: Atlantis is not the only sunken island. I've been very
: interesting in this topic for... certain reasons I am
: not at liberty to divulge (ok technically I am, but it
: would ruin all your fun years down the road).
Cool! I like fun :-) (It's Yer-Ks, isn't it?)
: Anyway, in my research I came across an interesting fact.
: We all know the story of Atlantis - great
: civilization, high technology, peace, etc etc, then it
: sank. Well, reading through Chinese mythology I came
: across an intersting thing - the Chinese have another
: myth about an island called Peng-lai in the South
: China Sea, where the Xian (immortals) lived... which
: sank into the sea whenever ships would approach it.
Wow, have you checked out the site I link at the end of every post?
: Then, I got interested and looked for more sunken
: islands, and found a Polynesian myth of Hawai'iki,
: which ran remarkably similar to the Christian creation
: myth, except that instead of just being cast out of
: the garden, they were "voted off the island"
: (I know, bad pun) and cast out to the rest of the
: world... and their great paradise sunk into the sea.
Yup, heard of that one.
This corroborates an Indonesian Primordial Paridise: an alternate name for Hawai’iki is Javai’iki. Intersting stuff :-).
: There are other myths/prophecies involving islands,
: though not all of them sunken. Aztec mythology holds
: that their Mongols ancestors came over the land bridge
: in search of an island in a lake, on which would be a
: cactus, on which would be a hawk, eating a snake...
Supposédly, this would be their recreation of Paridise, which was an island in a river-ocean, which sank.
I’m not sure about the Aztecs anymore, but the Maya claim to have come from the west, across the ocean, not north, as they should if they believed they were derived from the Bering Strait crossing.
: and they found that in Tenochtitlan and made it their
: capital, eventually filling in the lake and expanding
: the island until there was no lake, and hence no
: island in it. Tenochtitlan is the ruined old city
: under Mexico City, for those who've never heard of it.
I have, I have!
: And I think there was something about Titticaca as well,
: but I can't recall at the moment. Only South Africa
: seems to be missing its island paradise. The
: Mediterranean has Atlantis, the Far East has Peng-Lai,
: the South Pacific has Hawai'iki, North America has
: Tenochtitlan, and.... god I can't remember what's in
: South America. Here be dragons, rar.
South America has the Pacari-tambu, the Incan Paridise, the same story as Atlantis, sunking beneath the ocean after being flooded.
Very nice detective work, Forrest! Interesting mythical connections…hopefully Mythical as well. I’m sure you’d also enjoy www.atlan.org, so go there and have a read of everything! Then we can all discuss it (as well as its connection to Myth:-).
