Atlantis and other Lost Worlds by Frank Joseph

Author:Frank Joseph
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited

Model of an ancient Canary Island town at Tenerife's Las Palmas Museum evidences Atlantean fingerprint construction design. According to Plato, Atlantis was built in concentric rings of massive walls.

The Guanches raised massive, finely crafted step-pyramids not unlike those in Egypt and Mesoamerica, though on a less colossal scale. Many of these structures were built of native volcanic tufa, pumice and lava stone, the same materials Plato described as the construction components of buildings in Atlantis. The Guanches' chief deity was Atlas, known to them as Ater. Variants of the name reflect the attributes by which he was known in Greece: Atamanm (Upholder of the Sky); Atara (Holy Mountain), etc. Approximately 25 per cent of Guanche personal names began with 'At'.

The Guanches told the Portuguese that their islands were anciently part of a larger homeland engulfed by the sea, a cataclysm their forefathers survived by climbing to the top of Mount Teide, Tenerife's great volcano. Guanche oral tradition of this catastrophe concluded with the words, Janega qyayoch, archimenceu no haya dir hando sahec chungra petut – 'The powerful Father of the Fatherland died and left the natives orphans.'

As might be expected, the Atlantis story was preserved at the Canary Islands perhaps in far greater detail than even Plato's account before the imposition of Christianity. Perhaps the most revealing of all surviving material connecting the Canary Islanders to Atlantis is found in the Tois Aethiopikes, by Marcellus. In AD 45, he recorded that:

...the inhabitants of the Atlantic island of Poseidon preserve a tradition handed down to them by their ancestors of the existence of an Atlantic island of immense size of not less than a thousand stadia [about 185 kilometres], which had really existed in those seas, and which, during a long period of time, governed all the islands of the Atlantic Ocean.

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