We think of the demise of Atlantis as affecting just that island. In
reality however this would have been a world-wide catastrophe - a disaster without parallel in human history.
Wider catastrophe.
Obviously the Atlantis disaster was part of a much wider catastrophe. Around Iceland in the North Atlantic there is a particularly strong indication of sudden inundation.
The depth chart of the subsidence around the island illustrates this quite graphically. It reveals a dramatic sinking of a large area of land that seems to have occurred with amazing rapidity. There is
no doubt that 14,000 years ago the geography of this region would have looked quite different. Iceland was then four times its present area, of which the Faroes, together with Beerenberg volcano on Jan
Mayers island are all that remain of a once great land mass.
Twilight of the gods.
In Icelandic mythology we find a strange echo of these events in the Volluspa, a kind of poetic apocalypse that tells of a time when the sun, the moon and the stars were
shaken from their places. Large portions of Norse mythology also speak of the immensely turbulent days of a great natural disaster, and influences of this folklore were later to pass into European
consciousness through Wagners opera Goterdammerung - The Twilight of The Gods!
Major catastrophe.
The reality is that throughout most of the ancient world particularly forceful writings speak of a major
catastrophe that arrives in the form of a flood. From Israel and Egypt through much of the western world and on into the Americas, as well as China and Mesopotamia, the idea of a world destroyed by flood
is an ever present recollection. Moreover scientific evidence now offers evidence of some cataclysmic disaster with waves so high that they literally swept across the continents destroying all in its
path.
Further links.
See the link below for evidence of great flooding across large areas of the globe.
