Message #253731

[Desiree]

You're wrong again, Thorwald, first off, we don't know when the Atlantis story was written, could have been 1,000 years before Plato, could have been 9,000 years before Plato, as the story says. Your theory is pretty much just a guess then, depending on them knowing very little. But boats existed even as far as 10,000 years ago.  Islands like New Zealand, Crete, England, and many others were settled well before 10,000 years ago.

As for this being taken from an Egyptian account, well, sure, but the story isn't on any of their temples  so until you can find an Egyptian inscription that clearly has these errors you're talking about, that is just a guess, too.

Take the story for what it is, though: the Egyptians were enslaved by Atlantis, as were all the others within the Pillars of Hercules. Several times it is stated that Atlantis was situated outside the Pillars. I have a hard time believing that either the Greeks or Egyptians would get that wrong when they mentioned it so many times during Timaeus and Critias.