ATLANTIS & YOUNGER DRYAS
The Azore Islands May Have Been Atlantis
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MELTWATER FLOODING & SEA LEVEL RISE
ATLANTIS
Plato said Atlantis was beyond the Pillars of Hercules, an ancient name for the Strait of Gibraltar. The Azores are there. But the best evidence that the Azores were Atlantis is a submerged pyramid on Castro seamount between the Azore Islands of Sao Miguel and Terceira.
Above is an image of the pyramid from 2013. I first heard Randall Carlson discuss the pyramid probably a year or more ago when he discussed Atlantis.
ATLANTEANS
I just watched another video about the ancient Atlanteans having possibly had more Rh negative blood than other people. Western Europeans have more Rh negative blood than most other people. The Berbers of Morocco and the Basques of northern Spain have the highest concentration of Rh negative blood. Other western Europeans are close behind. In the map above, it’s apparent that Morocco, Spain and Ireland would have been among the closest lands, if people were escaping the sinking of Atlantis.
Red and blond hair and blue eyes are also most common among western Europeans (and their descendants). Berbers also have quite a bit. How did those redheads get into Russia? Probably via the Swedes. Anyway, maybe the Atlanteans also had those features.
ATLANTIS LEGENDS
Several Western European cultures have legends resembling Atlantis—stories of prosperous lands or cities lost beneath the sea, often as a result of human error or moral failings. The following suggests that there were prosperous places in other coastal areas, as well as in the Azores, that were drowned by rising sea levels about the time of the Younger Dryas.
Basques: In Basque (Euskara), "Atlantis" is often rendered as Atlaintika2. Basque legends sometimes claim that the Basques are descendants of the people of Atlantis.
Berbers: Ancient Greek writers associated the Berber region (ancient Libya/Mauretania) with the mythic figure Atlas, and the Atlantic Ocean is named after him. Some Berber legends and local traditions reference Atlas as a primordial king or god. There are some Berber myths about lost lands or ancient kings (like Sufax or Antaeus). There are also folk traditions in Northwest Africa about ancestral deities or rulers linked to the Atlas Mountains and the Atlantic1,6,8.
Celts: Irish and Celtic mythology is rich with tales of lost islands and mystical lands beneath the sea, such as Hy-Brasil, Tír na nÓg (the Land of Youth), and the submerged city of Ys in Breton legend.
Wales: The legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod describes a fertile kingdom in Cardigan Bay that was flooded due to neglected sea defenses, with echoes of its bells said to ring beneath the waves4.
Brittany (France): The city of Ys, known as the “Breton Atlantis,” was said to be a magnificent city swallowed by the ocean after its protective gates were left open, typically due to the actions of a morally wayward princess6.
Cornwall (England): The legend of Lyonesse tells of a land between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, lost to the sea in a single night, with only one survivor escaping on horseback4.
Netherlands: The tale of Saeftinghe recounts a wealthy city overtaken by the sea, attributed to the moral decay of its inhabitants5.
Germany/Poland (Baltic): The legend of Vineta describes a rich city on the Baltic coast that was submerged as punishment for its decadence3,6.
Sub-Saharan Africa: Sub-Saharan African myths more commonly feature lost cities swallowed by the desert or jungle.
North America: Indigenous American myths frequently describe lost or sunken lands, such as Aztlán (the legendary Aztec homeland).
South America: Andean legends mention submerged cities in Lake Titicaca, and some Amazonian myths speak of vanished civilizations.
Australia: Aboriginal Australian mythology contains stories of land loss due to rising seas after the last Ice Age, with tales of ancestral lands now underwater.
LOWLANDS
Notice the light blue areas near the continents above. Much of that was above sea level before the Younger Dryas impacts. The area between the UK and Norway was mostly above sea level. The Baltic Sea above Poland was likely mostly dry land too. Atlantis would have been west of Portugal. Much of northern Europe was under an Ice Sheet. The Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea were very shallow in ancient times. Eurasia extended far into the Arctic Ocean basin.
MELTWATER FLOODING & SEA LEVEL RISE
Mammoths and other large and small mammals lived in northern Eurasia after the Great Flood, but the Ice Sheet gradually covered the area and froze them to death. When the Younger Dryas impacts melted the Ice Sheets, the meltwater floods washed many of the bones and carcasses out onto the Arctic continental shelf and the Arctic islands. What the floodwaters missed were buried under dust and rock ice. Much of Siberia remains under permafrost.
ATLANTIS DEMISE
The glacial meltwaters raised sea level about 130 meters. Atlantis probably did not drown overnight, as Plato seemed to say, but probably took weeks or months or more. Volcanic eruptions are likely to have occurred due to impacts. No Azores eruptions are known to have been anywhere near as big as the Santorini/Thera eruption of about 3,000 years ago, maybe 1/6th as big, which would still be big enough.
OTHER FLOODS
The dry lands in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea would have drowned at the same rate as Atlantis. The Caspian Sea likely filled from rapid glacial meltwater flooding. The rapid sea level rise likely led to the flooding of the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, but the latter may have taken years to centuries.
Thanks for honoring me with such remarkable insights.
Regarding the ice-age, I am sure it began with the flood (Nov/Dec, Arctic polar night), and built up fast due to the high humidity and increased temperature gradients, Antarctica following). The massive burial of megafauna in the Arctic indicates a catastrophic drop of temperature.
I made a mistake above when I wrote 5000 b.c. for the African Humid Period. I wanted to write: b.p. (before presence). So that would mean: after the flood.
I am not sure if additional (cosmic) events are necessary to explain the end-of-ice-age phenomena, like the rapid melting. Vulcanic ashes with decreased albedo on the vast ice-shields could account for their melting so fast.
The western Sahara (Mauretanian Desert) shows signs of extreme water erosion, even the Atlantic Ocean off the coast treme dous amounts of sediments from that event, thousands of cubic miles of material. (I am fully convinced the Richat Structure had been chosen for habitation of that former preflood civilisation, as Plato relate's Solon's account by a priest/ sage from Sais in Egypt.
The similarities can not be coincidental. Even the sizes of the rings match, and the description of thus place surrounded by lakes and streams of water (before the flood).
I am curious and am going to watch and listen to the material you provided and shared.
Thanks Len for pointing this out. These submerged islands between the Azores were inundated with the rising seawater (~400 ft) after the ice-age (like Doggerland beneath the North Sea and some of these other areas you mention). These structuress then were built after the flood, like the Egyptian and the many other pyramids and ziggurats on the earth.
If we are looking for traces of an antediluvian civilisation, the Richat Structure which is a peculiar geological formation in the Mauretanian Desert of the wrstern Sahara shows numerous astounding similarities with Plato's accounts. He was speaking of a very large land with rivers and lakes and a capital resembling this Eye of the Sahara to a degree difficult to ignore. Before the flood the gegraphy of our planet was very different from what it is now (regarding its relation to the Pillars of Hercules) . Plato also does not say the land remained submerged but unreachable due to swamps and marches. (During the African Humid Period -~5000 years b.c. much of the Sahara was green and with extensive lakes and bodies of water, e.g. the Tamanrasset River.) Africa and the other continents (except for Zealandia) rose substantially in elevation due to the changes in pressure caused by the flood and ice-age. (The oceanic crusts are a lot thinner than the continental ones. Psalm 104 may have a memory of that. The Genesis description most likely refers to the land where Eden was in terms of the geography after the flood, the four rivers coming together (the two from Anatolia (Euphrates, Tigris), one from Persia (Gihon i.e. Karkheh), the other from Arabia (Wadi Ruma i.e. Pishon) when it was still green like the former Sahara.)