{"id":10299,"date":"2010-08-12T09:21:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T09:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=10299"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:02:18","slug":"creation-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/creation-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C<\/strong><strong>reation Myths <\/strong>of an almost infinite variety are to be found around the globe. They were invented to explain the existence of the cosmos and our place in it. The Greeks were no exception and had their oral mythologies committed to writing from around the 8<sup>th<\/sup> century BC.<\/p>\n<p>Plato, wrote the Atlantis dialogues in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> century BC and it is only now, over two millennia later that two books have been published, which claim that the tale of Atlantis is in fact a creation myth. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/alford-alan-f\/\">Alan Alford<\/a> in his 2001 book, <em>The Atlantis Secret<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/a\/\">009<\/a>] <\/sup>and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/driscoll-kurtz\/\">Driscoll &amp; Kurtz<\/a>\u2019s <em>Atlantis: Egyptian Genesis<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">672<\/a>]<\/sup> have all arrived at the same conclusion. I find their reasoning convoluted\u00a0but even more difficult to accept is the idea that the established Greek mythology was replaced by Plato\u2019s \u2018new\u2019 mythology, without any explanation to his audience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creation Myths of an almost infinite variety are to be found around the globe. They were invented to explain the existence of the cosmos and our place in it. The Greeks were no exception and had their oral mythologies committed to writing from around the 8th century BC. Plato, wrote the Atlantis dialogues in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[337,1989,1990],"class_list":["post-10299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alan-alford","tag-creation-myths","tag-driscoll-kurtz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66172,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299\/revisions\/66172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}