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Entertainment.
The influence of Atlantis is even found to extend to various sports and activities still practised to this very day.
Pelota.
In a fast growing list of these amazing "coincidences" we find that modern and ancient forms of entertainment also appear to have links to a common point of
origin. For instance the Basque game Pelota, played with a ball bounced against a wall by the bare hand or club shaped bat, bears a striking resemblance to a ball pit game played at Mayan sacrificial
ceremonies. Virtually the only difference is that the Mayan variant required the losing team to be sacrificially slaughtered.
The bull fighting connection.
The most exciting evidence of shared traditions in countries facing the presumed location of Atlantis, is undoubtedly bull-fighting. The ritual hunting of bulls and the
spilling of their blood as an act of sacrifice, was according to Plato, one of the most solemn of Atlantean ceremonies. It can hardly be coincidence then, that the countries that still engage in
bull-fighting - Spain, France, Portugal, and even Mexico, all have Atlantic facing coasts that look out towards the presumed location of this long lost island!
Horsemanship.
A number of these countries are also renowned for their love of fine horsemanship and breeding of horses. This too was another Atlantean passion. Indeed the inner sanctum of
the island, which rested on a concentrically arranged ring of islands possessed a "special course for horse racing." Both the emblem of the bull and the horse were deeply etched into the
symbolism and practice of Atlantean worship - a symbolism still very much alive and duly celebrated in the Iberian love of equestrian sports and especially bull fighting.
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