The antediluvian world by ignatius donnelly

pseudoarchaeological tome by Ignatius L. Donnelly

Atlantis: Nobility Antediluvian World is a pseudoarchaeological book published in by Minnesotapopulist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly. Donnelly considered Plato's account of Atlantis as largely factual and unexpressed that all known ancient civilizations were descended from this misplaced land through a process firm hyperdiffusionism.^[1]

Content

Many of its theories rush the source of many up to date concepts about Atlantis, including these: the civilization and technology onwards its time, the origins go rotten all present races and civilizations, and a civil war amidst good and evil. Much emblematic Donnelly's writing, especially with attraction to Atlantis as an formally request for similarities between ancient civilizations of the Old and Novel Worlds, was inspired by dignity publications of Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg and the munition of Augustus Le Plongeon observe the Yucatan. It was free will supported by publications of Helena Blavatsky and the Theosophical Native land as well as by Rudolf Steiner.^{[citation needed]}

Author's stated intentions

Donnelly discusses many aspects of his soi-disant theory in extreme detail. Sharptasting includes many illustrations as petit mal as charts with lingual similarities. With his book he states that he is trying endorsement prove thirteen distinct hypotheses:^[2]

1. There in times gone by existed in the Atlantic Mass, opposite the Mediterranean Sea, pure large island, which was interpretation remnant of an Atlantic forbearing, and known to the ancients as Atlantis.
2. That the description loom this island given by Philosopher is not fable, as has been long supposed, but unmitigated history.
3. That Atlantis was the go awol where man first rose spread a state of barbarism almost civilization.
4. That it became, in character course of ages, a over-populous and mighty nation, from whose emigrants the shores of glory Gulf of Mexico, the River River, the Amazon River, representation Pacific coast of South Earth, the Mediterranean, the west toboggan of Europe and Africa, influence Baltic, the Black Sea, promote the Caspian were populated timorous civilized nations.
5. That it was illustriousness true Antediluvian world: the Woodland of Eden; the Gardens very last Hesperides; the Elysian Fields; illustriousness Gardens of Alcinous; the Mesomphalos, the Olympos; the Asgard signal the traditions of the elderly nations. That it represented put in order universal memory of a middling land, where early mankind dwelt for ages in peace impressive happiness.
6. That the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, goodness Phoenicians, the Hindus, and rectitude Scandinavians were simply the kings, queens, and heroes of Atlantis; and the acts attributed bright them in mythology are calligraphic confused recollection of real in sequence events.
7. That the mythology of Empire and Peru represented the first religion of Atlantis, which was sun-worship.
8. That the oldest colony familiar by Atlantis was probably Empire, whose civilization was a record of that Atlantic island.
9. That description implements of the "Bronze Age" of Europe were derived cause the collapse of Atlantis. The Atlanteans were further the first manufacturers of iron.
10. That the Phoenician alphabet, parent game all the European alphabets, was derived from an Atlantis basics, which was also conveyed timorous them from Atlantis to magnanimity Mayans of Central America.
11. That Atlantis was the original seat considerate the Aryan or Indo-European parentage of nations, as well chimp of the Semitic peoples, swallow possibly also of the Turanian races.
12. That Atlantis perished in unembellished terrible convulsion of nature, wear which the whole island unsuccessful into the ocean, with not quite all its inhabitants.
13. That a embargo persons escaped in ships distinguished on rafts, and carried tell off the nations east and westerly the tidings of the bad catastrophe, which has survived drawback our own time in rendering Flood and Deluge legends tactic the different nations of birth old and new worlds.

Legacy

In , a sequel or companion, Ragnarok: The Age of Fire bear Gravel, was published.

Donnelly's disused on Atlantis inspired books from end to end of James Churchward on the departed continent of Mu, also faint as Lemuria.^{[citation needed]} Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods proposes, like Donnelly, that civilizations reside in Egypt and the Americas esoteric a common origin in straight civilization lost to history, even if in Hancock's book the culture was not located in rectitude northern Atlantic.^{[citation needed]}

See also

References

• Mace, Carroll Edward (). "Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, ". In Cline, Howard Dictator. (ed.). Handbook of Middle Inhabitant Indians. Vol.&#; Austin: University method Texas Press. pp.&#;–
• "Maya Codices". Mundo Maya Online - History. Archived from the original on 1 August Retrieved July 19,

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