{"id":2531,"date":"2010-06-02T05:38:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T05:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atala\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T09:30:48","slug":"atala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atala\/","title":{"rendered":"Atala"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/strong>tala<\/strong> is the name given by \u2018Asiatic-Indians\u2019 to Meso-America, according to Gene Matlock<\/a>. This Sanskrit word is used in Hindu traditions to describe a sunken paradise in the Far East. While Matlock uses the word to bolster his claim that Atlantis was located in Mexico<\/a>, Col. Francis Wilford, an early (1808) translator of the ancient Asiatic Indian V<\/em>ishnu<\/em> P<\/em>urana<\/em>, claimed[<\/sup>114<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> that the original text (Book II, Chaps i, ii, and iii) placed Atala at a latitude of between 24\u00b0 and 28\u00b0 north. R. Cedric Leonard<\/a> used this as an endorsement of his Mid Atlantic Ridge<\/a> location for Atlantis.<\/p>\n

Although it has been pointed out that this matches the latitude of the Canaries<\/a>, without a mention of the longitudinal position, it could just as easily have been in central or northern Mexico.<\/p>\n

Dennis Brooks <\/a>disingenuously cites Leonard(a)<\/sup> as if they were in agreement, but then uses the Atala co-ordinates to support his preferred site for Atlantis, namely, Florida<\/a>, claiming that they match the location of the Plain of Florida. However, the Coastal Plain of Florida lies mainly outside the co-ordinates, north of the 28\u00b0 parallel.<\/p>\n

The \u2018White Island\u2019 inhabitants, according to the Mahabharata (??nti Parva, Section CCCXXXVII), is described as having complexions as white as the rays of<\/em> the moon<\/em>. The Greek historian Herodotus (450 BC) describes a tribe of Atlantes who \u201cnever dream and eat no living thing\u201d <\/em>(History<\/em>, Book IV.184). A possible explanation for this is to be found in the second paragraph of the entry for\u00a0Herodotus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is no firm connection between Atala and the \u2018White Island\u2019.<\/p>\n

[See Attala<\/a>]<\/p>\n

(a)\u00a0<\/sup> Atlantis of the Sands – Beyond Imagination | Historic Mysteries (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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