Originally posted by Hollywood11
Clearly if we want to have a greater understanding of relgion and the history of religon, human origins, "the garden of Eden", etc., then we have to
study many flood myths all around the world to find independant corroboration and correlations between stories.
You'll run into a lot of problems, including the fact that many cultures have no flood myth and others have flood myths that appeared only after
Christian missionaries came to them.
Obviously one of the most important relevant flood myths to study then, is the story of Atlantis
So... I'm not sure where you're going with this, but the ONLY source of the "flood myth of Atlantis (it wasn't a flood, actually)" is Plato and
he says only the contient sunk and remained sunken (it turned into a vast continent of mud flats, according to his writings.)
Now, here is something quite shocking to science! Mexican and Central american style step-pyramids found in the Canary islands on the other
side of the Atlantic, closer to Spain than to Mexico. Discovered by Dr. Heyerdahl who has done extensive research on the pyramids of Peru
That's really a misleading factoid from the site. Actually, Heyerdal didn't do extensive research on pyramids in Peru. He did a lot of studies on
Polynesia, but his researches on pyramids really weren't as extensive.
en.wikipedia.org...
They were painstakingly built step-pyramids, constructed according to similar principles as those of Mexico, Peru, and ancient
Mesopotamia.
Actually, they're more similar to zuggarats than they are to pyramids of the Americas. They're also somewhat similar to early mastabas... and to
terraced fields as well.
The Evidence
* Far from being piles of unworked rubble, every stone was turned with its flat side out and placed together by stone masons.
I think you might want to look at the photos themselves before going along with those conclusions. Click on the images in the Wikipedia article, and
you'll see what I mean. They're not carefully carved blocks, as were the blocks of the other examples mentioned.
Moreover, the archaeologists found UNDERNEATH the pyramid (in places where tourists couldn't have put them), pottery and objects from the 1800's.
And, of course, they knew how to align things with the solstices in the 1800's.
Following Dr. Heyerdahl's express wishes, no theory is forced on the visitors to Guimar. In fact the symbol of the exhibit is a question mark,
asking each person to make up his own mind.
I love the idea, actually!
Yet certainly, the evidence leads Heyerdahl and others involved in the project to believe that these pyramids may be remains from pre-European
voyagers who sailed the Atlantic in ancient times, and may have possibly forged a link with the pre-Columbian civilizations of the
Americas.
I think he would have changed his mind if he'd been along on that dig.
The priority is to preserve the pyramids, which were slated for destruction to make way for urban development. Two of the smaller pyramids,
which were partially damaged in recent decades, have also been restored.
And that's good news, because those are pretty cool structures!
[edit on 14-7-2008 by Byrd]
