{"id":12744,"date":"2010-10-13T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T10:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=12744"},"modified":"2024-08-20T09:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T08:02:43","slug":"rittstieg-joachim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/rittstieg-joachim\/","title":{"rendered":"Rittstieg, Joachim *"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

He spent six years with his family in Central America and after decades of study, he claimd to have decoded \"joachim<\/a>all the Mayan calendars and published the results in 1999 in ABC der Maya<\/em>[717<\/a>]<\/sup>. Rittstieg combined information he has gleaned from The Icelandic Eddas<\/em>, Plato, Mayan calendars as well as oral sources and concluded that the capital of Atlan<\/a>, which he equates with Atlantis, can be found submerged in Lake Izabal in Guatemala<\/a>. He also reveals that the sinking of the city took place on 30th<\/sup> October 666 BC. But there is more(a)<\/sup> the sunken city also has a cache of over 2,000 gold tablets on which the \u2018Laws of Atlan’ are inscribed. Rittstieg wants someone to invest \u20ac3,000,000 in the recovery of this booty!\u00a0 I would expect the Guatemalan government would have something to say about such an operation.<\/p>\n

He also claimed that the Maya<\/a> and the Vikings had contact for nearly 500 years (754-1224 AD)(f)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

A rather critical review of Rittsteig\u2019s ideas by Swedish commentator can be read online(d)\u00a0<\/sup>as well as another that is slightly more technical(e)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, Duane McCullough<\/a>\u00a0has also identified Lake Izabal as the location of Atlantis.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

On March 1st<\/sup> 2011 it was reported(b) <\/sup>that an expedition, sponsored by the German tabloid newspaper Bild,<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>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 \u2018success\u2019(c)<\/sup>!<\/p>\n

(a) <\/sup>Joachim Rittstieg – Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> A Visit With a Person of High Strangeness Craacking the Mayan Code — What Does It Hold? (archive.org)<\/a>
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(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/expeditions-quest-for-mayan-gold-finds-a-pot-stirs-outrage<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/haecceities.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/10\/atlantis-is-located-in-lake-izabal-guatemala-not\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)\u00a0<\/sup> https:\/\/tcmam.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/07\/the-zuyua-than-language\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)\u00a0<\/sup> https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Joachim_Rittstieg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,1163,1160,1162,1159,1161,34,132,509],"class_list":["post-12744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-duane-mccullough","tag-eddas","tag-guatemala","tag-joachim-rittstieg","tag-lake-izabal","tag-maya","tag-plato","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12744","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=12744"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61931,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12744\/revisions\/61931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}