TALES OF ATLANTIS-PRIME

TALES OF ATLANTIS-PRIME


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TALES OF ATLANTIS-PRIMEATLANTIS-PRIME-A HUGE DYSONSPHERE IN DEEP SPACE-ATLANTEAN AND SPACE,THROUGHOUT THE KNOWN MAVERIC COMIC UNIVERSE. THIS IS THE WORLD MANY OF THEM COME FROM.A HUGE DYSONSPHERE IN DEEP SPACE-ATLANTEAN GALAXY.This is one of several homes of the Atlantean super race-the original,having been destroyed eons ago,in the former and so called ''Old (Maveric )Universe.''.The other currently known Atlantean colony world-a huge world ship,known as Genesis-Prime.I am in someways trying to pay homage to the various Atlantean Muthogy,but also parody and bebunk much of the cliche mythology.linked to that mythical lost continent.I do not outside of popular fiction-which includes the original story created by Plato,that Atlantis is real.I do believe,that there maybe many lost areas on earth mistaken or the inspiration for the myth.I do not believe,that the Atlantis created by spitualalist,like Edgar Casey or Mademe Blavashi,anymore than the Atlantis of Aquaman (Arthor Curry)DC COMICS or Prince Namor McKenzie-the Sub-Mariner of Marvel Comics exists.The dysonsphere,is my long line of saying,what we know about the lost continent of Atlantis is untrue-partially false.I tried originally,to place this new Atlantis -a sort of Robert E.Howards' Hyborean Age world-mixed other mythical worlds like Namor and Aquaman's Atlantis-minus the waterbreathing humans,set atop upon a floating,asguard like super continent,atop a massive,bespin city like floating city around 1985,but desided it was far unbelievable.I then placed Atlantis upon a Jupiter sized world,similar to Superman's distant planet of Krypton-between 1986 to 1990.This ofcourse,led me transforming it all into dysonsphere,which the same thing sort of.The dysonsphere,is sort of provides a similar concepts of all the other mythical place,I've associated my Atlantis creation-Asguard,Krypton,the Hyborean Age,and so on,set in a single Pellucidar like hollow world.This alcourse eventually,led another dysonspher I've created -the Dysonsphere,known as Terra-Prime-the second artificial built by my Atlantean race.More on that in other places.

Atlantis had been a small continent (about the same size as modern Australia) with many human settlements, when an event 21,000 years ago called the "Great Cataclysm" caused it to be submerged into the sea.Everyone starts off with that and just runs it,either placing in some long ago mythical world or uses it as the background story for their underwater civilization.I wanted to reject it somewhat and redo the whole thing.Robert E,Howard,only sort of rejected the Atlantis,but not having really apart of the Thurean Continent.That was a bold concept,but was never fully explored by Howard,because he desided to dump the whole Kull character and his Thurean Age only became background material for Conan's Hyborean Age.Otherwriters,have yet to dare-outside of a few handful of King Kull comics to explore this world.
Later on,my Atlantis-Prime became a sort of lost world,like Krypton,but without it's ultimate destruction-which would a hack talent cliche mistake -since my Atlantis is not only a metafore for lost civilizations,but heavon-and heavon is eternal-everlasting,and the catalist,like Jack Kirby's Fourth World New Gods two world New Genisis and Apocholypse-a sort of twine Twilight of the Gods worlds-one good and evil for other major events across time and space.Doctor Who's Time Lord concepts slipped in and became the basis for a larger tempral spanning caltalist for other stories and characters.Atlantis-Prime is heavon and it's opposite would be hell or hades,so I created another world known as Hades-Prime-the Atlantean place for hell.Genisis-Prime soon followed-which was where the older Atlanteans-mainly the Imperial House Clan of Sarkhon existed in a purgatory like world.Soon I needed to created another hell or prison,for this other Atlantean heavonlike place and soon created Tartarus-Prime.It was imprisoned within a pocket dimension,called the Tartarus-Dimension-Greek Mythology. The abysmal regions below Hades where the Titans were confined.Here there maybe Titans as well-huge destructive cyborg beings of great power and great evil,who once fought the Atlantean,the Olympians,Asguardian and other Lords of Light and lost.

My Atlantis wasn't going to be a lost continent or lost planet destroyed,never return-which far too idiot writers and simpleminded fans are exposed,but a mighty civilization-a super race,whose actions let Pardora's evils and now they must forever contain or leastwise fight the evil,that they do.Any idiot hack can blow up a planet and send his son to Earth to grow as a Superman or kill off the might time travelling race and leave justice to one,hobo time lord,as Doctor Who to deal with,but I think real storytelling content would involve that super race,to constantly fight the evils of the multiverse,as a pensence for their sins.
And this is another aspect my TALES OF ATLANTIS-PRIME .
Enjoy-Onward and Upward.
Doc Thompson.

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by Alan G. Hefner
The story of the Isle of Atlantis first occurs in Plato's two dialogues the "Timaeus" and the "Critias." Plato's story centers on Solon, a great Greek legislator and poet who journeyed to Egypt some 150 years earlier. While in the Egyptian city of Sais Solon received the story of Atlantis from priests. The priests respected Solon's reputation and cordially welcomed him. They also respected the Athenians, whom they regarded as kinsmen, because they believed their deity Neith to be the same deity as the Greeks called Athena. Therefore, she was believed to be the patroness and protector of both Greece and Egypt.
The story that the priests told Solon was unknown to him. According to ancient Egyptian temple records the Athenians fought an aggressive war against the rulers of Atlantis some nine thousand years earlier and won.

These ancient and powerful kings or rulers of Atlantis had formed a confederation by which they controlled Atlantis and other islands as well. They began a war from their homeland in the Atlantic Ocean and sent fighting troops to Europe and Asia. Against this attack the men of Athens formed a coalition from all over Greece to halt it. When this coalition met difficulties their allies deserted them and the Athenians fought on alone to defeat the Atlantian rulers. They stopped an invasion of their own country as well as freeing Egypt and eventually every country under the control of the rulers of Atlantis.

Shortly after their victory, even before the Athenians could return home, Atlantis suffered catastrophic earthquakes and floods until it disappeared beneath the sea. All of the brave men were swallowed up in one day and night of horror according to legend. This is why the Egyptians were ever grateful to the Athenians.

Also in the story Plato gives is a history of Atlantis that shows how the rulers eroded to such a state were they wanted to conquer everyone. This history had been recorded by Solon in notes that were handed down through his family.

According to Solon's notes the history of Atlantis began at the beginning of time. It was then that the immortal gods divided the world among themselves and each ruled their proportion. The god Poseidon received Atlantis, an island larger the Libya and Asia combined. He chose for a wife the mortal woman Cleito, and with her begun the royal family of Atlantis.

Poseidon built Cleito's home on a high hill at the very center of the island. The home overlooked a fertile plain bordered by the sea. For his beloved wife's protection Poseidon surrounded her house with five concentric rings of water and land. He carved the rings with the ease and skill of a god. He made hot and cold springs come from the earth. With the development of a future city his descendants never lacked for water.

Cleito bore Poseidon ten sons, five sets of boys. Atlas the first son of the first set of twins, was made king over the vast territory by his father. His brothers were appointed princes and each ruled over a large section of the territory that was distributed to him. The most valuable section of the kingdom remained his mother's home on the hilltop and the land surrounding it. This was given to Atlas. Atlas himself had many sons with the succession of the throne always passing to the eldest son.

For generations Atlantis remained peaceful and prospered. Almost all of the population's needs were met from the island's mines, fields and forests. Anything that the kingdom did not produce was imported. This was possible because a channel was eventually built which transversed all the rings from the ocean to the center of the kingdom, or the acropolis. On this stood the royal palace near the original home of Poseidon and Cleito. Each succeeding king tried to out do his predecessor in building a greater kingdom. Finally the splendid city Metropolis and the outer city of Atlantis existed behind a great outer wall.

Poseidon sat down laws for Atlantis that the rulers were to fellow. The ruling body was to meet regularly. It was to consist of ten rulers that represented the first rulers -- Atlas and his nine brothers -- who reigned with absolute power of life and death over their subjects. These meeting occurred in the temple of Poseidon where the first rulers inscribed the laws on a pillar of orichalcum. First, as required by ancient ceremony, pledges were exchanged. Then a sacred bull was captured and killed. The body was burned as a sacrifice to the god. Then the blood was mixed with wine and poured over the fire as a act of purification for each man. The rulers were served wine in golden cups, each poured a libation over the fire and swore by oath to give judgment according to the inscribed laws. When ending his vow each drank his wine and dedicated his cup to the temple. This was followed by a dinner that preceded the rulers putting on magnificent blue robes in which they judged matters concerning the kingdom according to Poseidon's laws.

As long as they judged and lived by Poseidon's laws they and the kingdom prospered. When the laws began to be forgotten trouble began. More of the rulers eventually began marrying mortals and started acting like foolish humans. Soon pride overtook the rulers who soon began grasping for greater power. Then Zeus saw what had happened to the rulers. They had abandoned the laws of the gods and acted in an evil coalition as men. He assembled all the gods of Olympus around him and was to pronounce judgment on Atlantis. This is where Plato's story stops.

Whether Plato intended to end his story of Atlantis so abruptly or whether he intended to extend it no one knows. Just as no one knows whether Plato believed in the real existence of the island or whether it was purely a mythical kingdom. Many have said they believe that Plato believed in the island's existence because he exerted so much detail in its description, while others reject this by claiming since the story was purely fiction Plato could put in as much detail as he wanted, it does not prove a thing. Also in doubt is the time period of the story. Solon writes the island existed 9000 years before. This would place the time period in the Early Stone Age. In this period it is hard to imagine the type of agriculture, architecture and sea navigation as described in the story. One explanation for this time period inconsistency is that Solon misinterpreted the Egyptian symbol for "100" for "1000." If this be the case then Atlantis would have existed 900 years before. This would place the Atlantians in the Middle Bronze Age where they would possess the tools and equipment needed for the development described within the story.

To collaborate this 900 year theory there is geological evidence showing that roughly about 1500 BCE there was a gigantic volcanic eruption which caused half of the island to sink into the sea. Also a lost city has been said to have sunk in the Bay of Naples. At the time several rich and luxurious seaside resorts were located in the area. In the retelling of the story of Atlantis it is easy to see how one of these cities could be associated with it. The story is still being told which enthralls hundreds, as archaeological digs are conducted to unearth evidence of the real Atlantis. Until then the myth remains.

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