Presentation 1 — Atlantis' Charts and Maps

Dr C.A. Bartzokas · Atlantean Realities Series · 13 slides · White Lotus Day, Athens, 14 May 2006

The opening presentation of a series of seven given by Dr C.A. Bartzokas to the United Lodge of Theosophists in Greece, at the White Lotus Day gathering held in Athens on 14 May 2006. It is a visual argument rather than a written one, and its method is juxtaposition: the received esoteric cartography of Atlantis set directly against what modern instruments have found on the floor of the Atlantic.

At its centre are the four traditional maps of the world at successive stages — Atlantis at its height a million years ago; the world after the catastrophe of 800,000 years ago, when Ruta and Daitya remained; after the subsidence of 200,000 years ago; and the last island, Poseidonis, up to its final submergence in 9,564 BC. Around them sit a modern relief map of the Atlantic basin, a geological time spiral, a comparative geochronological table, several seafloor renderings of the mid-Atlantic ridge including a three-dimensional view, and — the most striking inclusion — the nineteenth-century "Profile of Atlantis" drawn from the deep-sea soundings of HMS Challenger and the USS Dolphin.

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