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August F.R. Kn\u00f6tel: Atlantis und das Volk der Atlanten (1893)<\/h1>\n
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by\u00a0Alexander Bessmertny<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fig. 1<\/b>\u00a0The front cover of\u00a0A.F.R. Kn\u00f6tel’s<\/i>\u00a0book “Atlantis and the People of atlases” from 1893<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In 1893, Kn\u00f6tel had his<\/a>\u00a0say in\u00a0Germany<\/a>\u00a0[1]<\/a><\/sup>, who wanted to prove with extensive, especially mythical comparative material that\u00a0Atlantis<\/a>\u00a0in Northwest Africa, but the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>\u00a0themselves were not an actual tribe. The\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>\u00a0were priests who in the second line on the\u00a0Th\u00f4t-Hermes<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Egyptians, but in the first place and originally can be traced back to a center from which all learned priesthoods, the magicians, the\u00a0Brahmins<\/a>, the\u00a0druids<\/a>\u00a0originated and who had the faith in God and the wisdom of the\u00a0Chaldean forefathers<\/a>\u00a0of Noah Enoch as their starting point.<\/p>\n

Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0believed to be able to show that Greece was also a priestly state of the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>, that they had a\u00a0headquarters there on the Kyl(l)enenberg<\/a>\u00a0and other seats, that they ruled the\u00a0Pelasgerland<\/a>\u00a0by the law of\u00a0Hermes<\/a>, that they were the little prominent master craftsmen of the Poseidon service and the then high standing seafaring, that there were well-known heroic families who derived themselves from them, ==References====External links==*\u00a0Official\u00a0website At the time when, according to the biblical tradition, the religious war between the followers of\u00a0Uranus<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Chronos<\/a>\u00a0prevailed in the Babylonian lowlands, which is around the time of the\u00a0Babylonian tower construction<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0language confusion<\/a>, according to our calendar about 2100 – 1500 BC, the priests of\u00a0Uranus<\/a>, who were inferior in the religious war, migrated from\u00a0Babylonia<\/a>\u00a0in order to remain faithful to their faith. These were the actual\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>\u00a0who worshipped\u00a0Atlas<\/a>, a son of\u00a0Uranus<\/a>, as a founder of religion.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>, their extensive astronomical, scientific and technical knowledge was based on a Chaldean basis and the Chaldean original patriarch\u00a0Enoch<\/a>\u00a0has merged with\u00a0Atlas<\/a>\u00a0into one person. The name of the\u00a0Phut<\/a>\u00a0tribe, which emigrated to\u00a0Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0in today’s\u00a0Morocco<\/a>, which descends from a son of Noah’s sprout\u00a0Cham<\/a>, is just another name for the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>. Their path, which led them from\u00a0Syria<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Spain<\/a>, they interrupted by the founding of the city of\u00a0Tarschesch-Tartessos<\/a>, in which\u00a0Schulten<\/a>,\u00a0Hennig<\/a>\u00a0and others […] want to recognize the actual\u00a0Atlantis<\/a>\u00a0itself.\u00a0The main stream of the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>, however, continued to migrate or had already branched off before to come to\u00a0Libya, where the actual Poseidonic Atlantis city was founded.<\/p>\n

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Fig. 2<\/b>\u00a0Imaginative depiction of Ninus, the mythical founder and namesake of the city of Nineveh in Assyria – an Atlantean ‘Heracles’?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0assumes that\u00a0Crete<\/a>\u00a0was a large sea fortress and an Assyrian military colony created with sense and intention to dominate the sea. The commander of this fleet was a “Heracles”, the standing name of an office and dignity that many people have worn. The occupation\u00a0of Crete<\/a>\u00a0moves Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0to the time around 1900 BC. Since “Chronus” was the Greek name for\u00a0Ninus<\/a>\u00a0(Fig. 2)<\/b>\u00a0and the\u00a0Assyrian Empire<\/a>\u00a0donated by him, according to\u00a0Kn\u00f6tel,<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Assyrians<\/a>\u00a0carried their world dominion over the\u00a0Mediterranean\u00a0from\u00a0Crete<\/a>\u00a0through a “Heracles” and also incorporated\u00a0Tartessos<\/a>\u00a0into their empire.<\/p>\n

When around 1300 BC a migration\u00a0of Scythian<\/a>, blond, blue-eyed and tall, i.e. apparently Aryan tribes shook the Assyrian empire and\u00a0Nineveh<\/a>\u00a0was conquered, the goddess of war of the\u00a0Scythian<\/a>\u00a0Amazons<\/a>\u00a0also came from the\u00a0Black Sea\u00a0to Greece under the name “Nitokres”, i.e. “victorious\u00a0Athena<\/a>“. With\u00a0Athena<\/a>, the Sacian horse god\u00a0Poseidon<\/a>\u00a0had also reached the West, where he “first became\u00a0Assyrian<\/a>, then\u00a0Libyan\u00a0and finally\u00a0Hellene<\/a><\/i>“. Here he became in the school of the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>, originally a god of war of men – like\u00a0Pallas Athena<\/a>\u00a0was the goddess of war of women – the god of seafaring.<\/p>\n

Allegedly, the Egyptians named the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>\u00a0“Tahennu<\/a>” and hieroglyphically designated them with four interlocking world pillars.\u00a0This hieroglyphic sign is called “tat” and means: standstill, eternity, firmness, rest. At the same time, however, the\u00a0Egyptians\u00a0also used the name “tat” in their language of the\u00a0atlas<\/a>, of which\u00a0Clement of Alexandria<\/a>\u00a0says: “Atlas<\/a>\u00a0is a pole without suffering, it can also be the immovable sphere, perhaps it is best understood as immovable eternity.<\/i>”<\/p>\n

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Fig. 3<\/b>\u00a0Here is a – according to August Kn\u00f6tel – “place of worship of atlases, which can be regarded as a model<\/i>“, south of Tripoli, Libya, on the “Charitenh\u00f6he” (Djebel Gurian)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0believes\u00a0he can explain etymologically<\/a>\u00a0that the word “A-Tlas” means “the idle”, i.e. the pole around which the earth revolves. Since the\u00a0North Star<\/a>\u00a0is immovably fixed on the sky vault, it became a symbol of immovability for the\u00a0Egyptians. They called it “Tahen”, a word that comes from “tahe-tahu” and means something like “determine” or “inhibit”, so that the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>\u00a0are probably called “Tahennu<\/a>” because they worshipped the star “Tahen”, under which the Earth’s axis rotates.<\/p>\n

Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0refers to the accounts left by\u00a0Herodotus<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Diodorus<\/a>\u00a0about the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>\u00a0and wants to conclude from them that they possessed a particularly high culture that had hardly lagged behind the cultures of\u00a0Egypt,\u00a0Assyria<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Babylon<\/a>.\u00a0Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0also considers the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>\u00a0to be the authors of the stone buildings named under the names\u00a0dolmens<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0menhirs<\/a>, which we find in\u00a0North Africa\u00a0as well as in\u00a0France<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0England<\/a>\u00a0and which have recently been traced back to the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>, especially by\u00a0Herman Wirth<\/a>, only that today the authors of these\u00a0dolmens<\/a>\u00a0are considered a northern\u00a0Indo-Germanic<\/a>\u00a0People hold. Now\u00a0Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0comes to consider the Celtic\u00a0druids<\/a>\u00a0as offshoots of the\u00a0Atlanteans<\/a>, who themselves are again the\u00a0mediators between the Chaldean<\/a>\u00a0wisdom of the Orient and the prehistoric science of the West.<\/p>\n

Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0believes that the settlement of Greece did not take place on the way from\u00a0Assyria<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Spain<\/a>, but from\u00a0Libya\u00a0by colonialist means, as\u00a0Atlas<\/a>\u00a0came to Greece according to the Greek legend and established his rule in\u00a0Arcadia<\/a>\u00a0at the castle of\u00a0Lykesura<\/a>. Only when the national consciousness of the Greeks awakened did they create their own deity in\u00a0Apollo<\/a>, the ancient gods were banished to the end of the world, their followers drowned, and in this symbolic process of Greek\u00a0mythology\u00a0Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0wants to find the explanation for the downfall of\u00a0Atlantis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is impossible to follow\u00a0up on Kn\u00f6tel’s remarks<\/a>\u00a0here. He has also remained alone with his hypotheses, without finding followers and one can only in the new teachings established by\u00a0Karst<\/a>\u00a0[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0the influence of Western cultures coming from the East, but quite differently founded and scientifically much more plausible forms of the thought treated by\u00a0Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>\u00a0but more dilettante.<\/p>\n

Notes and sources<\/span><\/h3>\n

This article was taken from\u00a0Alexander Bessmertny’s<\/a>\u00a0book “Das Atlantisr\u00e4tsel – Geschichte und Erkl\u00e4rung der Atlantishypothesen” (pp. 44-47), which was published in 1932 by R. Voigtl\u00e4nder’s Verlag (Leipzig). It will be published\u00a0by Atlantisforschung.de<\/i>\u00a0in August 2017 – insignificantly shortened and retitled – in an editorially edited version.<\/p>\n

Footnotes:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Hochspringen<\/span>?<\/a><\/span>\u00a0See:\u00a0A.F.R. Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>, “Atlantis und das Volk der Atlanten – ein Beitrag zur 400j\u00e4hrigen Festfeier der Entdeckung Amerikas<\/a>“, Leipzig (Fr. Wilh. Grunow), 1893 (online at\u00a0Archive.org<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Hochspringen<\/span>?<\/a><\/span>\u00a0See\u00a0Atlantisforschung.de<\/i>:\u00a0Joseph Karst<\/a>, “The Double Atlantis<\/a>“<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

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    1)\u00a0Archive.org<\/a>\u00a0\/ Image Archive\u00a0Atlantisforschung.de<\/b><\/i><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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    3)\u00a0A.F.R. Kn\u00f6tel<\/a>, op. Cit. (1893), p. 215 (image processing by\u00a0Atlantisforschung.de<\/b><\/i>)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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