–It was said the fresh water flowed from the center island of Atlantis, which also exists in the center circle of the Eye. This conception we meet later in its religious form as the Jonah myth, and it also appears in a cosmological adaptation in the whale myths collected in Oceania by Frobenius. While Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis are epic and mind-blowing, many believe he barely scratched the surface. Impact craters come to mind, but this Richat structure is not an impact crater. For a detailed description of the technologies, please see the Cookie and Automatic Logging Policy. “There were a great number of elephants in the island, and there was provision for animals of every kind, both for those who live in lakes and marshes and rivers, and also for those who live in the mountains and on the plains, and therefore for the animal which is the largest and most voracious of them.”. "Even if it turns out to be geographical, it definitely deserves a closer look.". Frobenius also confirmed the role of the moon cult in african cultures, according to Rank: "Bachofen [Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815-1887)] was the first to point out this connexion in the ancient primitive cultures in his Mutterrecht, but it has since received widespread corroboration from later researchers, in particular Frobenius, who discovered traces of a matriarchal culture in prehistoric Africa (Das unbekannte Afrika, Munich, 1923).". The Greek philosopher claimed that Atlantis was a long-gone empire, which stretched into Europe as far as Italy and into Africa as far as Egypt thousands of years ago. This again is a fatal flaw in Jimmy’s theory. On the other hand, Wole Soyinka, in his 1986 Nobel Lecture, criticized Frobenius for his "schizophrenic" view of Yoruba art versus the people who made it. He is just trying to bring the Truth to the public, while the egg-heads are blind to what’s right in front of their eyes. He described Atlantis as a massive formation of concentric circles, alternating between land and water, similar to how the Eye is seen today. Launched earlier this month, it lets users swim around underwater volcanoes, watch videos about exotic marine life, read about nearby shipwrecks, contribute photos and watch unseen footage of historic ocean expeditions. The video follows a familiar format – gather together lots of circumstantial evidence, exaggerate its significance and specificity, ignore anything that doesn’t fit, ignore all genuine scholarship, and create the impression that you’re onto something. The fact that in these traditions the animals are always those dangerous to man indicates that the animal womb is regarded not only as the scene of a potential rebirth but also as that of a dreaded mortality, and it is this which led to all the cosmic assimilations to the immortal stars.". This is also an example of ignoring details that don’t fit. So really, it was in the wrong place and the wrong time for the Younger Dryas to be significant. Another thing that helps put the jigsaw puzzle together is a theory that the Eye of the Sahara closely matches the description from Plato's dialogues. The perfect rectangle – which is around the size of Wales – was noticed on the search giant's underwater exploration tool by an aeronautical engineer who claims it looks like an "aerial map" of a city. In 1920 he founded the Institute for Cultural Morphology in Munich. A link to reset your password has been sent to you. “Earth is made up of two parts — continents, which are old, and oceans, which are 'young,'" he said. Ignoring fatal problems like this is a classic feature of pseudoscience. Herodotus’s map from 450 BC places Atlantis in the same place as the Eye. No – Atlantis Has Not Been Discovered in North Africa, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe Weekly Science Podcast. It primarily affected the norther latitudes, and North America more intensely. Plato also described a canal that ran through all the walls to the inner structure, connecting the rings. Are you sure you want to delete your Sputniknews.com account? Where is the archaeological evidence of the civilization that built Atlantis? Frobenius was influenced by Richard Andree, and his own teacher Friedrich Ratzel. Also, one of the most important details is the fact that Atlantis is said to have been located 3,100 miles from Athens, including regions in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Named after the mythical Atlantis, this lost civilization was conceived to be the root of African culture and social structure. On this occasion Fritz Graebner read a paper on "Cultural cycles and cultural strata in Oceania", and Bernhard Ankermann lectured on "Cultural cycles and cultural strata in Africa". "It must be man made," he said. Lewis Ashwal of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Ancient Egyptian Mystery Schools and Freemasonry, Gynocentrism & Matriarchal Societies: Past and Present. Due to his studies in African history, Frobenius is a figure of renown in many African countries even today. There are mountains to the north, but this is hardly an amazing match. Visible from space, the Eye of Sahara resembles a massive bullseye, which began to form when the supercontinent Pangaea broke apart. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Frobenius' work gave Rank insight into the double meaning of the king's ritual murder, and the cultural development of soul belief: "Certain African traditions (Frobenius: Erythraa) lead to the assumption that the emphasizing of one or another of the inherent tendencies of the ritual was influenced by the character of the slain king, who in one case may have been feared and in another wanted back again.". You simply cannot have an entire city and leave nothing behind. The study appeared in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Communications. Amidst the battles, the Gods thrust violent tsunamis, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, and floods upon the Empire of Atlantis. In 1932 he became honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt, and in 1935 director of the municipal ethnographic museum. In 1925, the city acquired his collection of about 4700 prehistorical African stone paintings, which are currently at the University's institute of ethnology, which was named the Frobenius Institute in his honour in 1946. A "grid of streets" on the seabed at one of the proposed locations of the lost city of Atlantis has been spotted on Google Ocean.

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