There were ten nations in the Atlantean Empire. If you bought Jowett’s translation of The Works of Plato like I suggested, you will find the countries listed in the Critias on page 389. Atlas was the eldest son of King Poseidon and the human mother Cleito. The entire North American and South American continents were named after him along with the ocean surrounding the “island”. This is of course if my interpretation if Plato is correct. I will not be so bold to claim that. I am waiting for the library chamber under the middle pyramid in Giza to be discovered and the information it hopefully still contains to come to light. Everything should be there all etched on gold tablets like the Egyptian legends claim. (Go into the existing known chamber and walk to the southwest corner. Drill twelve inches southwest and the blocking stone at the top of the shaft will be hit. Remove the six by six by twenty one foot long blocking stone, descend 917 feet to the top of the chamber, dig through the granite ceiling and drop into the top chamber. Don’t disturb the second chamber beneath it if you value staying alive. ) (Okay I am making an educated guess, but this is my blog and I can opine what I want to right? I do have data to back this up and I will post it soon. I really want to get these countries mapped out and posted first.)
Atlas was given the choicest real estate to rule. The capitol city Poseidon was also within the bounds of his nation. Plato says Atlas had a numerous and honorable family and his eldest branch always retained the kingdom. So what went wrong later? For some reason this empire became corrupted and sought to dominate the entire world. Second Sight is set during the tumultuous end of this empire and the world as they knew it.
I am going to post this, go draw a map of Atlas, and edit it into the post. Be right back.
Okay ready. Here are some illustrations: First the globe I drew for Second Sight. I mapped out in red where I think the country Atlas might have existed and its possible boundries. Plato seems to indicate it was located in the heart of the empire and the capitol was located in its center. I am showing the oceans conservatively high in this picture.
I don’t think the oceans were this high though. I think there was more land exposed. Here is a map of the area with depths shown.
The lighter areas indicate very shallow water. If I lower the oceans a full eight hundred feet and approximate for undissolved land masses made of minerals like limestone, I get this:
The historian Josephus indicates in Book 1, Chapter 4 of the Jewish Antiquities that people were afraid to live near the coastlines because of fear of tidal waves and future flooding. I am guessing that Atlas would have been given lands bounded by coastal mountain ranges and forced weaker peoples to live on the more hazardous coasts. I show the eastern boundaries stopping at the ring mountains that later became the windward islands of the Caribbean after the ocean rose.
I found my copy of Josephus. You should buy a copy of this on Amazon. I got mine for about fifteen dollars used.
The New and Complete Works of Josephus
Translated by William Whiston, Kregel Publications
Here is a more in depth study I did of the coastlines of this region using the old National Geographic maps. I have found Google Ocean and Google Earth to be suspect in their precision when I compare them to the National Geographic maps. There are some rumors circulating on the web that some of the information has been changed to hide military or political concerns. I don’t know if that is true. But I decided to stick with my old maps. Here is what I came up with for coastlines. Red is present day. Green is 7000 BC and Light Blue is 11,000 BC. I think these are too conservative though.
I am showing the city of Poseidon in the above study as well. Plato described the size of the Capitol. I drew it to scale and hunted for a possible location that would fit on the map and allow the entire city to sink. It seems that Plato is saying that the Capitol sank not the entire empire, by the way.
I did an analysis of the canal that connected Poseidon to the Atlantic Ocean. It fits perfectly where the sea trench between Cuba and Haiti runs.
The canal was the largest in the world. Larger than anything we have built today. Could the sea trench be an eroded remnant of that canal?
Hope you enjoyed this. Please let me know what you think, positive or negative. I am anxious to have debate and discussion, not force my opinion. It is time to get back to seeking the truth carefully without hiding in pet theories or running for the tin foil hats so quickly.
Good night!