably, either antediluvian pyramid builders who could have had flying machines (there are archaeological finds, indicating this), or simply demons, which, as stated in the Holy Scriptures, can appear to people in the form of “angels of light” for more convenient seduction.

There are pyramids in the region of Tibet and the Himalayas. Doctor of Medical Sciences Ernst Muldashev, who studied Tibet, believes that once North Pole there was Mount Kailash, like a 7-kilometer artificial super-pyramid, and on the opposite end of the planet was Easter Island. If you mentally connect Mount Kailash with one line Egyptian pyramids and go further along the meridian, then the straight line will go straight to Easter Island. If you connect Easter Island with the Mexican pyramids, then the straight line will lead to Mount Kailash. In 1996, E. Muldashev organized an international trans-Himalayan expedition, which collected unique material confirming the existence of the “Atlantean civilization,” or more correctly, antediluvian civilization. The main books of E. Muldashev: “From whom we came,” “In search of the city of the gods.”

“Every educated person has heard legends about the powerful Atlanteans who lived on earth in time immemorial,” writes E. Muldasheva in the book “From Who We Came From.” - Special literature (H.P. Blavatsky, Eastern religions, etc.) says that before us there were several civilizations on Earth, the level of development of which was significantly higher than ours... Nostradamus wrote (1555) that the people of the previous civilization, whom He called the Atlanteans, who, through their “third eye,” had a bioenergetic effect on gravity. Therefore, they could easily carry huge stone blocks in space, build pyramids and other stone monuments from them... It is difficult to say who built the pyramids. But it cannot be ruled out that they were built by the Atlanteans even before the era of modern people. Let the Egyptians and Mexicans not be offended, but it is quite possible that they did not build the pyramids - their ancestors simply came to the land of the pyramids and began to live next to the stone colossi... I read from the same Nostradamus that as a result of a global catastrophe(i.e. the Flood. - Auto.), which destroyed the Atlanteans, the Earth’s rotation axis changed and the poles shifted.”

This last statement seems to be consistent with what Christian creation scientists say about the consequences of the Flood. However, we, of course, must not forget that the revelations of such “great initiates and clairvoyants” as Nostradamus, Blavatsky, Vanga (who, it seems, also spoke about an ancient highly developed civilization) should always be treated critically, because, as warns us Orthodox Church, these “prophets” are not from God.

In Mexico, one of the places where pyramids were discovered is ancient city Aztec Teotihuacan. Czech archaeologist Miroslav Stingl in his book “Secrets of the Indian Pyramids” talks about his impressions of visiting Teotihuacan: “The pyramids here literally stunned me with their gigantic size. No wonder according to the Aztecs who lived in these places a thousand years after their construction, Atlanteans built the pyramids- kiname". The substantiation of the hypothesis according to which the builders of the Indian pyramids were not Indians, but the “legendary Atlanteans” (i.e., antediluvian pyramid builders), can be found in other studies. For example, in the notes of Paul Stonehill (USA) “ Egyptian secrets Mexico."

Teotihuacan translated into Russian means: “the place where the gods touched the earth.” It seems that the explanation for this name is simple: the Indians (pagans) once came to this place (to know exactly when this happened is not of great importance to us; the main thing is that it was, of course, many years after the Flood) , saw grandiose miraculous structures, made a “logical” (from the point of view of a primitive pagan) conclusion that all these buildings were built and “gods” lived here, and they began to use these structures for religious purposes, for which they built superstructures (temples, altars, etc.) and set up idols - to honor the “deities”, i.e. demons.

The Bible says that the gods of the pagans are demons. Among the Mayan peoples, the main deity and mythical creator of civilization is the flying serpent Quetzalcoatl, that is, presumably, Satan. In general the Mayans were rude and cruel people, and their culture was primitive. They practiced human sacrifices, during which the priests removed the still beating heart from the victim’s chest and showed it to the cheering crowd. Not all experts agree that the ancient Indians are related to astronomical measurements. The Indians' homes were simple wigwams. And scientists are still wondering: why and where did the Indians leave their cities in which they built such monumental structures (pyramids, etc.)? But the fact of the matter is that it was not the Indians who erected them. According to Indian legends, the pyramids were built by people who had magical powers. From the ruins of Indian religious and other structures built on ancient powerful foundations, it is clear that these superstructures were built from unprocessed or primitively processed small stones, held together with clay mortar.

That’s the whole “secret” of the “great ancient civilizations” of the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas.

3. GLOBAL ENERGY INFORMATION SYSTEM?

All of the above (and many more) amazing information about the pyramids gave rise to many researchers to put forward the following explanation. Since it is clear that the pyramids were not built by the ancient Egyptians, Indians, Chinese, etc., it should be concluded that they were created by some ancient highly developed civilization; and the pyramids did not serve a funeral function, but were built as energy-information structures, forming in their totality a certain global system, an energy information network.

According to some, this civilization is extraterrestrial. This opinion underlies the so-called theory of paleovisits, or visits of ancient astronauts. Back in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, C. Ford (USA), K. E. Tsiolkovsky and N. A. Rynin (Russia) expressed the idea: traces of the visit and creation of space aliens should remain in the monuments of the most ancient culture of mankind. Adherents of this theory claim that aliens, like the true builders of the pyramids, encrypted some valuable information in their creations. In general, fantasies on the topic of the extraterrestrial origin of the pyramids are diverse. For example, according to some versions: aliens flew to Earth, built pyramids and others mysterious objects, and then either they retreated back home, or they were destroyed by the “earthlings”. But there is this option: aliens destroyed the civilization of earthlings that built the pyramids, and all of today’s humanity allegedly descended from those aliens.