It is a prophecy for nations like the US.

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It might not even have been called Atlantis. It may have been more of wood than stone and it may have been 'relatively' local, but it started up and suddenly stopped and took a long time to recover as many even innocent behaviours associated with the 'wrath of the gods' became taboo. The Infant Human Civilization really did get drowned in its cradle. Look up Burckle Crater / Indian Ocean in Google. Mother Goddess becomes War God. Society suffering from post traumatic stress becomes brutal, human sacrifice cults...ice age collapses, world dries up, Eden Atlantis is just a memory and a dim one at that....

Where's the evidence of Atlantis's existence besides Plato's story?

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Thats about it. All other stories after Plato use Plato as their reference about the city. Anything you hear about Atlantis stems from Plato's description.

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Velikovsky's conclussions about how the comet or asteroid did its damage are all wet but his collection of mythologies is beyond reproach. Look up Velikovsky in google. Read the myths and decide for youreself

Why does anyone believe in it then?

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Basically two things happened for sure. One Plato writes down a story about Atlantis. For the people who write about it after him they just share their thoughts on the subject. Two, in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries a few scholars begin to become enthusiastic about an advanced civilization in the ancient world. They begin to spread the word as most of them just want the art work of the civilization, just like Pompeii--Archaeology just for the statues to show them off. Somewhere in there people became convinced that it existed at one point, so much that people began to search for it for their whole lives. If my memory serves me right, I know of 6-7 locations where they believe Atlantis to be. (Carribean, Azore Islands, Coast of Spain, Coast of Greece, Crete, Antartica, and Coast of Japan) Personally I do not believe in the story, I believe that Plato was using it allegorically. I just wanted to see what you all thought of it.

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Use Google search: Look for 'Burckle Crater / Indian Ocean'.

And I am seeing an asteroid crater. There are several of those. Am I to infer that the asteroid is responsible for Atlantis' sinking? This explains the flood myths a bit, and why almost every early civ. had one. It doesn't look like they are saying it is related to the fall of Atlantis.

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A fair guess: Something not much different from high Greek or Egyptian civilization connected by trading routes, located around the general area of "The Cradle of Civilization". Aside from the physical damage there was enormous psychological damage....whole societal post traumatic stress, resulting in many pre impact behaviours being made taboo including large structures and cities...a'la Tower of Babel....I think you get my drift here....God is no longer The Mother that suckles and pets you God is Jaweh who slays whole nations....