{"id":2689,"date":"2010-06-03T13:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/attala\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:46:50","slug":"attala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/attala\/","title":{"rendered":"Attala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A<\/strong><strong>ttala<\/strong> is the name given by the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/berbers\/\">Berbers<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/north-africa\/\">North Africa<\/a> to an island in the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantic-ocean\/\">Atlantic<\/a><strong>. <\/strong>Thousands of miles to the east, we find the same name, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atala\/\">Atala<\/a>, in the sacred books of the Hindus, the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mahabharata\/\">Mahabharata and Puranas<\/a>, being used to identify a continent located in the \u201cwestern ocean\u201d. Colonel Francis Wilford, who translated<strong><sup>[<\/sup><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\"><strong><sup>114<\/sup><\/strong><\/a><strong><sup>]<\/sup><\/strong> the Puranas in the early 19<sup>th<\/sup> century located Atala, the White Island, in the same latitude as the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/canary-islands\/\">Canary Islands<\/a>, which are close to the North African coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attala is the name given by the Berbers of North Africa to an island in the Atlantic. Thousands of miles to the east, we find the same name, Atala, in the sacred books of the Hindus, the Mahabharata and Puranas, being used to identify a continent located in the \u201cwestern ocean\u201d. Colonel Francis Wilford, who [&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":[284,28],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-berbers","tag-canaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","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=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65573,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/65573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}