1955 starts

Lost Atlantis (Part 6 skipped for Part 7 due to what mostly has been covered with Butavand's Atlantis, Bryant.) by E. Sykes, both are summaries.

Bryant mentions the Atlanteans had 1,200 ships, and a well-stocked army into the thousands. It also proves that even at 9,600 B.C. there was other cultures for which Atlanteans built an army to keep protection from. If any culture were not advanced to the atlanteans, the mere presence of a harpoon, or lance point as a weapon was still enough to fear. It is clear the bow and arrow were well within their grasp, and we can suppose at this time the atl-atl arrow thrower was perfected by them. If we took the size of Atlantis in Plato's literal description and placed it on the Atlantic the dimensions of it would be as follows:

9 degrees east all the way to 50 degrees west of longitude, and 10 degrees south up to 52 degrees north of latitude. This means a region below the gold coast Africa almost to Angola and up to a region in north of one degree above Britons most southern coast. This implies the continent was at first actually wider then it was previously thought, even though some isthmus, peninsula and inland bays may have shrunk its actual true width base to base. There is evidence that the amount of peninsula's along Europe and North America, would not be much different on a inner Atlantic continent's shore lines due to the amount of tectonic activities that have pulled the continents apart with. If Atlantis was as large as claimed there is no reason to suppose a population of 12 million existed on it, and had more then the so fabled 10 million Guanches by Thepompos of Chios to have overrun Europe, Asia and Africa. We may take note that the Libyans are often depicted as bow men and either at one time aligned with atlanteans, or was subjects to them. They may also have been aware of the Guanche aggressions, which forced the Ethiopians back from not just West Africa but into the present location of Ethiopia. The Balearic Islands have the atlantean sling stone throwers and may have been subjects of them. This would fit in the sense that the Balearic Islands would be a cut off point, and spy lane in the Mediterranean Sea to keep Gaunches in check. It is also interesting that the atlanteans every 5^th and 6^th year had a meeting to review laws in front of the orichalcum pillar at the capital's center.

What is even more revealing is that the 5^th year to an ancient Egyptian would be called a pentade year not a seven year or seven day system. It would seem that the Mayan calendar worked on a pentade counting system with almost a 6 times the whatever number counting system when looking at a 52 year cycle. Instead of a representative elected for four years, they only met once every 5 years and can explain some of the rebellions that later may have ensued. Also, they would in a ritual at that time capture a bull by no weapon but snare and noose method only, which brings to mind a primitive rodeo show concept. The bull, or a bear would be tied to the column of the laws and would teased and jeered to death since the pole was the symbol of judgement and the center of their polar sky. They mimicked their notions of the sky as on earth, as it is above so it is below thinking. The implication involves what is not said which includes a form of sympathetic magic that politically went astray and overly substituted. They would however do one thing democratic, after the sacrifices, they would at night gather in azure robes and discuss laws and judgements to be written in the following morning deposited at the temples.

Webmasters Note-This would make one think it is not your usual camp fire outing. They may have soothsayers at their disposal looking at the sky for oracle circumstance, as a shooting star from this spot to another might make the difference, or reading the fire might receive an answer? The idea of bull sacrifice lends itself to the Jewish confusion like Baal later, and the importance of vernal equinox seems to be clear with the Pleiades in sight by Taurus.

The main premise is that Atlantis sank of the coast of Tunisia and he included a map of it on the east side of Tunisia's present shoreline. The section shows Atlantis as smaller then Plato's description with cape Neptune and Kerkenna Island marked, to the north just west of Sicily the region called Pluto and to the south of his Tunisia Atlantis is a region called Ammon. In regards to this Marcellus speaks of ten islands situated in the Atlantic Ocean close to Europe, he says, "seven were consecrated to Pluto (husband of Proserpina, as Lord and Lady of the Under World, Hades etc. implying that eight of the islands were volcanic in character), another to Ammon, and the third, a thousand stadia long (about 114 miles) to Poseidon." It would seem that more likely it is a reference to the Canary group of islands, but the best part of the referance involves Queen Myrina of the Amazons when she drove the atlanteans to take refuge in their city called Cercennes, and I find on this map by Butavand's the still exisiting Island of Kerkenna. Cercenne-s=Kerkenna-s Island? The only conclusion is that it involves a lost Tunisian land, or it was a Atlantis expanded Colonial City and the Amazons pushed them out of the western part of the Sahara. One side point. Within the last few years (1955), traces of a city has been found off the island of Djerba (Tunisia coast area), where history itself formerly planted a city, that of Lotus Eaters, and in all probablitiy consecrated to Ammon of the Egyptian Thegory. Those who ate it were known as Lotophagi, and only gods, aristocracy, and particians only had choice of using. It is likely there is more than one city that lies , the Gulf of Tunis, Gabes, and Tripoli, and the Maltese Group. The area may have been a slow loss to the sea not sudden, and even back to the era of the Trojan Wars Ulysses had difficulties in thes waters due to the shallow nature of it in parts for a deeper ballast ship. The Amazons who supposedly conquered some of these areas also went after the Numidian-Ethiopian tribes of west Africa. They advanced Northwards into the Atlas range, in this manner, marching eastwards also, driving as already stated the Eastern so-called Atlanteans into their capital of Cercennes the island Kerkenna near Tunis, the amazon title of the Queen Merina is not as far as known listed in the topography of the region? These are based on writings of Herodotus and Diodorus, which the great city of the Amazons, founded and built by them in the marshes of Lacus Tritonides on the western shores of Morocco, and called by either themselves of Greek transcribers the City of the Peninsula. A term hellenized in and by the geographical term 'chersonesus' i.e. Horn (shape) Island has been placed by some in the mythical or mystical Island of Hesperia and might be the same place as Cerne which is also translated "Horn" and can be equated with our own Cornwall, from which it is plain the earliest geographies considered it horn shaped.

Webmasters Note- One interesting future use of the name was used by none other than Thomas Jefferson in his laying out of what our State domains would be after the Louisiana Purchase. He called the land between Grand Rapids to Sarnia, Michigan and then northwards from the Grand Rapids Line all the way to Luce and Chippewa County of the Upper Peninsula Michigan with our present Michigan State lands eastwards from those said points as Cherronesus=chersonesus of the Hellenes name.

The change he used was the emphasis on Huron of the Indians (which he knew was a Greek northern region of Hyracan, Herrane, and Huronia) and replaced the son with the ron name in the middle. He was connecting also Sarnia name with Cerne name and thus made the connection of a old description of 'Horn' peninsula region as a Hellenistic would. He also used Illinoia for the region of a part of Illinois our modern state which this implied not for the Indian sake but Greek association of Hrrenia as another variation of the same regional group. It would seem that he is indirectly saying the Amazons had some references to it and that He was indirectly calling Michigan the Island of Hesperia in so doing. The description is in a certain way appropriate, marsh back lands of blueberries, the Upper Peninsula Marshes, and the fabled region of copper, and low quality gold, as well as fur. In a good portion of Wisconsin and Michigan are reed plants, and the Chippewa collected Rice in the marshy setting. Though Jefferson was never there when he reasoned with the Huron Indian name it got him looking for an explanation of such a Greek name? 'Horn' a variation of a misnomer of Huron became for him a conclusion. It indicates a very well read man in the Greek and Roman culture of his day.

Cont.

I find the Amazons of Herodotus are closely associated with the Scythians (Hyracan) of North Western Asia whilst the Gorgons are referred to him as of African origin. Yet, he does not speak in the same way as Diodorus who of course dates over 400 years later, i.e. of the Wars of the Atlanteans and Amazons. Thus, we might draw the conclusion that this war between them, had taken place during the above interval. But, in this event, we should have to reconsider the whole question for Homer who dates about 800 to 900 B.C. speaks of Amazons, Gorgons, Mt. Atlas, Perseus, Heracles, etc. almost all in the same breath as though all were more, or less coeral, and it might have been so! The period of occupancy and settlement of North and North West Africa by the Carthaginians of Hanno from Carthage, we firmly persuaded was a short one dating approximately between 500 B.C. and 160 B.C. and no trace of any of them lingers in history, nor even is the date of their destruction at the hands of invaders from the hinterland beyond the coast known. All we can be certain of is that they completely vanished from history. The most famous Cerne, may have been amoung those Atlantean Cities overthrown by Queen Myrina of the Amazons, and we always have to distinguish between the Island of Cerne and its adjoining and part-encircling coast of the mainland. It was on this Island I have understood, that Hanno put a colony to occupy it as a trading post, and I may be in error, but I think that on the mainland adjacent was a race already living as nomads! It would then be that these Nomads were of the Amazon territory to the South West of the Atlas Range and their domains ranged far south, into the present province of Sus. In regards to the late findings by the mythographers from 444 to 8 B.C. leads us into the question. Did Diodorus Siculus find his story from some forgotten Carthaginian record?

Webmaster Note- Cerne is a name one should look with caution, there are not less then 10 Cerne names in major geography locations, it became sometimes overly used. The main factor of the name origins has always been associated with the regions of the eastern Atlantic Coasts from England all the way to west Africa. It is also the name of a deity of the Cerne the horned god, related to the Atlantean Chronos and Hern both a very early personage in the Pre-Hercules related myths. Even names like Khoron, and Horan were inter-changeable from culture to culture as Karian is to Harian. The reason can be found in the Greek, Egyptian, and Crete problem of making the 'Kh' silent like in Khnossos ('Nossos'). It in some cases on the Atlantic coast softened the sound 'Cerne' as Serne. The Greeks would in some area pronounce the Kh and in others closer to Crete would drop it. The Egyptians however in most case preferred the hard 'KH' form found in the god Khonsu name as evidence. The explanation is that the Akadians and Celtic liked the harder sounds generally if used in a word. Overtime there are juxtapositions.

Another note is the tale of Meropes known as a geographical point on England's Land End with its Islands- the tale goes that Meropes of old, not the newer version, moved into the Hyperborean region possibly old Lyonesses, but had to move south because of the glacial cold into France and Spain were this group was wiped out by the groups already living there. There is also one side note that the period of this group corresponds with megalithic building found off the coast of England and on the Peninsula of France in Brittany. Meropes is a name that given to not one but two personages, like Cheops name was. The older made in comparison much larger monuments, and the one after made a smaller attempt. Both to be connected as to a similar in attempt in the character of this type of monument presented to the local culture. The original Meropes was a giant, and the newer one was a King from Sudan probably several thousands of years later, what they had in common symbol wise was 'twin cult and sky worship'. Greeks claim as Meropes from the City of Machimos (The Mazma of Spain) as the older one?

As far as Athena , the Egyptian name was Ha-Ten-Ha from the A-then-a name which two variations cannot be overlooked Ha-Ha-Ti (n) or Isis and Nephthys (Haiti) and in North West Africa of the lady whose remains were discovered in 1932 by Count Byron as Tin-Hana (Ti (n)- Ha-(n)-Ha?). It seems Tin or Tem and Isis are always close by, Thames River? In Haiti there is a reference to Semitic like speech with the Haiti aborigines when first discovered. Chois referred to a mysterious land called Meropis-es-Opsis (which looks like Mississippi) which 'One-Eyed' (Greek-minner) Cyclopes may well be 'Men of the Sea', which Is-es, and Opsis is Isis and Hapi the Osiris, Bull God in Egyptian. Men of the Sea-Bull would be interesting.

 In Conclusion of Lost Atlantis, Bryant and Egerton Sykes (a very brief summary)

The first region to go was those lands closest to the poles, then the lands of Atlantis southern and eastern region came next. The sinking of Llyonesse and off the coast of Spain may have preceded the rest of Atlantis by a thousand years.

Webmasters Note- this may somewhat explain the successive waves of culture and historical types into the Basque regions and the progressive decline of cyclopean masonry on the coast, which kept moving into the direction of the inner Mediterranean. Malta shows another kind of invasion showing the further reduction of cyclopean masonry.