{"id":17415,"date":"2012-05-24T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=17415"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T08:45:17","slug":"hallet-jean-pierre-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hallet-jean-pierre-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallet, Jean-Pierre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Hallet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26758\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Hallet-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"Hallet\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Hallet-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Hallet.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jean-Pierre<\/strong><strong> Hallet (1927-2004) <\/strong>was a Belgian ethnologist who was born and grew up in Africa. During the Second World War he fought as a teenager with the Belgian Resistance. After the war, he returned to the Congo and over time he developed an intimate knowledge of the local cultures, learning a variety of their languages. During an adventurous life<sup>(a)<\/sup> he frequently came close to death.<\/p>\n<p>In his fascinating book, <em>Pygmy Kitabu<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">830<\/a>]<\/sup><em>, <\/em>Hallet recounts his experiences with the Ef\u00e9 pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. What is quite interesting is that Hallet has identified aspects of Ef\u00e9 mythology that closely parallel details in the Book of Genesis. In addition, he has also found that pygmies have a place in Egyptian traditions exemplified by their god Bes. Throughout the book he refers to Plato\u2019s Atlantis and suggests that elements of that story can also be found in the traditions of the Ef\u00e9. His contention has a very tenuous basis, but it does highlight how people can be tempted to build an Atlantis theory based on the small number of similarities between Plato\u2019s account and their presumed location. If Plato\u2019s narrative is taken as accurate, <em>all <\/em>the details must match.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pygmy Kitabu <\/em>should be required reading for anyone interested in the history of man.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/doorfliesopen.com\/2017\/05\/25\/historical-badasses-jean-pierre-hallet\/\">https:\/\/doorfliesopen.com\/2017\/05\/25\/historical-badasses-jean-pierre-hallet\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Pierre Hallet (1927-2004) was a Belgian ethnologist who was born and grew up in Africa. During the Second World War he fought as a teenager with the Belgian Resistance. After the war, he returned to the Congo and over time he developed an intimate knowledge of the local cultures, learning a variety of their languages. [&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":[5217,923,721,922,919,920,921],"class_list":["post-17415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congo","tag-efe","tag-genesis","tag-ituri-forest","tag-jean-pierre-hallet","tag-pygmies","tag-pygmy-kitabu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415","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=17415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66745,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17415\/revisions\/66745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}