Atlantis and the chiastic structure

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Atlantis and the chiastic structure

Psalm 92 has a chiastic structure as a literary technic. The Psalm is divided in two mirroring parts. Regaring to music we all learned at school the riddle do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do-ti-la-so-fa-mi-re-do. The name ABBA “father” has a chiastic structure. Psalm 92:2 is about sunrise and sundawn. This is Babylon versus Atlantis. Homer used this chiastic structure in the Iliad and Odyssey (Chiastic structure, z.d., alinea 2). Also Plato used this chiastic structure in his Apology of Socrates (Miller & Platter, 2010. hoofdstuk 20, 32a4-32e1, p. 102, 32c6-7). I could not discover if this chiastic structure is also hidden in the Atlantis story but it is clear that Homer used it in his Troy story.

This chiastic structure is a kind of an inversion. We can see Atlantis as an inversion of Endtimes Babylon, based on this chiastic structure. Plato inverted the downfall of world capitalisme into a contra creation story that had a beginning on an island Atlantis in a remote past. Maybe Atlantis was not a creation story after all. Maybe it was a second hand white washed creation story that succeeded a first creation that ended with the downfall of world capitalism on the banks of the Euphrates.

Literature
Chiastic structure. (z.d.). In Wikipedia. Geraadpleegd op 11 juli 2018, van https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiastic_structure

Miller, P. A., & Platter, C. (2010). Plato’s Apology of Socrates: A Commentary. Oklahoma, USA: University of Oklahoma Press: Norman. Geraadpleegd op 11 juli 2018 van https://books.google.nl/books?id=wi8xrHGZrS0C&pg=PA102&dq=chiastic+structure+plato+apology+of+socrates&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS9rnf7JfcAhUIbFAKHXEdDcYQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=chiastic%20structure%20plato%20apology%20of%20socrates&f=false