ATLANTIS
Here is the account by Plato, by far the foremost surviving source, on Atlantis in Timaeus with an Egyptian speaking to Plato's relative Solon:
"Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state [Athens] in our [the Egyptian's] histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power [Atlantis] which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Herakles (Heracles) [i.e. the Strait of Gibraltar]; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Herakles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya [Africa] within the columns of Herakles as far as Aigyptos (Egypt), and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia [in Italy]. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits. [account of Athens defeating Atlanteans in battle] But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea."
What Plato describes here, with little stretch of the imagination, describes North America. He tells of a large continent, large enough to be called "boundless," that lies across the Atlantic Ocean, which is a "real sea" large enough to make the Mediterranean seem like "only a harbor." The great power that lay there was well under way subduing Mediterranean peoples before a great cataclysm took the world.
Plato, again, speaking as Socrates in Critias:
"Now first of all we must recall the fact that 9000 is the sum of years since the war occurred, as is recorded, between the [Atlantean] dwellers beyond the pillars of Herakles (Heracles) [i.e. the Strait of Gibraltar] and all that dwelt within them [...] Now a large family of distinguished sons sprang from Atlas; but it was the eldest, who, as king, always passed on the scepter to the eldest of his sons, and thus they preserved the sovereignty for many generations; and the wealth they possessed was so immense that the like had never been seen before in any royal house nor will ever easily be seen again; [...] and the island itself furnished most of the requirements of daily life,--metals, to begin with, both the hard kind and the fusible kind, which are extracted by mining, and also that kind which is now known only by name but was more than a name then, there being mines of it in many places of the island,--I mean orikhalkon (mountain-copper), which was the most precious of the metals then known, except gold. It brought forth also in abundance all the timbers that a forest provides for the labors of carpenters; and of animals it produced a sufficiency, both of tame and wild. Moreover, it contained a very large stock of elephants"
Here is the account by Plato, by far the foremost surviving source, on Atlantis in Timaeus with an Egyptian speaking to Plato's relative Solon:
"Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state [Athens] in our [the Egyptian's] histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power [Atlantis] which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Herakles (Heracles) [i.e. the Strait of Gibraltar]; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Herakles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya [Africa] within the columns of Herakles as far as Aigyptos (Egypt), and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia [in Italy]. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits. [account of Athens defeating Atlanteans in battle] But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea."
What Plato describes here, with little stretch of the imagination, describes North America. He tells of a large continent, large enough to be called "boundless," that lies across the Atlantic Ocean, which is a "real sea" large enough to make the Mediterranean seem like "only a harbor." The great power that lay there was well under way subduing Mediterranean peoples before a great cataclysm took the world.
Plato, again, speaking as Socrates in Critias:
"Now first of all we must recall the fact that 9000 is the sum of years since the war occurred, as is recorded, between the [Atlantean] dwellers beyond the pillars of Herakles (Heracles) [i.e. the Strait of Gibraltar] and all that dwelt within them [...] Now a large family of distinguished sons sprang from Atlas; but it was the eldest, who, as king, always passed on the scepter to the eldest of his sons, and thus they preserved the sovereignty for many generations; and the wealth they possessed was so immense that the like had never been seen before in any royal house nor will ever easily be seen again; [...] and the island itself furnished most of the requirements of daily life,--metals, to begin with, both the hard kind and the fusible kind, which are extracted by mining, and also that kind which is now known only by name but was more than a name then, there being mines of it in many places of the island,--I mean orikhalkon (mountain-copper), which was the most precious of the metals then known, except gold. It brought forth also in abundance all the timbers that a forest provides for the labors of carpenters; and of animals it produced a sufficiency, both of tame and wild. Moreover, it contained a very large stock of elephants"
Plato thus dates the Atlantean war to ~10,000 BC, which roughly coincides with the Younger Dryas cataclysm that ended the Ice Age and changed geography around the world, especially destroying North America in particular. This connection to North America is strengthened by the mentioning of the precious copper mines like those known to have been operated in Michigan by ancient Europeans, as well as the mentioning of great reserve of timber and elephants, which may refer to the mammoths that went extinct in America roughly 10,000 BC.
Who were the Atlaneans? They were ancient West Eurasians who made the voyage across the Atlantic. The R Y-DNA and X-mtDNA haplogroups both share the same anomalous distribution that includes North American and West Eurasia, providing evidence of a connection between these locations. In some of the European populations that were insulated from the Aryan invasions such as Basques, Guanches, and Berbers, evidence of Aryan phenotypic qualities persist despite their natural defenses against the invasions of genetics typically assigned to the "Aryan" Indo-European dispersal. There are also groups featuring European heritage elsewhere in the Americas.
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Evidence of North American copper used in the ancient Mediterranean
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On pre-Maori inhabitants of New Zealand, another population founded by ancient seafaring West Eurasians
Forwarded from Revolt Against The Modern World
"Men will learn eventually, and if they insist on rejecting the received wisdom of generations past, they do not thereby succeed at invalidating it; they merely condemn themselves to learning it, time and again, by ever grimmer experience."
Why care about myths like Atlantis and Hyperborea? They are living history, of our genetic and cultural ancestors, and they offer us inspiring archetypes. This is my personal feelings on the subject; there has been much said on the specifics of what these myths really describe, I only seek to add to these. As I see it these two myths exemplify the two halves of Europe - genetically, culturally, spiritually.
Hyperborea is of the open and expansive North; a natural landscape of plenty where its peaceful people continually harvested an abundance from its great groves. The Hyperboreans were giant, vigorous, and divinely artistic in inspiration by the Solar diety whom they faithfully worshiped. This peaceful, isolated holy place is an allegory to the primordial hunter-gatherer past. This naturalistic ideal is encapsulated in much the same way as the Garden of Eden.
Atlantis on the other hand represents the high point of human civilization. Their empire was extremely wealthy and technologically advanced. It is said its priests were masters of magic, its armies were unmatched, and its merchants spanned the globe. The kingdom seemed eternal as even the very structure of their magnificent capital city was sculpted by Poseidon himself to be impregnable. As the stories go the priests of Atlantis forsook piety and grew hungry for material power and wealth, and so their civilization was then cast into the sea (from whose Lunar god they sprung) in a great flood. Whether collapse or cataclysm actually came first, one always brings about the other, and so all civilizations will inevitably meet their end in this manner of total catastrophe. In contrast to the idyllic Hyperborea, Atlantis represents the struggle of civilized man to create his own utopia.
Thus Hyperboreans represent those builders of wood in vast natural settings, of innate wisdom and spirituality, and great individual strength and power, whereas Atlanteans represent those monumental builders of stone, of social and learned men, and strength in numbers and in technology.
Hyperborea is of the open and expansive North; a natural landscape of plenty where its peaceful people continually harvested an abundance from its great groves. The Hyperboreans were giant, vigorous, and divinely artistic in inspiration by the Solar diety whom they faithfully worshiped. This peaceful, isolated holy place is an allegory to the primordial hunter-gatherer past. This naturalistic ideal is encapsulated in much the same way as the Garden of Eden.
Atlantis on the other hand represents the high point of human civilization. Their empire was extremely wealthy and technologically advanced. It is said its priests were masters of magic, its armies were unmatched, and its merchants spanned the globe. The kingdom seemed eternal as even the very structure of their magnificent capital city was sculpted by Poseidon himself to be impregnable. As the stories go the priests of Atlantis forsook piety and grew hungry for material power and wealth, and so their civilization was then cast into the sea (from whose Lunar god they sprung) in a great flood. Whether collapse or cataclysm actually came first, one always brings about the other, and so all civilizations will inevitably meet their end in this manner of total catastrophe. In contrast to the idyllic Hyperborea, Atlantis represents the struggle of civilized man to create his own utopia.
Thus Hyperboreans represent those builders of wood in vast natural settings, of innate wisdom and spirituality, and great individual strength and power, whereas Atlanteans represent those monumental builders of stone, of social and learned men, and strength in numbers and in technology.
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This is my own edit of a graph plotting out the genetics of Eurasian populations. I have labeled the groups and also noted the direction of certain trends. This graph, meant to compare West Eurasians, does not accurately show some influences so I have included arrows so one may more easily see them.
I have identified the Hyperborean archetype in Ancient North Eurasians, expressed in Finno-Urgics, Balts, and Scandinavians. The Atlantean archetype I have given to that combination of Western Hunter Gatherer (Paleolithic European) and Neolithic Farmers (from Paleolithic Caucasian) that invented civilization, which expresses itself most in the Mediterranean peoples.
The noble Aryan archetype then is the combination of these two. Genetically the origins of the "Aryan" people are in a mixture of Eastern Hunter-Gatherers (WHG + ANE) and Caucasian Hunter-Gatherers (Paleo Cauc. + ANE). Soon after the Aryans mixed with the southern Farmers, forging that glorious pastoralist warrior civilization, the peak of greatness.
I have identified the Hyperborean archetype in Ancient North Eurasians, expressed in Finno-Urgics, Balts, and Scandinavians. The Atlantean archetype I have given to that combination of Western Hunter Gatherer (Paleolithic European) and Neolithic Farmers (from Paleolithic Caucasian) that invented civilization, which expresses itself most in the Mediterranean peoples.
The noble Aryan archetype then is the combination of these two. Genetically the origins of the "Aryan" people are in a mixture of Eastern Hunter-Gatherers (WHG + ANE) and Caucasian Hunter-Gatherers (Paleo Cauc. + ANE). Soon after the Aryans mixed with the southern Farmers, forging that glorious pastoralist warrior civilization, the peak of greatness.
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Halls of the Hyperboreads
Within weightlifting, compound lifts are generally seen as the most important but I have come to the opinion that certain accessories are more fundamental. It may perhaps be only due to our sedentary modern lifestyle that we are deficient in these basic muscle…
Back to weightlifting, I recently listened to Dr. Duncan French, Vice President of Performance at the UFC Performance Institute, on an episode of the Huberman Labs podcast. In his role on the cutting edge of performance research, he ran experiments to find a workout protocol that maximized specifically the testosterone response gained from lifting. This routine differs from those found in the two biggest sports within weightlifting: hypertrophy-maxxing bodybuilding (less weight/more reps) and strength-maxxing powerlifting (more weight/fewer reps). The routine goes:
6 sets x 10 reps @ 80% 1RM w/ 2min rest between sets
The "time under tension" necessary for muscle growth is well known, but Dr. French's research shows that one must also add the lactic acid factor with short rests in order to maximize testosterone production. He adds these workouts should be at most 45min, so 2-3 exercises only, and only 2x per week. Naturally, because 6 sets of 10 reps at 80% 1RM is a huge amount of time under tension (i.e., muscle damage). If you want to try this out but feel the need to lift more, on other days do either more weight at less reps or less weight at more reps; anything much less intense overall.
I estimated my 80% number and burned out on bench set #4, but lowered the weight to get all 6 sets of 10 reps with the same intensity. The lactic acid takes a bit to get used to so be conservative with the weight, but not so much that you're removing the necessary tension in the time you're putting in.
6 sets x 10 reps @ 80% 1RM w/ 2min rest between sets
The "time under tension" necessary for muscle growth is well known, but Dr. French's research shows that one must also add the lactic acid factor with short rests in order to maximize testosterone production. He adds these workouts should be at most 45min, so 2-3 exercises only, and only 2x per week. Naturally, because 6 sets of 10 reps at 80% 1RM is a huge amount of time under tension (i.e., muscle damage). If you want to try this out but feel the need to lift more, on other days do either more weight at less reps or less weight at more reps; anything much less intense overall.
I estimated my 80% number and burned out on bench set #4, but lowered the weight to get all 6 sets of 10 reps with the same intensity. The lactic acid takes a bit to get used to so be conservative with the weight, but not so much that you're removing the necessary tension in the time you're putting in.
Halls of the Hyperboreads
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While we're on the subject let's address Asia. It begins with the easternmost "Saka" Scythians in modern Mongolia, where the Xiongnu culture formed. This Scythian culture of majority North Asian genetics would eventually spawn the Huns, the Mongols, and the Turkic tribes that dominated Asia for over a millenia. They were such proud descendants of the Scythians that even their offspring would still call themselves by that name when they returned back to Europe.
The Xiongnu and Mongols are greatly attested to in Chinese history as their greatest enemies, however, there is a more positive relationship with Korea especially during the Silla dynasty. If all Koreans at this point were not themselves descended in part from the Xiongnu, their royalty certainly was. The most interesting part of this Xiongnu-Korea exchange was that it was occurring as the Korean invasion of Japan was taking place.
The Xiongnu and Mongols are greatly attested to in Chinese history as their greatest enemies, however, there is a more positive relationship with Korea especially during the Silla dynasty. If all Koreans at this point were not themselves descended in part from the Xiongnu, their royalty certainly was. The most interesting part of this Xiongnu-Korea exchange was that it was occurring as the Korean invasion of Japan was taking place.