The shift of the Poles and the Flood
According to some new theories, the Great Flood would be the consequence of the geographical and magnetic shift of the Poles. If this has already happened in the past, is it perhaps a natural evolutionary cycle?
We now know that all ancient cultures talk about the Universal Flood. It is not only written in the Bible but is also present in Latin American cultures, including the Maya, Incas, Aztecs, Olmecs, and the native North Americans. In Europe, it appears in Greek culture, and in Asia and Africa among the peoples of ancient Egypt, the Dogon, the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, the ancient inhabitants of India, and many Pacific cultures. All these peoples speak of a planetary catastrophe that flooded the entire planet, sinking continents and destroying their civilization. From this, we understand the many characteristics that all these populations have in common. They were probably all survivors of a single culture, subsequently divided by a huge catastrophe.
These are the famous lost continents of Atlantis, Mu, and Lemuria. Although geology does not scientifically support these hypotheses, let's admit for a moment the veracity of the myths and traditions about these continents. As for Mu, this was located in the Pacific Ocean. Information about this lost continent comes to us from almost all the cultures of the Far East, and objectively, ruins can still be found almost everywhere in the islands of Polynesia. These are very ancient megalithic ruins made up of enormous blocks fitted together that are very reminiscent of the Inca ones on the other side of the ocean. They are very ancient constructions that official archaeology attributes to native indigenous populations. However, among the various cultures of Asia, it is said that these people descend from a very advanced culture that inhabited a large continent located right in the Pacific Ocean (although there are myths that place it in another location) and today disappeared due to an immense flood that destroyed everything thousands of years ago. The islands we know today that are part of Oceania are what remains of that wonderful land on which the civilization of Mu thrived; these would be the tops of the mountain peaks of the ancient continent.
Lemuria probably suffered the same fate. This continent, less known than the others, was located in the Indian Ocean and extended from near Madagascar to India. On the other hand, Atlantis, the best known of the lost continents, has been talked about a lot in history and is still talked about today. But unlike Mu, no trace has ever been found, and it is perhaps for this reason that official science finds it difficult to believe in its existence.
We remember, among all those who provided us with the most information on Atlantis, the great Greek philosopher Plato. According to the philosopher, Atlantis was located "beyond the Pillars of Hercules," that is, in the Atlantic Ocean, beyond today's Strait of Gibraltar. He told of a wonderful land and a very technologically advanced people who possessed considerable engineering knowledge. Even their palaces and monuments in the capital, circular in shape with concentric rings and crossed by water channels, were marvelous. Plato described it as an island larger than Libya and Asia combined. Their kingdom also dominated other nearby islands, Libya itself, Egypt, and other regions of Europe.
For years, archaeologists have searched for the "Mythical Continent" but without ever having found evidence or traces that testify to its existence. Perhaps this is why they deny that it ever existed, but we certainly cannot ignore everything that is written and told to us by ancient scholars, also because they had original documents in their hands that demonstrated its existence. Unfortunately, these documents were all destroyed in the fire of the Library of Alexandria, along with all the knowledge of antiquity.
In recent years, it has been hypothesized that Atlantis was actually the Greek island of Santorini (modern-day Thera), destroyed around 1650 BCE by a volcanic eruption, the same one that supposedly put an end to the Minoan civilization. A few years ago, archaeological excavations brought to light very ancient remains on what remains of the central island of Santorini. Others suggest that Atlantis was in Sardinia, also due to the existence of the mysterious Nuraghe, enormous monuments built with large blocks of stone fitted together, but this seems like a risky hypothesis.
One of the latest hypotheses is that Atlantis did not sink but that it "slipped" to the south of the world; this would be the Antarctic continent today, entirely covered by ice. This is one of the most accredited theories of recent years. The American scholar Charles Hapgood spoke about this already in the 1950s, a theory also supported by Albert Einstein.
Hapgood called his theory "crustal displacement"; he argued that the ever-increasing weight of the polar ice caps over time pushed the earth's crust with immense energy, suddenly causing the movement of entire continents and the disappearance of some, due to the enormous mass of water that moved during this cataclysm. This theory is today discarded by two Canadian researchers, a couple named Rand and Rose Flem-Ath, who have developed a new and much more credible theory that we also share. After about twenty years of research, the Flem-Aths found confirmation of their theory by studying some geographical maps, manuscripts, and mythological stories preserved in the Vancouver museum in Canada. Their conclusion is that the continent of Atlantis is Antarctica, as Hapgood also stated, which was buried under ice 10,000 years ago.
But unlike Hapgood, the two researchers trace the cause of the sudden glaciation of the continent and the flood to the rapid movement of the geographic and magnetic poles of the Earth. Planet Earth would soon have been "upside down" due to the weight of the ice, causing some lands that were in different latitudes and with a milder climate to suddenly find themselves with a totally changed climate, while others were submerged by the displaced waters due to the speed of the movement of the earth's axis. Many ancient texts confirm this theory. For instance, Plato wrote in the Timaeus: "... the stars seemed to rotate madly in the celestial vault and the Sun rose from an angle never seen before." Herodotus, in the second book of his "Histories," mentions the first king of Egypt, whom he calls Mene, who existed 341 generations before, or 11,340 years before his visit to the priests of Thebes. Herodotus says that in that period "the Sun deviated four times from its usual course: twice it would have risen from where it now sets; and where it now rises, it would have set twice. Nothing in Egypt, for all this time, had to undergo changes."
Supporting their theory is the fact that about 10,000 years ago, agriculture spontaneously developed in the highest points of the Earth such as the Andean plateaus, Thailand, and Ethiopia, coinciding with the date of the destruction of Atlantis as narrated by Plato. The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the most ancient Sumerian texts, narrates: "the southern wind roared, the waters roared, the waters already reached the mountains, the waters fell on all the people." In the famous Egyptian papyri of Harris, Hermitage, and Ipuwer, it is described: "the south became north... and the Earth turned over."
The shift of the poles can also be proven by the discovery of some Etruscan terracotta vases. Within these artifacts, the iron particles present had a magnetism that pointed southward. So, either the vessels were built in the Southern Hemisphere and brought to the Northern Hemisphere, or the Earth's magnetic axis was flipped.
This shift was also the cause of the end of the great glaciations. In the Indian epic Mahabharata, there is talk of "seven great islands of the Western Sea" destroyed by an immense cataclysm and the end of a great, very powerful land. Similarly, a manuscript preceding the Mayan culture tells of the end of Mu: "...after having risen twice, it disappeared during the night, while the earth was continuously shaken. The ground sank and re-emerged several times...". Many scholars of the mystery believe that what caused the flood and the reversal of the poles was the fall of an asteroid on Earth, precisely in the area of the Atlantic Ocean where Atlantis was believed to be located, as Plato said.
Even in the East, specifically in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, there are stories of the destruction of Mu. Here, on a tablet probably 12,000 years old, found (allegedly) by the English explorer James Churchward, there is an engraving that says: "when the star Bal fell where today there is nothing but sea, seven cities trembled... A great blaze arose and the streets filled with smoke...". Most likely, the fall of a planetoid occurred in the past, but perhaps this is not exactly the cause of the disappearance of Atlantis; otherwise, it would not explain why Mu, located in the Pacific, and Lemuria, which was in the Indian Ocean, also sank. These continents were separated from others such as America and Asia, which otherwise would have had to suffer the same fate.
The hypothesis that Antarctica was probably the lost continent is supported by the various forest fossils found on this land, demonstrating that the climate was once very different from today. One of these areas is located on Ross Island, where the Erebus volcano is still active today in the Antarctic land belonging to New Zealand. Among other evidence is the famous nautical map of the Turkish admiral Piri Re'is. This ancient map from 1513 shows very clearly the profile of the coasts of South America and part of the Antarctic continent free from ice. The mystery is that this territory was officially discovered only in 1820.
The map had been copied by the Turkish admiral from an original that belonged to Christopher Columbus and given to him after the discovery of America. In all likelihood, the map was given to Columbus by some of his vassal relatives from noble families once associated with the Knights Templar, who probably had the precious document originating from what remained of the Library of Alexandria. This shows that the map was very ancient and had been drawn by someone who knew those areas well; perhaps this someone came from there.
