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| Ancient Greek temple at Paestum (Picture I) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
In the beginning, I must say that we haven't got a single hard evidence about the advanced technical civilizations, what has lived on Earth before human race has started to dominate the world. Here I must mention, that, of course, there is a story like Plato's "Atlantis", where is mentioned that there have been secret cities what were populated by people, who had squamous skin.
Sometimes I think that maybe Plato wrote pure fiction, and the story of the powerful state, known as "Atlantis" was pure science fiction. In that case, this Mr. Plato, of course, decorated the story more attractive, and he told the story about the "Egyptian priest" who told that first. In the time of Plato people were traveled so much as today, and the "Egyptian priest" was the person, who gave this story the taste of exoticism. And maybe Plato heard that story from some storyteller in some theater, and he made own version of this very popular story.
In fact, the size of Atlantis was not very big, the size of the city-area itself was about 5000 square meters, and I thought that maybe that if Atlantis existed, would Plato make it much bigger, what it was before he got that story. And of course Plato wanted to show his patriotism and the story, how Athens troops won that city were told only for decorating that story and make it more pleasant for the people, who controlled Athens in that time. But there is another kind of things, what people should think before they justify anything. It is possible to make diving suits by using the skin of Catfish or Shark. Other ways are using the greased leather, what also keeps the person dry.
Also, it is possible to dive very long time by using the bottle, where is carbon filter on it. In this case, the "long time" means longer than without that equipment, what is used in World War II submarines to escape and evasion system. But we don't know did those ancient Mediterranean civilizations knew that carbon would clean the air. When we are thinking about technically advanced civilizations, we must understand one thing. In that time about 500 years, B.C. was almost everything what was more complicated that stone-axes technically advanced.
Maybe some city-state holds the techniques like the balloon flight by using heat air balloons. Normally there is a very big mistake, what people normally make when they are talking about advanced civilizations. They think that those ancient civilizations had all technology, what we have today. People don't think simple things, like heat air balloons, what are made by using the natural material. They don't also think that big fishes like sharks tails can also use as the swimming equipment. In this case, the swimmer just pulls the sharks tail like pants and uses that thing as the swim fin.
So in those cases, the ancient Greeks just saw something, what they were not seen before. The dry suits might be very fascinated in the eyes of the Ancient Greeks. But this is only thinking about technical advantages from the long time ago. And when we are looking those stories, we must understand that they were been made better during the history. The last versions of the story of Atlantis might be made under the control of propaganda leader of Nazi-Germany Dr. Joseph Goebbels, who wanted to rewrite history, that it was supporting the propaganda of "white race".
And in that case, the Nazis saw themselves as the descendants of those "White Aryan race", what was living in the Atlantis. This is one perspective for the ancient mythology. It has been always modified to serve the purpose of governments. In the case of stories of ancient Greeks, the background of those very patriotic tales can be found from British headquarters in World War I, what wanted to rise the nationalism in Greece.
The British empire was in the war against Turkey, and in that time Greece was part of Ottoman Empire, and that's why British interest was established revolt in Greece. Of course, that nation must be proud of it's past and that's why British propaganda makers made those stories more patriotic than they ever were because in this case, Greeks must feel that Turkish were tramped the rights of a great nation of Greece. And the reason for that just made the revolt in that area, what was important for Ottomans and Austrians, because that place was the point, what was controlling sea route to the Mediterranean sea, and warships must pass that area if they wanted to leave to sea.
In that case, British commanders thought that the revolt was more easily to establish in Greece than Istanbul, what was in Turkish mainland. The British army needed also supporting area, what might use in the strike against the city of Istanbul. But that plan ever made in action, because the Ottoman Empire falls for internal reasons. This is very interesting part of history, what was rewritten for serving the national interests. And we must understand that when we are reading the texts of ancient philosophers. And at the last, I must ask one question about the ancient civilizations: "have you ever met any ancient Greek, who told that there is no hidden civilization on Earth"?
This is the very good aspect of discussions about ancient civilizations. We haven't met any ancient Greek, and even we meet some person from that era, that person can tell lies to us. But maybe those ancient wise men had created the method how to fix our DNA, or they have put their diary in the place, where it was not destroyed. But as I told you the diary can also be faked by some members of British Headquarters in 1916. Or this can be made by some antique dealer in 1992 when he tried to sell that thing to some person, who wanted to show that Ancient advanced civilizations were true.
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