Did Atlantis really exist?
The archetype of Atlantis is probably the Cretan island of Thera, which sank to the sea during the eruption of the Thera volcano around 1470 BC. Plato put the story about 9,000 years ago, but it was probably copied from ancient Egyptian script by mistake and actually happened 900 years before Plato. The story of the Tower of Babel is actually quite simple, but in order to tell it clearly, it needs a long background. The following are from "The Origin of Consciousness in The Breakdown of The Bicameral Mind." 1. Worship of God The author believes that the worship of god can be traced back to tens of thousands of years ago. After entering the agricultural society, these worship were gradually fixed. In ancient Egypt, the living king was God, and the dead was death. In all ancient civilizations except Egypt, the king was the steward or servant of God, and after his death he joined the ranks of God. 2. How the human brain Works The author believes that before 3000 BC, the two sides of the brain were functionally separate, with the left brain responsible for language and execution, and the right brain responsible for abstract thinking, etc. The information goes from the left side of the brain to the right side, and when the right side reaches a conclusion, it goes to the left side. This process is achieved through auditory hallucinations or visions. As a result, the left side of the brain assumes that the information it receives comes from God and acts faithfully. All ancient civilizations worked this way. This can be demonstrated in the Iliad, where there is a "what my God wants me to do" and no "what I want to do". When the characters are not being guided by God, they tend to stay where they are and not know what to do. Most of this guidance comes from past experience and a small part from logical thinking, but people did not understand it at that time. This approach is what the authors call the Bicameral Mind. During the existence of the dichotomous mind, man and God are equal. The famous Code of Hammurabi. At the top of the stone pillars of the Codex, Hammurabi stands before his god Ramash. (In this part, I wrote more simply, but in fact, it belongs to a more professional knowledge -- psychohistory. The thinking and consciousness of ancient people and people today are different, and this knowledge is to explain ancient history by establishing ancient psychology.) 3. The Breakdown of the Dichotomous Mind From 3000 BC to AD 1, different peoples, cultures, and languages began to blend under the influence of catastrophes, wars, etc. As the external environment became more complex, perhaps the biggest impact was the eruption of Thera in 1470 BC. As the external environment became complex, the dichotomous mind began to break down and God was no longer able to direct human behavior. The most famous is a stone tablet built in 1230 BC by the Assyrian ruler Tukurti Ninurta I, on which is carved a picture depicting the relationship between God and man. It shows Tukurti walking to the throne, kneeling down, fingers pointing to the empty throne. This is the first picture in human history of a God-human relationship in which God does not appear. It is because of God's absence that people pray for his presence that the God-human relationship begins to cease to be equal. Other pillars with images of Tukurti found later also show no god with him. Later, Tukurti became the first king in history to be killed by his own relatives. 4. The Pyramid and the Tower of Babel due to the frequent absence of gods, in order to get closer to the gods, people increased the height of the temple, and built the shape of the Inca pyramid, and the temple became higher and higher. The Tower of Babel, built in the sixth and seventh centuries BC, stands 300 feet high and atop it was built for Marduk, a bright blue smooth temple. The official name of the Tower of Babel is E-Temen-an-ki. Temple (E) of the receiving platform(temen) between heaven(an) and earth(ki). -- the temple that greets the platform between heaven and earth. In the fifth century BC, Herodotus, the famous ancient Greek historian, made a special trip to Babylon to see if the statue of Marduk was on top of the temple. He climbed to the top and entered the central room of the temple. Then he saw an empty throne.
