is a far-reaching legend. Throughout the continuum there are many stories of lost civilizations which reached great heights, and then destroyed themselves through its own hubris or carelessness. Almost every game system or story defines its own type of atlantean. See Also: Camelot, Faerie
Mythical continent mentioned by Plato in the Timaeus and Critias.
A technologically advanced society that was supposedly destroyed thousands of years ago.
Suprahistorical source of the western hermetic tradition, mythically ruled by five sets of twins (or zygodecimal principals), with a pantheon of one hundred sea- deities (or C-monsters). The Atlantean legacy is intensely contested, between tendencies loosely coagulated within AOE dominated traditions, and varieties of afroatlantean subversion.
A lost city, that was believed to exist before the Ancient Greeks and after the Lemurians. It was inhabited by highly intelligent people who knew about atomic energy, the principles of flight and the power of crystals.
according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake
The waterlogged up homeland of many New Agers; believed to be where Hollywood got its script for the Titanic. Also: Atlantian (adj)
The continent that was submerged in the Atlantic ocean, according to the occult teaching and Plato. Atlantis was the home of the Fourth Root Race, whom we now call the Atlanteans.
A continent now submerged in the Atlantic ocean, according to occult teaching and Plato. Home of the Atlantean or fourth rootrace.
A legendary island/continent said to have sunk beneath the ocean. It was located straddling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and was broken up as a result of continental drift or a major natural disaster. It is supposed to have had a highly advanced civilization.
Home of the Fourth Root Race following the Lemurian and prior to our Fifth Root Race. Of giant size, the Atlanteans were responsible for the pyramids of Yucatan and Egypt.
A highly evolved ancient civilization which developed and used advanced technologies such as those we are learning about today. The civilization misused some of the technologies by not integrating spiritual practices into their use and was destroyed by earthquakes and other cataclysms. The continent of Atlantis sank into the Atlantic Ocean on three separate occasions. Some Atlanteans escaped and went to such places as Greece, Egypt and Central America.
An sunken island. generally believed to be in the Atlantic ocean, which some people assert once held an advanced civilization.
Legendary civilization described by ancient writers such as Plato. Some people believe that the civilization these authors called Atlantis was really the Minoan civilization that flourished on the island of Crete and surrounding Cycladic islands of the Aegean. This Minoan culture was destroyed in the 16th century B.C., following the eruption of the volcanic Island of Thera ca. 1625 B.C.
Atlantis (Greek: , "Island of Atlas") is the name of an island first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher Plato in the dialogues Timaeus and Critias. In Plato's account, Atlantis, lying "beyond the pillars of Hercules", was a naval power which conquered many parts of western Europe and Africa 9000 years before Plato's own time--approximately 9400 BC. After a failed attempt to invade Athens, Atlantis sank into the ocean "in a single day and night of misfortune."
Atlantis is a fictional location in the Marvel Universe. 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. The inhabitants had built an enormous glass-like dome over the capital city, also known as Atlantis.