Hotlantis: The Lost Continent

EPISODE 131 | Hotlantis: The Lost Continent

We all love mysteries, and Atlantis is one of the biggest ones. Was it a real place or just an allegory? If real, then where was it? Many people have spent a lot of time and money trying to discover the answer to that question. 

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SECTIONS

1. 02:22 - Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me - Plato's Timaeus and Critias describe Atlantis, Utopia, probably just an allegory, Tertullian's "On Baptism", Elysium, Plato references Solon
2. 08:44 - When the Levee Breaks - Atlantias by Hellanicus of Lesbos, the disaster at Helike, Altantipedia
3. 14:00 - Mediterranean Sundance - Crantor believed it, the Pillars of Hercules, in the Mediterranean: Santorini (Thira), the Minoans, Robert Graves thought it was Pharos, Robert L. Scranton liked Lake Copais, other Med locales
4. 21:08 - Atlantic - Ignatius Donnelly and Pierre-Marie Termier chose the Azores, hyperdiffusionism, Otto Muck thought about the Mid-Atlantic Range and the Carolina Bays, Bory de Saint-Vincent liked the Canary Islands (and pillow lava), Jorge Maria Ribero-Meneses considered the Cachucho Plateau, some liked the Spartel Bank, Paul Dunbavin liked the the Irish Sea, Stel Pavlou changes the timeline, the Richart Structure in Mauritania
5. 28:48 - Abraham Ortelius drew a map, Athanasius Kircher expanded that work and thought Atlantis connected North America with Africa
6. 31:02 - New World - Edgar Cayce's visions pointed to Bimini, the Bimini Road, the Blake Plateau, the Sargasso Sea, J.M. Allen thinks of the Incans and Bolivia, mythological places, Antarctica 
7. 36:40 - Underwater Love - Olaus Rudbeck preferred Sweden, Jürgen Spanuth like Northern Europe, Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy and root races, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels and Guido von List create Ariosophy ("the wisdom of the Aryans"), the Nazis took that ball and ran with it
8. 41:33 - Palace of the Brine - CTs like ancient aliens, the Vatican, the Illuminati; Tony O’Connell of Atlantapedia's central Mediterranean theory, my own take on it all

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Atlantipedia website

• Timaeus By Plato

• Critias By Plato

• Finding Atlantis in the depths of Plato

• On Baptism by Tertullian
• Atlantis isn’t real, but here are all the places it could have been in Popular Science
• Atlantis on History.com
• Atlantis at National Geographic 
• Atlantis - An Investigation on Storymaps
• Top 10 Amazing Facts About the Lost City of Atlantis
• The ‘truth’ behind Atlantis – Christopher Gill on Plato’s Atlantis Story
• Where is the Lost City of Atlantis — and Does it Even Exist? in Discover
• Is Atlantis Real? The Truth Behind the Atlantis Myth
• Was there a real Atlantis? on How Stuff Works
• Plato’s Atlantis Before Plato on Beachcombing's BIzarre HIstory Blog
• WHO ELSE WROTE ABOUT ATLANTIS?
• Findings on Santorini Point to “Lost Island of Atlantis” Origins
• How the Ancient Greek City of Helike Was Destroyed and Rediscovered
• Wrath of a God or Nature: The Demise of Helike
• What Are the Pillars of Hercules Mentioned in Greek Mythology?
• The Pillars of Heracles at the Plato Project
• How the Discovery of ‘Atlantis’ Made Big News Then Faded Away
• The Mysteries of Lake Copais and the Island Fortress of Gla
• The Sunken City That Might Be Atlantis
• Atlantis Location Hypothesis
• 10 mysterious locations to find the lost city of Atlantis
• WHERE IS ATLANTIS?: PILLARS OF HERACLES, A SEA OF MUD AND MONSTERS IN THE DEEP
• Atlantis, Lake Tritonis, and Pharos
• Ignatius L. Donnelly in the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia 
• Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly in the Public Domain Review
• Are the Misty Peaks of the Azores Remnants of the Legendary Atlantis?
• The Canary Islands And The Atlantis Legend
• Pillow basalt more than a kilometer above sea level
• Lost city of Atlantis believed found off Spain
• The Mystery of Carolina Bays
• Location hypotheses of Atlantis
• Hunting Atlantis TV show
• “Be Vewy Quiet. I’m Hunting Atlantis.”
• What Exactly Is the Eye of the Sahara, aka the Richat Structure?
• Ancient Saharan Origins of East African Bantus: The Land of Atlantis and Egypt
• Atlantis on the Green Sahara
• The Infamous Map of Atlantis on Cryptid Campfire
• How the imaginary island of Atlantis was mapped on Vox
• Bimini Road/The Lost City of Atlantis
• Why Some People Think Bimini Road Is A Lost Highway To Atlantis on All That's Interesting
• Ep. 128 | Estimated Prophets: Nostradamus & Cayce
• The Island of Atlantis Discovered
• The Blake Plateau: A Southern Treasure
• Deep Sea Corals: The depths of the Blake Plateau
• Ep. 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe: The Devil’s Triangle
• The Sargasso Sea: why this ‘golden floating rainforest’ urgently needs protecting at Greenpeace
• Mysteries of the Sargasso Sea
• Atlantis: The Andes Solution : The Discovery of South America As the Legendary Continent of Atlantis by John Blashford-Snell
• Exploring Atlantis and Lemuria
• Is Atlantis in Antarctica
• Atlantis on the H. P. Lovecraft Wiki
• Swedish Visions of Atlantis – Olof Rudbeck the Elder’s Atlantica
• Atlantis Then and Now on the Theosophical Society website
• Eight unbelievable theories about Atlantis - that people actually believed!
• Atlantis Conspiracy website
• Lost city of Atlantis rises again to fuel a dangerous myth in The Guardian
• Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found by Arysio Santos 
• Joining The Dots: Plato's Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean by Tony O'Connell 

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