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003 - The Story of Atlantis - Part 2 · Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

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Speaker 1: Section two The Story of Atlantis by William Scott Elliot.
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Speaker 1: The LibriVox recording is in the public domain The Story
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Speaker 1: of Atlantis, Part two fifth. It only remains now to
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Speaker 1: summarize some of the evidence subdainable from ancient writers, from
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Speaker 1: early Race traditions, and from archaic flood legends. Alien, in
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Speaker 1: his Varia Historia, Book three, Chapter eighteen, states that Theopompus
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Speaker 1: four hundred b c. Recorded an interview between the king
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Speaker 1: of Phrygia and Silanus, in which the latter referred to
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Speaker 1: the existence of a great content beyond the Atlantic, larger
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Speaker 1: than Asia, Europe, and Libya together. Proclus quotes an extract
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Speaker 1: from an ancient writer who refers to the islands in
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Speaker 1: the sea beyond the Pillars of Hercules, Straits of Gibraltar,
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Speaker 1: and says that the inhabitants of one of these islands
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Speaker 1: had a tradition from their ancestors of an extremely large
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Speaker 1: island called Atlantis, which for a long long time ruled
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Speaker 1: over all the islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Marcellus speaks
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Speaker 1: of seven islands in the Atlantic and states that their
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Speaker 1: inhabitants preserve the memory of a much greater island, Atlantis.
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Speaker 1: Which had for a long time exercised dominion over the
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Speaker 1: smaller ones. Diodorus Siculus relates that the Phoenician discovered a
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Speaker 1: large island in the Atlantic Ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules,
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Speaker 1: several days sail from the coast of Africa. But the
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Speaker 1: greatest authority on this subject is Plato. In the Timaeus,
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Speaker 1: he refers to the island continent, while the Cretius or
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Speaker 1: Atlanticus is nothing less than a detailed account of the history, arts, manners,
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Speaker 1: and customs of the people. In the Timaeus, he refers
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Speaker 1: to a mighty warlike power rushing from the Atlantic Sea
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Speaker 1: and spreading itself with hostile fury over all Europe and Asia.
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Speaker 1: For at that time the Atlantic Sea was navigable and
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Speaker 1: had an island before that mouth, which is called by
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Speaker 1: Yu the Pillars of Hercules. But this island was greater
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Speaker 1: than both.
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Speaker 2: Libya and all Asia together, and afforded an easy passage
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Speaker 2: to other neighboring islands, as it was likewise easy to
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Speaker 2: pass from those islands to all the continents which border
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Speaker 2: on this Atlantic Sea. There is so much of value
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Speaker 2: in the creteas that it is not easy to choose.
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Speaker 2: But the following extract is given as it bears on
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Speaker 2: the material resources of the country. They had likewise everything
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Speaker 2: provided for them, which both in a city and every
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Speaker 2: other place, is sought after as useful for the purposes
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Speaker 2: of life. And they were supplied, indeed with many things
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Speaker 2: from foreign countries on account of their extensive empire. But
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Speaker 2: the island afforded them the greater part of everything of
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Speaker 2: which they stood in need. In the first place, the
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Speaker 2: island supplied them with such things as are dug out
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Speaker 2: of mines in a solid state, and with such as
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Speaker 2: are melted. And oricalcom which is now but seldom mentioned,
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Speaker 2: but then was much celebrated, was dug out of the
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Speaker 2: earth in many parts of the island, and was considered
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Speaker 2: as the most honorable of all metals except gold. Whatever, too,
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Speaker 2: the woods afforded for builders the island produced in abundance.
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Speaker 2: There were likewise sufficient pastures there for tame and savage animals,
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Speaker 2: together with a prodigious number of elephants. For there were
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Speaker 2: pastures for all such animals as are fed in lakes
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Speaker 2: and rivers, on mountains and in plains. And in like
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Speaker 2: manner there was sufficient ailment for the largest and most
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Speaker 2: voracious kind of animals. Besides this, whatever of odoriferous the
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Speaker 2: earth nourishes at present, whether roots or grass, or wood,
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Speaker 2: or juices or gams, flowers or fruits, these the island
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Speaker 2: produced and produced them well. The Gauls possessed traditions of Atlantis,
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Speaker 2: which were collected by the Roman historian Timagenes, who lived
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Speaker 2: in the first century b c. Three distinct peoples apparently
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Speaker 2: dwelt in Gaul. First the indigenous population, probably the remains
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Speaker 2: of Lemurian race, Second invaders from the distant island of Atlantis,
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Speaker 2: and third the Aryan Gauls c.
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Speaker 1: Preadamites, page three hundred eighty.
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Speaker 2: The Tutics of Mexico traced themselves back to a starting
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Speaker 2: point called Atlan or Adstlan. The Azteks also claimed to
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Speaker 2: come from Adstlan Sea Bancrofts Native Races, Volume five, pages
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Speaker 2: two hundred twenty one and three hundred twenty one. The
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Speaker 2: popul Vous page two hundred ninety four speaks of a
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Speaker 2: visit paid by three sons of the king of the
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Speaker 2: Quaches to a land in the east on the shores
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Speaker 2: of the sea, whence their fathers had come from, which
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Speaker 2: they brought back, amongst other things, a system of writing.
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Speaker 1: See also Bancroft, Volume five, page five hundred fifty three.
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Speaker 2: Among the Indians of North America, there is a very
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Speaker 2: general legend that their forefathers came from a land toward
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Speaker 2: the sun rising. The Iova and Dakota Indians, according to
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Speaker 2: Major J. Lend, believed that all the tribes of Indians
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Speaker 2: were formerly one and dwelt together on an island towards
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Speaker 2: the sunrise. They crossed the sea from thence in huge skiffs,
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Speaker 2: in which the Dakotas of old floated for weeks, finally
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Speaker 2: gaining dry land. The Central American books stated that a
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Speaker 2: part of the American continent extended far into the Atlantic Ocean,
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Speaker 2: and that this region was destroyed by a series of
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Speaker 2: frightful cataclysms at long intervals apart. Three of these are
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Speaker 2: frequently referred.
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Speaker 1: To Sea Baldwins Ancient America, page one hundred seventy six.
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Speaker 2: It is a curious confirmation that the Celts of Britain
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Speaker 2: had a legend that part of the country once extended
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Speaker 2: far into the Atlantic and was destroyed. Three catastrophes are
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Speaker 2: mentioned in the Welsh traditions. Quetzal Coadal, the Mexican deity
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Speaker 2: is said to have come from the distant east. He
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Speaker 2: is described as a white man with a flowing beard.
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Speaker 2: Note the Indians of North and South America are beardless.
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Speaker 2: He originated letters and regulated the Mexican calendar. After having
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Speaker 2: taught them many peaceful arts and lessons, he sailed away
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Speaker 2: to the east in a canoe made of serpent skins.
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Speaker 1: See Shorts North Americans of Antiquity, pages two hundred sixty
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Speaker 1: eight to two hundred seventy one.
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Speaker 2: The same story is told of Zamna, the author of
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Speaker 2: civilization in Yugatan. The marvelous uniformity of the flood legends
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Speaker 2: on all parts of the globe alone remains to be
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Speaker 2: dealt with. Whether these are some archaic versions of the
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Speaker 2: story of the Lost Atlantis and its submergence, or whether
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Speaker 2: they are echoes of a great cosmic parable, once taught
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Speaker 2: and held in reverence in some common center. Whence they
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Speaker 2: have reverberated throughout the world, does not immediately concern us.
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Speaker 2: Sufficient for our purpose is it to show the universal
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Speaker 2: acceptance of these legends. It would be needless waste of
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Speaker 2: time and space to go over these flood stories one
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Speaker 2: by one. Suffice it to say that in India, Chaldea, Babylon, Media, Greece, Scandinavia, China,
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Speaker 2: among the Jews, and among the Celtic tribes of Britain,
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Speaker 2: the legend is absolutely identical in all essentials. Now turn
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Speaker 2: to the West, and what do we find? The same
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Speaker 2: story in its every detail, preserved amongst the Mexicans, each
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Speaker 2: tribe having its own version, the people of Guatemala, Honduras, Peru,
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Speaker 2: and almost every tribe of North American Indians. It is
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Speaker 2: puerile to suggest that mere coincidence can account for this
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Speaker 2: fundamental identity. The falling quotation from leplan Jian's translation of
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Speaker 2: the famous Trouano manuscript, which may be seen in the
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Speaker 2: British Museum, will appropriately bring this part of the subject
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Speaker 2: to a close. The Trouanno manuscript appears to have been
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Speaker 2: written about three thousand, five hundred years ago among the
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Speaker 2: mayas of uk Gatan, and the following is its description
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Speaker 2: of the catastrophe that submerged the island of Poseidonis in
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Speaker 2: the year six Khan. On the eleventh Muluk, in the
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Speaker 2: month Zak, there occurred terrible earthquakes which continued without interruption
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Speaker 2: until the thirteenth Chuen. The country of the Hills of Mud,
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Speaker 2: The land of Mu was sacrificed. Being twice upheaved, it
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Speaker 2: suddenly disappeared during the night, the bays in being continually
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Speaker 2: shaken by volcanic forces, being confined. These caused the land
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Speaker 2: to sink and to rise several times, and in various places.
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Speaker 2: At last the surface gave way, and ten countries were
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Speaker 2: torn asunder and scattered. Unable to stand the force of
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Speaker 2: the convulsions, they sunk with a sixty four million of inhabitants.
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Speaker 2: Eight thousand and sixty years before the writing of this book.
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Speaker 2: But enough space has now been devoted to the fragments
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Speaker 2: of evidence, all more or less convincing, which the world
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Speaker 2: so far has been in possession of. Those interested in
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Speaker 2: pursuing any special line of investigation are referred to the
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Speaker 2: various works above named or quoted. The subject in hand
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Speaker 2: must now be dealt with, drawn as they have been,
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Speaker 2: from contemporary records which were compiled in and handed down
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Speaker 2: through the ages we have to deal with. The facts
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Speaker 2: here collected are based upon no assumption or conjecture. The
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Speaker 2: writer may have failed fully to comprehend the fact, and
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Speaker 2: so may have partially misstated them, but the original records
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Speaker 2: are open for investigation to the duly qualified, and those
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Speaker 2: who are disposed to undertake the necessary training may obtain
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Speaker 2: the powers to check and verify. But even where all
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Speaker 2: the occult records open to our inspection, it should be
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Speaker 2: realized how fragmentary must be the sketch that attempts to
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Speaker 2: summarize in a few pages the history of races and
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Speaker 2: of nations ext over at least many hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 2: of years. However, any details on such a subject, disconnected
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Speaker 2: though they are, must be new, and should therefore be
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Speaker 2: interesting to the world at large. Among the records above
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Speaker 2: referred to, there are maps of the world at various
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Speaker 2: periods of its history, and it has been the great
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Speaker 2: privilege of the writer to be allowed to obtain copies
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Speaker 2: more or less complete of four of these. All four
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Speaker 2: represent Atlantis and the surrounding lants at different epochs of
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Speaker 2: their history. These epochs correspond approximately with the periods that
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Speaker 2: lay between the catastrophes referred to above, and into the
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Speaker 2: periods thus represented by the four maps. The records of
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Speaker 2: the Atlantic Rays will naturally group themselves before beginning the
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Speaker 2: history of the race. However, a few remarks may be
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Speaker 2: made about the geography of the four different epochs. The
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Speaker 2: first map represents the land surface of the Earth as
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Speaker 2: it existed about a million years ago, when the Atlantan
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Speaker 2: rays was at its height, and before the first great
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Speaker 2: submergens took place about eight hundred thousand years ago. The
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Speaker 2: continent of Atlantis itself, it will be observed, extended from
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Speaker 2: a point a few degrees east of Iceland to about
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Speaker 2: the site now occupied by Rio de Geneira in South America,
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Speaker 2: embracing Texas on the Gulf of Mexico, the southern and
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Speaker 2: eastern states of America up to and including Labrador. It
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Speaker 2: stretched across the ocean to our own islands, Scotland and Ireland,
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Speaker 2: and a small portion of the north of England, forming
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Speaker 2: one of its promontories, while its equatorial lands embraced Brazil
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Speaker 2: and the whole stretch of ocean to the African Gold Coast.
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Speaker 2: Scattered fragments of what eventually became the continents of Europe,
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Speaker 2: Africa and America, as well as remains of the still
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Speaker 2: older and once widespread continent of Lemuria, are also shown
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Speaker 2: on this map. The remains of the still older Hyperborean continent,
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Speaker 2: which was inhabited by the second Root race, are also given,
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Speaker 2: and like Lemuria blue as will be seen from the
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Speaker 2: Second mop The catastrophe of eight hundred thousand years ago
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Speaker 2: caused very great changes in the land distribution of the globe.
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Speaker 2: The Great Continent is now shorn of its northern regions,
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Speaker 2: and its remaining portion has been still further rent. The
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Speaker 2: now growing American continent is separated by a chasm from
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Speaker 2: its parent continent of Atlantis, and this no longer comprises
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Speaker 2: any of the lands now existing, but occupies the bulk
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Speaker 2: of the Atlantic basin from about fifty degrees north to
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Speaker 2: a few degrees south of the equator. The subsistence and
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Speaker 2: upheavals in other parts of the world have also been considerable,
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Speaker 2: the British Islands, for example, now being part of a
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Speaker 2: huge island which also embraces the Scantinavian Peninsula, the north
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Speaker 2: of France and all the intervening and some of the
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Speaker 2: surrounding seas. The dimensions of the remains of Limuria, it
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Speaker 2: will be observed, have been further curtailed, while Europe, Africa
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Speaker 2: and America have received accretions of territory. The third map
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Speaker 2: shows the results of the catastrophe which took place about
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Speaker 2: two hundred thousand years ago. With the exception of the
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Speaker 2: rents in the continents both of Atlantis and America and
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Speaker 2: the submersions of Egypt, it will be seen how relatively
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Speaker 2: unimportant were the subsistences and upheavals at this epoch. Indeed,
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Speaker 2: the fact that this catastrophe has not always been considered
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Speaker 2: as one of the Great Ones is apparent from the
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Speaker 2: quotation already given from the Sacred Book of the Guatemalans,
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Speaker 2: three great ones only being there mentioned. The Scandinavian Island, however,
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Speaker 2: appears now as joined to the mainland. The two islands
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Speaker 2: into which Attantis was now split were known by the
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Speaker 2: names of Ruta and Daitya. The stupendous character of the
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Speaker 2: natural convulsion that took place about eighty thousand years ago
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Speaker 2: will be apparent from the fourth map. Daitya, the smaller
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Speaker 2: and more southerly of the islands, has almost entirely disappeared,
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Speaker 2: while of Ruta there only remains the relatively small island
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Speaker 2: of Poseidonis. This map was compiled about seventy five thousand
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Speaker 2: years ago, and it no doubt fairly represents the land
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Speaker 2: surface of the Earth from that period onward till the
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Speaker 2: final submergence of Posidonis in ninety five sixty four b C.
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Speaker 2: Though during that period minor changes must have taken place.
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Speaker 2: It will be noted that the land out lines had
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Speaker 2: then begun to assume roughly the same appearance they do
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Speaker 2: to day, though the British Islands were still joined to
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Speaker 2: the European continent, while the Baltic Sea was non existent,
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Speaker 2: and the Sahara Desert then formed part of the ocean floor.
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Speaker 1: End of Section two.