HISTORICAL ATLANTIS

By mentioning Athens in the context of Atlantis, Plato inaugurates actual historical writing when he writes (Cri. 109 e): >But first, we must necessarily set forth the military forces and the constitutions of both the Athenians of that time and the enemies against whom they waged war<.  However, since Athens was not founded until approximately 1.500 BC (Cecrops I, 1555 – 1506 BC), the aforementioned notion of >Atlantis 11,500 years ago< proves to be unscientific — or, to put it bluntly, sheer humbug.

As early as around 1700, the Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck surmised that the 9,000 years mentioned by Plato must, in reality, have been months. In reality, an Earth year — that is, one complete orbit of the Earth around the Sun— lasts 365¼ days. A year of any other duration simply does not exist. In Egypt — from where Solon brought back the subject of Atlantis — calculations were based on  b o t h  solar years (of 365¼ days)  a n d  lunar cycles (of 28 days). However... just as one cannot add proverbial apples and pears,  neither can one simply add together actual solar years and Plato’s lunar cycles — which have been erroneously transmitted as >years< — in order to date Atlantis; they possess different values, they are impatible.

With the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts, the supposedly mythical Atlantis turns out to be real European history: On stone tablets the size of tennis courts, King (Pharaoh) Ramses III recounts his great victory over the Atlanteans in the eighth year of his reign. (Quote from Tablet 46, lines 1–5:) >Year 8 under His Majesty the Horus: Mighty as a Bull (...) Mighty as his father Montu, Victor over the NineBows — he who subdued them and drove them out of Egypt...< (...)

The Ninth Bow — after which the neighboring peoples of that region were also named (the NineBows people) —  served as a geographical term for the Egyptians. Functioning as a kind of precursor to modern lines of latitude and longitude, the Egyptians' geocentric worldview was divided into ten bows. The exact scaling of the individual bows is not known. However, the underlying concept is well established: At the First Bow, the sun casts no shadow at noon; at the Tenth Bow — at midnight, >in the distant darkness< — it stands in the north. It is considered a certainty that the Ninth Bow passes through the land of Temeh — the Northland. Since the term NineBows designates the peoples inhabiting the Ninth Bow, the nations bordering the Atlantic — that is, the Atlanteans — are referred to in Egyptian annals both as the  NineBows  and as the  Temehu  (Northlanders). Conversely, the Ninth Bow traverses the land of Temeh — the Northland — which thereby reveals itself to be the historical Atlantis. Given that the >Year 8 of Ramses III< corresponds to the year 1175 BC — meaning that Plato was, in fact, transmitting accounts of actual events, which is real European history. Egyptology proves itself to be a reliable auxiliary discipline to the study of Atlantis.

It remains to be added that the name Atlantis  c a n n o t  have existed during the reign of Ramses III, since Atlantis is etymologically derived from Atlas — who, in turn, as the son of Poseidon (a brother of Zeus) in ancient Greek religion, did not yet exist at all during the Ramesside era.                                                                    The term >Sea of of Atlas< is only considered >known< around the 5th century BC. — in particular when Herodotus referred to the sea beyond the Pillars of Heracles (Gibraltar) as the >Sea of Atlas< — what is known today as the Atlantic Ocean.

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