{"id":17445,"date":"2012-05-30T04:41:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T03:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=17445"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:05:09","slug":"martinez-concha-santiago-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/martinez-concha-santiago-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez Concha, Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Santiago-Martinez-Concha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27348\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Santiago-Martinez-Concha.jpg\" alt=\"Santiago Martinez Concha\" width=\"180\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a>Santiago<\/strong><strong> Mart\u00ednez Concha <\/strong>is a Colombian author who published in March 2012 an English Kindle version of his Spanish language book with the title\u00a0<em>The Discovery of Atlantis <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\">2055<\/a>]<\/sup><em>.<\/em> He has published over a dozen other books, also in Spanish<sup>(a)<\/sup>, including a series, CODEX, which deals with the antediluvian world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Discovery&#8217; is poorly translated and includes four, apparently important, checklists all in Spanish! He places Atlantis in the region of the Azores, which sits on the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mid-atlantic-ridge\/\">Mid-Atlantic Ridge <\/a>(MAR) and considers all other proposed locations as mere colonies of Atlantis. He refers erroneously to the MAR as a subduction zone, but that is a minor matter compared to his insistence on a connection between Atlantis and features on Mars! He also includes the claim that Atlantis was destroyed by the Earth-Mars Orbital exchange, based on the ideas of creationist Donald Patten (not Alan Patten).<\/p>\n<p>Martinez would also appear to suffer from chronic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pareidolia-n\/\">pareidolia<\/a>, seeing giant heads in rock outcrops, guardian animals and a view of a queen about to give birth at Machu Picchu. You could not make this up unless you were experimenting with Colombia\u2019s biggest export.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/Santiago-Mart\u00ednez-Concha\/author\/B001JX33W4?ref=ap_rdr&amp;store_ref=ap_rdr&amp;isDramIntegrated=true&amp;shoppingPortalEnabled=true Link broken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Mart\u00ednez Concha is a Colombian author who published in March 2012 an English Kindle version of his Spanish language book with the title\u00a0The Discovery of Atlantis [2055]. He has published over a dozen other books, also in Spanish(a), including a series, CODEX, which deals with the antediluvian world. &#8216;Discovery&#8217; is poorly translated and includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[950,952,949,951,18,782,783],"class_list":["post-17445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-patten","tag-machu-picchu","tag-mar","tag-mars","tag-mid-atlantic-ridge","tag-pareidolia","tag-santiago-martinez-concha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Santiago-Martinez-Concha.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445","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=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67427,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions\/67427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}