Dan Brady(XIV)
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The true story of Atlantis only begins with its location. Plato writes that Atlantis was located in front of straits, with a bay inside the straits. Homer's Illiad describes a bay inside the Dardanelle Straits. This places Atlantis in the Aegean Sea between Lemnos and Troy. The bay at Troy was filled by the subsidence of the Island as Plato wrote. Gold statues may have washed into the bay.
C1300 BC, Poseidon named the island the Atlantic Island, c800 BC, Homer's Illiad and Greeks called the island Chryse Island (Gold), c600 BC, Ezekiel called the island Tyrus, and c365 BC, Plato heard the story of the island from Socrates and he wrote the story calling the island Atlantis Island. Greek Nouns ending in S are considered masculine. Plato changed the island name over 200 years after it was destroyed.
Finding ancient historians living during the existence of Atlantis was the goal. Prophet Ezekiel, 593-571 BC, was alive during the demise of Atlantis. Ezekiel describes Tyrus' destruction by Nebuchadrezzar's invasion (Eze 26:7), earthquakes and floods (Ezekiel chapter 26), same as Plato's description of Atlantis. The random probability of these three events in one day works out to one chance in 300,000,000,000,000, much less likely than matching finger prints or DNA evidence. Poseidon had dug 1100 miles of canals into his island. This disaster could never happen twice, Ezekiel's Tyrus was Plato's Atlantis Island. Tyrus was destroyed c587 BC, during the lifetime of Nebuchadrezzar.
Zechariah the Prophet writes that 'Tyrus (Atlantis) did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets,' Zech 9:3. Historian Pliny writes a description of an underground labyrinth built on Lemnos Island, adjacent to Atlantis Island. This web page has 30 satellite photos of this labyrinth area and 3 videos explaining the evidence. It appears Greece did not know the asset value in this labyrinth until 2013. Two other undiscovered labyrinths were built on Crete and in Italy by this same civilization.
The Tyrrhenians had a cult religious system called Cabeirie in which they engaged in human sacrifice and orgies at meetings. Poseidon, Zeus and Hercules all had over 80 children. The Tyrrhenian Sea was named after these expert seamen. Two of Hephaestus' sons cut their brother's head off killing him. They were a violent, greedy kingdom. The hero in this story is Theseus of Greece who killed the mythic Minotaur monster inside the Crete labyrinth, who was rumored to eat 14 youths every year. The biggest villains are Sarpedon 1 and 2 who led the Sea People wiping out cities and kingdoms, Mycenaeans, Hittites and others. They seized their treasures. The Ark of the Covenant & gold shields, etc., disappeared from Jerusalem c924 BC. The Sea People dissolved after Sarpedon 2 was killed during second Trojan War with Greece.