{"id":45569,"date":"2020-06-28T07:29:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=45569"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:02:43","slug":"archive-2868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2868\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive 2868"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>21. November 2010 um 17:32 #16950<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BruceWayne<\/p>\n<p>Teilnehmer<\/p>\n<p>It seems likely that Solon\u2019s Egyptian sojourn acquainted him with tales of an ancient land named Keftiu, an island nation named for holding one of the four pillars that supported the Egyptian sky. According to the Egypt legend, Keftiu was an advanced civilization, and was the gateway to and ruler of all of the lands to the far west of Egypt (Greece, Libya, and beyond). Keftiu traded in ivory, copper, and cloth. Keftiu supported hosts of ships and controlled commerce far beyond the Egyptians domain.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient Minoans (Atlanteans) display their many styles of ships in this wall painting (circa: AT LEAST 1600 BC).<\/p>\n<p>By Egyptian record, Keftiu was destroyed by the seas in an apocalypse. It seems likely Solon carried legends of Keftiu to Greece, where he passed it to his son and grandson.<\/p>\n<p>Plato recorded and embellished the story from Solon\u2019s grandson Critias the Younger. As in many ancient writings, history and myth were indistinguishably intermixed. Plato probably translated \u201ethe land of the pillars which held the sky\u201c (Keftiu) into the land of the titan Atlas (who held the sky). Comparison of ancient Egyptian records of Keftiu identifies a number of similarities to Plato\u2019s Atlantis. It seems likely that Plato\u2019s Atlantis was a retelling (and renaming) of Egypt\u2019s Keftiu.<\/p>\n<p>When Plato identified the location of the land he named Atlantis, he placed it to the west-in the Atlantic Ocean. In reality, Egyptian legend placed Keftiu west of Egypt, not necessarily west of the Mediterranean. In describing Atlantis as an island (or continent) in the Atlantic Ocean, we suspect Plato was merely wrong in his interpretation of the Egyptian legend he was retelling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240613162604\/https:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/hi\/alhawk\/atlanthira.html\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240613162604\/https:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/hi\/alhawk\/atlanthira.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21. November 2010 um 17:32 #16950 BruceWayne Teilnehmer It seems likely that Solon\u2019s Egyptian sojourn acquainted him with tales of an ancient land named Keftiu, an island nation named for holding one of the four pillars that supported the Egyptian sky. According to the Egypt legend, Keftiu was an advanced civilization, and was the gateway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45569","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66105,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45569\/revisions\/66105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}