Dreaming of Atlantis Issue 20

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The cabanas truly make you feel like a VIP in paradise, as you can sit back, relax, and enjoy complementary tea, coffee, and spa treatments provided by a cabana butler. What more can you ask for? Poolside concierges provide food service and the eatery, Sip Sip, is by the poolside. There are 11 pools at Atlantis, including three for kids.


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Each pool has a beautiful sculpture, work of art, or other distinct feature. For example, large columns with hieroglyphics decorate the Baths Collonade Pool and two waterfalls adorn the Grotto Pool. Some of the pools even have private cabanas to rent! While this all sounds perfect for a vacation, there is one downside. Unfortunately, many of the pools close early. The island gets very dark once the sun goes down and the pools are not lit. In real life i. But, sometimes it is nice to dress up, head out for the night with your friends or significant other, and stuff yourself with buttery popcorn.

The Atlantis Theater is included in your stay, so you can catch up on all of the latest blockbusters! Not only are there movies to watch, but there are also magic shows and other special events. How amazing does that sound? The facility is 10, square feet and contains cardio equipment with personal LCD TVs and a sound system. It also contains a fully-equipped Pilates studio, free weights, a basketball court, and a set of machines for spinning.

Our favorite part of the fitness facility is the yoga pavilion where you can enjoy weekday yoga classes with a beautiful view. Besides the amazing water park, pools, and beach, there are plenty of things to do. You can work out at the fitness center, as previously mentioned. You can also build a bear or watch your children do so , read a book at the library, play tennis or golf, play table games at the casino, watch a complimentary movie at the theater, or create some art.

Atlantis has a studio called Earth and Fire Pottery Studio, where you can fuse glass together to create your own masterpiece. How cool would it be to make something to bring home as a souvenir? And Atlantis is no exception. But, there is one problem. Not all the food at Atlantis is good. The pool food has been said to be sub-par and the food from the fine-dining restaurants may be good, but it definitely puts a huge dent in your wallet. Fortunately, there are meal plans and nearby off-site restaurants available. These day passes may be purchased at Atlantis Adventures Tour center or online. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal!

With all this talk about fancy restaurants, luxury suites, and pricey activities, you might be worried about affording a vacation at Atlantis. Fortunately, there are ways to save money. For starters, choose a budget-friendly hotel option, such as Beach Towers. It may be wise to stock up an extra suitcase with breakfast items, such as peanut butter, cereal, and granola bars. Alternatively, you can visit cheaper off-site restaurants. Finally, take advantage of all the complimentary activities that Atlantis provides. Plato's vague indications of the time of the events—more than 9, years before his time [6] —and the alleged location of Atlantis—"beyond the Pillars of Hercules "—has led to much pseudoscientific speculation.

While present-day philologists and classicists agree on the story's fictional character, [8] [9] there is still debate on what served as its inspiration.

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As for instance with the story of Gyges , [10] Plato is known to have freely borrowed some of his allegories and metaphors from older traditions. This led a number of scholars to investigate possible inspiration of Atlantis from Egyptian records of the Thera eruption , [11] [12] the Sea Peoples invasion, [13] or the Trojan War.

The only primary sources for Atlantis are Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias ; all other mentions of the island are based on them. The dialogues claim to quote Solon , who visited Egypt between and BC; they state that he translated Egyptian records of Atlantis. For it is related in our records how once upon a time your State stayed the course of a mighty host, which, starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot.

For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean.

For all that we have here, lying within the mouth of which we speak, is evidently a haven having a narrow entrance; but that yonder is a real ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there existed a confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power, which held sway over all the island, and over many other islands also and parts of the continent. The four people appearing in those two dialogues are the politicians Critias and Hermocrates as well as the philosophers Socrates and Timaeus of Locri , although only Critias speaks of Atlantis.

In his works Plato makes extensive use of the Socratic method in order to discuss contrary positions within the context of a supposition. The Timaeus begins with an introduction, followed by an account of the creations and structure of the universe and ancient civilizations. In the introduction, Socrates muses about the perfect society, described in Plato's Republic c.

Critias mentions a tale he considered to be historical, that would make the perfect example, and he then follows by describing Atlantis as is recorded in the Critias. In his account, ancient Athens seems to represent the "perfect society" and Atlantis its opponent, representing the very antithesis of the "perfect" traits described in the Republic.

According to Critias, the Hellenic deities of old divided the land so that each deity might have their own lot; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis. The island was larger than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor combined, [21] [22] but it was later sunk by an earthquake and became an impassable mud shoal, inhibiting travel to any part of the ocean. In Plato's metaphorical tale, Poseidon fell in love with Cleito, the daughter of Evenor and Leucippe, who bore him five pairs of male twins. The eldest of these, Atlas , was made rightful king of the entire island and the ocean called the Atlantic Ocean in his honor , and was given the mountain of his birth and the surrounding area as his fiefdom.

Atlas's twin Gadeirus, or Eumelus in Greek, was given the extremity of the island toward the pillars of Hercules. Poseidon carved the mountain where his love dwelt into a palace and enclosed it with three circular moats of increasing width, varying from one to three stadia and separated by rings of land proportional in size. The Atlanteans then built bridges northward from the mountain, making a route to the rest of the island. They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.

Every passage to the city was guarded by gates and towers, and a wall surrounded each ring of the city. The walls were constructed of red, white, and black rock, quarried from the moats, and were covered with brass , tin , and the precious metal orichalcum , respectively. According to Critias, 9, years before his lifetime a war took place between those outside the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar and those who dwelt within them. The Atlanteans had conquered the parts of Libya within the Pillars of Hercules, as far as Egypt, and the European continent as far as Tyrrhenia , and had subjected its people to slavery.

The Athenians led an alliance of resistors against the Atlantean empire, and as the alliance disintegrated, prevailed alone against the empire, liberating the occupied lands. But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.

The logographer Hellanicus of Lesbos wrote an earlier work entitled Atlantis , of which only a few fragments survive. Luce notes that when Plato writes about the genealogy of Atlantis's kings, he writes in the same style as Hellanicus, suggesting a similarity between a fragment of Hellanicus's work and an account in the Critias.

He notes a number of parallels between the physical organisation and fortifications of Syracuse and Plato's description of Atlantis. Some ancient writers viewed Atlantis as fictional or metaphorical myth; others believed it to be real. His work, a commentary on Timaeus , is lost, but Proclus , a Neoplatonist of the fifth century AD, reports on it.

As for the whole of this account of the Atlanteans, some say that it is unadorned history, such as Crantor, the first commentator on Plato. Crantor also says that Plato's contemporaries used to criticize him jokingly for not being the inventor of his Republic but copying the institutions of the Egyptians. Plato took these critics seriously enough to assign to the Egyptians this story about the Athenians and Atlanteans, so as to make them say that the Athenians really once lived according to that system.

The next sentence is often translated "Crantor adds, that this is testified by the prophets of the Egyptians, who assert that these particulars [which are narrated by Plato] are written on pillars which are still preserved. Proponents of both Atlantis as a metaphorical myth and Atlantis as history have argued that the pronoun refers to Crantor.

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Alan Cameron argues that the pronoun should be interpreted as referring to Plato, and that, when Proclus writes that "we must bear in mind concerning this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth", he is treating "Crantor's view as mere personal opinion, nothing more; in fact he first quotes and then dismisses it as representing one of the two unacceptable extremes". Cameron also points out that whether he refers to Plato or to Crantor, the statement does not support conclusions such as Otto Muck's "Crantor came to Sais and saw there in the temple of Neith the column, completely covered with hieroglyphs, on which the history of Atlantis was recorded.

Scholars translated it for him, and he testified that their account fully agreed with Plato's account of Atlantis" [33] or J. Luce's suggestion that Crantor sent "a special enquiry to Egypt" and that he may simply be referring to Plato's own claims. Another passage from the commentary by Proclus on the "Timaeus" gives a description of the geography of Atlantis:.

That an island of such nature and size once existed is evident from what is said by certain authors who investigated the things around the outer sea. Now these things Marcellus has written in his Aethiopica. Other ancient historians and philosophers who believed in the existence of Atlantis were Strabo and Posidonius. This would have placed Atlantis in the Mediterranean, lending credence to many details in Plato's discussion.

The fourth-century historian Ammianus Marcellinus , relying on a lost work by Timagenes , a historian writing in the first century BC, writes that the Druids of Gaul said that part of the inhabitants of Gaul had migrated there from distant islands. Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe; but Ammianus, in fact, says that "the Drasidae Druids recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " Res Gestae During the early first century , the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo wrote about the destruction of Atlantis in his On the Eternity of the World , xxvi.

And the island of Atalantes [translator's spelling; original: The ocean which is impassable for men, and the worlds beyond it, are directed by the same ordinances of the Master. But more probably he contemplated some unknown land in the far west beyond the ocean, like the fabled Atlantis of Plato Other early Christian writers wrote about Atlantis, although they had mixed views on whether it once existed or was an untrustworthy myth of pagan origin.

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The early Christian apologist writer Arnobius also believed Atlantis once existed, but blamed its destruction on pagans. Cosmas Indicopleustes in the sixth century wrote of Atlantis in his Christian Topography in an attempt to prove his theory that the world was flat and surrounded by water: In like manner the philosopher Timaeus also describes this Earth as surrounded by the Ocean, and the Ocean as surrounded by the more remote earth.

For he supposes that there is to westward an island, Atlantis, lying out in the Ocean, in the direction of Gadeira Cadiz , of an enormous magnitude, and relates that the ten kings having procured mercenaries from the nations in this island came from the earth far away, and conquered Europe and Asia, but were afterwards conquered by the Athenians, while that island itself was submerged by God under the sea.

Both Plato and Aristotle praise this philosopher, and Proclus has written a commentary on him. He himself expresses views similar to our own with some modifications, transferring the scene of the events from the east to the west. Moreover he mentions those ten generations as well as that earth which lies beyond the Ocean. And in a word it is evident that all of them borrow from Moses, and publish his statements as their own. Some say that they [the inhabited regions] begin at the beginning of the western ocean [the Atlantic] and beyond.

For in the earliest times [literally: There were scholars there, who isolated themselves in [the pursuit of] philosophy. In their day, that was the [beginning for measuring] the longitude[s] of the inhabited world. Today, it has become [covered by the? Aside from Plato's original account, modern interpretations regarding Atlantis are an amalgamation of diverse, speculative movements that began in the sixteenth century, [51] when scholars began to identify Atlantis with the New World. Athanasius Kircher accepted Plato's account as literally true, describing Atlantis as a small continent in the Atlantic Ocean.

Contemporary perceptions of Atlantis share roots with Mayanism , which can be traced to the beginning of the Modern Age , when European imaginations were fueled by their initial encounters with the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Most of these interpretations are considered pseudohistory , pseudoscience , or pseudoarchaeology , as they have presented their works as academic or scientific , but lack the standards or criteria.

The Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius is believed to have been the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions. In the edition of his Thesaurus Geographicus he wrote: The traces of the ruptures are shown by the projections of Europe and Africa and the indentations of America in the parts of the coasts of these three said lands that face each other to anyone who, using a map of the world, carefully considered them.

So that anyone may say with Strabo in Book 2, that what Plato says of the island of Atlantis on the authority of Solon is not a figment. The term " utopia " from "no place" was coined by Sir Thomas More in his sixteenth-century work of fiction Utopia. People had begun believing that the Mayan and Aztec ruins could possibly be the remnants of Atlantis. Much speculation began as to the origins of the Maya , which led to a variety of narratives and publications that tried to rationalize the discoveries within the context of the Bible and that had undertones of racism in their connections between the Old and New World.

The Europeans believed the indigenous people to be inferior and incapable of building that which was now in ruins and by sharing a common history, they insinuate that another race must have been responsible. In the middle and late nineteenth century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg , and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon , formally proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

The French scholar Brasseur de Bourbourg traveled extensively through Mesoamerica in the mids, and was renowned for his translations of Mayan texts, most notably the sacred book Popol Vuh , as well as a comprehensive history of the region. Soon after these publications, however, Brasseur de Bourbourg lost his academic credibility, due to his claim that the Maya peoples had descended from the Toltecs , people he believed were the surviving population of the racially superior civilization of Atlantis.

Inspired by Brasseur de Bourbourg's diffusion theories, the pseudoarchaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon traveled to Mesoamerica and performed some of the first excavations of many famous Mayan ruins. Le Plongeon invented narratives, such as the kingdom of Mu saga, which romantically drew connections to him, his wife Alice, and Egyptian deities Osiris and Isis , as well as to Heinrich Schliemann , who had just discovered the ancient city of Troy from Homer 's epic poetry that had been described as merely mythical.

The publication of Atlantis: Donnelly stimulated much popular interest in Atlantis. He was greatly inspired by early works in Mayanism , and like them, attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from Atlantis, which he saw as a technologically sophisticated, more advanced culture. Donnelly drew parallels between creation stories in the Old and New Worlds, attributing the connections to Atlantis, where he believed the Biblical Garden of Eden existed.

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Donnelly is credited as the "father of the nineteenth century Atlantis revival" and is the reason the myth endures today. The Russian mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and her partner Henry Steel Olcott founded their Theosophical Society in the s with a philosophy that combined western romanticism and eastern religious concepts.

Blavatsky and her followers in this group are often cited as the founders of New Age and other spiritual movements. Blavatsky took up Donnelly 's interpretations when she wrote The Secret Doctrine , which she claimed was originally dictated in Atlantis. She maintained that the Atlanteans were cultural heroes contrary to Plato , who describes them mainly as a military threat.

She believed in a form of racial evolution as opposed to primate evolution , in which the Atlanteans were the fourth " Root Race ", succeeded by the fifth and most superior " Aryan race " her own race. Rudolf Steiner , the founder of anthroposophy and Waldorf Schools , along with other well known Theosophists, such as Annie Besant , also wrote of cultural evolution in much the same vein.

Some subsequent occultists have followed Blavatsky, at least to the point of tracing the lineage of occult practices back to Atlantis. Blavatsky was also inspired by the work of the eighteenth-century astronomer Jean-Sylvain Bailly , who had "Orientalized" the Atlantis myth in his mythical continent of Hyperborea , a reference to Greek myths featuring a Northern European region of the same name, home to a giant, godlike race.

Julius Evola 's writing in also suggested that the Atlanteans were Hyperborean , Nordic supermen who originated at the North Pole see Thule. I chose the normal or timed level..


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    The reason I only earned 3 stars was because the stone tiles are really hard to spot, they are blue but so are all the other tiles. I was willing to overlook the blue tile scenario because in a way it added some challenge, but if I can't replay levels to get a better star rating, it may just be a deal breaker for me. If someone figures out a way to replay a level, please PM me in the forum and let me know: You can choose to play in a Relaxed mode, Normal mode or Hard, however, there's a glitch here as well, because none of them explain the features you get or don't get.

    These are the same devs who brought us Magic Cards Solitaire, and the music is the same, and the characters slide forward when they are talking, just as in Magic Cards Solitaire. Large matches give you a Power-up on the board, the larger the Match, the larger the explosion. A Match 4 gives you a Blue Magic Pearl that explodes a 5 field radius, a Match 5 gives you a Violet Pearl that explodes a 9 field radius, a Match 6 gives you a Pink Pearl that explodes a 25 field radius, followed by Violet and Red explosions.

    Once you earn enough resources you can buy items in the shop that will give you bonuses to use when you want, once they are charged by making matches of that icon. Each Bonus can be upgraded 3 times, and each bonus requires that you meet the requirements shown, such as a specified amount of gold, rocks, etc, some even require that you earn awards. There are the usual obstructions, sand filled tiles, seaweed covered tiles etc.

    It's a cute and colorful Match 3 game, but it does have some flaws, so I suggest you try the demo, to see if there are any deal breakers for you, enjoy! Rated 4 out of 5 by cowclaudia from Nice little game To play when you don't want a mental effort. Love underwater games and tho the artwork was cartoonish was pleasant with attractive colors. I do have to agree with one reviewer re tiles to be broken blend into background and are hard to see so it takes longer unless you have perfect vision to complete a level.

    Purpose of game is for the little mermaid Flora to bring a statute of a warrior who saved her life once to life so has to accumulate gold and other treasures, etc, etc. Will recommend it since it's a nice change from doom, gloom and hideous faces. This is an excellent Match 3 game, despite its look. The more you play, the more interesting and intriguing it gets. The main reason I've popped in here is to clarify the replaying of a level to obtain 3 stars.

    After buying the game, I delved into this apparent 'overlook' in the game, and have since found someone in the 'game tips' has also discovered it Whilst you are playing, the 'star bar' at bottom left of screen starts off with 3 stars. As you progress, this drops to 2 stars or less if you have not got the number of stone tiles required at this point. At bottom left of screen, there is a 'pause' button.

    Click on this, and you have an option to restart the level. So, you need to keep an eye on the star bar during the game, and when it drops to 2 stars, hit the 'pause' button and restart. The option for replaying a level should have been made available as soon as you have completed the level like most other games of this type , as to most people the above is not obvious at the start. Maybe this will be provided in a possible game update? Rated 4 out of 5 by Calopsitta from A small jewel of a game, but one that needs polishing!