{"id":4068,"date":"2010-06-12T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T11:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-atlantis-encyclopaedia\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T08:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T07:15:18","slug":"the-atlantis-encyclopaedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/the-atlantis-encyclopaedia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantis Encyclopaedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/strong>he<\/strong> A<\/strong>tlantis<\/strong> E<\/strong>ncyclopaedia<\/strong>[<\/u><\/strong><\/sup>0104<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>]<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup> by Frank Joseph<\/a> was published just as the first draft of this volume was completed. When I learned of Joseph\u2019s book I immediately had a copy mailed from the U.S. To be candid I found his volume falling far short of what I would\u00a0have expected from a person who claims to have spent a quarter of a century studying the subject.<\/p>\n

The book has a gushing foreword by Brad Steiger<\/a> who begins with a recollection of having stood at the tomb of Viracocha in Machu Picchu while Joseph\u2019s own entry in his encyclopaedia tells us that Viracocha eventually left Peru<\/a> sailing westward to Lemuria<\/a>. So who is buried in Machu Picchu? Whereas Steiger suggests that Viracocha came from Atlantis, Joseph has him sailing to Lemuria, which he claims was destroyed before Atlantis ever existed. This conflict on the very first page could easily lead a reader to suspect the credibility of one or both of them. As I read on I had my suspicions confirmed as I found two more of Joseph\u2019s entries relating to Ireland<\/a> that were, for me, particularly annoying. The first was his entry for \u2018crann\u00f3g\u2019 where he attempts to link it with a sunken city. Crann\u00f3gs are small artificial islands built in lakes for defensive purposes. The word is derived from the Irish word crann that means a tree, while \u00f3g means young or small. There are many such crann\u00f3gs to be found among the numerous lakes of County Leitrim where I live. My second gripe is the entry \u2018Tir-nan-Og\u2019, which should in fact be \u2018Tir na n\u00d3g\u2019 which means Land of Youth, implying land of perpetual youth. There is no connection with Og or Ogygia<\/a>.<\/strong> I respectfully suggest that Frank Joseph and anyone else should tread very warily when trying to link similar sounding words from different languages. For example there is an Irish place name Oghill<\/strong> that Joseph might be also tempted to see it as the hill of Og, where in reality the \u2018og\u2019 in this context is a corruption of an old Irish word \u2018e\u00f3chill\u2019 that means yew-wood, so that Oghill was named after a hill covered with yew trees. Many of today’s place names here in Ireland\u00a0are a combination of Irish and<\/strong> English words, a consequence of 900 years of English colonisation.<\/p>\n

This book is more an encyclopaedia of Frank Joseph\u2019s concept of Atlantis rather than Plato\u2019s. An encyclopaedia is supposed to deal comprehensively with a subject whereas Joseph\u2019s book ignores, or, all too briefly, alludes to various important theories and writers. There is no mention of the work of modern European investigators such as Spedicato<\/a>, Frau<\/a>, Bergman<\/a>, Mifsud<\/a>, Ellul<\/a>, the Schoppes<\/a>, Zamarro<\/a>, Richter<\/a>, and Diaz-Montexano<\/a> who have all made\u00a0valuable contributions to the solution of the Atlantis mystery. Important English language writers including Dunbavin<\/a>, Castleden<\/a>, Settegast<\/a> and the Flem-Aths<\/a> have also been ignored, while Andrew Collins<\/a> gets just four lines. There are no entries for Antarctica<\/a>, Malta<\/a>, Crete<\/a>, Bolivia<\/a>, The Black Sea, Tunisia<\/a>, Gibraltar<\/a> or Troy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the Atao entry Joseph refers to the Linear A as a language rather than an undeciphered script. He then speculates that Atao \u201cmay be the Minoan version of the Greek Atlas!
\nOverall this book attempts to link too many places and people with Atlantis where the basis for such connections are at best tenuous and at worst highly suspect. It is an ideal read for those that wish to overdose on speculation.<\/p>\n

The full text of The Atlantis Encyclopedia is now available on the Internet(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup>. >><\/span><\/strong>There is also a website(b)<\/sup> that has plagiarised large chunks of the content from Joseph\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> is highly critical of this book(c)<\/sup> \u00a0concluding that The\u00a0Atlantis Encyclopedia\u00a0by Frank Joseph is a really bad book, bad in a manyfold sense: First the provided information is bad, i.e. wrong, and since the information is ludicrously<\/em> wrong we have to assume that this is Fake News by intention, i.e. by bad intention. The information is bad, the intention is bad, and the results are bad, because this book is the source of much nonsense and confusion about Plato’s Atlantis.”<<<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(a) <\/sup>ftp:\/\/195.214.211.1\/books\/DVD-022\/Joseph_F._The_Atlantis_Encyclopedia_(2005)(en)(312s).pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/the-a-z-of-atlantis.blogspot.com\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 now changed to<\/span> https:\/\/the-a-z-of-atlantis.blogspot.ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> Review of: Frank Joseph, The Atlantis Encyclopedia – Atlantis-Scout<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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