The Shadow of Atlantis by Colonel A. Braghine

Author:Colonel A. Braghine [Braghine, Colonel A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Egypt, General, Greece, Rome
ISBN: 9781787201095
Google: gFVODQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-10-21T03:02:37+00:00

The mythical language is a very symbolical one: if, for instance, the legend relates, that the king Amphytrion married the beautiful Alkmena, it very likely signifies that the tribe of Amphytrions conquered a country called Alkmena which was remarkable by its fertility, or prosperity. If Genesis told us that Israel possessed twelve sons, it means that the Hebraic nation was composed of twelve tribes, or clans. The name of a leader, or of the founder of any nation, is a collective one and applies to the whole nation: thus, for instance, the expression in the Book of Genesis: ‘Abraham emigrated to the city of Sigor,’ signifies that the Ibri nation (Jews) removed its camp to Sigor, etc. The duration of the patriarch’s life is nothing else than the period of the independence of the corresponding tribe: if, for instance, the Book of Genesis affirms that Methuselah lived for 969 years, it means, that the tribe Methuselah was conquered, or destroyed by some conqueror, after almost a thousand years of comparatively prosperous existence.

Luis Thayer Ojeda thinks that many European tribes, which were hitherto supposed to have arrived in Europe from Asia, came on the contrary from certain western countries. They gradually populated the regions of Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa and gave to these regions the names of the remote lands of their origin in Atlantis, or in America. Thus the Chilean scientist supposes that many historical and geographical terms of the Mediterranean basin were taken from western countries. Those emigrants, who came to Europe after the catastrophe in Atlantis, gave to their new abodes the names of their old ones. This custom exists today: thus we see that the emigrants from Europe have given the names of their ancient European cities and provinces to the American ones. Hence, New Spain, New Castile, New Granada, New England, New York, New Brunswick, New Orleans, and other similar names in America.

By means of a very careful philological analysis Ojeda has proved the existence of an Egypt, a Libya, an Ethiopia, a Persia, an India, etc., in the Mediterranean depression before its inundation. Later on, after the disappearance of them all, these names were inherited by the present Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Persia, India, etc.

In the line of his discoveries, Ojeda worked out a hypothetical map of the Mediterranean depression before the rupture of the isthmus. It is a very interesting work and I am giving below some of its details.

It shows, for instance, a large lake between the present Balearic islands, Corsica, and the southern French coast. This lake was called ‘The Triton’s Sea,’ and its southern boundary touched the African shores. Some years ago the German archæologist, Dr. A. Herrmann, found in Shott el Djerid in Tunis, the vestiges of the Triton’s Sea. Sicily was the continuation of the Apennine peninsula and was united with Africa by a wide band of firm land. In the middle of this band existed also a lake called ‘Charon’s Sea.’ The Balkan peninsula, Morea, and the

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