Santos, Arysio Nunes dos

Published May 10, 2010

Arysio Nunes dos Santos (1937-2005), was a highly qualified engineer with many patents to his credit. He was a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and had also worked as a geologist and climatologist. He was also an amateur linguist who had mastered Greek and Sanskrit among others. Apart from his professional interests, Santos has written on a diverse range of subjects including Symbolism, Alchemy, the Holy Grail and Comparative Mythology and Religion. His studies led him to conclude that Atlantis and the biblical Eden were the same and more controversially that it had been located in the South China Sea. An even more contentious idea of Santos was his claim that the seven sacraments of Christianity have an Atlantean origin⁽^a⁾. There is an interesting website⁽^b⁾ promoting his theories and in 2005 his ideas were published in book form^[0320], but sadly, Professor Santos passed away just weeks after it was launched. Since then his work has been championed by his son Bernado and Frank Joseph Hoff, who had done research for Santos over a number of years⁽^c⁾. Hoff has promoted dos Santos’ work in a number of radio interviews that can be heard online^(g)(h).

>In a short article⁽ⁱ⁾ on the Santos website, it is claimed that the Americas were peopled by visitors from an Asian Atlantis – “The New World is perhaps the region where the civilizing impact of Atlantis is easiest to observe. In contrast with the establishment doctrine that claims the Americas were peopled via the Bering Strait and developed an autochthonous civilization, we argue that civilization, — along with a substantial component of the population of the Amerindian nations — came to the Americas via the Pacific Ocean. This is particularly the case of the more advanced cultures such as those of the Incas of Peru and the Mayas and Aztecs of Mexico.

Amerindian contacts with the Far Orient were both regular and intensive throughout antiquity. White Civilizing Heroes such as Bochica, Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan are indeed the Nagas or Minas, the fabled Serpent Peoples of the Eastern Indies. Our arguments are based on the solid evidence afforded by the domesticated plants and animals that exist on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, and on the cultural and linguistic parallels that make of pre-Columbian America the perfect dual of the ancient Indies, and a replica of Atlantis.”<

In 2014, three Kindle books by dos Santos were published posthumously with some rather peripheral Atlantis themes, Atlantis and the Pillars of Hercules^[1378], Atlantis and the Holy Grail^[1379] and Atlantis and the Drug Cults^[1380].

An extensive two-part document by dos Santos, entitled The Atlantean Symbolism of the Egyptian Temple can be read online^(e)(f).

Understandably, Santos’ basic theory has received considerable support from Asian commentators.

Nevertheless, some of the geological aspects of his theories were criticised by the Indonesian geologist Dr. Awang Harun Satyana^(d).

⁽^a⁾ The Atlantean Origin Of The Seven Sacraments | Atlantis (archive.org)

⁽^b⁾ Atlan.org – Atlantis: the Lost Continent Finally Found. – by Prof. Arysio Nunes dos Santos (archive.org)

^(c) See: https://web.archive.org/web/20160310112403/https://atlan.org/important_announcement.html

^(d) See: Archive 2794

^(e) https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/atlantida_mu/esp_atlantida_3.htm#inicio

^(e) The Atlantean Symbolism Of The Egyptian Temple (Part I) | Atlantis (archive.org)

^(f) The Atlantean Symbolism Of The Egyptian Temple (Part II) | Atlantis (archive.org)

^(g) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG4yLDxNEtQ

^(h) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjX9lmfF2c0