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| <\/td>\n | World-Mysteries.com<\/em> presents<\/em><\/p>\n Guest Writers<\/strong><\/p>\n Philip Gardiner<\/strong><\/p>\n Atlantis <\/strong><\/p>\n By Philip Gardiner <\/em><\/p>\n The real site of Atlantis, although probably an ancient subtle allusion to Gnostic beliefs, could indeed be based upon and ancient folk memory of Mexico, which is variously called Itlan, Otlan, Atlan, Autlan, Mazatlan, Cacatlan and Tollan \u2013 all sounding remarkably similar to Atlan-tis.<\/p>\n Plato places Atlantis beyond the Pillars of Heracles; there are only the Americas beyond the Pillars. He says it is larger than Libya, which was seen as most of Africa to Plato. Any sight of an Atlas will show that the Americas match this description. It was said to be a great empire, stretching for miles, and with each passing year our archaeologists and scientists are further uncovering huge landscapes previously thought to be uninhabited and which now reveal the signs of having been lived-in and cultivated \u2013 on a massive scale. Also, we have seen from the Timeline (6,000 BC) that the Harappan culture of India \u2013 the pre-Indian civilization \u2013 was a \u201cgreat sea-faring\u201d society. Surely, there has to be more proof that these cultures spread across the seas and traded religious ideas, if not more? Well, there is a lot more . . . The ancient boats used by the Chinese, Japanese and Indians were Sampans (trade boat.) This is interesting because in South America the tribes of the coast call them Mayu Chimpana, Chan-pan, Sam-pan \u2013 virtually the same terms for vessels, across the \u201cserpent\u201d world.<\/p>\n This idea of common languages would be easier to discover had not the invading European countries virtually destroyed them. However, there are still plenty of similarities in structure and meaning to make the case. You will notice from the very names of places above such as Atlan and Autlan (atla is a Semitic root word for \u201cto raise\u201d) that the letters tlan are common \u2013 and taking into account that the Nagas were said to reside in Patalan (Ptlan) \u2013 then we can see this fabled \u201cantipodes\u201d in the very language \u2013 and especially when we consider the similarities in the worship of the serpent. In fact certain Venezuelan Indians known as Paria actually lived in the area known as Atlan. (The Parias according to Bragine in The Shadow of Atlantis, were \u2018white skinned\u2019 and possessed folklore of a great cataclysm that destroyed their original homeland.)<\/p>\n In Sanskrit, (which is widely thought to be the root of many of the world\u2019s languages,) Tala is \u201csurface\u201d and the \u201cn\u201d refers to the people living there. So Talan is people of the surface. The \u201cA\u201d suffice denotes \u201cbelow\u201d or \u201cno longer,\u201d so Atalan is \u201cpeople of below the surface\u201d \u2013 just like Atlantis.<\/p>\n Virtually the same meanings apply in the Mexican Nahuatl language.<\/p>\n Amazingly Tala is also an epithet for the Hindu god Siva (See Siva) and therefore Talan means \u201cthe people of Siva!\u201d<\/p>\n Vera Cruz in the Americas is said to be derived from Ver la Cruz, which is Spanish for \u201cSeeing the Cross\u201d \u2013 not an unusual thought considering this was a symbol of the \u2018feathered serpent\u2019 savior, Quetzalcoatl.<\/p>\n However in Sanskrit Vira Kurus means simply \u2018Kurus the Hero\u2019 \u2013 a title for the tribe which is said to have disappeared from India following the deluge; indicating through language alone, that there must have been contact \u2013 especially when we consider the rest of the data. But how did they transport themselves?<\/p>\n Possibly on Sampans, which we have seen are the same. But also, the savior-deity Quetzalcoatl, and the god Vishnu, (Siva) are both said to have traveled to Patala via an eagle and a raft of snakes!<\/p>\n These snakes on the raft were nothing more than the terrifying images of dragons and serpents so often seen on ships \u2013 coming directly through time from the Indian\/Harappan and Phoenician vessels and seen also in the Norse, Viking, dragon-headed long boats.<\/p>\n Quetzalcoatl disappeared back to Tlapallan, the place of the people of Pala, which is Bihar in India. From this place it was considered that the world\u2019s greatest architects and builders emerged after the flood, and they spread across the globe. In all likelihood they are ultimately responsible for the world\u2019s serpentine related stone megaliths and monoliths such as Avebury and the serpent mounds of North America.<\/p>\n The very word \u2018Atala\u2019 \u2013 used as an abode of these \u201cserpents\u201d \u2013 also means \u2018Pillar\u2019 \u2013 and Atala was deemed the \u2018Pillar of the World\u2019 \u2013 which is a reference to the earth\u2019s axis. Could there be some relationship between this \u201cabode\u201d and the axis of the world? This, we found would lead us on to greater secrets which can be found in our other books.<\/p>\n The Hindus mixed, traded with and respected, the Greeks. As we can see in Taxila, there were great cross-cultural mixing pots and hives of religious and philosophical debate, and indeed it is highly likely that the stories of Atlantis evolved from Hindu myths such as the story of the city of \u2018Dvaraka\u2019 in the Mahabharat \u2013 the capital of Krishna, which sank.<\/p>\n The age of the serpent goes back to and beyond the deluge and was taken across the seas to the Americas. Even the architecture of Atlantis, with its many circular banks and ditches brings to mind the thousands of cup and ring marks, spirals and other serpent shapes seen on \u201cliths\u201d across the world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Copyright 2005 by Philip Gardiner All rights reserved. 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