Message from @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck
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plato isnt exactly the only one to speak of atlantis either
its not necessarily real but it could be
@Lucienne d'Anwyl who spoke of it prior to Plato other than refering to an Island Atlas was on?
@Lucienne d'Anwyl oh yeah, it was first told by Plato
As an allegory
Plato claimed to have been told the story by an Egyptian priest.
if you discount the concept of some kind of water bound civilization succumbing from other places
the name isnt exactly important
and lost civilizations are found all the time
you could definitely make the case for quite a few of the mysterious places in myths being simply over-stylized (though true)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythological_places
-Brasil/Hy-Brasil was probably an actual place
-El Dorado was probably a place too (though it's more than likely the case that the Natives just overhyped a place so the Spaniards would just fuck right off)
-Hawaiki was probably also a place (as IIRC, the Polynesians dispersed into various directions from a single island)
-Aztlán might have also been a place somewhere in Northern or Southern Mexico
theres that one lost civilization
in the amazon?
i think
that they eventually found topographical evidence
that they believe proves there was something there
vaguely, ye
but it was probably a bit overhyped, I reckon
with modern technology
things are a wonder
specifically there is now a way for them to take aerial photographs
of jungle
I do vaguely recall hearing of that, though
and use them to determine evidence of stone ruins