Hello,
In Plato's 'Timaeus' and 'Critias', his characters relate the tale of Solon travelling to Egypt around 600BC. There, he supposedly visits Neith's temple at Sais and receives from a priest an account of the history of Atlantis.
The priest tells him not once but 3 times, 'that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed,' that the destruction of Atlantis, 'touch[ed] your citizens of nine thousand years ago,' and that, 'Many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years, for that is the number of years which have elapsed since the time of which I am speaking.'
This, as we know, tallies almost exactly with the geological data surrounding the Younger Dryas temperature oscillations, the megafauna extinctions, the mega-flood(s), etc.
Has any author (e.g. Graham Hancock et al) formally sought answers to the following questions?
1. What's the simplest level of technology necessary to accurately record/measure the terrestrial year?
2. What organisation could possibly keep accurately dated records for 9 millennia (360 generations)?
3. Lastly, is there any suggestion that this organisation still exists?
I ask not to attract conspiratorial responses, but to ask if anyone has pondered this issue in print.
If a group was able, willing, sophisticated and motivated enough to survive the great flood (and every other social and natural cataclysm, plague and war since then) and keep the flame of knowledge alive for 9,000 years up to Solon's time, would it seem reasonable to believe that it is still around handing information down from father to son, or from 'priest' to initiate?
As my sources, I am using:
[classics.mit.edu]
[classics.mit.edu]
Thank you.
In Plato's 'Timaeus' and 'Critias', his characters relate the tale of Solon travelling to Egypt around 600BC. There, he supposedly visits Neith's temple at Sais and receives from a priest an account of the history of Atlantis.
The priest tells him not once but 3 times, 'that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed,' that the destruction of Atlantis, 'touch[ed] your citizens of nine thousand years ago,' and that, 'Many great deluges have taken place during the nine thousand years, for that is the number of years which have elapsed since the time of which I am speaking.'
This, as we know, tallies almost exactly with the geological data surrounding the Younger Dryas temperature oscillations, the megafauna extinctions, the mega-flood(s), etc.
Has any author (e.g. Graham Hancock et al) formally sought answers to the following questions?
1. What's the simplest level of technology necessary to accurately record/measure the terrestrial year?
2. What organisation could possibly keep accurately dated records for 9 millennia (360 generations)?
3. Lastly, is there any suggestion that this organisation still exists?
I ask not to attract conspiratorial responses, but to ask if anyone has pondered this issue in print.
If a group was able, willing, sophisticated and motivated enough to survive the great flood (and every other social and natural cataclysm, plague and war since then) and keep the flame of knowledge alive for 9,000 years up to Solon's time, would it seem reasonable to believe that it is still around handing information down from father to son, or from 'priest' to initiate?
As my sources, I am using:
[classics.mit.edu]
[classics.mit.edu]
Thank you.