Central American Plate Tectonics and Atlantis.
Because a major fault line runs through Central America - and because our ancestors once built a major "capital trade
city" on it, when the Comet Phaethon event caused global earthquakes and Biblical flooding, the city of Atlantis was engulfed under tons of mud and lost in time.
1/ Before we examine the area around this antediluvian seaport, let me say that the title of this chapter was originally based on the concept in which the seaport of Atlantis was thought to be located on a submerged plateau in the western Caribbean Sea.
2/ The first area of search was a vast underwater plateau off
the coast of Nicaragua that stretched almost to the island of
Jamaica - however, after reviewing some measurement data, the
submerged plateau out from Belize seemed to make more sense.
(Although the country of Nicaragua was reputed to be named in
honor of an Indian king known as "Nico" and his aquatic
realm (water-man = Managua = Nicaragua's capital), it is
interesting to note that the word "nico", when spelled
backwards asserts the word "ocin" - and
"ocin" or "ocean" was the short term for the
ancient god of the sea and eldest of the Titans called Oceanus,
who's realm included all the waters beyond the Greek world)
Lake Izabal Area
4/ This plain, according to Plato, was described as "protected" from cold northerly winds by a range of mountains and that anyone sailing the coast of the Atlantean realm could visit the seaport by sailing in from the sea.
5/ One of the greatest clues as to the location of this
elusive seaport and its adjacent agricultural plain can be found
in 118.A of the CRITIAS dialogue: The plain itself was smooth,
level and of a generally oblong shape; it stretched for 3000
stadia in one direction, and, at its center, for 2000 inland from
the coast - however, after striking a zero from these
measurements because of Greek to Latin translation (wherein the
"G" symbol of a 1000 equals the "C" symbol of
100), this plain measured only 300 by 200 stadias - or only 15 by
10 nautical miles wide.
(Remember, one stadia equals 304 feet or about 100 yards)
6/ So if this area exist onshore within a region that is currently "occupied" by people, why has no one stumbled upon it and reported this remarkable prehistoric seaport in the jungle before now?
7/ Why has this realm never revealed any signs or clues that would have proven the existence of Atlantis?
8/ Is it because the region was so devastated by a "cometary conflagration" so long ago that, to this day, no one has imagined to look for a place which, according to conventional science, does not even exist?
9/ Is it because that in the aftermath of this "cometary
conflagration", the seaport was further destroyed by
centuries of earthquakes and now lies under many layers of swampy
mud which, even today, can not be walked on?
(The same year that Comet "West" gave a spectacular
early morning show for nearly a week, one of the largest
earthquakes in Central American history, measuring 7.5 on the
Richter Scale, was focused only a couple miles from this swampy
plain)
10/ What is meant by the term "cometary conflagration" anyway?
The celestial hurricane of Comet Phaethon.
According to Plato: "There is a story....that once upon a time Phaethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his
father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burned up all that was upon the earth, and
was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has a form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in
the heavens around the earth, and a great conflagration of things upon the earth which recurs after long intervals."
- TIMAEUS Dialogue / 22.c,d
After colliding with the sun's corona and causing a major solar
flare, the "chemical vapor" of some comets may react
with the earth's upper atmosphere and cause a "cascade
reaction" with the ozone layer which would rapidly melt the
icecaps. The ensuing action could cause global earthquakes and
floods - like was mentioned in the Holy Bible.
12/ Moreover, imagine the geological significance if glaciated water from the earth's "ice ages" could be traced to the occasional visit of a cometary "snowball" from deep space!
13/ And also imagine that if the "water" of a comet
can cause an "ice age", then perhaps the celestial
moisture of a relatively recent encounter with a comet engulfed
the world and "washed away" all major maritime cultures
- resulting in such stories as the Biblical "flood" and
Plato's antediluvian story about Atlantis.
[UPDATE 12/97: New astrophysical data suggest that comets can
cause solar distrubances that can cause planetary atmospheric
storms. Perhaps the Biblical "flood" was the result of
a large rogue comet that hit not the Earth -- but the Sun, because
it is a much larger target than the Earth. Such an encounter -- if
large enough, could caused much of the polar ice-caps to rapidly
melt and flood the atmosphere with rain for "40-days and 40-nights".]
14/ If the Titan world of Atlantis - that is to say the seaport,
the island continent and the maritime kingdom, was sunk by an
"ice-berg" from space, what kind of treasures could
possibly be recovered from within this forgotten realm?
(It is a truly interesting coincidence in nature when one
compares the engulfing story of how the Titan kingdom of Atlantis
was destroyed by "ice from space" and the sinking of
the greatest ship of her time, the Titanic, sunk by an ice-berg
on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean)
15/ The chances of finding any treasure items would probably be very small considering the tropical erosion factor of nearly a thousand years, not to mention the other aforesaid destructive factors - however, by exploring our local library or bookstore, and by applying some imagination, we can discover some of the real treasures from the Atlantean age!