(May 10, 2023 at 5:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 9, 2023 at 6:06 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Geologically there is no possibility whatsoever that the literal interpretation of Plato’s description of Atlantis can be true. Plato probably spun a tall tale to help make a point, and the tale may have recalled some faint echo of a memory passed down through the mist of distant past of some sizable populated area being rapidly inundated. There are actually a number of archaeologically attested occasions when such inundation occurred in the Mediterranean and its surrounds.
It seems as barren an exercise to speculate which of these historic inundation events were the one that got blown up to an immeasurably bigger size to become the Atlantis of legend as it is to speculate which actual human got blown up into superstitiously overarching size to become Jesus one with god.
Spot on. The best candidate would be Numenor, which was destroyed after Ar-Pharazon dared to set foot on the Undying Lands. Thereafter, the island was referred to (in Quenya) as Atalantë , meaning 'the downfallen'.
Boru
maybe flat earthers are also just remembering a time before the earth curved away and the undying lands were sundered from the reach of mortal men.
