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      • First Four Chapters of Second Sight
      • Route Jordan Takes in Second Sight and Second Birth
      • Maps
    • Book Two Second Birth
      • What Second Birth is About
      • Selected Chapters of Second Birth
      • Updated Maps For Second Birth
        • The First Nation of Atlantis: Atlas
        • The Second Nation of Atlantis: Eumelus
        • The Third Nation of Atlantis : Ampheres
        • The Fourth Nation of Atlantis: Evaemon
        • The Fifth Nation of Atlantis: Mneseus
        • The Sixth Nation of Atlantis: Autochthon
        • The Seventh Nation of Atlantis: Elasippus
        • The Ninth Nation of Atlantis: Azaes
        • The Tenth Nation of Atlantis: Diaprepes
    • Book Three First Earth
      • What First Earth Is About
      • Selected Chapters of First Earth
      • BINARY STAR THEORY
      • Theory on How the Flood Happened. Based on the work by Donald Wesley Patten and Others.
    • Book Four Third Way
      • Thoughts and Ideas Behind Third Way
      • What Third Way is about
    • Book Five Colony
      • What Colony is About
    • Book Six Star of David
      • What Star of David is About
    • Book Seven Nova Child
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        • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
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      • 2001 Ciudad de Este, Paraguay
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      • 2002 Belize and Guatemala
        • 2002 Belize Altun Ha
        • 2002 Lubaantun, Belize
        • 2002 Nim Li Punt, Belize
        • 2002 Sea Taxi to Caye Caulker, Belize
        • 2002 Xunantunich, Belize Full Data Download
        • 2002 Belize Cuello Santa Rita Cerros
        • 2002 Belize Xunantunich
        • 2002 Guatemala Tikal
      • 2002 Salem New Hampshire America’s Stonehenge
      • 2002 September 9th Page Museum, Los Angeles, California
    • Travel 2003
      • 2003 August field trip to Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn Pennsylvania
      • 2003 18 May Farmhouse Route 15 near Sellinsgrove PA
      • 2003 November Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois
      • 2003 February 23 : Humans Beneath the Coal? A Meeting with Mr. Ed Conrad in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania
      • 2003 July Europe Bath England
    • Travel 2004
      • 2004 Europe with Mike Kraxberger ( aka Krax) and San Luis Obispo UMC friends :)
        • 2004 Bath England and the Roman Baths Beneath…and something older beneath them…
        • 2004 Cerne Abbes Giant, Cerne Abbes, England
        • 2004 Europe Wells Cathedral
        • 2004 March Europe Trip Elgin Villa, Bath, England Then driving to London with stops along the way including Stonehenge.
        • 2004 Uffington Horse
      • 2004 Mexico
        • 2004 Balanku, Mexico A tale of three brothers who sailed from the east….
        • 2004 Becan, Mexico
        • 2004 Club Akumal , Mexico
        • 2004 Coba, Mexico Evidence Ancient People Struggled to Survive in a Much More Dangerous World
        • 2004 Dzibilchaltun, Mexico When the steps are twice as steep, the doors are twice as tall. There be giants.
        • 2004 January Chichen Itza Mexico
        • 2004 La Venta Mexico: Here There be Giants and Scientists, Ancient and Advanced
        • 2004 Merida, Mexico
        • 2004 Mexico City, Mexico Zona Archeologica Del Templo Mayor
        • 2004 Mexico…..On the road to Pueblo
        • 2004 Palenque, Mexico King Pacal and the 2012 doomsday that didn’t happen and he didn’t say it would….Got that?
        • 2004 Pamul Resort, Mexico…… Last day of trip :(
        • 2004 Pueblo, Mexico and the Tower of Babel ?
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico and the Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City
        • 2004 Tulum before it got crowded
        • 2004 Tulum vids
        • 2004 Uxmal, Mexico Full Download
        • 2004 Villahermosa, Mexico The strange giant heads and flying bearded “gods” found buried in the Olmec region of Mexico : African Kings? European Explorers?
        • 2004 JANUARY MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico
        • 2004 Uxmal Mexico
    • Travel 2005
      • 2005 10 october Stonehenge Salem New Hampshire Follow Up Visit
      • 2005 Death Valley Museum, Death Valley, California
    • Travel 2006
      • 2006 Moscow and Tuymen, Russia
    • Travel 2007
      • 2007 Costa Rica Central West Coast Region
    • Travel 2008
      • Pyramid Mounds in Alabama
      • 2008 Egypt – Day One – Cairo and Orphanage
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Saqqara
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Giza
    • Travel 2010
      • 2010 Haiti – Field Work for New Hospital Project
    • Travel 2011
      • 2011 Carved Stone found by friends near Dover Foxcroft, Maine
      • 2011 Maine home base and then visit to Boston Science Museum
      • 2011 Natural Bridge Virginia
    • Travel 2012
      • 2012 August Algonquin Canada
    • Travel 2013
      • January 2013 Haiti
      • May 2013 Europe
        • 2013 Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
        • 2013 Hallstatt, Austria
        • Welt Museum, Vienna, Austria 2013
      • Summer 2013 Europe
    • Travel 2015
      • 2015 Mexico Day One Arrival, George’s porch, and Chelem ( Chay – LEM )
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Labna (LAB – nah)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Xlapak (shlah – PAHK)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Two Mayapan
      • 2015 Mexico Day Five Oxkintok ( osh kin TOOK )
  • New Stuff
    • 2015 11 28 The Susquehanna Stones
    • 2017 3 21 Updated mapping of earth at the time of Atlantis
    • 2017 6 27 Discovered a possible link between the Inca, the Maya, the Voynich Manuscript, and the last 32,000 years of History.
    • 2018 9 9 Tabor Umc Youth Sunday School Class Creation Talk
    • 2019 1 29 Reference Slides for 1210 AM talk radio discussion with Bradley E. Lacey
    • Lost chapter to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System.
    • Susquehanna Stones Visited
    • 2015 1 10 Pyramids of China
    • 2015 1 12 Pyramids of Mexico
    • 2015 1 18 How I think the Sun might have been born during the death of another star.
    • 2015 1 4 Where Did the Wise Men Come From?
    • 2014 10 18 Exploring Pennhurst
    • 2014 10 19 Did the Ancestors of China Worship God?
    • 2014 12 7 Update on Pyramids That Align with Orion
    • 2014 8 28 Research in Germany Yields Old Globe Showing Antartica Ice Free
    • 2014 9 12: How I Think the Lost Library of Egypt Was Buried, Where it is Located, and How it Can Be Opened.
    • 2014 May 12 Saqqara, Egypt – photos and thoughts
    • 2014 May 12 Update on what people are saying about me
    • 2014 October 9 US Navy developing Elevated Stealth Raft
    • 2013 10 March: Were Obelisks Ancient Time Capsules?
    • 2013 February 15 This may not be the only meteorite that hits us this month
    • 2013 February 24 Does the Sun have a Twin?
    • 2012 December 14: Where I Think Atlantis Was Located
    • 2012 December 15: Jordan and Suri’s route from the Embassy to Baskra
    • 2012 December 19: Jordan and Suri’s Route in Second Sight Continued: Escape Across Algon and The Cut Diago Chapters
    • 2012 December 4 Update on My Study of Manetho’s History of Egypt from 30,000 BC to the First Greek Olympiad
    • 2012 December 5: Manetho Timeline Updated
    • 2012 November 18th: The Mammoth and the Aircar
    • 2012 November 20th: How I Write a Manuscript
    • 2012 November 27: Ancient Advanced Technology. A Strange Conversation I had with a Retired Scientist on an Airplane to California.
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    • 2019 January 11 Indian Crest Middle School
    • October 11, 2012 Ian Burley’s Science Class Souderton High School
    • November 1, 2012 Presentation at Boyertown Junior High East
    • 2012 November 14th and 15th Christopher Dock Mennonite High School Presentation
    • 2012 November 16 Pottsgrove High School Presentation
    • 2014 March 12 Christopher Dock Presentation Atlantis and New Evidence of Early Maps
    • Comparison of Submerged Temple Ruin near Japan with Machu Picchu, Peru
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  • Book Series
    • Book One Second Sight
      • Theories and Ideas behind Second Sight
      • What Second Sight is About
      • First Four Chapters of Second Sight
      • Route Jordan Takes in Second Sight and Second Birth
      • Maps
    • Book Two Second Birth
      • What Second Birth is About
      • Selected Chapters of Second Birth
      • Updated Maps For Second Birth
        • The First Nation of Atlantis: Atlas
        • The Second Nation of Atlantis: Eumelus
        • The Third Nation of Atlantis : Ampheres
        • The Fourth Nation of Atlantis: Evaemon
        • The Fifth Nation of Atlantis: Mneseus
        • The Sixth Nation of Atlantis: Autochthon
        • The Seventh Nation of Atlantis: Elasippus
        • The Ninth Nation of Atlantis: Azaes
        • The Tenth Nation of Atlantis: Diaprepes
    • Book Three First Earth
      • What First Earth Is About
      • Selected Chapters of First Earth
      • BINARY STAR THEORY
      • Theory on How the Flood Happened. Based on the work by Donald Wesley Patten and Others.
    • Book Four Third Way
      • Thoughts and Ideas Behind Third Way
      • What Third Way is about
    • Book Five Colony
      • What Colony is About
    • Book Six Star of David
      • What Star of David is About
    • Book Seven Nova Child
      • What Nova Child is About
        • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
          • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
  • What Readers Say About Second Sight
  • What People Say About Second Birth
  • What People Are Saying About Me
  • Travel
    • Travel 2001
      • 2001 Ciudad de Este, Paraguay
    • Travel 2002
      • 2002 Belize and Guatemala
        • 2002 Belize Altun Ha
        • 2002 Lubaantun, Belize
        • 2002 Nim Li Punt, Belize
        • 2002 Sea Taxi to Caye Caulker, Belize
        • 2002 Xunantunich, Belize Full Data Download
        • 2002 Belize Cuello Santa Rita Cerros
        • 2002 Belize Xunantunich
        • 2002 Guatemala Tikal
      • 2002 Salem New Hampshire America’s Stonehenge
      • 2002 September 9th Page Museum, Los Angeles, California
    • Travel 2003
      • 2003 August field trip to Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn Pennsylvania
      • 2003 18 May Farmhouse Route 15 near Sellinsgrove PA
      • 2003 November Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois
      • 2003 February 23 : Humans Beneath the Coal? A Meeting with Mr. Ed Conrad in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania
      • 2003 July Europe Bath England
    • Travel 2004
      • 2004 Europe with Mike Kraxberger ( aka Krax) and San Luis Obispo UMC friends :)
        • 2004 Bath England and the Roman Baths Beneath…and something older beneath them…
        • 2004 Cerne Abbes Giant, Cerne Abbes, England
        • 2004 Europe Wells Cathedral
        • 2004 March Europe Trip Elgin Villa, Bath, England Then driving to London with stops along the way including Stonehenge.
        • 2004 Uffington Horse
      • 2004 Mexico
        • 2004 Balanku, Mexico A tale of three brothers who sailed from the east….
        • 2004 Becan, Mexico
        • 2004 Club Akumal , Mexico
        • 2004 Coba, Mexico Evidence Ancient People Struggled to Survive in a Much More Dangerous World
        • 2004 Dzibilchaltun, Mexico When the steps are twice as steep, the doors are twice as tall. There be giants.
        • 2004 January Chichen Itza Mexico
        • 2004 La Venta Mexico: Here There be Giants and Scientists, Ancient and Advanced
        • 2004 Merida, Mexico
        • 2004 Mexico City, Mexico Zona Archeologica Del Templo Mayor
        • 2004 Mexico…..On the road to Pueblo
        • 2004 Palenque, Mexico King Pacal and the 2012 doomsday that didn’t happen and he didn’t say it would….Got that?
        • 2004 Pamul Resort, Mexico…… Last day of trip :(
        • 2004 Pueblo, Mexico and the Tower of Babel ?
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico and the Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City
        • 2004 Tulum before it got crowded
        • 2004 Tulum vids
        • 2004 Uxmal, Mexico Full Download
        • 2004 Villahermosa, Mexico The strange giant heads and flying bearded “gods” found buried in the Olmec region of Mexico : African Kings? European Explorers?
        • 2004 JANUARY MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico
        • 2004 Uxmal Mexico
    • Travel 2005
      • 2005 10 october Stonehenge Salem New Hampshire Follow Up Visit
      • 2005 Death Valley Museum, Death Valley, California
    • Travel 2006
      • 2006 Moscow and Tuymen, Russia
    • Travel 2007
      • 2007 Costa Rica Central West Coast Region
    • Travel 2008
      • Pyramid Mounds in Alabama
      • 2008 Egypt – Day One – Cairo and Orphanage
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Saqqara
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Giza
    • Travel 2010
      • 2010 Haiti – Field Work for New Hospital Project
    • Travel 2011
      • 2011 Carved Stone found by friends near Dover Foxcroft, Maine
      • 2011 Maine home base and then visit to Boston Science Museum
      • 2011 Natural Bridge Virginia
    • Travel 2012
      • 2012 August Algonquin Canada
    • Travel 2013
      • January 2013 Haiti
      • May 2013 Europe
        • 2013 Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
        • 2013 Hallstatt, Austria
        • Welt Museum, Vienna, Austria 2013
      • Summer 2013 Europe
    • Travel 2015
      • 2015 Mexico Day One Arrival, George’s porch, and Chelem ( Chay – LEM )
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Labna (LAB – nah)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Xlapak (shlah – PAHK)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Two Mayapan
      • 2015 Mexico Day Five Oxkintok ( osh kin TOOK )
  • New Stuff
    • 2015 11 28 The Susquehanna Stones
    • 2017 3 21 Updated mapping of earth at the time of Atlantis
    • 2017 6 27 Discovered a possible link between the Inca, the Maya, the Voynich Manuscript, and the last 32,000 years of History.
    • 2018 9 9 Tabor Umc Youth Sunday School Class Creation Talk
    • 2019 1 29 Reference Slides for 1210 AM talk radio discussion with Bradley E. Lacey
    • Lost chapter to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System.
    • Susquehanna Stones Visited
    • 2015 1 10 Pyramids of China
    • 2015 1 12 Pyramids of Mexico
    • 2015 1 18 How I think the Sun might have been born during the death of another star.
    • 2015 1 4 Where Did the Wise Men Come From?
    • 2014 10 18 Exploring Pennhurst
    • 2014 10 19 Did the Ancestors of China Worship God?
    • 2014 12 7 Update on Pyramids That Align with Orion
    • 2014 8 28 Research in Germany Yields Old Globe Showing Antartica Ice Free
    • 2014 9 12: How I Think the Lost Library of Egypt Was Buried, Where it is Located, and How it Can Be Opened.
    • 2014 May 12 Saqqara, Egypt – photos and thoughts
    • 2014 May 12 Update on what people are saying about me
    • 2014 October 9 US Navy developing Elevated Stealth Raft
    • 2013 10 March: Were Obelisks Ancient Time Capsules?
    • 2013 February 15 This may not be the only meteorite that hits us this month
    • 2013 February 24 Does the Sun have a Twin?
    • 2012 December 14: Where I Think Atlantis Was Located
    • 2012 December 15: Jordan and Suri’s route from the Embassy to Baskra
    • 2012 December 19: Jordan and Suri’s Route in Second Sight Continued: Escape Across Algon and The Cut Diago Chapters
    • 2012 December 4 Update on My Study of Manetho’s History of Egypt from 30,000 BC to the First Greek Olympiad
    • 2012 December 5: Manetho Timeline Updated
    • 2012 November 18th: The Mammoth and the Aircar
    • 2012 November 20th: How I Write a Manuscript
    • 2012 November 27: Ancient Advanced Technology. A Strange Conversation I had with a Retired Scientist on an Airplane to California.
  • Old Stuff
  • Presentations
    • 2017 October 31 Indian Crest Middle School Presentation
    • 2019 January 11 Indian Crest Middle School
    • October 11, 2012 Ian Burley’s Science Class Souderton High School
    • November 1, 2012 Presentation at Boyertown Junior High East
    • 2012 November 14th and 15th Christopher Dock Mennonite High School Presentation
    • 2012 November 16 Pottsgrove High School Presentation
    • 2014 March 12 Christopher Dock Presentation Atlantis and New Evidence of Early Maps
    • Comparison of Submerged Temple Ruin near Japan with Machu Picchu, Peru

Illustrations and Maps of Atlantis and Javan for Second Sight

August 28, 2010 | by JFAlthouse | Uncategorized | No Comments

This is a post for those of you who are reading the novel.  I wanted to include these illustrations in the novel. Apparently it is pretty expensive to do that. My agent and publisher encouraged me instead to let the story paint the picture and perhaps follow up with these illustrations on the website.  So here you go!

The maps are based on about a year’s worth of work. I drew them on AutoCad in three dimensions.  I researched old National Geographic Maps to chart and reconstruct the ancient shorelines. Google Earth was just coming out at the time. I discovered that the underwater information was very different in some places from my sea charts. I opted to stick with what I trusted.   In 11,000 BC +/- the world’s oceans were much lower. Estimates are between 400 to 800 feet lower.  The average scuba diver can only dive 130 feet. That would sink the theoretical ruins of an ancient seaport at least three times that distance into the murk.

I also used Plato’s direct description of the ten nations of Atlantis to make educated guesses for locations of each of the countries.  (I linked information to the Jowett translation of Plato. It seems to be getting harder to find an old copy. If you want one, better buy it now.)   I followed his information about the size and breadth of the ancient empire. Despite what academics and Hollywood have portrayed, Plato clearly described the Empire as covering two continents the size of Asia and ancient Libya with the capitol at its center. The capitol, Poseidon, was enormous. It was large enough for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware to fit with in its city limits, with room left over for Vermont.  The city was intentionally landlocked by its founder and accessed the Atlantic by a canal longer and deeper than anything built today. Plato said the harbor of Poseidon was busy day and night. Interesting claim for an ancient harbor prior to the supposed discovery of artificial lighting. Ancient Libya at the time of Plato covered about a third of Africa.  I made the assumption that the ancient world understood the size of Asia. I compared the landmasses of modern Asia and a third of Africa to the land masses of the Americas. The area was within 1000 square miles of being the same.

Here are the maps for the novel Second Sight. I start with the location of the Javan and Mestrean Embassy.  Note where I placed it on the map. You can then trace the path up to the ancient capitol of Atlantis, the  city of Poseidon. Believe it or not that is actually how large Plato described the city.  Notice how nicely it fits in the Caribbean east of Cancun and south of Cuba. The inland seas are larger than they probably were in 11,000 BC.  I am being conservative in my speculations of ocean levels at the time of the story.  If sea levels were 800 feet lower than present day, then the entire region from Texas to Venezuela would have been dry land.

From Poseidon, my characters journeyed north to the east coast of Eliassippus (Eastern United States) to the fictional port city of Baskra.  I made up the name and the location of Baskra partly out of convenience for the story and partly out of speculation based on evidence of Basque culture in the Americas before the time of Columbus.  According to my sources, Ancient Basque writings were found in large quantity in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.  I have not seen the carvings first hand so I cannot say they are true. That is why I call Baskra’s existence and location speculation without much evidence to support it.

If you look at the new Google Ocean Map,  there does seem to be a great spot for a large port city buried off the coast there.  My April fool’s joke about a submerged pyramid was only a half joke. Wouldn’t it be something if off shore drilling brought up a chunk of gold coinage someday?

The  other maps take you around the globe over to Europe and Africa. Note the ice cap is positioned over southern Greenland.  This is based on my observations at ancient sites in the Americas and ancient foundations of Pagan temples in Europe orienting towards this ancient magnetic pole location. According to Charles Hapgood in his book, Path of the Poles, this is where he seems to indicate the magnetic north pole used to exist around 11,000 BC.  I qualify that because I am referencing a data chart that was a little fuzzy in the book.

Mer is under the old ice cap on top of England.  Tevleh is the reversed name for Helvet, my shortened version of Helvetica, the ancient name for Switzerland.

Javan according to Josephus, was located somewhere around the Mediterranean. Plato talks about ancient Athens covering a land area that stretched from the present day (his present day) Acropolis to the Sphinx. Javan and Athen sound similar enough to possibly be referencing the same place, remembered by two different cultures.  While most academics assume Plato is referring to the ancient city of Athens, I noticed he seems to identify the capitol of Athens as being Deucalion. Why would a city have a capitol city?  I think Plato is talking about an ancient country and modern day Athens is named in memory of that great nation. Plato dates the time of Athen’s existence to 9000 years before his time or about 11,000 years before today.  That would be 2000 years more recent than the calculated pole shift.  I believe there may have been a partial melting of the ancient ice cap that elevated the oceans halfway or two hundred to four hundred feet, with the rest of the ice melting over thousands of years because the pole shift exposed the surviving ice to temperate climates.  If I am right then the Mediterranean Valley and its four smaller freshwater seas could have catastrophically flooded a couple thousand years after the cataclysm when the sea levels crested the Gibraltar land bridge and poured into the Mediterranean like a massive waterfall.  William Ryan and Walter Pitman’s book  Noah’s Flood gives factual evidence to support what I think may have been a secondary flooding event, one that preceded a tertiary flooding event in the Black Sea.

Based on this speculation, I placed Javan in the Mediterranean Valley. Mestre is the ancient name for Egypt. I placed it there and gave it some additional land to the west so that it had access to the ancient Sahara Sea.  Nothing to go on except the logical assumption that a country as powerful as Mestre would have to have had access to a sea that was as large as the Mediterranean is today.

I will shortly be receiving a scan of an old topographic survey of the Giza Plateau from the British Library.  I will use it to draw a three dimensional ground model of the Giza Plateau including the pyramids and attending structures. I will also include a few speculative locations of possible tunnels and chambers that have not yet been publicized by the Supreme Council of Antiquities.  It should be interesting to see if any of my speculations prove to be accurate.

And yes for all of you asking,  I am working on the editing of the Sequel.  It is going great. I am on schedule and plan to turn the manuscript over to my structural editor Kathryn Craft . She is a great friend and colleague. If you are struggling through a manuscript, push it hard then contact Kathryn. One of the best editors for riding through your story and giving you good opinions on flow and content, along with college professor quality grammar and punctuation corrections.   Spell check does not get the job done. Ask anybody who has been published and cringed later.

Thank you for reading.  If you want a signed copy of the story, there are still copies available. You can go here to order online for a signed copy.  Here are the stores carrying the book.

Back to my writing.

JFAlthouse

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