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 o