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The United Kingdom of Atlantis Told by Plato and Pyramid Texts, yet Buried in the Atlas Basin
Hong-Quan ZHANG
Received: October 10, 2024 | Published: November 7, 2024
Citation: Hong-Quan ZHANG. The United Kingdom of Atlantis Told by Plato and Pyramid Texts, yet Buried in the Atlas Basin. Int J Hydro. 2024;8(5):158-173. DOI: 10.15406/ijh.2024.08.00389
Abstract
Many new details are identified from the hieroglyphs of the Pyramid Texts (PT) pinning Plato’s Atlantis to the Atlas Basin. In this paper, these latest findings are organized around the history and structure of the Atlantis kingdom. After the Younger Dryas, the Atlas Basin became green, and its terminal mega lake overflowed to the Mediterranean Sea through a narrow gorge across the Gabes ridge. When this outlet was dug deeper, the mega lake was drained to split into two separate lakes and a promontory hill emerged at the outlet of the “cross-over canal” in between. This hill is identified as the Primordial Hill in the PT and personified as the self-created Sun God Atum. A magnificent hot spring ejected from this Hill and was viewed as the gate of Nu (the primordial water) giving birth to the gods. The legendary city Atlantis was built on this Hill and was called the “Eye City” or “Horus’s Eye” due to its similarity to an eye pupil. Descriptions from both the PT and Plato’s books about the circular city Atlantis and its environment fit perfectly together to this same place. Surrounded by the Northern Marshland, the city is also called “Marsh City” and identified as on the Northern edge of the land, the Fairest Plain, as so called by Plato. Atlantis is also called Sun City (Heliopolis) in the PT, but the city with the same name in Egypt is not located on the Northern edge of the land. According to Plato, Poseidon allotted the Marshland (and the surrounding areas) to his first-born Atlas and the other parts to the other nine princes. The Marshland on the North was viewed as “Above” and the Fairest Plain on the South as “Under,” opposite to the Upper-Lower Egypt relationship. In the PT, the supremacy of the “First Ones” (descendants of Atlas) over the “Nine” (descendants of the other nine princes) is clear, agreeing with Plato’s account. At the same time, all parts of the kingdom maintained a brotherly relationship. Any internal transgressions were resolved by deliberations and libations. In the PT, Horus is named as the Bull-Catcher, who catches the unblemished bull as the sacrifice for the libation in the Libation City (Atlantis). The epic fight between Osiris/Horus (Marshland) and Seth (Fairest Plain) over the control of Atlantis was clearly staged in the Atlas Basin. In this contest, the “Above” (North side) prevailed over the “Under” (South side). This is also opposite to what happened in Egypt where the Lower Egypt in the North was conquered by Narmer from the Upper Egypt in the South, when the two parts were first unified.
Keywords: Atlantis, Atlas Basin, Fairest Plain, Genesis, Hot Spring, Marshland, Plato, Pyramid Texts
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