Did you know the Greek story of Atlantis is a dramatic version of Noah's Ark?

Question

"At" is a Hebraism, meaning the Greeks borrowed the word from the Hebrews, it means "Adam". "Lan" means "land" or more accuately "people". "Tis" is the Greek word "of"... So At-lan-tis means "People of Adam".

Answer 1

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atlas
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atlantis

"Atlantis" means something like
"belonging to Atlas (Atlantos = of Atlas) / the area of the Atlantic" and
"Atlas" means something like
"the bearer"
(the a- part is a kind of prefix that deprives the subject of what the rest of the word expresses
the -is part is a feminine suffix showing origin).

[People => laos. For the greek myth about the creation of the human race and the reason why laos means people, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deucalion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrra

This is what you are looking for.]

Answer 2

That is complete nonsense.

The Greek story of Atlantis matches what actually happened to the Minoans and their settlement on the island of Santorini.

The story of Atlantis describes a people who fought with the Greeks; traded with Egypt; were master sailors and more advanced than any civilization of their day; lived on an island city with concentric rings of land and water that contained rocks of red, black, and white; and were destroyed by earthquakes, a tidal wave, and their island sinking beneath the waves.

The Minoans fought with the mainland Greeks, traded with the Egyptians, controlled a merchant fleet which dominated the Mediterranean, and built multistory houses with indoor hot and cold plumbing at a time when the mainland Greeks still lived in mud huts. Santorini was a set of islands in concentric rings with rocks of red, black, and white. It contained a Minoan settlement that was destroyed when a series of earthquakes triggered an eruption that blew apart the central island, buried the settlement on the outer island under dozens of feet of ash and pumice, and created a tidal wave that destroyed the main Minoan settlements on the island of Crete.

The story of Noah's ark matches none of this.

Answer 3

So that means that the Hebrews borrowed the story of Noah's ark from the Greeks and the legends of Atlantis? Go look at the relative dates of writing down the Genesis stories and of Atlantis.

Answer 4

Rubbish

Answer 5

And that story was stolen from other myths...read some Joseph Campbell, you'll find that myth-swapping was common among early religions.

Then watch Stargate Atlantis, it's as close to reality as any other tall tale!

Answer 6

OK, we need the 12 foot steppladder to get above this pile of dung.

Raji

Answer 7

Hey! That's pretty cool. I like that disecting of the word.

Answer 8

No, I have never heard this before. This would make interesting research.

Can you tell me more?

Answer 9

yes i did

Answer 10

wow