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The Two
In Classical mythology the God Poseidon received was
appendage two
Note by Editor: "As Daitya, the name given to the
Southern Island of Atlantis by Blavatskaya and her associates, is also that of
the giants who fought against the gods, and were defeated at the time of the
Cherning of the Ocean, who were members of the Asuras. From this it would seem
possible that "Ruta" may have been the name of a personage also
associated with this disaster legend."
Webmaster Note-Edgar Cayce referred to his life as 'Rata'
oblivious to the knowledge of 'Ruta' of Blavatskaya, or others during the
period of Atlantis. In Cayce's account Rata escapes the flood and several
battles that occurred in other regions above and below Ethiopia. Within Cayce's
account is an echo of the battles of lost continents of not one but of two
sinking Ethiopias. There is some indication that the Ethopias were once a group
of gods like the Asuras and four cardinal point wind-god groups (Aethopea's
simaler to Astrophe's). Ruta would refer to a wheel or hub like in 'road'
expressions, and 'Land of the Sun' or its cardinal points. If priests bore this
'Ruta' name it would be a prefix of their worship a kind of Law (Ra) of One
(Un) and or Ta (Land) which involves a centralized theological government close
to but unlike the Vatican today. The period Cayce speaks of Rata in Atlantis is
one of political expulsions from the lost continent and the decentralizing of
the government as a result of that lost continents final break up. Fire worship
seems to have in this period begun to displace some of the central doctrines of
'Law of One', and the burning force of the sun was or its worship became overly
focused upon. This was probably due to a fairly volcanic period in the
Atlantic's history and lightening i.e. rain floods later became its symbol
after the trident being a earlier symbol of more serene times.
Russian and Soviet Literature On Atlantis,
by Th. Zhirov (a summary)
Earliest original work on Atlantis was written by A. S.
Norov, pub. In 1854, in Russian and German He drew upon a large number of Greek
and Arab sources, postulated that the 'Pillars of Hercules' was not a
geographical indication but a symbol, and refers to the shrines dedicated to
the hero. He felt the location was the eastern mediterranean, between Asia
Minor, Syria, and Egypt. A similar view was held by A. N. Karnozhitsky, who
placed Pillars of Hercules near Sais in Egypt, and considered that Atlantis was
located somewhere between Asia Minor, Syria, Lybia, and Hellas, in the open sea
not far from the western mouth of the Nile. He regarded the pyramids as relics
of the Atlanteans. Much later this opinion was shared by Academician L.S. Berg,
who placed Atlantis in the Aegean Sea, south of Crete. The above category of
works belong to those who have ignored the exact directions of Plato. The best
translation of Plato in Russian is a work by Prof. Karpov in 1879. Since the
beginning of the present century there have been works by authors who followed
Plato and located Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1912 V.V. Bogachev
published a small but serious and circumstantial pamplet, devoting most
attention to the geological history of Atlantis, the phyto- and
zoo-paleo-geography according to the scientific knowledge of the his time. He also
took into account the Russian poets, V. Bryusov and K. Balmont, who were keenly
interested in Atlantis, and the occult traditions of Fabre d'Oliviet,
Scott-Elliot and Steiner. Recognizing that the data then available did not
suffice to give a positive answer on the existence of Atlantis, he held that
it was an invention of Plato although based upon fact, in the same way as the
adventures of Robinson Crusoe were based on those of Selkirk. The
pamphlet's critical scientific approach to the problem raises it above many
other, later works. Year later there appeared a russian translation of an
article by geologist P. Termier, the original of which was published in the
Revue Scientifique of some interest also at that time, is the opinion of P.
Chirvinsky that during the existence of Atlantis there was no Gulf Stream, and
that the penetration of its waters to the north created a great flow of water
vapours, becoming thereby one of the causes of glaciation. Finally in 1914
was published a small pamphlet by S. Bashinsky, propounding the fantastic
hypothesis that the loss of Atlantis was caused by the fall of an immense
asteriod, a splinter of which became Australia. The central shock occurred near
10-15' south and 180 degree east causing the split and loss of the antipodes of
this locality- Atlantis. This hypothesis cannot withstand criticism either
geological, or any other grounds. In 1917 appeared one of the more serious and
well-reasoned works, which still retains significance today. V. Bryusov, the
famous Russian poet, who was engaged in the scientific study of the problem
gave a full and systematic review of all data then available as evidence that
Atlantis was the cradle of the majority of subsequent civilizations. He held
that it flourished at the end of the ice age in Europe, and that its loss
occurred during the time between the end of the ice age and the fifth century
B.C. He also examined the occult traditions in some detail, though, not without
reason, treating them rather skeptically. The next stage of soviet atlantology
came in the 1930's, and shows considerable interest in the problem. A popular
science brochure of B. F. Dobrynin, and also in the later one by I. Kolubovsky,
Atlantis occupies an important place. The former puts forward all the data then
available, and concentrates upon the original inhabitants of the Canary
Islands, the Guanchas. The latter also quotes the results of the researches by
Schulten and Tartesse. In 1925 one of the popular journal articles published an
article by A. Berg prof. Of the Oceanological Institute, supporting belief in
the reality of Atlantis, and the following year was also published the second
of the more serious studies of the Soviet period, the original work of B. L.
Bogaevsky, prominent soviet historian of that day. In his article, largley in
agreement with Bryusov, he reviews the majority of contemporary hypotheses on
the location of Atlantis, together with a series of geological data. He
supports the Canary site, regards the Guanchas as the direct descendents of the
Atlanteans, and considers that they were conquered by the peoples of the Aegean
civilization, and the loss of Atlantis occurred in the early Neolithic Age. He
rejected occult traditions out of hand, regarding them as irrelevant. Almost a
quarter of a century followed, in which not a single work on the subject
appeared in the USSR, and no interest in the problem of Atlantis was evident.
In the last few years interest has begun to revive and to spread, largely due
to a series of works by unquestionable talented writers. The impetus was given
by S. Andreeva in her most successfully written popular science book 'Riddles
of the Ages', a polish translation of which was appeared in this year. It is in
three parts dealing with Atlantis, Easter Island, and Sannikov's land, and is
the only book of its kind that the author succeeds in conveying by comparison
of contemporary scientific data, chiefly geological and oceanological, in
demonstrating the undoubted reality of the rpevious existence of Atlantis. The
geological side of this was dealt with more fully a year later by Rene Malaise
in his monograph published in Sweden, but not addressed to the wide public and
was not known to Andreeva. In contrast to her book a year later S. Uzin who
upheld the archaic notion on geology of Atlantis considered Atlantis to be
Crete. The following year a more serious book came out by the soviet
atlantologist Ekaterina Hagemeister with an after piece by academician B.A.
Obruchev, in which the problem of Atlantis is associated with the inception and
the conclusion of the ice age and the history of the Gulf Stream. Lastly, the
second half of 1956, the Journal 'Tekhnika Molodezhi' (Technics for Young
People) began publication of a wide disscussion on Atlantis, printing a number
of articles, including writers as: V. Bryusov, N.S. Vetchinkin, I. A. Efromov,
N. F. Zhirov, M. Ya. Plam, E. F. Hagemeister. Zhirov in 1959 was working on a
book on the subject of the Atlantis problem dealing in ehtnic, geological, and
oceanological issues of the subject.
Carolina Bays and Atlantis, by Th. Zhirov
( a summary)
In 1956 the German Engineer Mr. Otto Muck published the
second edition of his book of Atlantis. Because this book was not discussed in
the pages of 'Atlantis', I shall write generally about the content of Muck's
book. The first edition of this book was published in 1955 under the title
"Atlantis-gefunden" in Stuttgart. The second edition was published in
Switzerland and is large book, more than 500 pages. It was written more
popularly then scientifically but has not the rough errors of atlantology
containing more recent knowledge. Book intended for the ordinary reader. The
general line of the book is the emphasis on information about the flood. O.
Muck supposes that the destruction of Atlantis and the Flood have been provoked
by the crash of a gigantic asteriod. This asteroid has fallen into the Atlantic
Ocean near Charelston, South Carolina, U.S.A. This opinion of O. Muck is based
on the facts of the uncovering in the 1930 by the vertical and oblique survey
of the great number of the elliptical cavities on the earths surface in this
region. W. F. Prouty writes that the carolina Bays have a known distribution
along the Atlantic Coastal Plain from northeast Florida to southeast New
Jersey. The area of distribution of the bays is about 83,000 sq. miles. Of this
area perhaps 4,300 sq. miles have very few bays, or no bays. The bays cover,
including overlap, roughly 10% of the surface. Where bays are large and thickly
distributed , they may cover more than 50% of the surface. A conservative
estimate of 3,5 bays to the sq. mile, much longer than 500 feet, gives an
estimate of 140,000 bays of moderate and large sizes. It is almost impossible
to estimate the number of small bays. One might be justified in roughly
guessing that the total number of bays , and large and small is about half a
million. Acording to Mr. F. A. Melton and W. Schriever bays were formed by the
in fall of meteorites of a probable cometary mass travelling in a general
southeast direction and hitting the earth at a small angle to the horizontal.
But no fused glass or fragments of meteorite have been found associated with
bays. But the magnometer studies of W. F. Prouty of 26 different bays all
indicated spot highs with no definate highs, observed that are not readily
associated with some bays, Multiple end 'heart-shaped' bays overlap in patterns
explained most logically by the impact of tandem meteorites, some likely
explosive in nature. By Mr. W. F. Prouty these bays are younger than the youngest
Pleistocene terraces and older than at least one of the more recent marine
transgression. Generally he thinks that the bays were formed in very late
Pleistocene marine terrace time. O. Muck indicates that the area of the
Carolina bays is only a part of the earth's surface covered by fallen
meteorites. He affirms that the greater part of the meteorites has fallen to
the southeast of Charleston into the Atlantic Ocean, and the greater part of
the meteorites has taken root deeply into the earth's crust. O. Muck considers
the infall of the meteorite is bounded with the existence of the Porto Rico
trench. The great meteorite or asteroid near Charleston was 'Planetoid A' as he
calls it. It was about 10km in diameter and about 200 milliard tons in weight.
It moved with a velocity about 20 km a sec.. The power of the smash was
equivalent to the simultaneous explosion of the 30,000 hydrogen atomic bombs.
But it is most ineffectual place of Muck's hypothesis because such monstrous
explosions ought to have destroyed all flesh on the greatest distance in the
circle. There are no traces of such destruction even near the place of the
infall. Because the meteorites have fallen on the earth's surface at a small
angle to the horizontal, their velocity diminished very much. Historically the
first hypothesis of asteroids hitting earth was proposed by Giovanni Rinaldo
Carli in 1780, Florence in the light of this theory. Prof. Boneff supposed that
the submergence of Atlantis was caused by the passing of the asteroid near the
earth. The American Anthropologist Alan H. Kelso de Montigny supposes that the
little Antilles Islands are the east arc of the greatest meteoritic crater
where now it is the Carribean sea. But the newest investigations show that the
flash sea-bottom of the Carribean Sea is by sialic nature. Nicolina Bonfanti
has published the hypothesis that near the North Pole had taken place the
infall of the gigantic meteorite and this region is now the deep cavity of the
Arctic Ocean. This infall has given two great fissures in the earth's crust
where now there are the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. Also the oldest
circular mountainous folds have formed and have resulted in the separation of
Antarctic from the other continents. Also there were the different moving of the
sialic continental masses. This smash has produced the variation of the
inclination of the earth's axis gradually returned to its present state. This
thunder-clap had taken place in the Paleozoic or Pre-Paleozoic time. I think
myself that there is not the necessity to attract the hypotheses about the
infall of the gigantic meteorites or asteroids for he explanation of the
destruction of Atlantis. Plato does not write about the cosmic phenomena in the
bound with the destruction of Atlantis. All hypotheses of cosmic phenomena for
the Atlantis problem have two principle errors: the first that the earth's
crust is thin and unreliable and the earth's interior is liquid fire. The
contemporary seismical and geophysical researches show exactly that the earth's
crust is very thick, more than 2,000 kilometer of thickness and that it is very
hard, more than the steel. The second error is that the asteroid must have for
this effect such great mass that the collision in these considerations
certainly must destroy all flesh. But it is fully probable that the time of the
destroying of Atlantis has synchronized with some cosmic phenomena as the
appearance of the gigantic comet, meteoritic infalls, etc. The submergence of
Atlantis may be explained very well by the geological factors.
Atlantis and the Poetic
Half a century ago a poet, Fiona Macleod gave the following
quotation with its bearing on Atlantis:
"There are foru cities that no mortal eye has seen but
that the soul knows; these are Gorias, that is in the east; and Finias that is
in the south; and Murias, that is in the west; and Falias, that is in the
north. And the symbol of Falias is the stone of death which is crowned by a
pale fire. And the symbol of Gorias is the dividing sword. And the symbol of
Finias is a spear. And the symbol of Murias is a hollow that is filled with
water and fading light", from "The Little Book of the Great
Enchantement"
Of Murias he said:
"I…am as the wave that idly flows, Where the pale weed
in songless thickets grows, Over the towers and fallen palaces, Where the
Sea-City was, The City of Murias". And again: "In the sunken City of
Murias, Deep, deep beneath the sea."
Fiona Macleod, whose real name was William Sharp, died in
1905, before the discovery of radium had been made known to the public, the
Curie's "Laboratoire Biologique du Radium" not having been
established until 1906. And yet the symbol of Falias: "The stone of Death,
which is crowned the pale fire" is as good as a description of radioactive
luminescence as one can find anywhere. Perhaps the reader will equate the
symbol for Murias: "A hollow filled with water and fading light"?
Another poet, Edgar Allen Poe said:
"Strange city lying alone, Far down in the dim West
Where the good and the bad, and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest, Where the shrines and
palaces and towers
Resemble nothing that is ours."
In Tirnanog of the celtic mythology may well have been a
memory of Atlantis, in that, according to W. B. Yeats, it had triple meaning.
"The island of the living , the island of victories, and an underwater
land".
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