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The REAL Story of Atlantis and How It CHANGED The World

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Ancient Hebrew researcher, Ryan Pitterson, uses a story from the bible to theorize that Plato's description of Atlantis matches  biblical records of the mysterious stone structure of Gilgal Refaim.

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A Biblical researcher and writer believes the sunken city of Atlantis never disappeared, and that its remains can still be found in the Holy Land.

Ryan Pitterson, a researcher and writer who focuses on ancient Hebrew thought and theology, claims that there are certain links between Plato's tale of the lost city of Atlantis and the stories of Biblical giants known as the Nephilim.
READ MORE: Ruins of Sunken Atlantis-Style 'City' Spotted Off US Coast (VIDEO)
The Nephilim were the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men", meaning they were half-human, half-angelic creatures. Atlantis, described by ancient Greek philosopher Plato in around 350BC, was a mythical island that sunk somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea or the Atlantic Ocean after suffering a devastating natural disaster.

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Speaking on American radio, Pitterson said the story of the Nephalim matches the tale of the Greek god Poseidon, who was said to have fathered children with a human woman in Atlantis.

The researcher, who wrote the book "Judgement of the Nephilim", is convinced that Plato's description of Atlantis matches biblical records of the mysterious Israeli stone structure, Galgal Refaim ("wheel of ghosts") or Gilgal Refaim ("circle of giants" in reference to a biblical race of giants) in Hebrew.

"One example that really stood out for me is Plato's description of Atlantis. It's almost remarkable how similar it is to Ezekiel 31, which describes the rise of this fallen angel spawning many children and having a kingdom with an abundance of resources and rivers as well as a military power and then having it crumble. In Plato's account, it was the Greek god Poseidon who fell in love with a human woman and impregnated her", he said on US radio.

Built in concentric circles, Gilgal Refaim is believed to date from around 3000 BCE and is commonly called "The Stonehenge of the Middles East". Plato's Atlantis was also said to have been built outwards in concentric circles with water running through the city.

"So right from the onset, it was a god coming to an Earthly realm and conceiving a child with a human woman in the same fashion of Genesis 6. Atlantis is described as having all sorts of great minerals - gold, precious minerals - and in a biblical account in Genesis 2, we're told the rivers that ran out of the Garden of Eden encompassed the whole line of Avila", Pitterson explained.

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Bible Proves Long-Lost City of Atlantis is in Israel, Researcher Claims

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A Biblical researcher and writer believes the sunken city of Atlantis never disappeared, and that its remains can still be found in the Holy Land. Ryan Pitterson, a researcher and writer who focuses on ancient Hebrew thought and theology, claims that there are certain links between Plato's tale of the lost city of Atlantis and the stories of Biblical giants known as the Nephilim.

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This video is more like a video blog, and ones belief that Atlantis is not where everyone thinks it is.

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The Lost City of Atlantis - Hidden in Plain Sight? Lost Ancient Human Civilizations

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We have all heard of Atlantis, the legendary island that sank into the sea in a single day and night. But who came up with it, was Atlantis a real place, and is there more to the story than this?

We get the story of Atlantis from the Greek philosopher Plato. Really, from two of his writings, Timaeus and Critias. The books date to around 360 BC.

In them, Plato wrote that the Greek sage Solon was given the story in Egypt by a priest. Upon his return, Solon shared the story with his relative Dropides. Then Dropides passed it down to his son Critias, who told his grandson, also named Critias, who finally shared it with the philosopher Socrates and others who were present.

This list should not be taken as historical fact but as a true account of what Plato wrote. Whether we decide to believe in the legend is our own choice, but we can probably agree that this might have been the first recorded game of telephone.

10 We Know The Location

Many books and TV shows have been made about the possible location of Atlantis. A quick Google search will show that some people say Santorini is Atlantis, while others believe that the waters off Bimini are hiding a road to the lost city. However, if we look at Plato's text, it tells us where the submerged island once stood.

The text reads that Atlantis "came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean." It goes on to say that "there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you [referring to ancient Greeks], called the Pillars of Heracles."

Today, we call these the Straits of Gibraltar, where Spain and Africa are separated by a narrow strip of sea. While not quite GPS coordinates, this narrows the island's location down from a tourist trap in the Bahamas.

In 2011, University of Hartford archaeologist Richard Freund and his team found "memorial cities," or cities that were built in the image of Atlantis. The series of cities were found buried in the swamps of Donana National Park, just north of Cadiz, Spain.

As it turns out, Cadiz sits right outside the straits. This has Freund convinced that the real Atlantis was buried in the mud flats of the Atlantic. His findings match the story's text that "the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island."

Cadiz is also said to be one of the oldest cities still standing in Western Europe. It is believed to have been built by the Phoenicians around 700 BC, but some records claim the city goes as far back as 1100 BC. Greek myth says that the city dates back even before this.

Why is this important? Long ago, the city's name was Gades. This is convenient since the text tells of an Atlantean prince called Gadeirus by the prehistoric citizens of Gades. He was given the far eastern side of Atlantis.

This part of the island would have faced modern-day Cadiz. That's why the story says that Cadiz, or Gades, was named after the prince. Of course, Plato wrote all this at least 340 years after the city's founding, so maybe he was being liberal when he was naming Atlantean princes.

9 Atlantis Was Named After A Demigod

Most people probably believe that Atlantis got its name from being in the Atlantic Ocean, but the text claims that it is the other way around. As the story goes, Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, had five pairs of male twins with a mortal Atlantean woman named Cleito.

The god gave each of his 10 sons different portions of the island over which to rule. Gadeirus was the second-eldest of these sons. While he may have had a city in Spain named after him, it was his older twin, Atlas, who would have the glory of being the island's namesake.

As the firstborn, Atlas had the entire island, and even the surrounding ocean, named after him. His children would also reign over Atlantis forever. Talk about picking favorites.

8 Half The Story Is Missing

We know that Plato wrote at least two books about Atlantis. Today, we have a complete version of Timaeus, but we do not have a completed copy of Critias.

Critias ends after Zeus, head of the Greek gods, "collected all the gods into their most holy habitation, which, being placed in the center of the world, beholds all created things. And when he had called them together, he spake as follows." It ends there. Talk about a cliffhanger.

It is not known if Plato left the book incomplete on purpose or if the finished version was lost long ago. Not only are we missing the ending of Critias, but it is thought that Plato wrote, or at least planned to write, a third book on Atlantis called Hermocrates.

There are a couple of facts to support this theory. A line in Critias reads, "Critias, we will grant your request, and we will grant the same by anticipation to Hermocrates, as well as to you and Timaeus." This suggests that a third account of the story was to be given by Hermocrates.

Also, the names of the three books may contain a hidden message, especially when one looks at the order in which Plato wrote, or would have written, them. Timaeus comes from the Greek tio, meaning "to honor." Critias comes from the Greek krima, meaning "judgment."

Lastly, Hermocrates is derived from "Hermes," the messenger of the Greek gods. Timaeus honors prehistoric Athens for its heroism. Critias presumably ends with Zeus's judgment of Atlantis. But what message might Hermocrates have delivered?

The answer may lie in what we know about Hermocrates himself. He was a real-life military leader who helped to lead the successful defense of Syracuse against Athens during the Peloponnesian War. This is much like the story of Atlantis. In the story, an Athenian state from archaic times repels an attack from the superior force of Atlantis.

Maybe the message in Hermocrates would have touched on why Athens' attack on Syracuse failed and how Syracuse was able to defend itself from conquest. Unless someone finds a copy of this book, we may never know the whole story of Atlantis.

7 Atlantis Would Be At Least 11,500 Years Old

Solon was said to be the wisest of all Greek sages. The text states that the story of Atlantis was handed down to Solon in Egypt when he wanted to "draw" one of the priests to speak about their oldest of tales.

To do this, Solon decided to tell the priests about the oldest Greek stories he could recall. He spoke to them about a great flood and about the first man. After listening to Solon, one priest responded, "O Solon, Solon . . . there is not an old man among you . . . in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition."

The priest went on to say that Athens, Solon's home city, was much older than he thought it was. In the Egyptian registers at Sais [where they were], it was written that Sais was founded 8,000 years before their own time. It was also recorded there that Athens was founded 1,000 years before Sais and that the Athenians of this time fought off Atlantis.

Solon lived from roughly 630 BC to about 560 BC. If the story is true, then the fall of Atlantis occurred around 9500 BC. This would make Atlantis about as old as Gobekli Tepe, which is dated to around 10,000 BC and is considered to be the world's first temple by archaeologists today.

This would flip history on its head. But for now, it will have to remain on its feet.

6 The Story Is True . . . According To Plato

We said that no one should take this list as a historical account. In the text, however, Critias claims that his story is true. "Then listen . . . to a tale which, though strange, is certainly true, having been attested by Solon." To which Socrates responds, "Very good. And what is this ancient famous action of the Athenians, which Critias declared, on the authority of Solon, to be not a mere legend, but an actual fact?"

It is important to note that Plato discerns fact from fiction in his story. "There is a story . . . that once upon a time, Paethon, the son of Helios, having yoked the steeds in his father's chariot, because he was not able to drive them in the path of his father, burned up all that was upon the Earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the heavens around the Earth."

Here, Plato acknowledges that some myths are symbolic in nature. However, he states in his book that Atlantis was real, not a myth. If Atlantis was Plato's fantasy, why would he assert that the story of Atlantis was true but have no problem saying that a Greek myth was created to represent something else?

Did Plato believe his own story? Did he want his readers to think it was true? Maybe he was trying to throw his readers off the trail of a message hidden deep within the story. That would be some seriously ancient reverse psychology at work.

5 Atlantis Was An Empire

Most of us probably think of a lush green island surrounded by deep blue ocean waters when we picture Atlantis. While the story focuses on the island, most of us probably assumed that Atlantis was no more than this. But Plato tells us that Atlantis was actually an empire ruled from this island.

"Now in this island of Atlantis, there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia."

Tyrrhenia is another name for Etruria, now known as central Italy. This means that Atlantis would have stretched as far as modern-day Tuscany in Europe and all the way to Egypt in Africa. We wish we knew how Athens beat such a big empire? Maybe Plato had no idea either, so he gave up on writing the ending.

4 Ancient Mediterranean People May Have Known About The Americas

While it is possible that Plato made up Atlantis for philosophy's sake, there is one part of the story that would have been very hard to fabricate. In the story, the Egyptian priest tells Solon, "The island . . . was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean. [ . . . ] The surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent."

So there was a continent on the other side of the Atlantic that was so big that it seemed to surround the entire ocean. Could this mean that ancient Greeks, and possibly ancient Egyptians, knew about or had even been to the Americas?

In 1970, famous seafarer Thor Heyerdahl set sail with a crew of six in a reed ship named the Ra II. They sailed from Safi, Morocco, across the Atlantic, and to Barbados in 57 days.

The voyage proved that reed boats could survive ocean travel and that ancient people could actually cross the Atlantic in them. This feat had once been thought impossible by scholars.

However, this does not prove that Egyptians, or Greeks for that matter, made it to the Americas. But Heyerdahl proved that it was at least possible for them to do so.

3 Women Were Allowed To Serve In Prehistoric Athens

Every so often in America, the issue of women in the military comes up. Should we allow women to serve in combat positions? Should we make women sign up for the draft?

Although we seriously consider these questions today, they would have been laughable to Greeks 2,500 years ago. In fact, it was Plato's student, Aristotle, who once said, "Silence is a woman's glory."

And could you imagine what the Spartan warriors would have done if a woman had tried to join their ranks? We hope you ladies like being kicked into deep pits by Spartan kings with spray-on abs. Seriously, they would not have liked this.

However, this was not the case with the Athenians of 9500 BC, at least not in Plato's story. The text reads, "Military pursuits were then common to men and women, the men of those days in accordance with the custom of the time set up a figure and image of the goddess [Athena] in full armor, to be a testimony that all animals which associate together, male as well as female, may, if they please, practice in common the virtue which belongs to them without distinction of sex."

This could be Plato dreaming up his ideal state, but maybe the people of 9500 BC thought all the chatter from the new recruits would keep the enemy at bay. Just joking, ladies.

2 Plato May Have Wanted To Keep People Out Of The Ocean

If the Greeks did know what lay beyond the Mediterranean, would they have wanted other people to know as well? Maybe not, and this might have been why Plato wrote that no one could sail into the Atlantic.

"But afterward there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the Earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea." According to Plato, this caused an impassable mud shoal outside the Straits of Gibraltar.

This may have stopped some from going too far beyond the straits. Plato implied that the Atlantic was not able to be sailed into during his lifetime when he wrote, "For in those days the Atlantic was navigable."

Was Plato trying to keep people from going into the Atlantic? Did he truly believe that a shoal of mud was blocking ocean travel? Or was the Atlantic really too muddy for boats to sail across at one point? If it was too shallow for boats, why wouldn't they just walk across?

1 The Many Times Mankind Has Been And Will Be Destroyed

The Egyptian priest had told Solon that none of his stories were "truly ancient" compared to his own. According to the priest, the reason for Solon's lack of "truly ancient" knowledge is that mankind has been destroyed time and time again.

"There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes."

The priest explains further, "When, on the other hand, the gods purge the Earth with a deluge of water, the survivors in your country are herdsmen and shepherds who dwell on the mountains."

If the only people to survive were mountain dwellers who had no knowledge of their distant past, then it is easy to see how an entire civilization's history would be lost in time. The priest believes that Egypt survived these disasters when almost no one else did because Egypt received very little, if any, rain.

Instead, they received annual floods from the Nile River which raised enough to provide for them but not enough to destroy their world. Some places are too wet, and some too dry. But Egypt is just right, baby. Just kidding, it is really, really dry.

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10 Things You Probably Don't Know About The Lost City Of Atlantis - Listverse

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We have all heard of Atlantis, the legendary island that sank into the sea in a single day and night. But who came up with it, was Atlantis a real place, and is there more to the story than this? We get the story of Atlantis from the Greek philosopher Plato.

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1. Atlantis was a mid-Atlantic continent that suddenly sunk into the ocean.

The idea that Atlantis was an actual historical place, and not just a legend invented by Plato, didn't surface until the late 19th century. In his 1882 book, Atlantis, the Antediluvian World, the writer Ignatius Donnelly argued the accomplishments of the ancient world (such as metallurgy, language and agriculture) must have been handed down by an earlier advanced civilization, as the ancients weren't sophisticated enough to develop these advances on their own.

Assuming the Atlantic Ocean was only a few hundred feet deep, Donnelly described a continent flooded by shifting ocean waters that sank in the exact location Plato said it did: in the Atlantic Ocean just outside the "Pillars of Hercules," the two rocks that mark the entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar. Long after modern oceanography and a greater understanding of plate tectonics poked holes in his shifting-waters thesis, some continue to cling to Donnelly's theory, mostly due to its adherence to Plato's placement of Atlantis in the mid-Atlantic.

2. Atlantis was swallowed up by the Bermuda Triangle.

Inspired by Donnelly, many later writers expanded on his theories and added their own speculations as to where Atlantis may have been. One of these writers was Charles Berlitz, grandson of the founder of the well-known language schools, and author of many books on paranormal phenomena. In the 1970s, Berlitz claimed Atlantis was a real continent located off the Bahamas that had fallen victim to the notorious "Bermuda Triangle," a region of the Atlantic where a number of ships had supposedly disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Supporters of this theory point to the discovery of what look like man-made walls and streets found off the coast of Bimini, although scientists have evaluated these structures and found them to be natural beach-rock formations.

3. Atlantis was Antarctica.

Another theory-that Atlantis was actually a much more temperate version of what is now Antarctica-is based on the work of Charles Hapgood, whose 1958 book Earth's Shifting Crust featured a foreword by Albert Einstein. According to Hapgood, around 12,000 years ago the Earth's crust shifted, displacing the continent that became Antarctica from a location much further north than it is today. This more temperate continent was home to an advanced civilization, but the sudden shift to its current frigid location doomed the civilization's inhabitants-the Atlanteans-and their magnificent city was buried under layers of ice. Hapgood's theory surfaced before the scientific world gained a full understanding of plate tectonics, which largely relegated his "shifting crust" idea to the fringes of Atlantean beliefs.

4. The story of Atlantis was a mythical retelling of the Black Sea Flood.

This theory presumes Atlantis itself was fictional, but the story of its demise was inspired by an actual historical event: the breaching of the Bosporus by the Mediterranean Sea and subsequent flooding of the Black Sea, around 5600 B.C. At the time, the Black Sea was a freshwater lake half its current size. The flooding inundated civilizations known to flourish along its shore with hundreds of feet of seawater in a short period of time (perhaps less than a year). As inhabitants of the region scattered, they spread tales of the deluge and may have led-thousands of years later-to Plato's account of Atlantis.

5. Atlantis is the story of the Minoan civilization, which flourished in the Greek islands circa 2500-1600 B.C.

One of the more recent Atlantean theories concerns the civilization that flourished on the Greek islands of Crete and Thera (now Santorini) more than 4,000 years ago: the Minoans, named for the legendary King Minos. Believed to be Europe's first great civilization, the Minoans built splendid palaces, constructed paved roads and were the first Europeans to use a written language (Linear A). At the height of their power, however, the Minoans suddenly disappeared from history-an enduring mystery that has fueled belief in a link between this great, doomed civilization and Plato's Atlantis. Historians believe around 1600 B.C., a massive earthquake shook the volcanic island of Thera, triggering an eruption that spewed 10 million tons of rock, ash and gas into the atmosphere. Tsunamis that followed the eruption were large enough to wipe out Minoan cities throughout the region, devastation that may have made the Minoans vulnerable to invaders from the Greek mainland.

6. Atlantis didn't exist at all-Plato invented it.

Most historians and scientists throughout history have come to the conclusion that Plato's account of the lost kingdom of Atlantis was fictional. According to this argument, the Greek philosopher invented Atlantis as his vision of an ideal civilization and intended the story of its demise to be a cautionary tale of the gods punishing human hubris. No written records of Atlantis exist outside of Plato's dialogues, including in any of the numerous other texts that survive from ancient Greece. Furthermore, despite modern advances in oceanography and ocean-floor mapping, no trace of such a sunken civilization has ever been found.

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Six of the most notable theories about the lost civilization of Atlantis, one of the most enduring legends in history.

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1. The thing that surprised me the most is how many other connections there are to Atlantis, like the bible, and how many different theories there are.

2.  I cannot relate anything real life, but Atlantis is interesting to me because I do believe that there once was an ancient civilization. There is to much unexplained about this world for some of our theories and beliefs not to have been real in some fashion.

3.  There are so many different theories about Atlantis, which was very interesting as many of them gave me a different perspective about Atlantis.

4. The thing that I will remember the most is how beautiful Atlantis was described to be. How beautiful the citizens would have been, and how lucky we would be to find evidence of Atlantis.

5. Having completed all the course content, which pseudoscience belief do you think is most harmful? which is least harmful? I believe 'All Natural" is the most harmful belief, although it is not relevant to this topic, it has already proved to be extremely harmful and deadly! It has lead many people to believe medicine and doctors are not necessary to cure illness. While some people may have gotten lucky with all natural, it could have been just a miracle or a coincidence.
The least harmful belief I think would be unexplained, because there is no evidence against it, nor is there explanation why it is what it is.

6.The most important thing I would pass on is, Don't believe everything you hear until you know the facts. Do your own research and decide your belief from there