Brazilian 'Atlantis': Submersible Finds Possible Evidence Of Continent Deep Beneath Atlantic Ocean (VIDEO)

By Meredith Bennett-Smith
Huffington Post

Nearly 2,600 years after Greek philosopher Plato wrote about the fabled metropolis of Atlantis, vanished forever beneath the sea, a Japanese-manned submersible has discovered rock structures that may be evidence of a continent that similarly disappeared beneath the Atlantic Ocean many, many years ago.

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and the Geology Service of Brazil (CPRM) announced Tuesday the discovery of granite at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, about 900 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

Granite, normally found on dry land, suggests that a continent once existed in the region and then sank, much in the same way Plato described, according to The Japan Times.

“South America and Africa used to be a huge, unified continent," Shinichi Kawakami, a professor at Gifu University told the outlet. "The area in question may have been left in water as the continent was separated in line with the movements of plates."

Plato wrote that Atlantis was "an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Hercules," Reuters notes. During Plato's time, the Straits of Gibraltar were known as the Pillars of Hercules, so Atlantis-seekers have focused their search in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. (However, others disregard the tale altogether, NTDTV points out.)

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Yet actually tracing back these languages can be extremely time-consuming. Previously, linguists have relied on studying shared sounds among words to identify those that are likely to be derived from common ancestral words. One example is the Latin "pater" and the English "father." The problem with this approach is that sometimes words can sound similar by accident.

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There use to be an Indian Mound Elementary school when I was a kid in the town of Marion Ohio.  The school no longer stands and has been replaced by a playground.  I did not attend the school and always wondered if there was an Indian Mound anywhere in the area.  So we drove out one day to search for any mounds.  Its a sprawling residential part of town, and unless you have any reason for being there, you've never seen it.  So we were amazed when we found an area that is never talked about in any local tourism guides, and no one really speaks about in town; a well kept Indian mound and an enclosure.  There are no signs to designate the area and in fact people were riding their ATV's up it a little while before we got there.  

The mound that stands within walking distance of the now demolished Indian Mound elementary school.

I suppose if I asked the historical society they might have some information.  Is this Adena?  Is this Hopewell?  I do not know.  Further inspection shows what looks like some kind of archeological dig that took place some time ago.  The back half of the mound is gone and the enclosure nearby is small compared to those in Newark.

On top of the mound.

The concrete patch.

  

The 'L' shaped enclosure has been preserved.

 A few streets over is a street called Mound Street.  Though I have driven it a few times, I have never seen any mounds there.  If there were any, and I'm sure there must have been, they are long gone.  I use to wonder if the Lincoln Park hill was a mound, but have been told, and heard it growing-up, that it is left over dirt from construction in the area.  Always a danger for amateur mound hunters!

And speaking of Marion, when it comes to legends of the past, none is more strange than the little known following story that I only learned of in recent years.  

Evidence for the occupation of this region before the appearance of the red man and the white race is to be found in almost every part of the county, as well as through the northwest generally. In removing the gravel bluffs, which are numerous and deep, for the construction and repair of roads, and in excavating cellars, hundreds of human skeletons, some of them of giant form, have been found. A citizen of Marion County estimates that there were about as many human skeletons in the knolls of Marion County as there are white inhabitants at present!

The History of Marion County, Ohio 1883

I first read this from websites quoting Mary Sutherland's Giants of Ohio and the Mound Builders.  I highly recommend it as a string point for giants in the past.  I have no idea, and doubt that anyone will ever know where those giant human bones were found.  Maybe the above mound is very old?  These legends of giants in Indian lore date back to very distant times.  Giants aside, the fact that Mounds and the ancient Indian past of North America is never really taught to us in school, except that 'Columbus came here one day and that's that', is pretty sad, and does everyone living in a former sacred site a disservice.  "A citizen of Marion County estimates that there were about as many human skeletons in the knolls of Marion County as there are white inhabitants at present!"  We are all living in a haunted land.            



    
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Indian Mound, Southern Marion Ohio, Late 1800's.

A photo from the Ohio Historical Society, from the book "Images of America; Marion Ohio", by Stuart J Koblentz, comes this; an archeological dig of an Indian Mound, taken from the late 1800's.  Note that everyone pictured is hardly even an adolescent and the young boy protecting the site with a rifle.  You don’t want to cross him!  I'm assuming that adults were heading-up this dig.  We can only hope.        

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Mound Park in Portsmouth Ohio

Once the site of one of the largest and most elaborate of the Indian Mounds, Portsmouth Ohio now only has a hand full of mounds to be seen, and of those left, only a small park holds a single small mound.

I'm sure if the current residents had their way, they would have kept a few of the more impressive mounds in tact.  Proud of their history, a mural that spans the entire flood wall of a park next to the Ohio River, pays tribute to the history of Portsmouth, it's famous former citizens like Roy Rogers and the Earthworks that stood there some 2000 years before.

In what I can find, no one really knows why these mounds, these cities, paths of earth were constructed.  Some are burial mounds, but the lanes, avenues, circular enclosures, they all point to a kind of system.  Something like the symbol system of the tarot?   

I haven't had the pleasure or time to visit the Serpent Mound in Ohio, but we have made a trek to the Newark Earthworks.  I'll show some of that later.

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