List Members,
Here is a tidbit from the David Hatcher Childress book Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. The tidbit is from is from Chapter Seven, Page 223, at the bottom: "According to the geologistt and Atlantis writer L. Taylor Hansen in her book The Ancient Atlantic, Lake Tritonis was part of a huge inland sea in the Sahara East of the Atlas Mountains. Lake Chad would be the last remnants of this ancient sea".
Atlas had ten children and they founded ten Atlantean city-states. One of them was up in southeastern Iberia called Gadiz named after the son of Atlas Gadir. The Spanish call it Cadiz, with a "C" nowadays. I think that the location of that city might have shifted a bit, the original city might be offshore. But it is right next to the Tartessos area, which was identified by Plato as Atlantean. The description of Tartessos closely relates to the ruins at the town Niebla, not so far at all from Cadiz and Seville. The book by E.M. Whitshaw, Atlantis in Spain, described and analyzes these ruins very well. And the ruins are described as pre Roman and pre Phoenician. Thousands of years old. And the book is a nice read.
So, first of all, I ask the list members to start thinking of Atlantis as being centered in the Richart structure in Mauritania, and stretching up to southern Spain and eastwards across to Lake Chad.
And then, on Page 224, Hatcher Childress writes: "According to Hansen, the Triton Sea was held in by the cirve of the Atlas Mountains like the rim of a cup, and the water thus held covered the land from the Gulf of Gabes, where it entered the Mediterranean, to the mountains South of Lake Chad. Only after the sudden sinking of the Southern arm of the Atlas did the Niger River break through these southern Mountains and tear its way out to the Atlantic. Lake Chad the the underground Lakes of the Sahara were all that was left of the Triton Sea, except for the massive port cities that exist in the Sahara".
So, is any of this connected to underground worlds? Did the Atlanteans go underground? Any connection to modern times?
I'll pass on a ffew more ideas Sunday night of Monday morning.
Cheers!