Atlantis (Location)

The Aegean Sea – M. Latreille, Discours sur l’Atlantide (1819)
Algeria – P. Benoit, >L'Atlantide (1919)
The Azores – A. Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus (1665)
Antarctica – R. & R. Flem-Ath, When the Sky Fell (1995)
The Atlantic Ocean – P. Schliemann, How I Discovered Atlantis (1912)
The Bahamas – E. Cayce, Atlantis Revisited (1923)
Bermuda – C. Berlitz, The Mystery of Atlantis (1969)
The Canary Islands – B. de Saint-Vincent, Les Iles fortunées (1803)
The Caucasus – D. de Sales, Histoire de tous les peuples (1779)
Corsica – É. Cadet, Les pierres précieuses de Corse (1785)
Crete – J. V. Luce, The End of Atlantis (1970)
Cyprus – R. Sarmast (Reuters 27/4/04)
Heligoland (North Sea) – J. Spanuth, Atlantis of the North (1979)
Lake Titicaca – H. S. Bellamy, The Calendar of Tiahuanaco (1956)
Mato Grosso (Brazil) – F. H. Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett (1920)
New Zealand[*] – ?
North Africa – H. Bock, Dissertation (1685)
North Atlantic – H. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (1888)
The Pacific Ocean – F. Bacon, The New Atlantis (1626)
Palestine – O. de Marseille, Dissertation sur le Critias (1726)
Pillars of Hercules – Plato, >Timaeus & >Critias (c.355 BC)
The Sargasso Sea – I. Donnelly, Atlantis the Antediluvian World (1882)
Arghati (Tibet) – G. Ashe, Atlantis: Ancient Wisdom (1992)
Spitzbergen – J.-S. Bailly, Lettres sur L’Atlantide (1779)
Sweden – O. Rudbeck, L’Atlantide suédoise (1675)
Tartessos (Asia Minor) – L. Sprague de Camp, Citadels of Mystery (1973)
Thera / Santorini – J. W. Mavor, Voyage to Atlantis (1969)
Yucatán – R. Stacy-Judd, Atlantis Mother of Empires (1939)
Zimbabwe – H. Rider Haggard, She (1885)

[N. Driscoll, Atlantis: A Conspiracy Revealed, pp. 15-16]

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[*] See >Zodiac.

B

Baring-Gould, Rev. Sabine (1834-1924)


In an essay on ‘Wandering Words,’ Mr T. W. Sandrey says :– ‘The talismanic words uttered by children in their innocent games have come down to us very nearly as perfect as when spoken by the ancient Briton, but with an opposite and widely different meaning.[*]

The only degree of likeness that lies between them now is, that where the child of the present day escapes a certain kind of juvenile punish­ment, the retention of the word originally meant DEATH in its most cruel and barbarous way.’

The correspondence is much closer than the writer perceived, for he overlooked the fact that the process in both instances is one of elimination, the one remaining being the victim, the rest being successively set free.

To be set free, you must recite the right words in the right order

I have tried in my novel Perpetua to give a description of what took place, according to tradition, at Nîmes once in every seven years. Nîmes possesses a marvellous spring, a river of green water that swells up out of the bowels of the earth and fills a large circular reservoir. A temple of Nemausus stood near the basin

[S. Baring-Gould, A Book of Folk-lore, p. 106]


Nemausus – Nîmes – Nemesis

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[*] See >Short-term Memory Impairment.

Baxter, James K. (1926-1972)

This can be seen also in the audacious way in which Baxter’s “Poem by the Clock Tower, Sumner” (1948) juxtaposes Minoan Crete and Plato’s mythical lost continent of Atlantis with Kiwi beach culture:

Beside the dark sand and the winged foam
Under the shadow of the naked tower[*]
Play the wild children[+], stranger than Atlanteans.
For them the blazed rock hieroglyph burns clear[#]:
Bear dance and bull dance in the drenched arena[~]

“Terrible mirrors,” he calls them, bowing to their (alleged) superior wisdom:

... An Ice Age lies
Between us;[$] for they know
The place and hour of the young phoenix’ nest
On the bare dune where we can see only
Worn glacial stones and terminal moraine. …

[P. Fletcher, In the Bull-Ring: Hot Air and Hyperbole in Antipodean Writing, p. 73]

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[*] See >Xerxes.

[+] See >Baring-Gould, Rev. Sabine.

[#] See >Felton Mathew’s spider-web plan.

[~] See >Waite, Arthur Edward.

[$] See >Mu.

Bianca

blank [bianca] / clear [clara[*]] / white [candida]


[P. Cannepele & G. Krenn, Infinite Distance in Close-Up, p.15]

The books in her room are:

• André Breton, L’Union libre [Free love] (1923)
• Marquis de Sade, L’Histoire de Juliette (1797)
• Jules >Verne, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (1870)
• Pierre Benoit, >L’Atlantide [Atlantis] (1919)
• Carlo Collodi, Le Avventure di Pinocchio : Storia di un burratino (1883)
• Ada Boni, Il > Talismano della Felicitá [Talisman of Happiness] (1928)
• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or The Whale (1851)
• Octave Mirbeau, Le > Jardin des Supplices [Torture Garden] (1899)

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[*] See >Girl in Love, A.

C

Cannibal Worms

A distinction in this respect should certainly be made between short-term and long-term memory. It has been suggested that the former offers certain analogies with the workings of a digital computer, where familiar pathways can be reactivated or re-excited or in such a way as to constitute a residual record of past activity. The latter, on the other hand, must be physically embodied in some way, since it can endure for almost a hundred years, surviving comas, shock treatments, and even (in the case of experimental rats) refrigeration. An accidental concussion will often take away the memory of the hours immediately preceding it. It therefore seems probable that short-term memory is the more readily interrupted, being embodied in connections which must continually re-excite themselves[*] to last. If they do prove durable, such memory chains are (somehow) transferred to long-term storage, perhaps embodied by a literal “growth” within the synapses.

Short-term memory requires excitement

Memory itself, or the information it encodes, takes the form of connections, not of molecules. The quest for the biochemists’ holy grail, the so-called “memory molecule,” is therefore a mistaken one. Some researchers have tried to pass on memories by injecting extracts from schooled brains, or by encouraging cannibalism in worms.[+] Brains can indeed be altered chemically by injection, but specific information transfer has never been unequivocally documented. Fantasies of cannibalism appear to be more psychologically than biologically coded.[#]

[The Home Encyclopaedia of Human Psychology, ed. G. O’Bannon, p. 455]


Long-term memories transferred by cannibalism

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[*] See >Bianca.

[+] See >Panopticon.

[#] See >Werewolves.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BC)

Now, as in Tullias tombe, one lampe burnt cleare,
Unchang’d for fifteene hundred yeare,
May these love-lamps we here enshrine,
In warmth, light, lasting, equall the divine.

[J. Donne, Poetical Works, p. 125]

After the death of his daughter Tullia in 45 BC, the celebrated Roman lawyer, orator and statesman retreated from public life.[*] When her tomb was excavated in the Renaissance, it is alleged that a single lamp was found still burning in the airless gloom.

[Compendium of World History, p. 274]


Fun to be thirsty

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[*] See >Short-term Memory Impairment.

Critias

Plato’s description of Atlantis (the plain and the mountain):

Looking towards the sea, but in the centre of the whole island, there was a plain which is said to have been the fairest of all plains and very fertile. Also in the centre of the island, there was a mountain not very high on any side. In this mountain there dwelt one of the earth-born primeval men of that country, who had an only daughter who was called Cleito.[*] The maiden had already reached womanhood, when her father and mother died; Poseidon fell in love with her and had intercourse with her, and breaking the ground, inclosed the hill in which she dwelt all round, making alternate zones of sea and land larger and smaller, encircling one another; there were two of land and three of water, which he turned as with a lathe, each having its circumference equidistant from the centre, so that no man could get to the island.

NB: Circles of land and water:

They arranged the whole country in the following manner:

First of all they bridged over the zones of sea which surrounded the ancient metropolis, making a road to and from the royal palace.

Then, beginning from the sea, they bored a canal of three hundred feet in width and one hundred feet in depth and fifty stadia in length, which became a harbour, leaving an opening sufficient to enable the largest vessels to find ingress.

Moreover, they divided at the bridges the zones of land which parted the zones of sea, leaving room for a single trireme to pass out of one zone into another, and they covered over the channels so as to leave a way underneath for the ships.

All this, including the zones and the bridge, they surrounded by a stone wall on every side, placing towers and gates on the bridges where the sea passed in.

[Plato, ‘Critias’, Collected Dialogues, pp. 1218-22]

Am I the only one to see it sounds like here?

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[*] See >Xanthippe.