Operation 7 - long time, no see
As some might have noticed, I haven't exactly been busy here, many reasons for that - but I would like to sum it up as quality time living. I've had the chance to spend a lot of time with my family and relations. I've also started snooping around some anime forums here and there (Unruleds Vault and Download Anime).
I finished these notes for posting about two to three months ago, hope they are of interest:
Some of the text is from 1917, so you will most likely find newer archological texts on the subjects, but I found the ideas very "mythos" and Indiana Jones'esque.
ATLANTIS
Doctor Heinrich Schliemann was an archaelogist and had during his lifetime proven Troy to be more than just myth. As he was near the end of his life, he realized he wanted to solve another myth, namely the one posed by Plato about hte lost Atlantis.
He had during his excavations in Greece and Turkey found pieces of the puzzle, but knew that it would not be solved in his lifetime. So he hoped a kinsman would take the quest of unraveling the truth. He set aside money and sealed an envelope with the following instructions:
"This can be opened only by a member of my family who solemnly vows to devote his life to the research outlined therein"
Not long before he died he added this to the instructions:
"Confidential addition to the sealed envelope. Break the owl headed vase. Pay attention to the contens. It concerns Atlantis. Investigate the east of the ruins of the Temple of Sais and the cemetary in Chacuna Valley. Important. It proves the system. Night approaches - Lebewohl."
A grandson of Heinrich, a Doctor Paul Schliemann, took the task upon himself to uncover the truth. Paul let out some of what was stated in the letter to the newspapers in New York and London:
"Whoever opens this must solemnly swear to carry out the work I have left unfinished. I have come to the conclusion that Atlantis was not only a great territory between America and the West Coast of Africa and Europa, but the cradle of all our civilizations as well. There has been much dispute among the scientists on this matter. According to one group, the tradition of Atlantis is purely fictional, founded upon fragmentary accounts of a deluge some thousand years before the Christian Era. Others declare the tradition wholly historical, but not capable of absolute proof...."
Further, Doctor Schliemann Heinrich describes finding fragments of pottery, images and coins of "peculiar metal" and that there was different unkown objects made of fossilized bone during his excavations of Troy. Some had Phonaecian hieroglyphs, and read:
"From King Chronos of Atlantis"
Ten years after his excavations, he gets to examine a collection taken from Tiahuanaco, Central America, before it's exhibited to the public. There he finds fragments of pottery and fossilized bones which was similar to his previous find. In this exhibition he finds the before mentioned owl-headed vase (by crushing it, his grandson will see if the pottery has been put together similarly as the Troy excavated vases).
Another odd thing from the letter is the story of him reading a papyrus stored at a St.Petersburg museum which had references to the "Land of Atlantis". From this the Egyptians claimed their ancestors came from Atlantis about 3350 years ago and that the Sages of Atlantis had flourished during a period of 13900 years. He also refers to an inscription on Myceriae Lion's gate (another excavation) that said that Thoth was the son of a Priest of Atlantis. He landed in Egypt and raised the Temple of Sais, dedicated to the wisdom of Atlantis.
Hope you found it as interesting as I did.
The last thing I took from the book was this little thing:
- In Scottish mythology, the north wind brings evil spirits and the south wind the good spirits.
"Shut the window to the north, and open the window to the south, and do not let the fire go out.",
is the instruction given in a folktale by a man who desires his house to be guarded against the visits of demons -
- Cave Deities & Their Symbols / Pre-Hellenic Europa & Crete
"If need be, I would destroy the destroyer, even if the destroyer was me"
- Wastefull Kael
