{"id":58184,"date":"2023-03-26T10:12:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T09:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=58184"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:06:33","slug":"ellefsen-johan-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ellefsen-johan-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellefsen, Johan S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Chauvet Cave<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Johan S.<\/strong> E<\/strong>llefsen <\/strong>is Bolivian by birth and now lives in the United States, where he works as an aviation attorney.<\/p>\n

His first book, The Sacred Landscape<\/em>, deals with the subject of prehistoric art with a focus on the paintings in the Chauvet Cave.<\/p>\n

Ellefsen’s earliest contribution to the Atlantis debate, was a paper titled La <\/em>Atl\u00e1ntida, in Spanish(a}{b)<\/sup>. In it, he suggests that “it is very probable that the myth collected information about islands in the Atlantic and combined them into one, which Plato called Atlantis. This compilation was made, on the one hand, from Greek mythology regarding the Hesperides and Cassiterides islands, and on the other, an important collection of the Memories that lasted from Minoan Voyages to these islands,\u00a0 from which Crete was supplied with tin.”<\/em> He seems to identify a range of influences in Plato’s story ranging from Britain and Ireland to Minoan Crete and Troy.<\/p>\n

In Ellefsen’s second book Solon’s Atlantis<\/em>\u00a0[1968<\/a>]<\/sup> he takes a very different approach, offering an array \u00a0<\/sup>of evidence to “show the provenance of the Atlantis story. Plato did not fabricate it.” <\/em>The core of his argument concerns “a three-thousand-year-old Egyptian papyrus recounting a story brought from Syria during the reign of Amenhotep II, as well as well as some obscure Greek traditions preserved in the midst of the Arcadian mountains.”\u00a0<\/em>Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> has published a review of Ellefsen’s second book that includes qualified support for its research and presentation although he disagrees with the author’s overall thesis(c)<\/sup>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2025, Heinz-G\u00fcnther Nesselrath<\/a> published a more critical review of Ellefsen’s book – “If there is one thing that Ellefsen is to be credited for, it is his tenacity: no one else (at least in more recent times) has put so much effort into finding an Egyptian source for the Atlantis story.”<\/em> (d)<\/sup><\/p>\n

Others have suggested a source for the Atlantis story beyond Egypt such as Peter James<\/a>, who, some years ago in The Sunken Kingdom<\/em> [047<\/a>.280] <\/sup>expressed certainty that “Solon got the story not from Egypt but from <\/em>Lydia<\/em><\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.estudiosclasicosbolivia.org\/IMG\/pdf\/6_ellefsen-la_atlantida.pdf<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> Archive 7380 | (atlantipedia.ie)<\/a>\u00a0(machine translation to English of (a)<\/sup><\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup>Review of: Johan S. Ellefsen and Ugarit-Atlantis – Atlantis-Scout<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/839072653\/Solons-Atlantis-A-critical-examination-o<\/a><\/p>\n

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