{"id":3675,"date":"2010-06-10T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T09:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/merezhkovski-dimitri\/"},"modified":"2017-02-25T19:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T19:21:51","slug":"merezhkovski-dimitri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/merezhkovski-dimitri\/","title":{"rendered":"Merezhkovski, Dimitri (L)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dimitri <\/strong><strong>M<\/strong><strong>erezhkovski <\/strong><strong>(1866-1941)<\/strong> was the author of a poorly constructed <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dmitry-merezhkovsky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28186\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dmitry-merezhkovsky-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"dmitry-merezhkovsky\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dmitry-merezhkovsky-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dmitry-merezhkovsky.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>book<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\"><sup>479<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> that portrays Atlantis as an empire 10,000 years ago, with colonies in Europe, West Africa and Central America. The author saw Atlantis as having highly advanced technology and practicing a religion that was a precursor to Christianity. This Atlantis was destroyed in a catastrophic event, leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/canary-islands\/\">Canaries<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/azores\/\">Azores<\/a> as remnants.<\/p>\n<p>Merezhkovski saw this destruction as punishment for a descent into sinful ways in Atlantis. He then follows with a warning (originally written in 1930) that Europe is a second Atlantis and once again will be destroyed if it does not desist from its immoral ways, particularly militarism. Prophetic indeed! There is a critical review of his book available on the Internet<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> as well as a biography<sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riseofthewest.net\/dcmiscell\/dm05.htm\">https:\/\/www.riseofthewest.net\/dcmiscell\/dm05.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riseofthewest.net\/dcmiscell\/dm04.htm\">https:\/\/www.riseofthewest.net\/dcmiscell\/dm04.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitri Merezhkovski (1866-1941) was the author of a poorly constructed book[479] that portrays Atlantis as an empire 10,000 years ago, with colonies in Europe, West Africa and Central America. The author saw Atlantis as having highly advanced technology and practicing a religion that was a precursor to Christianity. This Atlantis was destroyed in a catastrophic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,28,4131],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-azores","tag-canaries","tag-dimitri-merezhkovski"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","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=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}