I Wish To Offer An Opinion On Atlantis, page 2

Originally posted by srsen
reply to post by Harte

I beg to disagree with you - Plato is NOT the only source on Atlantis, it is merely the only scholarly source.

There is a significent amount of cultures whose mythologies and creation epics detail a now sunken continent from which their culture derived.

I will give but ONE example - The Tuatha De Danann

This tribe of the Goddess Danu arrived in Ireland at approximately 2000BC. THEIR OWN history stated that they originated from lost islands in the North West (Atlantic region).

That's interesting. But I've never read any tale of these folk that mentioned any "lost Island."
Islands, yes, but "lost," no.

I do continue to appreciate Tolkien's use of this mythos in his works. What great tales.

The quote from Donnelly below is a joke, right? You realize you're quoting a retired politician with no knowledge whatsoever regarding what he's talking about. The book you quote from was written from his armchair in the Midwest U.S.A.

Ignatius Donnelly
...the Tuatha De Danann are represented as belonging to a race of mysterious origins which lives at the ends of the earth and who was supposedly driven from their home.

The Tuatha De Danann were the ancient inhabitants of Ireland who were forced to give way to the Gaels and to become the gods of Celtic imagination, the lords of the subterranean world.

Their uncertain origins combined with their curious stone constructions give them a cloak of mystery.

J.A MacCulloch
The meaning formerly given to Tuatha De Danann was "the men of science who were gods", Danann being here connected with dan, 'knowledge'.

Is there a reason you truncated this quote?

The meaning formerly given to Tuatha Dé Danann was "the men of science who were gods," danann being here connected with dán, "knowledge." But the true meaning is "the tribes or folk of the goddess Danu," 1 which agrees with the cognates Tuatha or Fir Dea, "tribes or men of the goddess." The name was given to the group, though Danu had only three sons, Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharbar. Hence the group is also called fir tri ndea, "men of the three gods." 2 The equivalents in Welsh story of Danu and her folk are Don and her children.

Source: Sacred Texts
It wasn't to further your point, was it?

from The Yellow Book of Lecan
There were four cities in which the Tuatha De Danann learnt wisdom and magic... Failias, Findias, Goirias and Murias.

(Note the similarity between Murias and Lemuria. If we take the "Le" to represent "the", then Le'Muria is likely the Murias of the De Danann.)

Lemuria was the name of a nonexistent and supposedly sunken land bridge from Madagascar toward India that was postulated to explain the presence of lemur fossils on the mainland when lemurs were known to only exist on Madagascar.

After plate tectonics was discovered, the idea of Lemuria, thankfully, was flushed down the toilets of time.

So, the above reference is beyond foolish, it's downright sickening.

Originally posted by srsen
Surely there is enough preliminary information here to classify the records and history of Tuatha De Danann as a basis for Atlantean research.

The technology was obviously advanced and yet we have no other indication to suggest an origin from anything other than lost homelands in the north-west.

I believe the De Danann were but one group connected to and part of the Atlantean Empire.

There has never been any ancient claim of advanced Atlantean technology. Those claims came from fraudulent "channelers," like the convicted felon Edgar Cayce.

Believe what you want. But I see no similarity at all between any Gaelic myth and the story (note - not myth) of Atlantis.

Harte