Rittstieg, Joachim *

Published October 13, 2010

Joachim Rittstieg (1937-2014) was born in Berlin and was a retired schoolmaster, although that bastion of truth and accuracy, Fox News Latino, describe him as a professor emeritus at Dresden University.

He spent six years with his family in Central America and after decades of study, he claimd to have decoded all the Mayan calendars and published the results in 1999 in ABC der Maya^[717]. Rittstieg combined information he has gleaned from The Icelandic Eddas, Plato, Mayan calendars as well as oral sources and concluded that the capital of Atlan, which he equates with Atlantis, can be found submerged in Lake Izabal in Guatemala. He also reveals that the sinking of the city took place on 30^th October 666 BC. But there is more^(a) the sunken city also has a cache of over 2,000 gold tablets on which the ‘Laws of Atlan’ are inscribed. Rittstieg wants someone to invest €3,000,000 in the recovery of this booty! I would expect the Guatemalan government would have something to say about such an operation.

He also claimed that the Maya and the Vikings had contact for nearly 500 years (754-1224 AD)^(f).

A rather critical review of Rittsteig’s ideas by Swedish commentator can be read online^(d)as well as another that is slightly more technical^(e).

Coincidentally, Duane McCullough has also identified Lake Izabal as the location of Atlantis.

On March 1^st 2011 it was reported^(b)that an expedition, sponsored by the German tabloid newspaper Bild, led by Rittstieg had headed for Guatemala in search of the gold. Unfortunately, all they found was a pot, following which Rittstieg managed to declare the expedition a ‘success’^(c)!

^(a)Joachim Rittstieg – Wikipedia *

^(b) A Visit With a Person of High Strangeness Craacking the Mayan Code — What Does It Hold? (archive.org)

^(c) https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/expeditions-quest-for-mayan-gold-finds-a-pot-stirs-outrage

^(d) https://haecceities.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/atlantis-is-located-in-lake-izabal-guatemala-not/

^(f) https://tcmam.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/the-zuyua-than-language/

^(f) https://atlantisforschung.de/index.php?title=Joachim_Rittstieg