Atlantis...
        Fact or Fiction

An interview with Arysio Nunes dos Santo

Arysio Nunes dos Santo is a professional scientist with a Doctoral Degree, a graduate in Electronics Engineering, and a Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. For 17 years Arysio has been studying the Occult, and age long theories on Atlantis. He set out to refute such theories and discovered the Lost Continent indeed existed, and was in reality far more advanced than ever dreamed by anyone.

The Q&A's encompass the basic points essential for understanding the question of Atlantis and the issues stemming from the reality of its existence.

Q: What are Atlantis and Lemuria?

A: Atlantis was a continent of the Atlantic Ocean where, according to Plato, an advanced civilization developed some 11,600 years ago. Plato affirms that, as the result of a huge volcanic cataclysm of worldwide extent, this continent sank, disappearing forever. Official science rejects the actual existence of Atlantis as it has been unable to find any traces of its reality. But the reason is, everybody has been looking in the wrong locations as Atlantis lies in the opposite side of the world.

Lemuria, on the other hand, is an older version of Atlantis. It is the same as the Garden of Eden or Paradise - the actual birthplace of mankind and civilization. From there, civilization spread to Atlantis and other parts of the world some 20-30 thousand years ago, during the Ice Age.

Q: What is the importance of Atlantis for mankind?

A: Atlantis is the source of all religion, science, races and civilizations. Its discovery now, at the very dawn of the Millennium, has been predicted from deepest antiquity, and is the true message of the Gospels and other such Holy Books. Discovery of Atlantis brings back the hope of rebirth of the Golden Age, with its promise of universal peace, harmony, love and happiness for all. It will also cause a major revolution in our view of the world and of our past and future.

Q: How can you claim discovery of Atlantis, when so many other authorities have failed? Is this one just another illusion?

A: No, my find is not an illusion. First, it is solidly based on scientific results from both the exact and the human sciences. These include geology, astronomy, paleontology, archaeology, linguistics, ethnology, comparative mythology, comparative religion, philosophy etc. Second, we found the key to the ancient myths and traditions, so the difficult alchemical allegories and mythical enigmas, which mainly have to do with Atlantean secrets, became crystal clear. The problem is Atlantis requires both supports, of occult tradition and "official" science.

Q: You claim Atlantis is located under the South China Sea. Is it not true that if it is Atlantis, it has to be located in the Atlantic Ocean?

A: Yes, but the fact is what we call the "Atlantic Ocean" is not the same as that of the ancients. Herodotus, Aristotle, Plato, Strabo, and several other ancient authors are very specific on the fact the "Atlantic Ocean" - otherwise called "Ocean of the Atlanteans", "Outer Ocean", "Kronian Ocean", Mare Oceanum ("Ocean Sea") or Mare Magnum ("Great Sea") was indeed the whole of the "Earth-encircling ocean". This ocean surrounded the whole world then known, as Eurasia and Africa. In other words, the Atlantic Ocean of the ancients was the World Ocean that is coterminous and encircles the entire globe of the Earth, and which we now arbitrarily divide into Pacific, Indian and Atlantic, despite the fact all three are coterminous.

Q: Was Atlantis an island or a continent?

A: Atlantis was a continent. Its capital was called by the same name or by that of Poseidonis, and located on an island next to its coast. After this continent sunk under the seas, only the peaks of its loftiest mountains remained above the water, forming what ancients later knew as the Islands of the Blest, and which we know as those of Indonesia.

Q: Can continents sink?

A: No. Continents float isostatically over the molten magma, more or less like a ship over the seas. But the seas can rise - as they did at the end of the Ice Age - submerging large portions of the low-lying lands. As a matter of fact, Plato's sunken continent of Atlantis is the large extension of continental dimensions to the south of Southeast Asia called Australasia by geographers.

This vast Pleistocenic continent was known of old by many legendary names such as Elysian Fields by the Greeks, Field of Reeds (Sekhet Aaru) by the Egyptians, Aztlan by the Mayas, Rutas by the Hindus, and so on. As the seas rose by 100-150 meters at the end of the Pleistocene and, as these lands were very low, they sunk and now form what we call the South China Sea. This sea is very shallow, with an average depth of under 60 meters. Hence, it is easy to reckon this unique region was indeed subaerial during the Pleistocene.

Q: Are there vestiges of a sunken island or continent in the Atlantic Ocean?