1954 cont.

Lost Atlantis-(Part 5, Bryant) By Egerton Sykes 1954 cont.

Returning to Solon's story, we read: "Now Atlas had a numerous and honorable family and his eldest branch always held the kingship and realm, which the eldest son passed to his eldest son for many generations: and they had so great a treasure as was never before owned by a kings and rulers and is never again likely: and they were provided with all that they could desire in city and country. For by reason of the extent of their empire many things were brought to them from foreign lands."

The custom of Primogeniture, wherein an unwritten Salic laws must have been observed. Those acquainted with Greek Mythology will remember that even Atlas, powerful though he was, had his daughters carried away in a raid by the contemporary Egyptian ruler, Busiris, who was also the son of Poseidon by Libya. In this fable we may interpret Libya as the region lying westwards of the modern Nile valley, whence, in all likelihood , Egypt was colonized, and which became in course of time one of the earliest states of the ancient world, centuries perhaps, before the Delta had been formed. It is a recurrent feature of ancient goegraphy that most of the early states and empires have been personified as heros and demi-gods who are then treated as if they had really existed as individuals and been the founders of the regions which bear their names- or from which they have derived theirs. And we find that Atlas and Busiris were step-brothers, and that furthermore a war of some magnitude had taken place between the eastern regions of Atlantis and the Egypt of that time, which had not long risen to be a power of some importance. No conclusions on, 'for many generations' as being to general description. We learn that shipping of some sort must have existed, for how else could "many things" be brought into the Island Empire from "foreign countries." Be it the kingdom's own domain or other lands and islands: but the case why were docks built within the capital city and why were so many maritime conscripts enrolled? The only answer is that different periods in the island's history maybe referred to.

Outline- In arts and crafts Atlantean's passed through the Paleolithic to Neolithic faster especially in metallurgy.

In architechture, ship building, and sculptors, and possessed a knowledge we have not attained yet. The bridges and canals are attested as feats of the highest wonders and works.

They went after all kinds of minerals and metals and rare ones at that. Orichalcum on Atlantis was plentiful but yet in Greece was unknown or in Sais, Egypt. The name of this metal is very Hellenic and not likely the original full name of the Atlantean Metal. The Hellenic of orechalkos, meaning mountain copper, as if there were different kinds of copper, or native brass only deepens the mystery. For mountain copper itself or brass is not that rare compared to gold, when Atlanteans considered this metal of orichalcum as more rare? Copper is used in association to Aphrodite on the Island of Venus, and Paul Schliemann felt it as white in color of the object in his possession. A metal that was a combination of elements like gold platinum, silver, and copper from a volcanic source of action would constitute a pretty rare metal of its own, since the atlantean's liked silver and gold linings in quartz stone? The elephants, regardless of mammoths, and relatives of would have roamed northwest Africa like today's elephants as discovered in Sicily, and Casablanca or even Tunis and Spain. Critias the Younger says: And there was provision for beasts of all sorts, both for those inhabiting lakes and swamps and rivers as well as those living in the mountains and plains, and therefore for that beast which is the largest and most voracious of them all" There is evidence the elephants went south from the Sahara, and the Mediterranean earlier when the basin had dried up. It is no surprise that despite the Sahara the elephants still take a migratory route as if they were heading to a region once more lush then it is now, almost suicidal in course, yet still know where the water holes anciently are left? They had crossed over from the loss of Atlantis and Morocco lands to avoid destruction and drought.

The Fruits of Atlantis, had many affinities to legumes, and coconuts which in a region of West Indies and West Africa can be plentiful and was not particularly a Cretan trait. Not to mention where the fig tree came from? The fruits also would have been more protected by the currents that moved a little differently when Atlantis blocked a portion of the Atlantic. Which may explain why Spain has seen palm trees come and go through the glacial retreats? Also, chestnuts were mentioned and a tree well known in the North American south was known to be used in it's edible and non-edible form which may end up being the old chestnut game of 'Conkers' still played which is this what Critias eludes to. Konkers is also the name of a very old pre-dynastic king???

The curious expression, "lying beneath the sun," at once suggests that the main portion of the island was tropical, or sub-tropical. We may well ask whether, before the final disaster overwhelmed Atlantis, the equator did not run further south than now, transgressing the southern portion of the island?