Book Review: Frank Joseph: The Survivors of Atlantis<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Fig. 1<\/strong> Frank Joseph: How the fall of a civilization changed the world<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n According to Plato,<\/a> the legendary Atlantis<\/a> sank 9000 years before its time beyond the Pillars of Heracles<\/a> (generally equated with the Strait of Gibraltar).<\/a> Some Atlantis researchers<\/a> and authors doubt the localization, others (often the same) the time of doom. Frank Joseph<\/a> is one of those who accept Plato’s localization, but see the demise of this landmass much earlier \u2013 in historical times \u2013 and thus he belongs to the so-called “young age ” people<\/a>“.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n According to him, Atlantis sank over the course of four successive catastrophes that took place in historical times. Joseph sees the first cataclysm in 3113 BC, when, in his opinion, a comet<\/a> collided with asteroids,<\/a> disturbing the night sky for a period of at least one or two millennia. Among other things, he refers to the Greenlandic<\/a> ice core<\/a> of Camp Century,<\/a>which has an acidity, which in turn suggests a sudden increase in low-rainfall ash worldwide. Volcanism in the Atlantic<\/a> had a peak at the turn of the 4th millennium BC \u2013 especially in Iceland and the Azores,<\/a>i.e. in the area of Atlantis, as he further notes. In this disaster, Atlantis was devastated by severe earthquakes and volcanism triggered by meteorites,<\/a> with some areas of land detaching and plunging into the sea. Survivors emigrated to other parts of the world, especially to the Nile Valley<\/a> and Mesopotamia.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The second cataclysm is said to have occurred in 2193 BC, when various comets approached each other near Earth’s orbit. A large land bridge between Malta<\/a> and the nearby island of Filfa<\/a> is said to have collapsed during a natural disaster, the huge waves of which caused the end of Neolithic<\/a> Malta. On Atlantis itself, widespread seismic activity is said to have destroyed numerous temples and residential areas, while volcanism burned farmland and sunk several nearby islands. Furthermore, tsunamis have devastated settlements along the regional coast. Many inhabitants perished. The second major wave of migration to the Middle East<\/a> began. Among other things, Joseph sees the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah<\/a> in the context of this cataclysm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The third cataclysm is said to have taken place in 1628 BC, when the “killer comets” returned to Earth, after which a new exceptionally strong ash fall<\/a> was detected in the Greenland ice core. Earthquakes and tsunamis set in again on Atlantis. There was another wave of migration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Finally, according to Joseph, the fourth cataclysm took place in 1198 BC, when one comet was pushed closer to Earth’s orbit by the appearance of another. The water feature in northern European lakes had risen sharply at that time, again a large amount of ash was detected in the earth’s atmosphere,<\/a> volcanism reached a peak all over the world in the period around this year. Atlantis now sank completely into the sea. Again there were migration flows. Many survivors of Atlantis now arrived in Egypt.<\/a> Here Joseph refers to the Egyptologist Prof. Walter B. Emery<\/a>, who tells of the discovery of tombs in the late predynastic<\/a> period in the northern part of Upper Egypt,<\/a> whose skulls and bodies were larger than those of the natives. Emery concludes on a (foreign) “master race” that is supposed to explain the rapid progress in the Nile Valley immediately before the unification of Egypt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “Noah<\/a> was an Atlantean<\/a>” Joseph claims, citing the Sumerian<\/a> epic Enuma Elish,<\/a>which probably formed the basis for the biblical and other creation stories.<\/a> Put simply, Noah fled Atlantis with his family. In the scriptures, Joseph sees confirmations of his theory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n According to Joseph, many Troyans<\/a>have “clearly Atlantic names”, and the epic Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna<\/a> portrays Kleite<\/a> as a Trojan mother who lived “near Lake Gyrgic”. According to Joseph, this is an indication of the second catastrophe. Note that according to Plato, the first kings of Atlantis were born to a woman named “Kleito<\/a>“.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Atlanteans are also said to have passed through the Sahara.<\/a> The ancestors of the Berbers<\/a> were referred to in classical times as “Atlantes, Atlantoi or Atarantes”. In this context, Joseph recalls Borchard’s<\/a> “Schott-el-Jerid” thesis,<\/a>but sees here rather a location of lost culture, not like Borchardt Atlantis itself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Joseph associates the immigration flows of the” T\u00faatha D\u00e9 Danaan<\/a> to Ireland with the flight from the lost Atlantis \u2013 others see an immigration of the ten supposedly lost tribes<\/a> of Israel \u2013 make sure that in “Danaan” is the name of one of the Israelite tribes, Dan<\/a>. Joseph, however, sees further evidence for his thesis: in some Irish epics there is talk of games and horse races that “were held on a plain in a distant island \u2013 this statement is also strongly reminiscent of Atlantis.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n In America, too, Joseph sees evidence of migrants from the sun’s set Atlantis, for example, the Iroquois<\/a> know “a country in the Far East, on the borders of the great water where the sun rises,” where a white man drowned the world except for a single survivor. The legend is also reminiscent in detail of the biblical flood story.<\/a> Similar traditions can also be found, for example, in the Apaches.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Joseph also sees an Atlantic influence in Mexico, where civilizational influences can be found at the same time as in the Nile Delta.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n “The most convincing Mayan<\/a> artifact in relation to Atlanteans in Mesoamerica,” Joseph sees in a relief-like image depicting a “formally dressed man,” whom he considers a royal personality for the very reason, “rowing away in a boat from an island with an erupting volcano.” In the background you would obviously see drowning people. As a further indication, Joseph cites the fact that the Maya had flutes reminiscent of the panpipes<\/a> in Asia Minor.<\/a> Were they imported from Atlantis in these two different directions?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Survivors of Atlantis<\/strong>
How
the Downfall of a Civilization Changed
the World AMRA-Verlag, Hanau, 2021 ISBN: 978-3-939373-17-9
Price: 24.99
Geb., 381 pages, 42 b\/w pictures, register<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
![<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFig. 1<\/strong> Frank Joseph:The Survivors of Atlantis<\/strong>Howthe Downfall of a Civilization Changedthe World AMRA-Verlag, Hanau, 2021 ISBN: 978-3-939373-17-9Price: 24.99Geb., 381 pages, 42 b\/w pictures, register<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHow the fall of a civilization changed the world<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAccording to Plato,<\/a> the legendary Atlantis<\/a> sank 9000 years before its time beyond the Pillars of Heracles<\/a> (generally equated with the Strait of Gibraltar).<\/a> Some Atlantis researchers<\/a> and authors doubt the localization, others (often the same) the time of doom. Frank Joseph<\/a> is one of those who accept Plato’s localization, but see the demise of this landmass much earlier \u2013 in historical times \u2013 and thus he belongs to the so-called “young age ” people<\/a>“.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAccording to him, Atlantis sank over the course of four successive catastrophes that took place in historical times. Joseph sees the first cataclysm in 3113 BC, when, in his opinion, a comet<\/a> collided with asteroids,<\/a> disturbing the night sky for a period of at least one or two millennia. Among other things, he refers to the Greenlandic<\/a> ice core<\/a> of Camp Century,<\/a>which has an acidity, which in turn suggests a sudden increase in low-rainfall ash worldwide. Volcanism in the Atlantic<\/a> had a peak at the turn of the 4th millennium BC \u2013 especially in Iceland and the Azores,<\/a>i.e. in the area of Atlantis, as he further notes. In this disaster, Atlantis was devastated by severe earthquakes and volcanism triggered by meteorites,<\/a> with some areas of land detaching and plunging into the sea. Survivors emigrated to other parts of the world, especially to the Nile Valley<\/a> and Mesopotamia.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe second cataclysm is said to have occurred in 2193 BC, when various comets approached each other near Earth’s orbit. A large land bridge between Malta<\/a> and the nearby island of Filfa<\/a> is said to have collapsed during a natural disaster, the huge waves of which caused the end of Neolithic<\/a> Malta. On Atlantis itself, widespread seismic activity is said to have destroyed numerous temples and residential areas, while volcanism burned farmland and sunk several nearby islands. Furthermore, tsunamis have devastated settlements along the regional coast. Many inhabitants perished. The second major wave of migration to the Middle East<\/a> began. Among other things, Joseph sees the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah<\/a> in the context of this cataclysm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe third cataclysm is said to have taken place in 1628 BC, when the “killer comets” returned to Earth, after which a new exceptionally strong ash fall<\/a> was detected in the Greenland ice core. Earthquakes and tsunamis set in again on Atlantis. There was another wave of migration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFinally, according to Joseph, the fourth cataclysm took place in 1198 BC, when one comet was pushed closer to Earth’s orbit by the appearance of another. The water feature in northern European lakes had risen sharply at that time, again a large amount of ash was detected in the earth’s atmosphere,<\/a> volcanism reached a peak all over the world in the period around this year. Atlantis now sank completely into the sea. Again there were migration flows. Many survivors of Atlantis now arrived in Egypt.<\/a> Here Joseph refers to the Egyptologist Prof. Walter B. Emery<\/a>, who tells of the discovery of tombs in the late predynastic<\/a> period in the northern part of Upper Egypt,<\/a> whose skulls and bodies were larger than those of the natives. Emery concludes on a (foreign) “master race” that is supposed to explain the rapid progress in the Nile Valley immediately before the unification of Egypt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n“Noah<\/a> was an Atlantean<\/a>” Joseph claims, citing the Sumerian<\/a> epic Enuma Elish,<\/a>which probably formed the basis for the biblical and other creation stories.<\/a> Put simply, Noah fled Atlantis with his family. In the scriptures, Joseph sees confirmations of his theory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAccording to Joseph, many Troyans<\/a>have “clearly Atlantic names”, and the epic Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna<\/a> portrays Kleite<\/a> as a Trojan mother who lived “near Lake Gyrgic”. According to Joseph, this is an indication of the second catastrophe. Note that according to Plato, the first kings of Atlantis were born to a woman named “Kleito<\/a>“.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAtlanteans are also said to have passed through the Sahara.<\/a> The ancestors of the Berbers<\/a> were referred to in classical times as “Atlantes, Atlantoi or Atarantes”. In this context, Joseph recalls Borchard’s<\/a> “Schott-el-Jerid” thesis,<\/a>but sees here rather a location of lost culture, not like Borchardt Atlantis itself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJoseph associates the immigration flows of the” T\u00faatha D\u00e9 Danaan<\/a> to Ireland with the flight from the lost Atlantis \u2013 others see an immigration of the ten supposedly lost tribes<\/a> of Israel \u2013 make sure that in “Danaan” is the name of one of the Israelite tribes, Dan<\/a>. Joseph, however, sees further evidence for his thesis: in some Irish epics there is talk of games and horse races that “were held on a plain in a distant island \u2013 this statement is also strongly reminiscent of Atlantis.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn America, too, Joseph sees evidence of migrants from the sun’s set Atlantis, for example, the Iroquois<\/a> know “a country in the Far East, on the borders of the great water where the sun rises,” where a white man drowned the world except for a single survivor. The legend is also reminiscent in detail of the biblical flood story.<\/a> Similar traditions can also be found, for example, in the Apaches.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJoseph also sees an Atlantic influence in Mexico, where civilizational influences can be found at the same time as in the Nile Delta.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n“The most convincing Mayan<\/a> artifact in relation to Atlanteans in Mesoamerica,” Joseph sees in a relief-like image depicting a “formally dressed man,” whom he considers a royal personality for the very reason, “rowing away in a boat from an island with an erupting volcano.” In the background you would obviously see drowning people. As a further indication, Joseph cites the fact that the Maya had flutes reminiscent of the panpipes<\/a> in Asia Minor.<\/a> Were they imported from Atlantis in these two different directions?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJoseph sees the Atlanteans as a group of Stone Age<\/a> peasants who loosely united into tribes and then matured into a Bronze Age kingdom, became a naval power, and whose land eventually perished. Atlantis was therefore nothing particularly spectacular \u2013 if<\/em> one believes the period of the fall of Atlantis offered by Joseph in historical times …<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Book Review: Frank Joseph: The Survivors of Atlantis Fig. 1 Frank Joseph:The Survivors of AtlantisHowthe Downfall of a Civilization Changedthe World AMRA-Verlag, Hanau, 2021 ISBN: 978-3-939373-17-9Price: 24.99Geb., 381 pages, 42 b\/w pictures, register How the fall of a civilization changed the world According to Plato, the legendary Atlantis sank 9000 years before its time beyond the Pillars of Heracles (generally equated with […]<\/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-52832","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\/52832","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=52832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52835,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions\/52835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Datei:57700_0.png\"){kind=link}