Otto Muck THE SECRET OF ATLANTIS Original title: "Über Alles Atlantis" © 1976 by GhbH Econ Verlag, Dusseldorf - Vienna Translated into English using Google Translate CONTENTS Preface .............................................. 7 Introduction ........................................... 17 Plato tells the Atlantis .......................... 22 Legend or Reality ................................ 33 Life Beyond the Ocean ............................. 40 Existence before the creation ?.................. 43 The Search of Atlantis, in recent times ... 44 Geology Mitica? ............................................. 49 A civilization, Florescente over twelve millennia? ......... 52 A light coming to the West? .................. 57 Reality, Yes - Legend, No! ..................... 61 In the Gulf and Isotermas ............... 65 In the Gulf and the Quaternary Period .. 71 Echo Atlantic .............................. 80 The Enigma of Eels .................................. 88 Atlas - Atlantis ........................... 94 The Country and the Climate .............................. 101 People Atlântida ........................ 109 Atlantis, Great Power ..................... 114 The disaster of Atlantis and its Geological Evidence ......... 121 The outbreak of the disaster ...................... 150 The Meteor's Carolina ............................. 156 The Fall of the planetoid ......................... 163 The Tremendo tuck .............. 169 The explosive charge of Cosmo .................. 174 "During a single day and one night unchancy ill" ...... 178 The Effects of Post Disaster of Atlantis. Products of Volcanic Projection ........ 183 The Mar de Lodo ................. 187 The deluge of rain .......... 190 Greater mortality of mammoth ......... 200 The Limo Argilo-Arenas and Carbon Dioxide ..... 212 Two millennia of Darkness ..... 216 Day Zero - The Mayan Calendar ............. 226 Abstract 239 Postscript Publisher - The "Sleeping Prophet" Epilogue .................. 243 Additional .............. 245 Bibliography on Atlântida ................. 249 Sources of Illustrations of Surf equipment ......... 251 Chronological and genealogical tables ....... 252 FOREWORD Atlantis - The Enigma Dreams Found Experiences Questions assumptions Thus, I saw that scene: several amphorae embedded, side by side, held against the wall of the boat. Were still wet, had been ill from the sea. Two of amphorae appeared intact - after a few millennia! - Were still closed, sealed. I thought that contain olive oil or wine, which should already be much spoiled. The diver in his black clothes, rubber, raised the body and showed something even more precious: the head of a young Greek, in bronze, covered by green skating. The orbits of the eyes were not empty, the white of the eye was the mother of pearl, inlaid, and rainbow, brown, clipped from a shell, and glossy black, the pupil, was obsidian, volcanic glass. Beside the head was a piece mechanical, mashed and yet fully anyway, also covered with green skate, a wheel similar to a large clock. I remember the feeling I tried to include those objects, I felt admiration for the head and precious joy to identify the mechanical part, functional. However, also experienced a bit of irritation, because obviously I came late, missed the timing of the withdrawal of these objects of ocean bottom. Besides, I have my external regret this, because then the diver turned to me. With a significant gesture, he opened his hand and showed me a small gold bar, make no word, but to make me realize that, for him, all the rest was of little importance, without comparable value. Instead of the stamp, specifying the weight and fineness of gold bar, symbols discern it seemed weird that I know. One way or another, one small bar of gold made me remember a ceremony of launching cornerstone, when usually buried some coins and a newspaper of the day. What tremendous chance, out of range! This way, - so I thought - once the chofre, we were able to penetrate the very heart of the real city of Basel, in treasure, saved the Temple of Poseidon. I tried to fix the time and date of the event and with the movement I made to look ^ my watch, I have agreed. Were little more than 5h, and I was to get up at 5 and a half. The day before, on April 17, 1972, colleagues and I landed the vessel, the Isle of You; ship our luggage and our equipment to Fira, where dealing rooms, previously reserved in the hotel "Atlantis." The window see the Caldera, the bay of blue waters, once the main Santorim crater on the volcano whose center designed a new cone, the island Nea Kameni. Year after year, there transhipped the magma fluid and fiery, as reminiscent of times remotíssimos the volcano made the earth tremble, arguing that awful rash that, according to a theory much discussed, would have caused the disappearance of Atlantis. As for the dream which woke up, their inspirations details were not "extra-sensory" but the memory alive of impressions taken, a short time ago in Athens and previously elsewhere. The amphorae on board were related to Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who met in 1953 in Munich, there when he presented his book and film "SILENCERS THE WORLD." We talked about the "aqualung", lung water he invented, which is to be brought back and to allow full freedom of movement and action during the dive, we talk about the depths of delirium, the possibility of treasure-hunters and archeology underwater. To complete the radio interview, I asked if the Cousteau could never have thought to seek traces of Atlantis. He replied, in very diplomatic way, already thought about this, but stressed that involve delicate issue that, once we leave in the center of disputes waged between scientists and technicians. However, it seems, Cousteau has not lost sight of the problem of Atlantis. Now even as I write this preface, get on my desk a note from German television, saying, "Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the underwater research of 65 years, will address the ATLANTIC project. The Aegean Sea, mainly in the region of Santorim, his team of 30 divers will search for the remains of the legendary Atlantis and explore the theories of Atlantis, raised by Jürgen Spanuth (Heligoland), admitted as a supposed "places of finding" the Azores Islands, Bimini (Florida), Lanzarote (Islas Islands) and the Atlas mountains in Morocco. " As for the other parts recovered and exposed in the boat with which I dreamed, I was able to see them, just before, at the National Museum in Athens. The couple, from embedded eyes, was recovered by divers, the cata of sponges, the wreck of a wreck, found a 60m deep, facing the Greek island of Anticitera. There was also found that gear, the "machine Anticitera" which, on the occasion of my visit, was not exposed to public visitation, but at my request, was brought to a depot for a small room, where I had occasion to see it. Until now, it was also found another piece, this is a kind of clock mechanism, the pine nuts are clearly identifiable, in the master wheel-there are 240 teeth, worked with high accuracy. It might be an instrument to record the route and speed of the ship. An entry located the source of the machine in the century that preceded the birth of Christ. This is further evidence of the fact remains imperfect as our knowledge concerning the antiquity. Until now, little or nothing was known of a civilization capable of producing mechanisms of this species. Even where this technique, really, back in time? Which had its origin and was developed, originally? As the symbols in the small bar of gold, seen in my dream, made me remember the famous disk of Festo, a disc of clay of 16 cm in diameter, displayed in the museum of Heracles, on the island of Crete in armored glass window. The symbols on the disc are not recorded a burin but stamped. The production of such stamps in anticipation of the invention of printing characters, from Gutenberg, the purpose is to edit the text, in series. This is a visual writing, not yet deciphered. So far not found another similar piece. Could have been a schedule for the crews of ships in use among the maritime nations, a sort of book of illustrations and reading for sailors, is that a reasonably plausible proposal for the solution to the puzzle. Other scholars saw that piece natural rhythmic articulation of the text of a poem in two stanzas of ten verses each, perhaps the magical-religious plot. Also, could be related to the Atlantis, as the symbol stamped what attracts attention is the head of a man, covered with a feathered hat, this is the "crown of rays." Jürgen Spanuth, the pastor of combatant Bordelum in North Frisia, located in Atlantis near Helgoland and posits the "great migration" of the peoples of the North, under macaréus catastrophic, at which have reached the borders of Egypt. Spanuth refers to frescoes of Medinet Habu, the temple of the palace of Ramses III (1200-1168 BC), in front of Luxor. Those frescoes show the pharaoh in battle with the warriors of maritime nations, bearing those same "wreaths of lightning", highly decorative. Also, the rowers, whose image appears on a knife, to the Bronze Age, found in Bremen, Federal Germany, bearing in your head the same ornament, which also appears in Scandinavian offices. Spanuth considers this fact as important evidence. So strange, the play found in Bremen shows an entire ship, mounted with the "ray", giving the impression of a fire Santelmo stylized. It was in 1969 that J.V. Luce, professor in Dublin, raised the possibility of Atlantis has been located in the Aegean. His book "ATLANTIS - Legend and Reality" was prefaced by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, one of the great names of Archeology, who wrote: "In 1909, a young scientist from Belfast outside the bright idea, saying that the country of the Atlantic, and wrapped into mysterious legends, it is reminiscent of a great kingdom, superb, from Minos, on the Island of Crete, whose splendor was then to be known for our modern world, thanks to the work of Sir Arthur Evans and other pioneers.