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Unearthing Plato's Atlantis one bite at a time; a recipe for deception

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« on: January 21, 2016, 10:07:23 am »

Today's ingredient; Elephants of Atlantis.

What was Plato's real reason for having given us the information that in Atlantis elephants were present?


What was Plato's real reason for having given us the information that in Atlantis elephants were present?

To reemphasize the great size of Atlantis, as this is made obvious by citing that there, in Atlantis,  was enough food for the most veracious creature, since elephant herds need very large and extensive territory to graze on.  Elephants are biologically and behaviorally made for walking, foraging and inhabiting very large spaces.

To reemphasize the variety of topography making up the very large continent "island" of  Atlantis.  The plain being only a part of it, and not the whole. To make us notice that a plain where elephants roam cannot be possible when that plain is crisscrossed with tons of canals, with tons of horses, (just the military horses for Atlas's are 4X 60,000= 240,000) and with a shitload of people, to say the least. And based on just the number of men fit for military duty (20-40 years of age) (1,080,000) that each lot (10X10 stadia) from only the plain, which contained 60,000 lots,  (surface area of a rectangle 3000X2000=6,000,000 stadia, and 60,000 square lots of 100 stadia each also equals 6,000,000 stadia) had to provide to the royal city's military, besides God knows how many more military age men made up the other "9" military orders. If we just double the 18 men by another 18 women, since we know that basically, human populations  are made up of almost equal amounts of men and women, we already have a plain's population of 2,160,000. What of the other age groups? What of the military men for the other 9 princes' military? And this is just the tip of the iceberg; what about the other populations of the mountains, and hills, and the other territory of Atlantis? 

Obviously the elephants mentioning is meant to exclude any foolish, future, notions that someone may have about the location, such as Atlantis having been the Greek island of Santorini before the Volcano making up the entire island exploded/erupted. And where a perfectly flat plain, even as small as 3000 by 2,000 "stadia" could never have been.  Besides, the plain that Plato wants us to envision is not measured by the stadia, as we are miles away from the truth.
 
And ultimately the elephants serve to make logical sense and prove true once the puzzle is correctly put together.
 
To envision the completed puzzle, one has to go the distance, and it's not a mere 50 stadia from the sea.

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