{"id":2424,"date":"2010-05-31T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ashe-geoffrey\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:22:17","slug":"ashe-geoffrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ashe-geoffrey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashe, Geoffrey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0*Geoffrey<\/strong> A<\/strong>she <\/strong>(1923-2022)<\/strong> is a recognised authority on the Arthurian Legend and has written extensively on the subject. He is the author or co-author of a number of books, including The Quest for Arthur\u2019s Britain<\/em>, Camelot<\/em> and the Vision of Albion<\/em>, The Discovery of King Arthur<\/em>, and Mythology of the British Isles<\/em>. He was co-founder and secretary of the Camelot Research Committee that \"Geoffrey<\/a>excavated Cadbury Castle in Somerset.\u00a0 He was Associate Editor of The Arthurian Encyclopaedia<\/em> and The<\/em> New Arthurian Encyclopaedia<\/em>; collaborated with Norris Lacy on The<\/em> Arthurian Handbook<\/em>, and has held visiting professorships at several American universities.<\/p>\n

In the fifth century, the neo-Platonist Proclus<\/a>, quoting a first-century BC geographer named Marcellus<\/a>, spoke of three islands of \u2018immense extent\u2019 located in the Atlantic Ocean<\/a>. The inhabitants of the central one of these islands was said to have preserved the memory of a former landmass, identified by Proclus with Atlantis, which had existed thereabouts. In 1962, historian Ashe identified Marcellus\u2019 three great islands with the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean<\/a>. Moreover, he pointed out that the indigenous peoples of the region preserved the memory of a cataclysm, which had split up a former landmass leaving behind the islands that make up the archipelagos, we see today. All but a few human beings were drowned in this all-encompassing event.<\/p>\n

Could this have been a memory of the destruction of Atlantis preserved in the Caribbean and brought across the Atlantic by ancient mariners such as the Phoenicians<\/a>\u00a0and Carthaginians? However, as Andrew Collins<\/a> noted[072<\/a>.109]<\/sup> Ashe was not the first to make this connection. In 1885, the American historian Hyde Clarke<\/a>, in a paper delivered to the Royal Historical Society, used the same indigenous legends to identify Hispaniola<\/a> as the location of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

Atlantisforschung<\/em> has drawn attention to the work of Harold T. Wilkins<\/a> who, in 1952 had pointed out the mythology of the islanders of the West Indies in Secret<\/em> Cities of Old South America <\/em>[364<\/a>]<\/sup>, and in particular to the almost astonishing similarities between West Indian-Caribbean<\/a> and Irish myths. Wilkins\u00a0also noted: “In the hinterland of the British West Indies island of\u00a0Trinidad, the Natives of Aboriginal origin affirm that\u00a0Trinidad is a very old country, and formed part of ‘the greatest country in the world’ many thousands of years ago.\u00a0This was a time ‘when there<\/em>\u00a0was\u00a0no sea at all’.\u00a0This large, antediluvian country or continent is called IERE by the natives, which is pronounced almost exactly like EIRE for\u00a0<\/em>Ireland. And ancient Trinidad too, the natives say, was known as Iere before the great cataclysm that sank the lost continent.”<\/em> (a)<\/sup><\/p>\n

In the late 1950s, it was reported in Sykes\u2019s Atlantis <\/em>journal that Ashe was planning to emulate St. Brendan\u2019s voyage across the Atlantic in a currach, a feat later achieved by Tim Severin. However, Ashe never made the trip but settled for writing a book on the subject, Land to the West <\/em>[<\/sup>740<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two books with an Atlantis theme have been published by Ashe, Atlantis: Lost Lands, Ancient Wisdom<\/em>[<\/sup>082<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup>& Atlantis: The Legend of Lost City<\/em>[<\/sup>083<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> Iere – Das Atlantis der Kariben \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0*Geoffrey Ashe (1923-2022) is a recognised authority on the Arthurian Legend and has written extensively on the subject. He is the author or co-author of a number of books, including The Quest for Arthur\u2019s Britain, Camelot and the Vision of Albion, The Discovery of King Arthur, and Mythology of the British Isles. He was co-founder […]<\/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":[195,2259,21,2849,1425,236,747,294,539,90,132,2225,7460,2375],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-collins","tag-atlantis","tag-caribbean","tag-geoffrey-ashe","tag-harold-t-wilkins","tag-hispaniola","tag-hyde-clarke","tag-ireland","tag-king-arthur","tag-phoenicians","tag-plato","tag-tim-severin","tag-trinidad","tag-west-indies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","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=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65369,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/65369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}