The "Lost city" of Atlantis was an ancient mythical island, whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first references to Atlantis are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said it was engulfed by the ocean as the result of an earthquake 9,000 years before his own time. Plato claimed it was somewhere outside the Pillars of Hercules, now known as the Strait of Gibraltar. While there are many theories about Atlantis, nearly all serious research shows that Atlantis never existed as Plato described it, although elements of ...

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• Atlantis - Other Greek accounts
• Atlantis - Modern interest
• Atlantis - Nineteenth century
• Atlantis - Nationalism and Socialism in abuse of Atlantis
• Atlantis - Recent times
• Atlantis - Location hypotheses
• Atlantis - The Mediterranean
• Atlantis - Outside the Mediterranean
• Atlantis - Atlantis in Fiction
• Atlantis - Source Writings

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Atlantis

A technologically advanced society that was supposedly destroyed thousands of years ago

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Atlantis: A legendary island/continent said to have sunk beneath the ocean. It was located straddling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and was broken up as a result of continental drift or a major natural disaster. It is supposed to have had a highly advanced civilization.

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Atlantis - Plato. Plato's accounts of Atlantis are in his works Timaeus and Critias; these are the earliest known references to the mythological civilization of the Atlanteans. In his story, Critias (360 BC) describes the origins and form of Atlantis to Socrates and his guests. The dialog of Timaeus is a continuation of Critias's tale, and delivers a concise history of ancient civilizations and mentions Atlantis and its ...

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Atlantis, Atlantis - Origin, Atlantis - Plato, Atlantis - Aristotle, Atlantis - Other Greek accounts, Atlantis - Modern interest, Atlantis - Nineteenth century, Atlantis - Nationalism and Socialism in abuse of Atlantis, Atlantis - Recent times, Atlantis - Location hypotheses, Atlantis - The Mediterranean, Atlantis - Outside the Mediterranean, Atlantis - Atlantis in Fiction, Atlantis - Source Writings

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As a popular myth, Atlantis is frequently featured in many books, television shows, movies and other creative works. Below is a partial listing of works where Atlantis is featured as a major part of the storyline. Other related archivesAtlantis, books, movies, television shows

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Ancomah (Antzomakh, Antzimah) is a mythological place which was first mentioned by Hasan Umur in the 1940s, approximately fifty meters inland near Trabzon, Turkey. It is a place on the lower slopes of a mountain. According to the story Ancomah had been a very rich city before the Bosporus appeared. With the existence of the Bosporus the relationship between the city and the sea disappeared and the city was destroyed. According to the people (Their language Of dialect of Pontic Greek. It’s a Mediaval dialect still spoken by Muslims i ...

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Atlantis was one of the largest German brothels, located in an industrial area of Altenstadt, some 30 km north-east of Frankfurt am Main. It was opened in the fall of 2000 and was closed by authorities in March 2004 because of charges of large-scale tax evasion, pimping and trafficking in women. It was reopened in October 2004, but closed again a few days later; as of 2005, the legal proceedings are ongoing. The brothel is a converted spa, with indoor and outdoor pools, jacuzzi, three saunas, professional massage parlors, and a ...

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Agartha (sometimes Agartta or other phonetic spelling) is a legendary city that resides in Earth's core. Its mention accompanies a Hollow Earth theory. It is a popular subject in discussing Esotericism. Works inspired by or named for Agharta include: Agharta, a manga Agharta: The Hollow Earth, a computer game. A Miles Davis album The Diabolical Tales film series (2005) features evil villains who rise from the ancient underground civilization of Agartha. This mythical city ...

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Critias, a dialogue of Plato's, speaks about a variety of subjects. In it, Plato mentions that 9,000 years previously, the Athenians, due to their ordered society had been successful in defeating the mighty empire of Atlantis. Atlantis was a large continent sized body of land "larger than Asia and Africa combined" which was located near the Straits of Gibraltar. Only part of the dialogue i ...

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• Critias dialogue - Ancient Athens and Atlantis

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The Ancients (or Alterans, as they originally called themselves) are a fictional race in the Stargate universe. Ancient Stargate - Overview. The Ancients were a member of the Alliance of Four Great Races, alongside the Asgard, the Nox and the Furlings. In addition to the Stargates, the Ancients left behind several repositories of Ancient knowledge, Dakara (which the Ancients used to cleanse the Milky Way of the invading virus), several military outposts similar to that found in Antarct ...

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• Ancient Stargate - Overview
• Ancient Stargate - Creators of the Stargates
• Ancient Stargate - Move to the Pegasus Galaxy
• Ancient Stargate - Aftermath
• Ancient Stargate - Ancients on Earth
• Ancient Stargate - Legend of Atlantis
• Ancient Stargate - Ascension
• Ancient Stargate - Known Ancients
• Ancient Stargate - The Ancients and the Ori

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Aztlán ([asˈ.tlan], from Nahuatl Aztlan [ˈas.tɬaːn]) is the legendary ancestral home of the Aztec/Mexica. It is represented as a volcano in a lake, located in what is now the north of Mexico (including the territory from Texas to California annexed by the United States after the Mexican-American War), onto which the first Mexica emerged at the beginning of the fourth world. The word Aztec, rarely used by the M ...

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Santorini (Greek Σαντορίνη) is a small, circular group of volcanic islands located in the Aegean Sea, about 200 km south-east from the mainland of Greece (latitude: 36.40°N - longitude: 25.40°E). It is also known by the name of the largest island in the archipelago, Thira or Thera (Θήρα; see also List of traditional Greek place names). It is the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately 73 km² (28 sq mi), and in 2001 had an estimated population of 13,600. The inh ...

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• Santorini - Minoan Akrotiri
• Santorini - Ancient volcanic eruption
• Santorini - Physical effects of the eruption
• Santorini - Dating the volcanic eruption
• Santorini - Size of the eruption
• Santorini - Chinese records
• Santorini - Egyptian records
• Santorini - Association with Atlantis
• Santorini - Greek Byzantine and Ottoman Santorini
• Santorini - Modern Santorini

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In the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, the Wraith are a hive-based parasitic species that drove the Ancients out of the Pegasus Galaxy around 8000 BC. Ever since, they have been the dominant race of the Pegasus galaxy, and are the primary antagonists of the series, similar to the Goa'uld of the Stargate SG-1 series. Wraith Stargate - Overview. The Wraith are an enemy of all humanity, as humans are their only known current food source. (Prior to the Ancients' ...

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• Wraith Stargate - Communication and telepathy
• Wraith Stargate - The force of death
• Wraith Stargate - Society
• Wraith Stargate - Feeding Cycle
• Wraith Stargate - Technology
• Wraith Stargate - Wraith tactics
• Wraith Stargate - The Atlantis Expedition Team
• Wraith Stargate - Individually known Wraith

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The Aurora is an Ancient warship in the fictional Stargate: Atlantis universe. Originally on a reconnaisance mission, it was badly damaged in a fight (presumably with the Wraith) forcing its crew to enter the stasis pods and await rescue from Atlantis. However they are believed dead by the Ancients and thus abandoned, leaving the crew to slumber, slowly ageing over ten thousand years. After the installation of a ZPM in Atlantis by Rodney McKay, power is transferred back to Atlantis' long range sensors initi ...

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ATLANTIS - sunken continent of myth and legend, generally located in the Atlantic Ocean, believed to have self-destructed through misuse of high technology ca - 10,000, 12,000; originally based on Plato's account in the Timeas and Crito, - contemporary accounts are based on psychic sources and visitors, as the search for material evidence continues (NAD)

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Atlantis (Ancient Greek) The continent that was submerged in the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans according to the secret teachings and Plato.

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Atlantis

A legendary island/continent said to have sunk beneath the ocean. It was located straddling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and was broken up as a result of continental drift. The greater part of Atlantis is located south and east of Florida and was submerged into the ocean in four stages: 800 000, 200 000, 75 025 and 9564 BC. It is purported to have been a highly advanced civilization.

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ATLANTIS

Plato's legendary continent "West of the Pillars of Hercules" which achieved great technological heights of civilization and then sank beneath the sea. Whether or not we choose to lend credence to its historical reality is less important than what it symbolizes - the incessant rise and fall of civilizations in the past, as "scientifically advanced" as our own. Indeed, many of these are said to have been further advanced than our own by several leagues. Thus, Atlantis warns us to avoid unnecessary futility.

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Atlantis In Theosophical literature the fourth great land-massif or continental system which composed the land area of this globe several million years ago, and which was the home of the fourth root-race. Atlantis was not the name of this land area when inhabited by its own populations, but is borrowed by theosophists from Plato.

A surprising number of very ancient traditions besides those of Greece support the Atlantean hypothesis. Some of the widespread deluge stories, certainly those surviving during the Classic period in the nations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, relate only to Plato's relatively small island, Poseidonis, more or less the size of modern Ireland, if we follow Plato's statements of size; but in addition to these there have been many deluges noticed in the traditions of other peoples scattered over the face of the globe.

The chief great flood referred to the principal collapse of Atlantis, the main sinking occurring during the Miocene period several million years ago. Other island-continents sank later, e.g., Daitya and Ruta (Sanskrit name for one of the last great islands of the Atlantean system in the Pacific Ocean) which went down during the Pliocene times -- in Geikie's Nomenclature, about 850,000 years ago. (SD 2:314).

"The Atlantic portion of Lemuria was the geological basis of what is generally known as Atlantis. The latter, indeed, must be regarded rather as a development of the Atlantic prolongation of Lemuria, than as an entirely new mass of land upheaved to meet the special requirements of the fourth root-race. Just as in the case of Race-evolution, so in that of the shifting and re-shifting of continental masses, no hard and fast line can be drawn where a new order ends and another begins. Continuity in natural processes is never broken" (SD 2:333).

Referring to the vast expanse of lands, including both continents and islands, occupied by the populations of the fourth root-race, Blavatsky wrote: "at a remote epoch a traveller could traverse what is now the Atlantic Ocean, almost the entire distance by land, crossing in boats from one island to another, where narrow straits then existed" (IU 1:558).

 While the term Atlantis derived from Greek sources undoubtedly gave its name to what we now call the Atlantic Ocean, yet the Atlantic continental system reached even into what is now called the pacific; and the islanders of this body of water almost universally amongst themselves have legends all pointing to the fact that their ancestors lived on and came from "great islands" which preceded the present distribution of land and sea.

See also ALTANTEANS; ROOT-RACE, FOURTH

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See Stargate for a more general summary of the universe this series is set in, and Stargate SG-1 for how events have transpired to get the plot to Atlantis. In Stargate SG-1 seventh season finale "Lost City", the SG-1 found an outpost made by the race known as the Ancients in Antarctica. After the events of Stargate SG-1 eight season opener "New Order", an international team is sent to investigate the outpost. Soon, Dr. Jackson discovers the location of the gre ...

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Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Atlantis - Summary, Stargate Atlantis - Races, Stargate Atlantis - Human civilizations, Stargate Atlantis - Non-human races, Stargate Atlantis - Planets, Stargate Atlantis - The City, Stargate Atlantis - Technology, Stargate Atlantis - Cast, Stargate Atlantis - Episodes, Stargate Atlantis - DVD Release Dates, Stargate Atlantis - Broadcasters, Stargate Atlantis - Books, Stargate Atlantis - Short Fiction, Stargate Atlantis - Trivia

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