THE LOST ATLANTIS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10591, 7 March 1913, Page 3

THE LOST ATLANTIS.

Dr. Paul Schliemann, the distinguished. grandson of the late Dr. Heinrich x Schliemann, finder of ancient Troy, and one of the world’s greatest archaeologists, has written in the New York American a remarkable narrative of the discovery of the lost Atlantis—the source of all civilisation. Atlantis is the legendary continent mentioned by Plato, who, in one of his “conversations,’ told how the priests of the Atlantis is the legendary continent mentioned by Plato, who, in one of his “conversations,” told how the priests of the Egyptian Temple of Sais related to Solon, the great lawmaker, the story of 'its destruction about 9090 years 8.0. Atlantis, according to this story, was the home of a great civilised race which had conquered and colonised the world. ALL CIVILISATION HAD COME FROM IT. What is known as the Dolphin Ridge, an enormous submarine plateau, stretching between 25 and 50 degrees north latitude [and 50 and 50 degrees west, longitude, is supposed to be its sunken remnants. The Azore Islands are believed to be the top of its lofty mountains—all that now remains above water of the lost continent. If Dr. Paul Schliemann can prove his points, the greatest world mystery will have been untangled, the history of our race must be reconstructed, and many enigmas will be answered finally. According to Dr. Sohliemann’s story, the lost Atlantis is supposed to have been a great island in the Atlantic opposite the Mediterranean ; the remnant of a mighty continent which once reached from the west coast of Africa and Europe to the shores of Central America. The ancient world had a clear tradition of it. , _ It was utterly destroyed m a day and a night by cataclysmic volcanic outbmrsts and sank beneath the sea with all except a few of its millions of inhabitants. It was the region where mankind first rose from barbarism to a civilisation more advanced than that of ours to-day. It became in tlio course of of hundreds of thousands of years a world conquering nation. It colonised Egypt, Central America, the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi Valley, the Pacific coast of South America, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the; Caspian. It was the cradle of civilisation, and the civilisation of the ancient world and our civilisation to-day are direct shoots of the Atlantic culture. : The racial memory of Atlantis is found in the legends of the Garden of Eden of the Bible, the Garden of the Hesper:ides of the Greeks, the Asgard of the Scandinavians the Tir o’Og of the Celts, and in all the legends of a wonderful, mysterious laud in which dwelt.

GODS OE GOD-LIKE MORTALS. The stories of the Deluge, versions of which aro found in the traditions of almost every ancient and modern race, are simply the memory of the stupendous catastrophe which wiped out Atlantis, the tale of which was carried by those who escaped to all the lost land’s colonies—-and these represented all the civilisation of the world at that time. In the same wav the escape of some of the Atlauteans over a narrow laud bridge, which connected Atlantis with what is now Britauny, survives in, the legends of the Rainbow Bridge Perilous with the razor edge which the Scandinavians believed was the only road to Asgard, the dwelling-place of the gods, "in the famous Hell’s Cause-| way of the religious boohs of the Middle Ages, aud in similar legends of the Hindoos, the Mayans, and the I Turanians. The gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, Hindoos and Scandinavians were simply the kings, queens and heroes of Atlantis, and the facts attributed to them in mythology are a confused recollection of real historical events. The religions of Egypt, Pern and of the Mayans, the vanished race that built the buried cities of Central America, and upon the wrecks of whose civilisation the Aztics built their empire, were THE ORIGINAL RELIGION OE ATLANTIS. The oldest colony formed by Atlantis was Egypt, whose civilisation was a provincial production of that of the mother country. The next oldest were those of Peru and Central America. The Phoenician alphabet, parent of all the European alphabets, was derived from an Atlantis alphabet, which was also conveyed from Atlantis to the Mayans. The symbols and hieroglyphics of both I Egypt and Mayans came from the 1 same source, and so it explains their similarity, too great to be accidental. , ...... c Atlantis was the original Site Of

the Indo-European family of nations, as well as the Semitic and possibly the Turanian. The Atlanteans had fall knowledge of electricity, steam and other natural forces. They were prodigious engineers, and the first workers of iron. They used gold and silver and a vanished precious metal known as orichalcum in enormous quantities for ornamentation.