Day 1166 – Atlantis? Our Fate? Our Destiny.
Sunday March 29, 2020
217 Days until the election on November 3rd
297 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
People are still looking for Atlantis, while the explanation is right there in front of them, but there’s something in some people’s nature to not understand or accept the obvious. Instead they stare openmouthed in disbelief. Then they move along in their fantasy world.
Let me explain. I’ve done this before in other guises and ways so I apologize if you’ve heard it before (eyeball roll please, turn the head, a little more “I’m so bored”, good good, well done.) Where was I? Oh yes, Atlantis.
As far as I know, all this stuff about Atlantis was started by Herodotus. It boils down to two sentences. One said that these folks lived beyond the Straits of Gibraltar, out in the Atlantic ocean, and that therefore he named them Atlanteans (or Atlantans), and the second thing was that their city was 300 miles across. Why did he say this and cause all this foolishness?
Before I explain know one other little tiny fact. From Greece to someplace in the Atlantic Ocean is 3,000 miles. This and the 300 mile wide capital city will become important (and it will be left to you – the student at lab time – to deduce what might have happened to Atlantis. Verily, I say unto you “Did.” “Did happen to Atlantis.” Hey, stop kicking my soap box.)
Herodotus never went to Atlantis. Hell, he never went to Egypt. He did interview people who had been places. In fact, he interviewed a guy who had been to Egypt, and herein is where the story of Atlantis was born.
Question for the student – If you travel from Egypt by boat and go directly to Greece what is in the way? Or to put it another way, what might you pass by?
Ah, very good Grasshopper, you would pass by, or run into Crete, and the Greek Isles. Interesting.
Now there is one other little fact you need to know. The ancient measure in Greece and in Egypt were different but sounded about the same when spoken. Like site and sight, or pi and pie, better yet puck and … never mind.
The other thing to know is that between the two similarily sounding units of measure the difference in length was a factor of ten. So if one person was saying “cubit” and the other was saying “quebyte” and one was one mile long and the other was ten miles long then there would be a problem.
Now think about if Herodotus misunderstood the man coming from Egypt and was off by a factor of ten. Now this place, he named Atlantis, would only be 300 miles away, and it’s city only 30 miles wide. Not the three thousand and the three hundred as he thought.
Hum. Let’s get out a map and see if there’s anything within 300 miles of Greece that might have had a city 30 miles across. What did you find? No that’s north and was not there when Herodotus was alive (dumb shit.) I’m sorry, what? I should have added “And was between Greece and Egypt?”
What? Crete, you say? Good job.
And looked there, they had a capital city called Heraklion that is about thirty miles across. “Wait, you don’t think Crete could have been what Herodotus was talking about do you? I mean if he misheard the unit of measure then it fits perfectly doesn’t it?” Yeah, I think that is exactly what Herodotus was talking about.
There was a volcano, called Santorini, that blew up in the 16th century B.C. That sparked a massive tidal wave. Actually, a series of tidal waves. Waves tend to come in sets of seven. Santorini is 125 miles from Crete. The tidal wave that the explosion of the volcano created is estimated to have been seventy meters high. That’s 230 feet. The largest monster waves in the world are typically around 100 feet.
Imagine what you would do if you saw a 230 foot wave coming at you? I’ll tell you what you would do. You would turn like the people in the monster movies or the natural disaster movies. You would stare in wonder, not comprehending what you were seeing, or what to do. You would be a deer in the headlights.
Then bam. It would hit you and you’d be dead, and then swept out to sea. Good bye Crete. So long. But she lives again, in Herodotus’ History.
(And just in case the first wave didn’t get you remember there are six more of similar size coming, and that’s just the first set.)
Is that what we are facing with this pandemic? Is this our tidal wave?
217 Days until the election on November 3rd
297 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
PS Homo Sapien!
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