IS VEDIC CIVILIZATION THE REMNANTS OF THE LEGENDARY ATLANTIS

IS VEDIC CIVILIZATION THE REMNANTS OF THE				there can be little doubt that the legend is originally
LEGENDARY ATLANTIS.				Vedic, and originated in the Indies. The name means
In the course of our journey to find out where we				nothing that makes sense in either Egyptian or Greek.
came from, there has been many theories most of				But in the holy tongues of India it means the idea of
them backed by scientific explanation and proofs.				Eros (Love) and, more exactly, the Sun of Justice that
Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Geologists,				symbolizes Atlantis rising from the waters of the
Paleontologists, and Historians all have given us				primordial abyss. This myth forms the essence of the
theories after theories and all with some amount of				one of the Celestial Jerusalem, as well as, say, those
scientific data and evidences. In spite of all their efforts				of the Orphic Cosmogonies, those of the Egyptians,
there are many archaeological, anthropological,				and those of most other ancient nations.
geological, finds and evidences that defies straight logic				Other Hindu legends tell of Agartha (or Shambhalla),
and defies the present scientific status on the origin of				the subterranean realm of the King of the World.
civilization. To me one of the most intriguing evidence				According to this tradition, it is from Shambhalla that
of the origin of civilization is the Vedic scriptures. The				will surge Kalkin, (The King of the World) for the final
scriptures are a store house of knowledge and				battle of the end of times. Kalkin will lead his hosts,
evidences of the origin of civilization which when				the Sons of Light, to victory against the Sons of
analyzed and studied will push the date of the origin of				Darkness. The myth of Shambhalla is the archetype
intelligent human civilization much later than what we				from which were copied the similar ones of the
currently know and what we are currently taught and				Essenes and of the Christians. The Celestial Jerusalem
made to belief. In fact now a day studies are being				from St. John's Revelation, the myth of Kalkin
conducted in this area and scientists, historians, linguists,				prefigures the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Many
anthropologists are now looking at the Vedas in a				experts have correlated the traditions of Agartha and
different light. Writers like Dr David Frawley, Graham				Shambhalla with those of Atlantis and the Celestial
Hancock, Dr Michael Cremo, Zacharia sitchin , Dr				Jerusalem. In fact, Atlantis too will resurge in the end of
B.G.Sidharth, Dr.Sidharth Kak have done extensive				times in precisely the same manner as the Celestial
studies of the Vedic scriptures and because of them,				Jerusalem.
today the perception towards the scriptures all over				It is significant to note that, according to geo physical
the world seems to be changing.				research based on the movement of the continental
In most examinations of lost civilizations, there has				plates, the Lanka of Ravana was situated in the
been a surprising tendency to leave India out of the				continent of Lemuria, also known as Kumari Kandam,
picture. While the wonders of Egypt or Sumeria are				which was a land mass, connecting the Deccan
often discussed, the equally great wonders of ancient				plateau in South India and the island of Ceylon, with
India are seldom mentioned. This is strange because				intervening straits to be crossed, with Madagascar in
India is the main country that has preserved our				the West, Australia on the East and Antarctica on the
ancient human heritage, both materially and spiritually.				South, until it sank into the Indian ocean in stages over
For example, in India today one can observe the same				3,500 years ago, as mentioned in the writings of the
type of temple worship still being practiced like that				German geologist Wagner anti the eminent Indologist
which once occurred in ancient Egypt, Babylonia,				Sir T.W. Holderness.
Greece or Mexico, along with the same emphasis on				The research done by Fr. Heras and Sir John Marshall
the spiritual and the sacred as the focus of life. India				the archaeologist and other scholars into the
has extensive archaeological remains that are among				archaeological finds at Mohenjodaro and Harappa point
the largest and oldest in the world. Harappan India or				to the existence of an earlier highly developed
India of the so-called 'Indus Valley Civilization' was the				Dravidian civilization in the deep South which, had
largest urban civilization in the world of its times in the				influenced the Indus-Valley Aryan civilization of the
third millennium BC (3100-1900 BCE), with major sites				North.
extending from the Ganges river in the east to				The available historical evidence referring to the
Afghanistan in the west, from the border of Iran to				Dravidian civilization commences with the records that
near Bombay. However, India's role in ancient civilization				have come down to us of the Tamil literary writings
has been largely ignored in favor of more culturally				during the past 12,000 years, which have been divided
comfortable, though geographically much smaller				by historians into three periods, called the First Sangam
cultures in the Near East, in spite of the fact that such				period from 9600 BC to 5200 BC, spanning the Satya
ancient cultures frequently lauded the greatness of				and Treta yugas, the Second Sangam period from
India themselves. How many of us know that the				5200 BC to 1500 BC spanning the Treta and Dwapara
civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia would fit easily				yugas, and the Third Sangam period from 1500 BC to
into Harappan India with much room to spare, so much				600 AD spanning the Dwapara and Kali yugas.
larger was the Indian civilization. There has been an				According to the present cycle of four yugas, namely
even greater ignoring of the Vedic literature of India,				Satya, Treta, Dwapara and Kali yugas, in their
which is by far the largest that has been preserved				descending arc of 12,000 years and ascending arc of
from the ancient world. The many thousands of pages				another 12,000 years, as stated by Sri Yukteswar in
of this poetic literature dwarf all that the rest of the				his famous treatis called ‘Holy Science’, we are
world has managed to save from such early eras. Yet				now in the ascending arc of Dwapara yuga completed
instead of putting Vedic literature on par with the				the Kali yuga period lasting from 600 BC to 1800 AD.
Pyramids of Egypt in terms of civilizational				The Mahabharata war, where Lord Krishna
achievements, scholars reduce the Vedas to the				propagated the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita to
rantings of illiterate nomads from Central Asia, who by				Arjuna, is reckoned to have taken place during the
all accounts should have left no literature anyway. The				Second Sangam period about the year 3100 BC. The
spiritual wisdom of the Vedic mantras, shlokas, and the				First Sangam, which was founded and nurtured by
story telling in the form of quatrants, is ignored				Siddha Sri Agastiyar, lasted for 4,400 years and had
according to a view that the Vedas are only a nature				its centre in the city of Dakshina Madura in the
poetry of barbarian invaders. This is in spite of the fact				continent of Lemuria.
that the Vedas were the foundation for the great				The Second Sangam, which was also established
yogic and mystical traditions of Asia through Hindu and				under the patronage of Sri Agastiyar, lasted for 3,700
Buddhist traditions and the whole science of Yoga,				years and had its centre in the city of Kavatapuram in
which frequently refer to them. Not only has Vedic				the continent of Lemuria, after the records in the city
literature been ignored, there has been an additional				of Dakshina Madura had gone under water. The Third
effort to keep the Vedic literature separate from the				Sangam, also sponsored by Sri Agastiyar, lasted for
great archaeological remains in the country of the				1,800 years and had its centre at Uttara Madura,
various Harappan sites. We are told that the great				namely the modern city of Madurai, which lays north of
urban civilization of ancient India and the great Vedic				the earlier centres, after the whole of the Lemurian
literature that India preserved as its ancient heritage				continent had gone under water.
are not connected to each other at all. We are left				After the commencement of the gradual inundation of
with 'a civilization without a literature' and a 'literature				the Lemurian continent, it is reported that Sri Agastiyar
without a civilization', though both a great literature and				led a migration of Dravidians to Java and Cambodia
a great civilization came from ancient India and often				and Central and South America. The legends of the
use the same symbols. This is in evidence in the many				Incas, Mayans and Aztecs of South America
Vedic images found in Harappan sites and on				regarding the founding of their cultures by tall beared
Harappan seals like the Brahma bull, figures in yoga				white-robed teachers confirm the tradititional view that
postures, Shiva-like Gods, fire altars and swastikas.				the Lemurians, under the guidance of their siddhas,
Here the new geology and marine archaeology has				colonized North and South America, as well as the Nile
ruled in favor of the ancients. Vedic literature describes				Valley, when they founded the Egyptian civilization.
its homeland on a long lost river called the Sarasvati,				It is significant to note that Edgar Cayce the
which according to Vedic descriptions flowed east of				well-known ‘sleeping prophet’ of America, had
the Indus from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea.				in the course of his recent voluminous psychic
Modern satellite photography has clearly indicated the				messages given out by him while in a state of trance
existence of this great river, as have numerous				mentioned a similar sinking of the continent of Atlantis
geological and ground water studies conducted over				in stages into the Atlantic Ocean over a period of
the last few decades, which show that the Sarasvati				several centuries between 12,000 BC and 10,000 BC,
was once over ten kilometers in width and flowed				before the sinking of the Lemurian continent.
from the mountains to the sea, dwarfing the nearby				Accoding to Prof:Arysio Santos in his book "Atlantis-
Indus. As the Vedas say, the Sarasvati was the				The Lost Continent Finally Found"
largest river of the region at the time. It was the center				The Greeks copied their legends on Atlas and Atlantis
of a great civilization and the vast majority of ancient				from the Hindu ones on Atalas (Shiva) and on Atala,
Indian and Harappan ruins have been found on the				the sunken paradise of the Hindus. As in the Greek
now dried banks of the Sarasvati.				traditions, Atalas - whose name is Sanskrit and means
In my earlier articles I have made an effort to bring to				"Pillar" - was deemed to be the "Pillar of the World",
my readers this vastness of the Vedic scriptures and				just as was Atlas in Greece. Atala was, like Atlantis, a
the scientific nature of the scriptures. I have made an				sunken continent destroyed by a fiery cataclysm, and
effort to let my readers know that the Vedic				which lay in the Outer Ocean. Since the Greek legend
civilization is by no means a civilization of the natives				is of Hindu origin and was simply transferred to their
as projected by the West, but a civilization which was				western region when the Greeks moved to their
very advanced, scientific, and very prolific. This				present whereabouts, it is idle to quest for Atlantis in
civilization was in fact the progenitor of many				the ocean nowadays called Atlantic. Instead, we must
civilizations in the world. AND the Vedic civilization was				seek Atlantis in the ocean which the Hindus called
probably the oldest civilization and the only civilization				"Ocean of the Atlanteans" or "Western Ocean", and
that evolved after the last glaciations some 15000				which is none other than the Indian Ocean.
years ago. It gave rise to many other civilization in the				The Hindus have many traditions on a sunken
world but in the Indian subcontinent ( I am not talking of				continent that was the paradisial region where mankind
any political boundary here ) this civilization has been a				and civilization first originated. One such was Tripura,
continuous phenomenon till date.				"the Triple City". When we recall the fact that Atlantis
Writing this article I must write about Bal Gangadhar				was, like Tripura, a triple city with metallic walls and
Tilak who was also known as Lokmanya Tilak. It was				golden palaces, we cannot but conclude that the two
his work on the Vedic civilization that sparked lot of				traditions, if indeed based on actual fact, refer to the
anger among the then British Government . Bal				one and same thing. Moreover, as happened with
Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist, social				Atlantis, the inhabitants of Tripura were originally
reformer and freedom fighter who was the first				extremely pious. But, with the passage of time, they
popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement.				also became evil and perverse, and were destroyed
Tilak sparked the fire for complete independence in				by Shiva. It is because of this feat that Shiva got the
Indian consciousness, and is considered the father of				epithet of Tripurantaka ("Destroyer of Tripura"). As
Hindu nationalism as well. “ Swaraj is my birthright,				with Lanka (see below) and Atlantis, Tripura was built
and I shall have it!” This famous quote of his is very				upon a mountain so lofty, that it was said to reside in
popular and well-remembered in India even today.				the skies.
Reverently addressed as Lokmanya (meaning				Another Hindu legend on a sunken empire that was
"Beloved of the people" or "Revered by the world"),				the archetype of Atlantis concerns Lanka, and is told in
Tilak was a scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, Hinduism,				detail in the Ramayana. The saga of the destruction of
mathematics and astronomy. He was born on July 23,				Lanka by Rama and Hanumant was the original on
1856, in a village near Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, into a				which Homer's Illiad was based. Just as the Ramayana
middle class Chitpavan Brahmin family. Tilak was an				tells the story of Lanka and the rescue of Shita, the
avid student with a special aptitude for mathematics.				spouse of Rama kidnapped by the evil Ravana, the
He was among India's first generation of youth to				Illiad recounts the destruction of Troy and the rescue
receive a modern, college education. Tilak authored				of the fickle Helen, kidnapped by Paris. Troy, with its
the well-regarded “The Orion”, or, Researches				bronzy walls and golden palaces was just one of the
into the antiquities of the Vedas (1893) in which he				many allegories of Atlantis. In contrast to the small
used astronomy to establish that the Vedic people				village discovered by Schliemann in Turkey, the true
were present in India at least as early as the 4th				Troy lay in the Outer Ocean. It was a magnificent
millennium BC. Later, in 1903, he wrote the much				capital and sank into the ocean after its destruction
more speculative Arctic Home in the Vedas. In it he				and incending in the great war with the "Greeks" of an
argued that the Vedas could only have been				earlier age. The parallels between Troy and Atlantis
composed in the Arctics, and the Aryan bards brought				are too many to be discarded. And those between
them south after the onset of the last Ice age. The				Plato's Atlantis and the Lanka of the Hindus show, in
rig Veda, the oldest of the Vedas, if was composed				an unequivocal manner, that it is in the Far Orient and
in the arctic region then it means that there was a				the underseas, and not in the Mediterranean region,
civilization which was present in such a distant past				that we must quest for the real Troy and the real
and post the last glaciations could this very civilization				Atlantis.
moved to all possible part of the world where it felt it				The Mahabharata, the other great Hindu classical saga
could be safe from the impending disastrous effects				that completes the Ramayana, tells of the mighty
of the glaciations. Then would it be right enough to				empire of Krishna and its destruction in the great war
presume that the Vedic civilization, as we know it				between the Lunars and the Solars (the Kurus and
today, is the logical conclusion of a much older, much				Pandus). This great war is, like the one of Lanka or
scientific, much well organized civilization? A civilization				that of Troy, the true archetype on which Plato based
which is not present now, a civilization that exists only				his history of Atlantis. Hastinapura, the capital of the
in the legends?				Pandu empire, was the "City of the Pillars"
1. His passion was cartography. His high rank within the				(Hastina-pura) or, yet, the "City of the Nagas". These
Turkish navy allowed him to have a privileged access				two are epithets associated with the Atlanteans and
to the Imperial Library of Constantinople.				with the Pillar of Heaven in the Far East. The
The Turkish admiral admits in a series of notes on the				Mahabharata also tells of Dvaraka, the capital of
map that he compiled and copied the data from a				Krishna, located in an island in the middle of the seas.
large number of source maps, some of which dated				Krishna's capital, Dvaraka, sunk underseas when the
back to the fourth century BC or earlier.				divine hero died in the great war, more or less in the
The Piri Reis map shows the western coast of Africa,				way Atlantis went under, according to Plato.
the eastern coast of South America, and the northern				Dravidian traditions speak of a vast sunken continent
coast of Antarctica. The northern coastline of				towards the south-east of India called Rutas. The
Antarctica is perfectly detailed. The most puzzling				Dravidas claim to have moved to India from that
however is not so much how Piri Reis managed to				continent when it sunk away underseas, in a great
draw such an accurate map of the Antarctic region				cataclysm. The name of Rutas apparently relates to
300 years before it was discovered, but that the map				the Sanskrit radix rudh ("red"), and the Dravidian ruta
shows the coastline under the ice. Geological evidence				("to be red", "to burn"). These etyms evoke the "Island
confirms that the latest date Queen Maud Land could				of Fire" and may be an allusion to the fabulous "Land
have been charted in an ice-free state is 4000 BC.				of the Reds" that was one of the many mystic names
The official science has been saying all along that the				of Atlantis in the ancient traditions. Indeed, the Dravidas
ice-cap which covers the Antarctic is million years old.				claimed to have been Kshatryias ("Warriors"), an Indian
The Piri Reis map shows that the northern part of that				caste whose heraldic colour is the red one.
continent has been mapped before the ice did cover it.				The Phoenicians - whose name also means "reds" in
That should make think it has been mapped million				Greek - claimed, like the Dravidas, to have come from
years ago, but that's impossible since mankind did not				an "Island of Fire" located beyond the Indian Ocean (or
exist at that time.				Erythraean) overseas. That means the Indies, indeed
Further and more accurate studies have proven that				located in this "Ocean of the Reds" (Erythraean).
the last period of ice-free condition in the Antarctic				Hence, the Phoenician homeland seems to be originally
ended about 6000 years ago. There are still doubts				the same as the Rutas (or "Island of Fire") of the
about the beginning of this ice-free period, which has				Dravidas. The Egyptians too called themselves "Reds"
been put by different researchers everything between				(Rot or Khem, in their tongue). And they also claimed
year 13000 and 9000 BC.				to have come from this "Island of Fire" in the Indian (or
The question is: Who mapped the Queen Maud Land				Erythraean) overseas. Would all the traditions of these
of Antarctic 6000 years ago? Which unknown				virtuous nations be lying? Or is it that we interpret their
civilization had the technology or the need to do that?				myths erroneously?
It is well-known that the first civilization, according to the				The myth of the Celestial Jerusalem, told in the Book
traditional history, developed in the mid-east around				of Revelation, stems directly from the Hindu traditions
year 3000 BC, soon to be followed within a millennium				on Lanka, the "Queen of the Waves". Lanka, whose
by the Indus valley and the Chinese ones. So,				history is told in the Ramayana, was the actual
accordingly, none of the known civilizations could have				archetype of Plato's Atlantis, as well as Homer's Troy.
done such a job. Who was here 4000 years BC, being				Lanka was built upon a lofty mountain (Mt. Trikuta = Mt.
able to do things that NOW are possible with the				Atlas or Meru), and was said "to fly in the air,
modern technologies? Therefore When Tilak said				scratching the belly of heaven". Hindu myths also tell
about a civilization post last glaciations and the location				how Lanka, with "its towers and walls of stone clad
being the Arctic he was not just making a conjecture				with metal" was pulled out of the summit of the Holy
but he had definitive evidence which he certainly found				Mountain (Meru) by the North Wind (Vayu) and thrown
in the Vedic scriptures. For example, the sacred book				into the seas, where it drowned with all its vast
Rig-Veda contains a story of a great civilization that				population. Interestingly enough, the same myth, with
existed 18 million years ago on the continent Oryana.				Atlas (i. e., Atlantis) substituting for Lanka, is also
The location of the continent could be easily identifiable				encountered in Greece. Atlas, often identified with
with the help of Hindu sacred writings. According to				Hesperus, the Evening Star, was thrown into the
them, the city of Arka, a capital of the united empire,				ocean by Boreas, the North Wind who is the Greek
was situated beneath the Polar Star i.e. on the territory				counterpart of Vayu. There Atlas drowned, and was
of the present-day Arctic. Could the name Oryana				to be found no more, just as happened with Lanka
compel Tilak to name his research “The Orion”				and, indeed, with Atlantis.
Over 11,000 years ago there existed an island nation				Other Hindu legends tell of Agartha (or Shambhalla),
located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean(?)				the subterranean realm of the King of the World.
populated by a noble and powerful race. The people				According to this tradition, it is from Shambhalla that is
of this land possessed great wealth thanks to the				to surge Kalkin, ("the White Knight") for the final battle
natural resources found throughout their island. The				of the end of times. Kalkin, the White Knight, is to lead
island was a center for trade and commerce. The				his hosts, the Sons of Light, to victory against the Sons
rulers of this land held sway over the people and land				of Darkness. The myth of Shambhalla is the archetype
of their own island and well into Europe and Africa.				from which were copied the similar ones of the
This was the island of Atlantis.				Essenes and of the Christians. Again, as with the
Atlantis was the domain of Poseidon, god of the sea.				Celestial Jerusalem of St. John's Revelation, the myth
When Poseidon fell in love with a mortal woman, Cleito,				of Kalkin prefigures the Second Coming of Jesus
he created a dwelling at the top of a hill near the				Christ. Many experts have correlated the traditions of
middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with				Agartha and Shambhalla with those of Atlantis and the
rings of water and land to protect her. Cleito gave birth				Celestial Jerusalem. In fact, Atlantis too will resurge in
to five sets of twin boys who became the first rulers				the end of times (now?) in precisely the same manner
of Atlantis. The island was divided among the brothers				prescribed for the Celestial Jerusalem of the Book of
with the eldest, Atlas, first King of Atlantis, being given				Revelation. Then, will the Golden Age be restored to
control over the central hill and surrounding areas.				the world, for Atlantis is truly the Paradise Lost we all
Plato was a student of Socrates until the latter's death				have been expecting for so long.
in 399 BC at the hands of the Athenian authorities.				Celtic traditions often speak of an "Island of the Lions".
After his teacher's death, Plato traveled extensively,				This mysterious island appears in Hindu traditions as
including journeys in Egypt.				Saka-dvipa or Simhala-dvipa ("Island of the Lions", in
In 387 BC he returned to Athens and founded the				Sanskrit). This "Island of the Lions" also figures in many
Academy, a school of science and philosophy that				other different traditions. In Celtic traditions, the Island of
became the model for the modern university. Perhaps				the Lions also called Avalon. The name of Avalon has
the most famous student of the Academy was				been interpreted both as "Land of the Apple Trees"
Aristotle whose teachings have had tremendous				and as "Island of the Lions" (Ava-lon). This paradisial
impact on philosophy through today. Due to the				island is also called Lyonesse (Lyon-ys or "Island of the
Academy's safekeeping, many of Plato's works have				Lions") or Llyn Llion ("Lake Lion"), the lake which
survived. His extant writings are in the form of letters				reputedly overwhelmed the whole world with its
and dialogues, the most famous of which is probably				waters when it overflowed, causing the Flood.
The Republic. His writings cover subjects ranging from				The "Island of the Lions" just mentioned (see above
knowledge to happiness to politics to nature. Two of				item) is no other than the Simhala-dvipa (or Serendip)
his dialogues, Timeaus and Critias, hold the only known				of the Hindus. Serendip is indeed the "Island of the
original references to the island of Atlantis.				Seres" (Seren-dip), which is the same as Taprobane
In the world these are the only two epics Timeaus and				(Sumatra). The Seres are "the people of the silk"
Critias wherein there is a mention of such a civilization.				(serica = "silk", in Latin). They are described as a blond,
THE ATLANTIS CIVILIZATION. The epics goes on				blue-eyed, tall people by Pliny, Solinus and others. As
to describe the structure or the city plan of the Atlantis				we just said, Serendip is the same as Taprobane or
and the daily lives of the Atlanteans. At the top of the				Sumatra, and should not be confused with Shri Lanka
central hill, a temple was built to honor Poseidon which				(Ceylon), its Indian counterpart. The word "lion", in India,
housed a giant gold statue of Poseidon riding a chariot				is synonymous with "hero" (gandha or simha in Skt.,
pulled by winged horses. It was here that the rulers of				singa in Dravida, etc.), so that the name of
Atlantis would come to discuss laws, pass judgments,				Simhala-dvipa indeed means "Island of the Heroes".
and pay tribute to Poseidon. To facilitate travel and				And these "Heroes" of old are no other than those of
trade, a water canal was cut through of the rings of				Atlantis, destroyed in the Flood, as mentioned in the
land and water running south for 5.5 miles (~9 km) to				Book of Genesis (ch. 6).
the sea. The city of Atlantis sat just outside the outer				It is from the primordial Lemurian Atlantis that derive all
ring of water and spread across the plain covering a				our myths and religious traditions, the very ones that
circle of 11 miles (1.7 km). This was a densely populated				allowed the ascent of Man above the beasts of the
area where the majority of the population lived.				field. From Atlantis derive all our science and our
Beyond the city lay a fertile plain 330 miles (530 km)				technology: agriculture, cattle herding, the alphabet,
long and 110 miles (190 km) wide surrounded by				metallurgy, astronomy, music, religion, and so forth.
another canal used to collect water from the rivers				These inventions are so clever and so advanced that
and streams of the mountains. The climate was such				they seem as natural as the air we breath and the
that two harvests were possible each year. One in the				gods we worship. But they are all incredibly advanced
winter fed by the rains and one in the summer fed by				inventions that came to us from the dawn of times,
irrigation from the canal.				from the twin Atlantises we utterly forgot.
Surrounding the plain to the north were mountains				It is in India and in Indonesia, that, even today, we find
which soared to the skies. Villages, lakes, rivers, and				the secret of Atlantis and Lemuria hidden behind the
meadows dotted the mountains. Besides the harvests,				thick veil of their myths and allegories. The crucial
the island provided all kinds of herbs, fruits, and nuts. An				events are disguised inside the Hindu and Buddhic
abundance of animals, including elephants, roamed the				religious traditions, or told as charming sagas like those
island. For generations the Atlanteans lived simple,				of the Ramayana and the Mahaharata. The error that
virtuous lives. But slowly they began to change. Greed				led the ancients, along with the modern researchers,
and power began to corrupt them. When Zeus saw				into believing that Atlantis lay in the Atlantic Ocean is
the immorality of the Atlanteans he gathered the other				easy to understand now that we know the true
gods to determine a suitable punishment.				whereabouts of the sunken continent. When humanity
Soon, in one violent surge it was gone. The island of				moved from Indonesia into the regions of Europe and
Atlantis, its people, and its memory were swallowed by				the Near East, the "Occidental Ocean" of the Hindus
the sea.				became the Oriental Ocean, for it then lay towards the
Geologists, both mainstream and alternative, agree that				east.
the evidence is overwhelming that there was a				The (Hindu) myths that told of Atlantis sinking in the
massive global catastrophe in around 10,000 BC that				Occidental Ocean became interpreted as referring to
ended the last Ice Age and altered the face of the				the Atlantic Ocean, western in regards to Europe, their
planet in almost every way. For the people alive at				new residence. The Hindus called the sunken continent
that time it must have been an experience we can't				by the name of Atala (or Atalas) a name uncannily
imagine. The sea levels rising 300 feet in a week,				similar to that of Atlas and of Atlantis (by the
submerging all beaches and coastal lands, torrential				appending of the suffix tis or tiv = "mountain", "island", in
rainstorms measuring in feet instead of inches,				Dravida, and pronounced "tiw"). It is from this base that
worldwide hurricanes, supervolcanic eruptions turning				names such as that of the mysterious Keftiu of the
the sky black and blotting out the sun for months. A				Egyptians, the "Islands in the Middle of the Ocean (the
waterfall as wide as the Bosphorous Strait filling up the				"Great Green")" ultimately came (Keftiu = Kap-tiv =
Black Sea like a bathtub. The human survivors of this				"capital island" or "Skull Island" = "Calvary" in Dravida,
cataclysm would never ever have forgotten it and				the pristine language of Indonesia). But this is a long
would most certainly have told their children and				story which we tell elsewhere, presenting the detailed
grandchildren about it; and those subsequent				evidence for this uncanny allegation of ours.
generations would have passed on the story to their				Atlantis was a continent of the Atlantic Ocean where,
own descendants. This memory endured to the				according to Plato, and advanced civilization developed
present day to become these folk-legends of the				some 11,600 years ago. Plato affirms that, as the result
Great Flood etc. However, conventional studies of				of a huge volcanic cataclysm of worldwide extent, this
prehistory say that 12,000 years ago humans existed				continent sunk away underseas, disappearing forever.
in small groups; the Neolithic Age had only just begun				Official Science - the one you learn at school - rejects
and most people still lived in nomadic hunter-gatherer				the actual existence of Atlantis, as it has so far been
cultures. There were no cities, no nation-states like				unable to find any traces of its reality. But the reason
Atlantis is said to be and only a handful of settled				for that is simple to explain. Everybody has been
towns numbering no more than a few hundred people.				looking in the wrong locations, as Atlantis indeed lies in
Many Mavericks have claimed that the myths				the opposite side of the world.
describing a sophisticated prehistoric civilization are in				Lemuria, on the other hand, is an even older version of
fact real and the conventional scientists have got it				Atlantis. Lemuria is indeed the same as the Garden of
wrong. However this alternative, minority view lacked				Eden and other such Paradises that in fact existed
hard evidence until recently.				and were the actual birthplace of Mankind and
Plato concedes that he learnt the legend of Atlantis				Civilization, precisely as the Bible and other Holy Books
from Solon who, in turn, got it from the Egyptians. But				affirm. From there, civilization spread to Atlantis and
those, in their turn, learnt it from the Hindus of Punt				other parts of the world, in the dawn of times, some
(Indonesia). Punt was the Ancestral Land (To-wer), the				20 or 30 thousand years ago, during the Ice Age.
Island of Fire whence the Egyptians originally came, in				In the vedic literature which are divided into the
the dawn of times, expelled by the cataclysm that				Rig-Veda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda and the
razed their land. From there also came the Aryans, the				Atharveda. The Rig Veda being the oldest. Although
Hebrews and Phoenicians, as well as the other nations				these scripture are said to have been divinely revealed
that founded the magnificent civilizations of olden times.				in India and to have taken place there, author
Here we see the first glimpse of the Vedic connection.				Professor Arysio Nunes dos Santos thinks that they
Could Rig Veda the oldest of the Vedas have any				actually refer to Atlantis, which according to his theory
mention of this civilization? Many cultures from all				was located where the South China Sea is and
over the Pacific make reference to this land. Here are				Indonesia. This would have made ancient India the
just a few: The legends of Easter Island speak of				nearest outpost of the Atlantean civilisation.
Hiva, which sank beneath the waves as people fled,				The Indonesian Islands and the Malay Peninsula that
while one Samoan legend calls a similar place Poluto.				we nowadays observe are the unsunken relicts of
The Maoris of New Zealand still talk about arriving long				Lemurian Atlantis, the lofty volcanic mountains that
ago from a sinking island called Hawaiki, a vast and				became the volcanic islands of this region, the true site
mountainous place on the other side of the water. The				of Paradise in all ancient traditions. The sunken portion
myths and traditions of India abound with references.				of continental extension now forms the muddy, shallow
The Rig Veda speaks of "the three continents that				bottoms of the South China Sea. It is encircled by
were"; the third was home to a race called the				Indonesia and forms the boundary of the Indian and
Danavas. A land called Rutas was an immense				the Pacific Oceans.
continent far to the east of India and home to a race				The greatest of all Lemurian colonies was Atlantis,
of sun-worshippers. But Rutas was torn asunder by a				founded in India, already during the heydays of Lemuria,
volcanic upheaval and sent to the ocean depths.				and which, in time, reached the apex of human
Fragments remained as Indonesia and the Pacific				grandeur. Atlantis and Lemuria had prospered for a full
islands, and a few survivors reached India, where they				zodiacal era (2,160 years), when the great cataclysm
became the elite Brahman caste. Hopi Legend - On				destroyed their common world, at the end of the
the bottom of the seas lie all the proud cities, the flying				Pleistocene, some 11,600 years ago. The scant
patuwvotas [shields] and the worldly treasures				survivors of the cataclysm that sunk Lemuria away
corrupted with evil. Faced with disaster, some people				were forced to flee their destroyed Paradise, moving
hid inside the earth while others escaped by crossing				first to India, the site of Atlantis, which had been spared
the ocean on reed rafts, using the islands as				in its northern, loftier portion. But the global catastrophe
stepping-stones. The same story of escape to dry				had also caused the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age,
land appears in the Popol Vuh - the Mayan story of				and the melting of the Himalayan glaciers caused huge
creation. Augustus Le Plongeon, (1826-1908) a 19th				floods of the rivers of Asia, rendering the region unfit
century researcher and writer who conducted				for human habitation. These floods ravaged this
investigations of the Maya ruins in the Yucatan				remainder of Atlantis, already greatly destroyed by the
announced that he had translated ancient Mayan				original cataclysm, the giant conflagration of the
writings, which allegedly showed that the Maya of				Indonesian volcanoes and the huge tsunamis they
Yucatan were older than the later civilizations of				caused, as well as by the plague that ravaged their
Atlantis and Egypt, and additionally told the story of an				country in their wake.
even older continent of Mu, whose survivors founded				Again, this doomed people was obliged to flee,
the Maya civilization. Later students of the Ancient				emigrating, along the ensuing millennia, to remote places
Maya writings argue that Le Plongeon's "translations"				such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, North Africa,
were based on little more than his vivid imagination.				Europe, North Asia, the Near Orient and even Oceania
Stay tuned as I will be uploading more documentaries				and the Americas. Some came on foot, in huge
from this anime.				hordes like those of the Israelite exodus. Others came
The Hindus have many traditions of a paradisial				by ship, like Noah in his Ark or Aeneas with his fleet, to
region where mankind and civilization first originated.				found the great civilizations of the ancient world.
One such plase was Tripura, "the Triple City". with				The great civilizations that we know of, in the Indus
metallic walls and golden palaces. The inhabitants				Valley, in Egypt, in Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Greece,
of Tripura were originally extremely pious, but with				Rome, Mexico and even the Americas were all
the passage of time, they became evil and perverse,				Atlantean colonies founded by the survivors of the
and were destroyed by Shiva. It is because of this				cataclysm that destroyed the twin Paradises of
feat that Shiva got the epithet of Tripurantaka				Atlantis and Lemuria. These colonists, of course,
("Destroyer of Tripura"). Tripura was built upon a				attempted to recreate their Eden in their new
mountain so lofty, that it was said to reside in the skies.				homeland.
Another Hindu legend on a lost empire concerns				The newcomers named each topographical feature
Lanka,and is told in detail in the Ramayana. The saga				after the archetypes of the pristine abode just as
of the destruction of Lanka by Rama and Hanumant				immigrants will do the same nowadays. Such is the
was of which Homer's Illiad was based. Just as the				reason why we keep finding vestiges of Atlantis
Ramayana tells the story of Lanka and the rescue of				everywhere, from Brazil and North America to Spain,
Shita (the wife of Rama) who was taken by the				Crete, and even Africa and North Europe. All these
evil Ravana. The Illiad recounts the destruction of				ancient civilizations spoke of Civilizing Heroes such as
Troy and the rescue of Helen who was taken by				Manu, Noah, Aeneas, the Oannés, Hotu Matua,
Paris.				Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan, Bochica and, of course, Atlas
The Mahabharata relates the fall of Krishna's mighty				and Hercules, the omnipresent Twins that founded
empire during the great war between the Lunars and				civilizations everywhere.
the Solars (the Kurus and Pandus). Hastinapura, the				Prof. Santos, who was trained in academic science
capital of the Pandu empire, was the "City of the				and was a professor of nuclear physics in Brazil, told
Pillars" (Hastina-pura) - or the "City of the Nagas".				me he had originally started his research into Atlantis
The Mahabharata also tells of Dvaraka, the capital of				as a sceptic and unbeliever but having researched
Krishna, located on an island in the middle of the				throughly into world religions, occult traditions, geology
seas. Krishna's capital, Dvaraka, sunk under the the				and word derivations he had become convinced it
sea and their divine hero died in the Great War.				was very very real indeed. It became a mission of his
Dravidian traditions speak of a vast sunken land				to get the knowledge that Atlantis was real out to this
known as "Rutas" that was located towards the				crazy world. He had a completely new theory - that
south-east of India. The Dravidas claim to have moved				Atlantis could not be found because everyone had
to India from that land before it sunk under the sea,				been looking in the wrong place and that Plato's work
during a a great catacylsm. The name Rutas is a				on the subject had been misunderstood. Arysio
reflection of the Sanskrit word " radix rudh" which				believed that the true location of Atlantis was in the
means "red" and Dravidian word "ruta:" which means				area of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.
'to be red' , 'to burn'. These etyms evoke the "Island				The Indonesian islands are all that is left of it. He also
of Fire" and may elude to the "Land of the Reds" (				felt that India was one of its nearest and many
one of the many mystical names of Atlantis) The				colonies and that the holy books known as the Vedas
Dravidas claimed to have been Kshatryias ("Warriors"),				and the Hindu religion are based on and in Atlantis. The
an Indian caste whose heraldic colour is red.				professor also believed that many other religious
The myth of the Celestial Jerusalem, told in the Book				ceremonies such as baptism were memories of
of Revelation, stems directly from the Hindu traditions				Atlantis and how it perished under the seas.
of Lanka, the "Queen of the Waves". Lanka, whose				Arysio thought that that Guanche language was
history is told in the Ramayana, was the actual				derived from Dravidian and set out a very good case
archetype of Plato's Atlantis, as well as Homer's Troy.				proving this by comparing Dravidian words with those
Lanka was built upon a lofty mountain (Mt. Trikuta = Mt.				of the Guanche - many are nearly identical. He had
Atlas or Meru), and was said "to fly in the air,				also written on The Mysterious Origin of the Guanches.
scratching the belly of heaven". Hindu myths also tell				He believed that the "Golden Age" and the Garden of
how Lanka, with "its towers and walls of stone clad				Eden and "Paradise" were all memories of Atlantis as
with metal" was pulled out of the summit of the Holy				it once was and that after its destruction the survivors
Mountain (Meru) by the North Wind (Vayu) and thrown				had to begin again and had lost all their technological
into the seas, where it drowned with all its vast				advances and were reduced to a very primitive way
population. Interestingly enough, the same myth, with				of living.
Atlas (i. e., Atlantis) substituting for Lanka, is also				His idea was that Atlantis was destroyed following a
encountered in Greece. Atlas, often identified with				cataclysmic volcanic eruption and tsunami that shook
Hesperus, the Evening Star, was thrown into the				the entire world. He also feels that it might have been
ocean by Boreas, the North Wind who is the Greek				triggered deliberately in nuclear war by these ancient
counterpart of Vayu. There Atlas drowned, and was				people who lived on Atlantis and he was praying this
to be found no more, just as happened with Lanka				was not going to be the fate of the world again.
and, indeed, with Atlantis.				In conclusion I can only say that here is another
The New Jerusalem is Atlantis, reborn from its cinders,				example of the antiquity of the Vedic Civilization.
as a sort of Phoenix, the bird that personifies Paradise				Plato’s fabled city of Atlantis though is a Myth it is
in Greek myths. These myths were indeed copied				a probable fact as all myths are distortion of some
from Egypt who, in turn, cribbed them from India. India				facts which takes place in the distant past and it stays
and, more exactly, Indonesia, is the true land of the				in the memory of the population passed on from
Phoenix, as is relatively easy to show, since it is from				generation to generation verbally. Thus becoming a
there that comes the name of the Benu bird of the				Myth or a Legend. Corroborated with the various
Egyptians and that of the Phoenix of the Greeks.				evidences and studies it is a fair conclusion that Vedic
This mystic bird was called Vena in the Rig Veda. So,				Civilization could be that remnants of the Atlantis
if the Phoenix indeed symbolizes Atlantis-Paradise				Civilization.
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