| From: | "Fisher, Victor" <Victor-Fisher@******.COM> |
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| Subject: | A Little Earthdawn Info for those who want to use it :-} |
| Date: | Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:35:25 -0400 |
such Enemy, IE's, and other assorted millenia junk. It should make sense
to those guys who realize it for what it is.
Duncan M., DON'T READ!!! Wouldn't want to spoil your surprise <evil
grin>. Enjoy.
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The Island of Thera
The island of Thera (also known as Santorini) is part of a group of
islands known as the Cyclades in the Mediterranean (see map page for its
location in the Mediterranean). Thera remains today an active volcano,
though how it appears to us now is much different than it would have
looked before the massive eruption about 1628 BC. When Thera erupted it
utterly destroyed the island including the city of Akrotiri, burying it
under tons of ash and debris. The entire center of the island was blown
away and where there was once a mountain peak it was now flat ocean.
Geologists consider the eruption of Thera to be the most massive and
singularly destructive event in recorded history.
Almost 1700 years before the birth of Christ there was a town known
as Akrotiri on Thera. It was a valuable port city and part of the Minoan
civilization. We know this because the art and pottery found on Thera
match that found on Crete. Akrotiri thrived as a port city and the money
that the sea trade brought them allowed them to afford to build
beautiful buildings. Scientists have rediscovered Akrotiri and
archaeologists are working to fully excavate it. It is this very town
that is believed to be the source of the Atlantis legend.
Why do we place the origin of the legend of Atlantis on Thera? Most
importantly it was the eruption of the island itself that is the biggest
clue. No other event could have been massive enough to destroy an entire
island. Plato talks of the destruction of Atlantis happening 9000 years
before his day. One theory suggests that the original legend that the
Egyptians read may have been written in a language that the Minoans used
called Linear A. In Linear A, the symbol used for 100 and the one used
for 1000 differ only slightly (see diagram). A simple mistake would have
introduced an error factor of 10, putting the destruction of Atlantis
not 9000 years before Plato, but 900 years before, which coincides with
the eruption of Thera.
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Lenny Nero: Bullet-resistant?! Whatever happened to bullet-proof??
- from the movie
_Strange Days_
