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Frank Joseph Hoff
Hoff, Frank Joseph
Frank Joseph Hoff is a qualified American business administrator. He developed an ealy interest in 
ancient mysteries including Atlantis. So when he encountered the theories of the Brazilian professor, Arysio Nunes dos Santos, who had concluded that Atlantis and the biblical Eden were the same and more controversially that it had been located in the South China Sea. Hoff was intrigued. So in 1998, he established contact with Santos and eventually became his ‘understudy’ assisting with research and promotion. He encouraged the professor to publish his work in English, which was done in 2005. Unfortunately, just two months later Santos died(a).
Following the death, Hoff continued to promote the work of Santos and carry out further research himself. He has featured on many of the American ‘fringe’ radio programs.
(a) https://www.veritasradio.com/guests/2013/07jul/VS-130704-fhoff.php
Santos, Arysio Nunes dos *
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 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)
(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)