E-man said (June 10, 2010):

Check out this website, Thunderbolts home. This site provides common sense solutions to many of the worlds ancient myths.

http://www.thunderbolts.info/home.htm

Ed said (June 10, 2010):

One possibility missed by Mister Soderberg is the very simple idea that Atlantis is the Americas. North and South America actually fit the size parameters given by Plato without "adjustments" by later experts. It is known that a vast, vast network of ancient canals is spread throughout South America. They spread far enough to connect Lake Titicaca with outlet of the Amazon. There are some very ancient and very advanced ruins in the the area of Altiplano Bolivia.

Also geologically it is the only area of the world with naturally occurring orichalcum. Something specifically mentioned by Plato. No need for spacemen. It is still just humans and what they can accomplish. Especially with abundant water, fertile land, and easily accessed metals. The only problem with the Americas being Atlantis is that the idea of there being not a single trans oceanic voyage would have to be abandoned. Somehow I think that people who can figure out the size of the planet simply from the length of shadows in wells can figure out how to navigate a ship. It also clears up how there are Egyptian mummies with cocaine and tobacco, corn in India, and of course elephants in the "New" world. So many mysteries solved easily if we just throw out the notion that our ancestors were idiots who had no idea what they were doing.

Thomas said (June 10, 2010):

The author, although meaning well, (unless on a disinfo agenda), does not seem to have done his research.

www.theyfly.com reveals all.

Mark said (June 9, 2010):

After having read Zachariah Sitchin works in detail, I can tell you it's not for the simple minded. Sitchin lays out his proof like a mathematician would. Sitchin speculates, of course, but, mainly the speculation never makes up the premises of the proof. You can't skim over any of the works of Sitchin and even say you understand. But, if you really want to know what the Jews and the Muslims base their odd beliefs and stories on and what was really going on way back in the days of the Giants, it's well worth it to buckle down and do your Sitchin homework as Christian Soderberg has not... And too bad for him, he missed out.

Christians argument falls flat immediately on this two points: (1) Sitchin is not a UFOlogist and he doesn't claim that Aliens came to earth (not in the context Christian paints). (2) Sitchin has zip to do with the "Great White Brotherhood" storyline; Soderberg paints with a board brush on this and that usually a big sign of having no real argument...

Sitchin's work proves the origins of some of stories in the Bible and other ancient writings by systematic comparisons and chronological dating coupled with extensive linguistics analysis. Christian has not made his case, he's only made the case for those who haven't paid the price of reading the "Earth Chronicles and comparing that with today's theories and archeology. That's something not everybody's likely to do or capable of, which gives Soderberg more of a audience.

I'd be glad to argue more with Christian or others on the matter, but, they need to get the basics down first to make it worthwhile. Like do some real reading. Sitchin is in no way a threat to Religion or believers, or those who fight the NWO. Sitchin work had everything to do with why the Bagdad Museum was allowed to be ransacked during Bush's invasion of Iraq, but to see why, one needs to read the "Earth Chronicles".

I've met Zachariah, looked him in the eye and talked with him, he's a serious guy.

Max said (June 9, 2010):

Statistically speaking, given the vast size of the universe and it’s old age, there is immeasurably more chance of aliens existing than not and of them being much more advanced than us technologically. One can only hope that spiritual advancement is a function of technological evolution. Hancock, Sitchin, Icke et al have all added there perspective into the mix and I’m personally certain that somewhere in that body of work lies the truth.

Regarding the apparent drifting of the land masses: If indeed there is no missing land mass and the continents used to fit together, (tessellate), at some point in time long ago, then did the space which is now occupied by the oceans, occur due to weathering and erosion along the edges of the continents or is the Earth actually expanding? If the space that the oceans now occupy was created by erosion, then that erosion must have occurred equally on all coastal areas in order for the continents to still fit roughly together today. Differing tidal forces, winds and ocean currents makes this theory highly unlikely.

Let me put it another way. If the continents did all fit together then where did the space for the oceans come from? It strikes me that the logical explanation is that the Earth has expanded in size at some point in the past and that this may actually be a natural cycle in the life of a planetary body. Mainstream science once again misses the obvious completely.

For more on the expanding Earth “hypothesis” see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_Earth or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kL7qDeI05U

Nicolas said (June 9, 2010):

I have studied ancient texts my entire life and I believe that everything we need to know is found in the phrase “Atlantis sank beneath the waves”

I pondered this for years and learned that the term “the waves” has a meaning that we no longer use.

The waves is actually a reference to the gulf stream. Ancient merchants sailed “the waves” as a mean to travel to places that their 1 sailed boats that could not “tack” were able to sail to.

So what land mass sank beneath the waves? It would have to be Antarctica. The gulf stream once came very close to it, there are even maps “Piri Reiss” that show it without its icecap. It is quite possible that a shift in either the stream or the earth’s crust or both caused Atlantis to sink to its current location, Ice laden beneath the waves!

Reader said (June 9, 2010):

1) The critique of Sitchin is bogus, and incorrect

2) All you have to do is look earnestly into evidence like the Star Child skull, or the 'cone-head' skulsl in South America to know that aliens not only visited, they stayed, interfered with the development of mankind, as well as other domesticated animals, and the manipulation of human DNA is obvious

3) And there is a lot of other evidence, such as stone age ancient cultures composing calendars which accounted for perturbations which have cycle times of 26,000 and 52,000 years, or the fact that the Sumerian knew that Uranus and Neptune were watery blue green giant twin planets, something we did not know in the 'modern' age until the 1980s.

There are many bits of evidence to show that aliens not only visited our ancestors, they stayed, they interacted with life on this planet, as well as influenced human culture.

Derick said (June 9, 2010):

Ha ha, I had to laugh out loud at Christian Soderberg's certainty: I agree with him but few today, it seems, would have the boldness to cut through the froth to the heart of the matter. I think we've yet to invent a better paradigm for our origins, existence and responsibility than that given to us by the Bible.

Thank you for a great article, simply and powerfully written! (I think, as David said, that Atlantis may be one "myth" that cannot be dismissed too quickly but I find an answer and an explanation, once again, in the book of Genesis and the dramatic upheavals of the earth that would have followed an earth-wide flood.)

Dave said (June 8, 2010):

Much of Christian Soderberg's article was right on the money and we should be skeptical of New Age interpretations of ancient texts and art. He may, however want to rethink his ending statements regarding the possibility of Atlantis being a real place. Indeed, there are no missing pieces of land that we don't know about. But what about the possibility that Atlantis is covered in a 2 mile thick sheet of ice and is therefore as invisible to us as if it didn't exist at all.

I refer, of course to Charles Hapgood's Earth Crust Displacement theory, popularized by the great Fingerprints of the Gods book by Graham Hancock. In the book, Hancock lays out in excruciating detail the scientific theory behind Earth Crust Displacement - a theory which holds that the entire crust of the earth, some 30 miles thick, can under certain conditions, move over the core like the peel of an orange and that all continents will remain in their positions relative to one another, but will change positions relative to the poles. The Book Path of the Poles also deals with this material.

Perhaps Mr. Soderberg can explain why there are ninety foot tall fruit trees at latitudes where nothing now grows, or how there could be whole herds of Mammoths literally flash frozen in ice, or how there could be ancient maps showing an ice-free Antarctic coastline. The mountain of unexplained phenomena is truly astounding. In order to rule out the Atlantis as described by Plato, we would have to have detailed under-ice surveys of the Antarctic continent, something that has not been forthcoming from the scientific community.