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At another instance he [Polybius] suppresses statements. For Homer says also, 'Now after the ship had left the river-stream of Oceanus', and, 'In the island of Ogygia, where is the navel of the sea', where the daughter of Atlas lives; and again, regarding the Phaiakians, 'Far apart we live in the wash of the waves, the farthermost of men, and no other mortals are conversant with us.' All these clearly suggest that he composed them to take place in the Atlantic Ocean.
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First I will tell you the author of the piece, if there is no objection, who begins after Homer’s fashion with, an isle Ogygian lies far out at sea, distant five days’ sail from Britain, going westwards, and three others equally distant from it, and from each other, are more opposite to the summer visits of the sun; in one of which the barbarians fable that Cronus is imprisoned by Zeus, whilst his son lies by his side, as though keeping guard over those islands and the sea, which they call ‘the Sea of Cronus. The great continent by which the great sea is surrounded on all sides, they say, lies less distant from the others, but about five thousand stadia from Ogygia, for one sailing in a rowing-galley; for the sea is difficult of passage and muddy through the great number of currents, and these currents issue out of the great land, and shoals are formed by them, and the sea becomes clogged and full of earth, by which it has the appearance of being solid.
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the combatants on the other side were commanded by the kings of Atlantis, which, as was saying, was an island greater in extent than Libya and Asia, and when afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to any part of the ocean.
Originally posted by lostinspace
reply to post by blazenresearcher
Thanks for being the first one to reply blazenresearcher.
The reference to crystals in Atlantis does not come from any ancient texts. That theory is modern due to the sleeping prophecies of Edgar Cayce.
Originally posted by blazenresearcher
Originally posted by lostinspace
reply to post by blazenresearcher
Thanks for being the first one to reply blazenresearcher.
The reference to crystals in Atlantis does not come from any ancient texts. That theory is modern due to the sleeping prophecies of Edgar Cayce.
I probably read it there
It makes for a good discussion.
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Originally posted by niceguybob
Awwwww....... Ya went a wrecked a possibly good thread by showing a Disney character.
She can't speak ANY language in that movie. What was that she spoke? Jamaican,Mumbo New Orleans after a rough weekend throwing beads from a float?
Hell, I could do a better pirate biatch from that era and I'm originaly from Cleveland!
We doontt effer loose some of dis acccenttt.
Sigh.
Go Browns!
896 [B.C]. Ulysses leaves Calypso in the Island Ogygie (perhaps Cadis [Cadiz] or Cales .) She was the daughter of Atlas, according to Homer. The ancients at length feigned that this Island, (which from Atlas they called Atlantis) had been as big as all Europe, Africa and Asia, but was sunk into the Sea.
and Homer writes that Ulysses found the Island Ogygia covered with wood, and uninhabited, except by Calypso and her maids, who lived in a cave without houses; and it is not likely that Great Britain and Ireland could be peopled before navigation was propagated beyond the Straits.
The time therefore when these things were done is by Solon limited to the age of Neptune, the father of Atlas; for Homer tells us, that Ulysses presently after the Trojan war found Calypso the daughter of Atlas in the Ogygian Island, perhaps Gadir; and therefore it was but two Generations before the Trojan war.
Originally posted by lostinspaceThe interesting part of Calypso’s legend is the naming of her two sons which were beget by Odysseus. The name of the two children were Nausithous and Nausinous. The capital city of the Bahamas is called Nassau. The government of the Bahamas may want to identify themselves with the island of Ogygia but it looks like they also want to be identified with the location of Atlantis. Just go to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas to see that desire.