{"id":16319,"date":"2012-01-18T07:49:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T07:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2017-10-10T08:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T07:27:49","slug":"elefant-roger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/elefant-roger\/","title":{"rendered":"Elefant, Roger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roger Elefant <\/strong>is a French writer who has written (only in French)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30489\" style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Roger-Elefant1975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30489\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30489\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Roger-Elefant1975.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Elefant 1975\" width=\"299\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Elefant 1975<\/p><\/div>\n<p>on a range of \u2018New Age\u2019 subjects \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mu\/\">Mu<\/a>, hollow earth, UFO\u2019s, the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ica-stones-2\/\">Ica Stones <\/a>etc., etc<sup>(a)<\/sup>. His books appear to be mainly a mish-mash of other writers ideas with <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/charroux-robert\/\">Robert Charroux <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cayce-edgar-2\/\">Edgar Cayce<\/a><sup>\u00a0 <\/sup>figuring prominently. His ideas on Atlantis are just echoes of Cayce\u2019s \u2018visions\u2019 and like Cayce the few references to Plato are usually only encountered <em>en passant. <\/em>I found little originality in Elefant\u2019s work except when I read his claim that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tiwanaku-tiahuanaco\/\">Tiwanaku<\/a> had been built by the Vikings<sup> _ <\/sup><em>D&#8217;autre part, Tiahuanaco, aussi incroyable que cela paraisse, aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 construite par les Vikings, sur (et avec) les ruines de la ville antique d&#8217;origine ! (Oui, j&#8217;\u00e9cris bien les Vikings<\/em>.)<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>On the other hand, Tiahuanaco, incredible as it may seem, was built by the Vikings on (and with) the ruins of the ancient city of origin! (Yes, I write out the Vikings &#8230;<\/em>)]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong>Elefant has also expressed support for the theories of <a href=\"#ChurchwardJames\">James Churchward<\/a> and his claims relating to <a href=\"#Mu\">Mu<\/a><sup>(d)<\/sup>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a more recent offering<sup>(c)<\/sup> Elefant claimed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/basques\/\">Basques<\/a> are descendants of migrants from Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantide-mu.over-blog.com\/\">https:\/\/atlantide-mu.over-blog.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantide-mu.over-blog.com\/article-mysteres-du-monde-72336522.html\">https:\/\/atlantide-mu.over-blog.com\/article-mysteres-du-monde-72336522.html<\/a><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(c)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantide-mu.over-blog.com\/2016\/01\/les-basques-sont-des-atlantes.html\">https:\/\/atlantide-mu.over-blog.com\/2016\/01\/les-basques-sont-des-atlantes.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><sup>(d)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantide-mu.over-blog.com\/article-les-chinois-96867407.html\">https:\/\/atlantide-mu.over-blog.com\/article-les-chinois-96867407.html<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Elefant is a French writer who has written (only in French) on a range of \u2018New Age\u2019 subjects \u2013 Mu, hollow earth, UFO\u2019s, the Ica Stones etc., etc(a). His books appear to be mainly a mish-mash of other writers ideas with Robert Charroux and Edgar Cayce\u00a0 figuring prominently. His ideas on Atlantis are just [&hellip;]<\/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":[33,82,175,271,508,511,510,618,509],"class_list":["post-16319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basques","tag-edgar-cayce","tag-ica-stones","tag-mu","tag-roger-charroux","tag-roger-elefant","tag-tiwanaku","tag-ufos","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319","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=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}