Atlantis the Lost Continent Finally Found

by Arysio Santos

  The Canaries are the western counterpart of the Isles of the Blest, whereas its antipodal, Kattigara or Taprobane, is its dual and archetype, in the East Indies. Ptolemy’s coordinates place Kattigara precisely in the site of Indonesia, exactly where we have located Atlantis. It is hence easy to see that Kattigara is the “mirror image” of the European Gades or Gadeira (Cadiz), its western replica. Kattigara corresponds to the Pillars of Atlas, whereas Cadiz, its dual, corresponds to the Pillars of Hercules. ↑145

  It is clear that the Phoenicians borrowed the word Gades (or Gadeira or Kattigara) from Dravidian India. The Sanskrit equivalent of this word is precisely tirthankara (“ford maker”), a key concept in Hinduism, being the title the Jains apply to their Saviors. But this Dravidian word can also be derived from #1416 kad- (“herder, guardian, keeper”) + #815/917 eru (“ox, bull, cattle”) > kad-eru (“cattle keeper, cowherd”).

  Hence, as applied to places, the name Gadeira means “oxford”, and when applied to people it means “cowherd, shepherd” and, even more exactly, “oxforder”. Proto-Dravidian k- usually passes into the Indo-European tongues as g-, these two gutturals being often confused in these tongues. The name of Kattigara exactly correspond to the one of the Strait of Bosphorus (Greek bos-phoros = “cattle forder”), which derives from the myth of Hercules crossing there with the cattle he rustled from Geryon.

  The same myth concerning Hercules crossing the Bosporus Strait with Geryon’s cattle also applies to Gibraltar Strait, which is also associated with this myth, as we already told above. So is the Red Sea (Bab-el-Mandeb Strait), in connection with the Crossing of the Red Sea by the Israelites. Except that the “Red Sea” in question here is really the Erythraean Ocean (Indian), whose name also means the same thing in Greek.

  In other words, the Hebrew myth, like the Greek one, in fact derives from Hindu traditions on the crossing of Malacca Strait in Indonesia, as we already argued. This story is told in both the Ramayana and the Rig Veda, and is immensely older in India than its counterparts just mentioned. Curiously enough, the name of Hercules can also be derived from Dravida, where it means the same as Gadeiros or “Cowherd”.

  We already commented this fact further above, which we now complement here. In that tongue we have #1980/2814 čer-, her-, er- (“to fence, herd, gather, collect”) + #1810 kulai (“herd, cattle, bunch”) > her-kulai (“cowherd, cattle herder”). Also, cf. the Skt. kula (“herd, cattle, crowd, army”) and Drav. #1971/1915 kuli (“ox, cattle, crowd”). The etymology of the name of Hercules or Herakles is unclear both in Greek and in Latin, and is deemed to be substrate.

  Some experts think his name derives from the Etruscan hercle, of unknown meaning. No matter what, the usual etymology “glory of Hera” (Grk. Hera-kleos) is sheer folly, as already recognized by a great many experts. Hera was in fact a ferocious enemy of Herakles, the adulterine son of her husband, Zeus, by the

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  charming nymph Alcmena. It is also clear that the Etruscan name of Hercules, Hercle, is close enough to the Roman and Greek ones to provide an adequate Dravidian etymology, particularly now that we know that Etruscan is a Dravidian tongue, as I demonstrated in my work on the decipherment of the Etruscan language. ↑146

  In other words, it seems that both the name and the myth of Hercules ultimately derives from India, being connected with the figures of both Shiva and Vishnu, as “the Lords (or Herders) of Cattle” (Paşupati, Prajapati). The above Dravidian base, her- or čer, is also distantly connected with the Engl. “herd”, the Skt. şardha; the Lith. kerdzus, the Germ. heerde, etc.. A related etymology is the Port. cerca, Lat. circa, etc, where the original sense of “to surround, encircle, fence out, guard” is preserved.

  This base is also connected with Drav. #1509 kişkinda, meaning “surrounded (or fenced) place”. This word figures in the Ramayana’s fourth book, Kişkinda Kanda. Kişkinda is the site of the famous Pampa Lake, truly the site of Paradise, as “a fenced (hedged) place”. Unfortunately, space does not allow the full discussion of this fascinating motif, which is closely connected with Atlantis as the site of Paradise Lost. Suffice it to say here that the description of Pampa Lake in the Ramayana closely evokes Plato’s description of Atlantis as full of tropical trees, fruits, perfumes, incenses and flowers of all sorts. ↑147

  Not even the elephants are missing in this charming paradisial place. I suspect that the red dust said to cover the Ryshyamukha Mountain is really gold dust, suggesting an identity with Indonesia (the Aurea Chersonesus or Taprobane of Greco-Roman traditions). This region is also said to be tranquil, peaceful and free of evil, as Paradise also is, according to most traditions.

  And it also seems to me that the miraculous waters of the Pampa Lake are those of the Elixir itself. Curiously enough, this pleasant Paradise is said to be western, as can be seen in the link just given. In other words, this Paradise – fenced or moated just as Atlantis also was – seems to be Sukhavati, the Western Paradise of Buddha Amitabha. And this idea connects with the one of sailing westwards, into the Atlantic Ocean, just as Columbus attempted to do, in order to reach the East Indies.

  The name of Pampa Lake ultimately derives from the Drav. #3949 pampa (“expanse, ocean, marshy field”). The idea here is really the one of a flooded expanse turned into a sea, more or less as happened to Atlantis itself. Even more exactly, Pampa Lake seems to correspond to the Great Plain of Atlantis flooded and turned into a marsh or lake or sea, exactly as Plato reports in his dialogues on the sunken continent.

  The Dravidian origin of the Ramayana’s toponyms which I just mooted out is telltale of its origin in Dravidian India, rather than in Aryan India, as usually thought. In fact, it now seems that most if not all Hindu mythology and religion was adopted by the Aryans from Dravidian India. Even more exactly, the Ramayana, like other similar traditions ultimately originated in Indonesia, the pristine abode of the Dravidas.

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  14 The metaphors used in this myth are actually derived from the sacred tongues of India. In Sanskrit, the words gana and kula mean both “herd, cattle” and “horde, multitude, army”. The story of Hercules (Herk-kula = “cattle-herder”) driving away with Geryon’s cattle is in fact an allegory of the mass exodus from the destroyed region. In the Bible, this story corresponds to the one told in Exodus, where Moses assumes a role akin to Hercules as “the Good Shepherd” who leads his people away from Paradise Lost.

  The name of Eumelos can also be interpreted as meaning “Good Shepherd” in Greek. And, as Plato himself discloses, it is also the equivalent of Gadeiros. Rather than a Phoenician word, this term derives from Dravida, as gad- (“cattle”) and iru (“to go; lead”). In other words, the name of Gadeiros also means “cow-herder”. It is apparently again related to the name of Geryon, the cow-herder whose cattle Hercules stole, in the course of his tenth labor.

  The name of Geryon derives from a Greek word meaning “elder, senior”. But it also relates to the Dravida če-eru-on, apparently meaning something like “he who herds red cattle”. This red cattle is people; red people, as we already said. And the “herds” are the ones of people leaving the site of Paradise Destroyed under the guidance of the Good Shepherd variously named.

  The figure of the Good Shepherd is extremely ancient in India, where it already figures in the Rig Veda (1:164:31; 10:177:3, etc.). Cf. also endnote 13, above, where this subject is pursued. As such, this name translates the one of Vishnu as Govinda, also meaning the same thing. This name also corresponds to the one of Hercules himself. As we have just shown above, the name of Hercules – of unknown etymology – ultimately derives from the Dravida. This name, which literally means “cow-herder”, like the one of Gadeiros, was later distorted into Herakles (“glory of Hera”) by the Greeks, in a false etymology.

  In Greek traditions, this mass exodus from Paradise Lost is beautifully illustrated in the famous Elgin Marbles, stolen from the Parthenon of Athens. This event was also commemorated in the great procession of the Panat
heneas by the Greeks. Its is certainly more than a coincidence that Plato and his commentators (Krantor, etc.) also identify this festival with the Great War of Atlantis and the mass exodus from the destroyed region.

  The same story is also told in the charming Ramayana, in connection with Lanka, and in the Mahabharata in connection with the one of Dvaraka, the fabled capital of Krishna. The twin Hindu heroes, Krishna and Balarama and/or Rama and Hanumant are the visible counterparts and actual archetypes of Atlas and Gadeiros (Hercules), who take turns holding up Heaven and the Pillars of Hercules.

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  15 Creep (or cold flow) is the slow motion phenomenon which occurs in the solid state itself. You can observe this phenomenon in action by pushing the tip of a sharp knife into an ice cube. If you push long enough, you will see the tip of the blade penetrate the ice cube. Try to do it faster, and the ice cracks. What happens is that the ice crystal ahead of the tip melts under the pressure, and then recrystallizes when it is finished passing. ↑148

  Exactly the same thing happens in the interface between the crust and the mantle, where the huge pressures create a semi-molten plastic layer known as asthenosphere. The asthenosphere is a very thin layer of only slightly mollified rock, and would never allow the solid crust to move relative to the likewise solid mantle. ↑149

  We also note that the molten sections of the mantle and crust under volcanoes are highly localized phenomena contained in the so-called “magma chambers” where the molten rock (magma) is withheld. I am sorry to say, the proponents of Pole Shift are generally all of them – Einstein, Velikovsky, Hapgood, Flem-Ath , and Hancock, included – totally unfamiliar with even the most basic tenets of geological theory. Their proposal is utterly unscientific and should be dismissed by everyone with a bare minimum of knowledge and rationality.

  It is true that Antarctica has drifted away from Pangea and that it was once tropical, as attested by its immense deposits of carboniferous coal. But this drift was very slow and was the accumulated result of several hundreds of millions of years of extremely slow drifting. Antarctica is now known for sure to have been under ice for a million years and more, and is hence wholly unsuitable as a possible candidate for the site of Atlantis, a tropical paradise according to Plato.

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  16 In Sanskrit, Paradise was called Svarga (or Svarga-loka). It was also called Trinaka, Trivishtapa, Nakaprishta, Indraloka, etc.. Loka means “place, world” in Sanskrit and normally designates Paradise as the Otherworld. There the three realms of space – Heaven, Earth, Hell – meet and congregate, in parallel dimensions. The three realms just mentioned are all three called loka or triloka (“triple world”) or tribhuvana (idem). Their location and geometry is often disguised. And so are the names, which vary a lot: Mahaloka, Janaloka, Taparloka, Indraloka, etc..

  This disguise is really intended to baffle the uninitiated profanes, to whom such things are never disclosed. Hence the scorn of Pindar for them. Heaven, the Celestial Paradise, is the abode of the gods (devaloka). Hell (Patala or Atala), is inhabited by the devils (asuras or titans). And earth is of course the abode of us humans.

  The connection of Taprobane with the number three (tri-) ultimately derives from the name of Tripura, the “Triple City” destroyed by Shiva. Tripura is really the same as Lanka (destroyed by Rama) and as Atlantis, also a triple city. Curiously enough, Taprobane was identified as the Island of the Blest, the site of Paradise, both in Hindu and in Greco-Roman traditions. Pliny and other Greco-Roman authors refer to Taprobane as the site of the Otherworld.

  Actually, Taprobane was the site of the three realms of Triple World. In Hindu traditions, the three worlds were deemed to lie side-by-side, in different, though collateral dimensions. Alternatively, they were also thought to lie all three on a vertical axis, with Heaven above, and Hell below, as mirror images of the earth itself.

  Hence the usual identification of its location with the Pole, a symbolism that has often led to the misplacing of Paradise in the Arctic or in Antarctica. The Greco-Roman traditions on Paradise closely parallel the Hindu ones, from which they ultimately derive, just as is the case here. A good description of the Greco-

  Roman conception of the Triple World is given in this excellent site here. ↑150

  Curiously enough, the Greeks often called the Isles of the Blest (Makaron Nesos) or Elysian Fields (Elysion pedon) by the name of White Islands (Leuke or Leukades). These paradisial islands should not be confused with their counterparts in Greece, which are mere replicas of the true ones, on the far bank of the Ocean, as we already demonstrated.

  Originally located in the extremities of the earth (the Far East or Far West) by Homer, the site of Paradise (Elysium) and Hell (Tartarus) was eventually moved to heaven above and hell below. This Greek name, Leukades, is in fact a translation of the Hindu name of Paradise (Svetadvipa) meaning exactly the same thing in Sanskrit. Curiously enough, this name is also found in the Americas, for instance in the Yvymaraney of the Guarani Indians of Brazil or the Aztlán of the Aztecs, names which also mean “Pure Land”, meaning “white”.

  The Tucanos – another tribe of the Brazilian Amazon region – have a similar conception, and identify Paradise with the “River of Milk” (Apiá Kondiá), again using the same idea of “whiteness”. The “whiteness” of this place is associated with the fact that Paradise (Atlantis) was fully covered with a sort of white shroud of pumice stone and volcanic cinders on the occasion of its destruction. The “River of Milk” also figures in the Greek traditions, the Milky Way being its celestial counterpart.

  And this idea also figures in the Judeo-Christian traditions on Paradise as the River Pishon, whose name actually means the same thing in Dravida, as we argue in detail elsewhere. It also seems that the River of Paradise was also the same as the River Styx, its infernal counterpart. As is clear, it is quite impossible that all these astounding coincidences are due to chance alone.

  Actually, the Greek word leukas in fact expresses an idea of “pallor; grayness; ashy”. This is associated with death and cinders allegedly from the many dead incinerated at the place. But the real reason was the thick veil of volcanic cinders which covered the whole region like a shroud on the occasion of its destruction. This symbolism is also the one embodied in the white veil of brides, as I comment in more detail in my Atlantis site. ↑151

  Endnotes to Part IV

  17 Cf. Isa. 41:1-9: “Thou, Israel... whom I have taken from the ends of the earth.” Note that the Jews equate the East with the old, the islands and the righteous, etymons which all evoke Atlantis. It is important to note that this agrees with our conclusion that the Jewish people were the same as the Yüeh-chi (please note the close assonance with “Jewish”) or Tocharians from China and Mongolia.

  This assertion is of crucial importance in this matter of establishing Jewish origins, given the fact that it comes from a canonical Jewish source of indisputable authority, the prophet Isaiah. The symbolism of the Four Corners of the Earth is intimately connected with earth’s fringes. In fact, these four corners allude to the four straits which delimit the earth at the Four Cardinal Points: Gibraltar in the west; Sunda in the east; Bering in the north; Magellan in the south.

  These four corners figure centrally in Jewish mysticism. They are represented by the four fringes (zizit) of the tallit and the arba’ kanfot worn by the orthodox Jews while praying, as an emblem of their national identity. The four zizits are each formed of four threads of blue twined to four white ones. Blue symbolizes the sea, being the emblem of Tarshish, as elucidated by St Jerome. And the white symbolizes the White Island which is no other than Java itself (called Svetadvipa = “White Island” in Sanskrit). ↑186

  The blue dye with which the zizit was dyed came from the “isles of Elishah”, which, we believe, were the same as the one of Elysium. This, rather than Sicily, its alleged source, which of course never produced such snails. The true dye seems to be indigo blue, produced in the I
ndies.

  It is important to realize that the word “fringes” (or “ends” or “wings”) used here had a very specific significance among the ancients in general. It is used in the same sense in the Bible (Job 38:13; 37:3; Psa 139:9, etc.), where the word (kanaph) designates the uttermost parts of the ocean. ↑159

  This is the realm of night and of dawn, where the sun starts its daily trip by an international convention dating from times immemorial. This hoary convention probably dates from the days of Atlantis, the only ancient nation equipped for such remarkable implementations at such an early epoch in time. As a worldwide empire of navigators, the Atlanteans soon developed a need for such a universal grid, very much as is the case today.

  We believe that the “wicked” whom Jahveh shook out of the “wings of the earth” with his mighty thunderbolt are the Atlanteans themselves, turned evil and corrupt after their decay, and hence discarded by God. If so, we have again mustered the authority of the Bible itself in support of our view that Atlantis lay there, in the East Indies, in the Land of Dawn and Sunset, where the sun both dies and rises again daily.

  The “wings” or “ends” in question here are visibly earth’s fringes, the place where east meets west, on the far bank of the Ocean. Where else would earth’s ends or fringes be located but there? And we further believe that the idea of “wing” used here is an esoteric allusion to the name of Taprobane, whose Sanskrit name (Tamraparna) signifies exactly “golden wing” (or “golden bough” or “golden peninsula”). This idea is also coupled to the one of “extremity”: an arm, a wing, a branch or bough, the fringe of a piece of cloth, a long peninsula, etc..

  The Book of Job – perhaps the oldest and the most “pagan” of all biblical texts – is a mine of information on issues having to do with Atlantis and its destruction by the vajra (volcanism) in the dawn of time. Curiously enough, most exegetes (see Commentary here) misinterpret the “wings of Dawn” of Psalm 139:9 as a reference to sunbeams shining through the clouds in early morning. ↑160