Concerning the OG (oceanographic that is) fairy tale nothing is really clear. But regardless of whether the myth is based in reality what we can say for sure is that there is a mountain bullshit covering the topic.
If you come in with zero exposure to the lore let me give you a run down:
As Plato relates the story according to Egyptian historians Atlantis was an immensely succesful maritime power whose heartland was swallowed up in a catastrophic flood some 10.000 years ago.
The story in general (dudes being too OP so divine intervention took them down) and the time frame (10.000 years? WTF?) in particular made it hard to believe. In recent years however two datapoints made their way into mainstream wisdom.
Firstly Egypt had to move over and let
much older, more mysterious cultures take over the title for cradle of civilization.
Secondly the reality of sudden global catastrophic floods around the time specified by Plato got
more or less accepted as fact.
Since the source material is so flimsy (was it a city state, an island, a continent wide civilization?) it has been searched for everywhere on earth - even places like the Himalayas, Antartica or The "Eye of the Sahara".
To get started I emphatically recommend
dark journalist's 'hot zone' series since it's really eclectic.
Recently I even started pondering the popular 60's folk rock song "Atlantis" by Irish Singer Donovan (Leitch) and found myself intrigued by the lyrics. It offers based stuff like like "antediluvian kings colonised the world" and "Hail, Atlantis!" that to modern ears sounds unapologetically darwinistic. More importantly Donovan sings about "My antediluvian
baby" making the song seem directed towards a female Atlantean of fertile age. Might he be referencing ancient Arayan bloodlines and his desire to enhance his offsprings genetics by mating with a superior race?
In reality he used his status as teenage pop icon to find a californian jewess and father some second rate Hollywood clown (also named Donovan Leitch) before divorcing her eventually. So I guess not.
But who knows? Maybe he was just MK Ultraed. I couldn't find much about his parents and if they had deep state connections but he was definitely caught up in the Beatles' Indian adventures and heavily promoted hippy culture in general. So chances are he was somewhat
intelligence adjacent at least. Anyway publicly of course he always maintained the concept of Atlantis was all about spiritual healing and mankind being brothers...
Now let's circle back to the
mountain of bullshit again and listen to another song of Donovan with our new found ideas of Donovan being a based believer in ancient Aryan superpowers in mind. Can a descend through some antediluvian cave system to the subterranean land of Agartha be described as "First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is"?
