{"id":2255,"date":"2010-05-31T11:43:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:00:38","slug":"huf-winfried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/huf-winfried\/","title":{"rendered":"Huf, Winfried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Winfried-Huf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27519\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Winfried-Huf-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"Winfried Huf\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Winfried-Huf-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Winfried-Huf.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Winfried Huf<\/strong> \u00a0is from the southern Tyrol. He contends that the centre of Atlantis lay in the region of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-lipari\/\">Lipari Islands,<\/a> north east of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sicily\/\">Sicily<\/a>. He maintains that the Atlantean Empire was divided into five principal sectors; The Lipari Islands, mainland Italy, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/malta\/\">Malta<\/a>, Syrtis Major and Fezzan in south-east Libya. Huf identified the nearby <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/strait-of-messina\/\">Strait of Messina<\/a> as the location of the Pillars of Heracles.<\/p>\n<p>Huf has accepted Plato\u2019s 9,000 \u2018years\u2019 as being literally solar years rather than the competing and more credible theory of them being a reference to\u00a0lunar cycles.\u00a0 He traces evidence of Atlantis in Homer, the Persephone myth, Genesis and the Norse Eddas.<\/p>\n<p>Huf\u2019s views are available on the Internet<sup>(a)<\/sup>, although in German,\u00a0they can be read in English with a good translator. Huf has written a similar paper<sup>(b)<\/sup> about Homer\u2019s <em>Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140106174902\/http:\/www.psilog.info\/Atlantis.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140106174902\/https:\/\/www.psilog.info\/Atlantis.html<\/a> (German)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><em><cite><sup>(b)<\/sup><\/cite><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140106162941\/https:\/\/www.psilog.info\/Odyssee.html\"><cite> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140106162941\/https:\/\/www.psilog.info\/Odyssee.html<\/cite><\/a><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winfried Huf \u00a0is from the southern Tyrol. He contends that the centre of Atlantis lay in the region of the Lipari Islands, north east of Sicily. He maintains that the Atlantean Empire was divided into five principal sectors; The Lipari Islands, mainland Italy, Malta, Syrtis Major and Fezzan in south-east Libya. Huf identified the nearby [&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":[721,123,313,1081,1082,48,1080,1079],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-genesis","tag-homer","tag-lipari-islands","tag-norse-eddas","tag-persephone","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-strait-of-messina","tag-winfried-huf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","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=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66872,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/66872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}