Another Possible Atlantis Location: Santorini, Greece

And yet, another possible location for the lost city of Atlantis. This time, in the Mediterranean Sea in Greece. Here’s an excerpt from a blog post by John Salta:

“. . . your view from those villages looks down into the cauldron of an ancient volcano. Never mind that the volcano is still active. Around 4,000 years ago, the Thera eruption was forceful enough to make it the largest such explosion ever recorded, vaporizing most of what was once a decent-size island. On the south of the island, you can explore the ruins of the city of Akrotiri, which was evacuated just prior to the eruption. Some scholars believe Santorini is where the lost city of Atlantis once thrived. Could be.”

John Saltas’ Summer Vacation
Join the City Weekly founder on a trip to Greece.

Funny, I though Plato said Atlantis was beyond the Straits of Gibraltar, which means in the Atlantic Ocean rather than in the Mediterranean Sea where Greece is. How did Santorini become a possible location for Atlantis?

I guess anything in the general area of the Atlantic Ocean is fair game for the experts . . . especially anything that disappeared because of a volcanic eruption. Makes sense in a way.

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Sinkhole Forms in Guatemala City

Can you believe it? In the Yucatan Travel Movie, we visit a cenote or sinkhole in the lovely colonial town of Valladolid, Mexico.

In the movie, narrator Miriam Balsley says, “Not to worry,” because cenotes formed millions of years ago. . . . or anyway, the sinkhole or cenote in Valladolid formed millions of years ago. It is a huge cave in solid limestone with an open ceiling.

It turns out that one formed two days ago obliterating an intersection in Guatemala City. The hole is 60 feet in diameter and 30 stories deep. It swallowed a three-story apartment building.

According to an online National Geographic article by Ker Than:

Sinkholes are natural depressions that can form when water-saturated soil and other particles become too heavy and cause the roofs of existing voids in the soil to collapse.

Another way sinkholes can form is if water enlarges a natural fracture in a limestone bedrock layer. As the crack gets bigger, the topsoil gently slumps, eventually leaving behind a sinkhole.

Sinkhole in Guatemala: Giant Could Get Even Bigger

Coincidentally, Miriam is in Guatemala at this time taking a Spanish language intensive. Fortunately, she is far from Guatemala City right now. Yesterday, she and other students in her school, helped to clean up a mudslide cause by Tropical Storm Agatha. Flooding water from the tropical storm is considered to be a cause of the sinkhole collapse in Guatemala City.

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Is an Upcoming Megavolcano Eruption the Fulfillment of the Garabandal Prophecy?

As I said in my May 28, 2010 post, Miriam Balsley, the host and narrator of the Yucatan Travel Movie is presently in Guatemala. Last month, she climbed Pacaya, the Guatemala City volcano that recently erupted killing three people.

Because of Miriam’s experience with the volcano, I have been noticing reports of unusual volcanic activity such as recent eruptions in Equador and the troublesome volcano in Iceland that is wreaking havoc with European air travel.

I wondered if this recent volcanic activity was greater than normal. My mind was beginning to conjure fantasies about increased volcanic activity as an indication of the beginning of prophesied earth upheavals.

Well, I received my answer in a public television network program on megavolcanoes. It turns out that the earth, on average, has about 50 volcanic eruptions every year. That puts things in perspective as far as the Guatemala, Equador, and Iceland volcanoes go. Whew, sigh of relief!

But, these yearly volcanic eruptions, according to the Megavolcano program, are tiny compared to infrequent but devastating megavolcano eruptions. The megavolcanoes build up for thousands, maybe even millions, of years, before they unleash their fury, destroying all in their path.

To my surprise, one of the biggest megavolcanoes is under Yellowstone National Park.

The caldera that underlies Yellowstone National Park—”caldera” essentially means humongous crater—is over 50 miles long and nearly 30 miles wide. You could fit four Manhattans placed end to end inside. The amount of magma, or molten rock, thrown out by its most recent supereruption 640,000 years ago was a staggering 240 cubic miles, with an ash volume two to three times that.

THE NEXT BIG ONE BY PETER TYSON
What could we expect if a supereruption were to occur today?

This is the scary part. Evidently scientists have determined that the Yellowstone megavolcanoe erupts every 600,000 years. It has been 640,000 years since the last eruption. Oops! That means that Yellowstone could explode any time now.

Would this be a fulfillment of the Virgin Mary’s prediction in Garabandal Spain of a devastation of the earth next time by fire?

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Is It the Lost “City” or the Lost “Continent” of Atlantis

In reference to my post yesterday in which I quoted in entirety a blog post by Edziomek, posted on May 27th, 2010 at http://community.history.com.

It appears that the author of the article differentiates between the lost city of Atlantis and the lost continent of Atlantis. In other words, the lost continent of Atlantis would have been at the location of the present-day Atlantic Ocean, whereas he proposes that the lost city of Atlantis was off the coast of Spain.

Lost City of Atlantis ‘Could be in Buried in Southern Spain’

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Lost city of Atlantis off the Coast of Spain

There is so much information in this blog post on the Lost City of Atlantis that I decided just to copy and paste the whole article.

Some of it I have read about elsewhere, such as that the submerged land of the Atlantic Ocean was once above sea level and was Atlantis.

Some of it is new to me such as that 12,000 years ago our present North was South and our present South was North. Intriguing. Does this mean there was a pole shift?

Here’s the article. It’s by Edziomek, posted on May 27th, 2010 at http://community.history.com.

The Spanish researchers, and several of the posters have correctly explained that there are so many underwater former human habitats, that it will be difficult, but not impossible, to isolate just one location as the “real Atlantis”. I certainly encourage the Spanish researchers to try, and they may be right!

I am in the same boat as the speculators. As 10,000 persons before me, I am suggesting that the “Atlantic” is “Atlantis”, the continent. To find the explicit 20 by 40 mile habitat section called Atlantis, the city, under the mud is very difficult. As mentioned before, all ocean floors, the floor of the Med, the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, the Bay of Bengal, they are all showing organized, probably advanced, human habitat formations of the most extreme antiquity, probably 60 to 100,000 years ago.

As many before me have probably done, I took the time to overlay the most common ancient Atlantean map, with titles “upside down”, and overlaid the Atlantic ocean topography. Azores is the highlight still above water, and it stands for “O-siris”. The map depicts the mid-Atlantic world in the epoch of time when “North” was today’s “South”, and that would be 12,000 years ago.
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In addition, remember what the ancient Egyptian priests told Solon, that “You Greeks are like children, you don’t even know your own history”. The Egyptian priests were explaining…”You too were Atlanteans, and you don’t even know it!”

I am convinced that the ancient Greeks had maps of those lost lands, and they hid these facts in their mythologies: The helmet of Athena was the area west of Ireland. The discus thrower encompassed Azores, and Northwest to Greenland. The disc itself is the “Aten”, an area south of Greenland.

There were two oceans, Atlanticos towards Spain, and Oceanos in the Bermuda area, with the Mid-Atlantic ridge area above water and showing massive habitats of extreme antiquity all the way down to Antarctica. Somewhere in the transition between Atlanticos and Oceanos, where the straits were narrow, was the city of Atlantis.

In my opinion, this was the ancient homeland area of some of the Greek tribes, Athenians for instance. The “sparkling white mountain” was Bermuda.
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There are laser beam roads all across these ocean floors, indicating the entire world topography seems to have reversed, what is ocean floor was above sea level, and vice verse.

Lost City of Atlantis ‘Could be in Buried in Southern Spain’

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Roasting Marshmallows on top of Guatemala Volcano that is Erupting Today

Miriam Balsley, narrator of the Yucatan Travel Movie is in Guatemala taking intensive Spanish Language classes.

I knew she had climbed a Guatemala volcano or two or three with a guide. However, I assumed she was no where near the rock and ash-spewing Volcano Pacaya. Still, I felt relieved when I received an email from her saying that she was safe and far from Pacaya.

However, she did climb Pacaya a couple of months ago. Her guided roasted a marshmallow over a scorching crack in the surface of the peak. She writes of her experience on the Guatemala Volcano:

It didn’t matter that there was no actual lava flowing today. Perhaps another time. The 2 foot hole blasting heat was proof of the intensity that lay brewing below us. And the marshmallows were pretty good too. But talk about being a pro cooker. If you left them longer than a second, they instantaniously went up in flames.

Volcano Pacaya

For Miriam’s photos of the Guatemala Volcano, follow the link: http://miriamtravel.blogspot.com/2010/04/volcano-pacaya.html”>Volcano Pacaya

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Music in Yucatan Travel Movie

Well, I guess I’m up late again . . . working on the “Music in Yucatan TravelBonus Feature for the Yucatan Travel Movie. I’m loving it, of course. But, it is taking longer than I expected. So what else is new?

In this feature, I’m showing the musicians playing selections of music from Yucatan Travel in a small part of the screen while the regular images in the movie play.

My editing software, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, calls it a “cookie cutter.” It’s complicated because I have to have two images lined up with the audio track instead of only one.

Oh well, it’s worth it. I really want to honor the wonderful musicians who gave me permission to use their fantastic music.

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Atlantis and the Secret Doctrine

Here’s some strange information on Atlantis and Lemuria supposedly from Helena Petrovna Blavatsky‘s The Secret Doctrine. The following quote is
from a detractor who calls Madam Blavasky‘s book, “The Stupid Doctrine:”

Apparently the “elect” from the lost continent of Lemuria were to be found on Atlantis, before they made their way to Shamballah in the Gobi desert. When Lemuria was destroyed, Atlantis appeared (II, 402).

The Secret Doctrine–The Synthesis of Science Religion and Philosophy Volume 1 and 2

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Interested in Online Marketing?

I’ve been a member of James Maduk’s MySmallBizUniversity for a number of years. I highly recommend his membership site.

There are many books on internet marketing. I have also heard audio presentations telling you about the virtues of online marketing.

However, for online marketing wouldn’t it make more sense to have some kind of program online?

That’s what James Maduk has in his My Small Biz University. There are about 1,000 videos, many of them screen captures so you can pause the video and do what it says on your own computer.

It’s fantastic! You just follow along online! What a great concept.

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