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Emperor Tazlavoo of Atlantis. According to legend, the stone was sent from Ti-
bet to King Solomon in Jerusalem, who split the stone and made a ring out of one
piece” (A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Armageddon, 216–217).
The Chintamani is also known in China and Japan as the “Jewel-That-Grants-
All-Desires,” and was believed to have originally belonged to the Makara, a dragon-
or dolphin-god, living in a palace at the bottom of the sea, underscoring its
Atlantean provenance.
(See Tuoai)Chronology
There are three primary chronologies for the history of Atlantis. Plato writes
that its destruction took place 11,400 years ago, although he provides no date for
its foundation. The origins of Atlantean Civilization should have preceded its end
by at least five centuries, in order for it to have attained the cultural heights he
wrote that it enjoyed, thereby placing its
beginning sometime after the turn of the
13th millennium B.C. Edgar Cayce said that
Atlantis was far older, emerging about
100,000 years ago. In another 50,000 years,
the Atlanteans had developed a techno-
logically advanced civilization. The first of
three major cataclysms occurred at this
time, followed by another about 30,000
years ago. The final destruction took place
around 10,000 B.C., roughly the same pe-
riod Plato reported.
Most serious Atlantologists today find
these time parameters unrealistic. While
at least some investigators believe Cayce’s
“life-readings” may shed light on the story
of Atlantis, they point out that persons in
trance states, while capable of recalling
vivid, even accurate images, enter into a
timeless consciousness, just as a sleeper,
when awake, may remember the clear details of a dream, but his sense of time
while dreaming is totally unlike anything when he is awake. Modern man (Homo
sapiens-sapiens) had only just evolved 100,000 years ago and was in no condition
to found civilization. Plato’s 11,4000-year-old date for the destruction of Atlantis
is also troubling.
Anthropologists have learned much about the level of human accomplish-
ment during the mid-12th millennium B.C., but they found not the merest hint that
anything resembling a civilization existed then. As even that prominent
Atlantologist, Lewis Spence, remarked as long ago as 1924, “I would suggest thatThese 4,000-year-old weapons were found at
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where the Atlanteans
undertook colossal mining enterprises. Photograph
by Wayne May.