Atlantis in West Africa? Growing Evidence the Richat Structure in Mauritania was the Capital of Atlantis
In my recent book on pole shifts, proof of previously advanced civilizations like Atlantis are just one small portion of the pile of evidence suggesting that the entire surface of the Earth is repeatedly destroyed and re-oriented in a periodic cycle of natural catastrophes. The last POLE SHIFT seems to have occurred less than 13,000 years ago.
Thank you Bright Insight for compiling this evidence over many video presentations including the one below. Some key points:
The Richat Structure, a.k.a. The Eye of Africa, is a series of concentric circles in the desert
in Mauritania. If it was on an ancient shoreline as the evidence suggests, it was on the Atlantic, west of the Pillars of Hercules/Straits of Gibraltar as described by Plato almost 2500 years ago.
I sometimes wonder if this eye on the ground are not just the post-cataclysm remains of the capital city of Atlantis, but are also the foundation of the Egyptian symbols for the Eye of Ra and the Eye of Horus. (The Eye of Ra symbolizes protection that comes from power, violence, and fury while the eye of Horus symbolizes regeneration, healing, and divine protection from the gods.)
The Richat Structure appears to have three high rings that would have been above water and three rings that would have been below the surface - as Plato described the capital city of Atlantis. It is also the size Plato mentioned - about 25 miles across. It also has mountains to the north and the entrance to the sea to the south - as Plato suggested.
Herodotus, the Father of History, made a map of the known world listing this area of the western Sahara "Atlantes."
In mythology, the main king of Atlantis was Atlas, as is the main mythical king of the Mauri people of Mauritania. The Atlas mountains are just to the north.
Although approximately 1300 feet above sea level today, there is evidence the area was below sea level in geologically recent times; for example non-fossilized whale skeletons and other oceanic remains can be found in the desert sand. I say this is a small but fascinating part of the mountains of evidence proving a cycle of POLE SHIFTs.
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