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The islands of the blessed.
Was Atlantis paradise on Earth?
As well as being associated with the point of creation - the Garden of Eden - Atlantis is also thought of in terms of the land of rest towards which the souls of the dead migrate. This duality of perception is perhaps not hard to comprehend. If life started on Atlantis it was perhaps logical that this is where the soul should go upon being separated from the body.
The Elysian Fields.
In much of the ancient world the land of the dead was thought to be in the west. Part of the reason for this - albeit symbolically - is that this is the direction where the sun sets. However there is a more potent reason. It is the belief amongst numerous ancient cultures that across the ocean towards the west there existed a blessed isle that was home to the dead. They equate it with the Fortunate Islands, the Elysian Fields of mythology, or the Garden of the Hesperides.
Abode of the happy departed.
According to author Lewis Spence:” The earliest Greek poetry situates the abode of the happy departed spirits far beyond the entrance to the Mediterranean, on islands in the midst of the River Oceanus. Pindar under Orphic influence probably alludes to them as the destination. not only of divine favourites, but of all righteous persons. There he says the gales of Ocean breathe over the Island of the Fortunate, the Earth laughs with golden flowers, and the good appear to occupy themselves chiefly in horsemanship and music.”
Earthly paradise.
In his book “Mystery of Atlantis.” author Charles Berlitz addresses the notion of a western paradise in the following manner: “ The Welsh and ancient English pointed to the western ocean for their Earthly paradise, which they called Avalon... The Babylonians placed their paradise in the western ocean and referred to it as Aralu, while the Egyptians situated their abode of the souls ‘far to the west in the middle of the ocean’ and called it amongst other names, AAU, or Aalu as well as Amenti. The Celtic tribes of Spain and also the Basques preserve traditions of their homeland in the western ocean; and the original Gauls of France, especially those in the western sections, had the tradition that their ancestors came from the middle of the western ocean as the result of a catastrophe which destroyed their homeland.”
Common belief.
The link between Atlantis and the Blessed Isles is approached by author Lewis Spence in the following terms: “There are however good grounds for believing that the whole idea of the continued existence of souls after death in the West arose out of the memory of Atlantis. Indeed we find it believed in by all the races who must have in some degree acquired the Atlantean civilisation.
The Celts, whose long association with the Iberians in Spain must have imbued them with the idea, devoutly believed that the abode of the dead, was situated in the Atlantic, and we find the Greeks, and Romans and Cretans holding the same belief. The very fact that the whole of Western and Mediterranean Europe looked to the west as the location of the Great Island of the Dead, is surely sufficient proof that they regarded it as their ancient home from which their religion and culture had been drawn.
Land of the Gods.
Another interesting anomaly is that on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in the Americas the gods were always believed to have come from the opposite direction that is to say from the east. To the Aztecs the Land of the Blessed was in the north, and to the Chinese it was the east. But of course to the civilisations of the early Americas Atlantis would have been towards the east, and this gives the whole idea of Atlantis - as the Blessed Isles all the more credibility.
Caught in the middle between the locations of what later became the greatest civilisations on Earth it was inevitable that these later cultures would describe the Land of the Gods or the Blessed Isles in terms of their own geographical position. Hence the reason why these cultures saw the great island either as east or west according to the position of Atlantis. Their spiritual and emotional homeland whose influence exists even to these present times.
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