{"id":19567,"date":"2013-02-27T07:42:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T07:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=19567"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:31:42","slug":"hirmenech-hans-peny-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hirmenech-hans-peny-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Hirmenech, Hans-P\u00e9ny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hans-P\u00e9ny<\/strong> <strong>H<\/strong><strong>irmenech<\/strong> was the author of a 1906 book<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\"><sup>1221<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>,\u00a0 in French, in which he reviewed possible connections between the Celts, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/basques\/\">Basques<\/a> and Atlantis. He claimed Atlantis had been situated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/north-sea\/\">North Sea<\/a> and that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/helgoland\/\">Helgoland<\/a> was a remnant of it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hirmenech expressed the wild idea that the rows of standing stones at Carnac marked the tombs of Atlantean soldiers who fought in the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/trojan-war-n\/\">Trojan War<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#PavlouS\">Stelios Pavlou<\/a> informs us that <em>&#8220;<\/em><em>Hirmenech asserted that the capital of Atlantis was Men or Menes, but gave no sources for this.<\/em> <em>He argued that Atlantis was in the North Sea, and that Heligoland is a remnant of it.<\/em> <em>His theory claims that there are dolmen routes leading through southern England, northern Germany and western France, all leading to this site.<\/em> <em>Hirmenech also made comparative studies of the religions of the ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians and other ancient cultures to identify the cognates of deities who may have been worshipped on Atlantis.&#8221;<\/em> <sup>(b)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Hirmenech was a founding member of <em>la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Pr\u00e9historique Fran\u00e7aise (The Prehistoric Society of France)<\/em><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup> (a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prehistoire.org\/\">https:\/\/www.prehistoire.org\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Hans-Peny_Hirmenech\">https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Hans-Peny_Hirmenech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans-P\u00e9ny Hirmenech was the author of a 1906 book[1221],\u00a0 in French, in which he reviewed possible connections between the Celts, Basques and Atlantis. He claimed Atlantis had been situated in the North Sea and that Helgoland was a remnant of it. &nbsp; Hirmenech expressed the wild idea that the rows of standing stones at Carnac [&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":[33,1523,1672,1888,382],"class_list":["post-19567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basques","tag-carnac","tag-celts","tag-hans-peny-hirmenech","tag-trojan-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567","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=19567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66803,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567\/revisions\/66803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}