Message #257861

[Desiree]

Wow, well, there is a lot to chew on, thanks for sharing. I like Tiahuanaco, too, but I am not sure it was Atlantis. Jim Allen used to come here and added quite a bit to Morrison's threads and, of course, makes a pretty good case for Bolivia as Atlantis.

Well, Tiahuanaco is way on the west in South America, and, even though they had reed boats, you have to wonder why they would even be interested in the Mediterranean when they had all that expansive territory to explore. Also, what route did they take? They sure didn't sail around the southern tip of South America (all that ice and snow) and, from what I heard, the tributaries that lead from the northern tip of Bolivia to the Amazon and the Atlantic are mighty treacherous..! Hard enough for one boat, let alone a fleet like Atlantis was supposed to have.

So, I'm thinking that, though South America was a part of Atlantis, the capital was actually elsewhere, someplace in the Caribbean, and it was the part that "sunk."

The Altiplano makes a great flat plain, though, and the orichalcum process that Jim Allen shows on his website vividly resembles what Plato describes. I'm also not so sure that it was so recent as you suggest, new discoveries are pushing back the date that the Americas were inhabited all the time.