Reconstructed Soul

"Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable; and there was an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Heracles; the island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and was the way to other islands, and from these you might pass to the whole of the opposite continent which surrounded the true ocean; for this sea which is within the Straits of Heracles is only a harbour, having a narrow entrance, but that other is a real sea, and the surrounding land may be most truly called a boundless continent."

"Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia. This vast power, gathered into one, endeavoured to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind. She was pre-eminent in courage and military skill, and was the leader of the Hellenes. And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars."

"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."

From this dialogues mentioned by Plato, we know that Atlantis according to him located outside the Pillars of Heracles, which many people thought it must be on the strait of Gibraltar where as an entrance to the Mediterranian Sea. The nation of Atlantis was naval power and the end of this nation was sunk into the ocean by earthquakes and floods. Another fact are it size bigger than Asia and Libya combined together. I readed that the Asia mentioned here refers to Asia Minor or Turkey. Soooo....what??!!! hahahhh...after read the part of dialogues of Socrates which being recorded by Plato.....well let's see the point :
1. Atlantis located beyond the Pillar of Heracles
2. Atlantis bigger than Asia Minor and Libya put together
3. There is a harbour and ship can travel pass the island to another sea
4. After the earthquakes and floods it sunk in the ocean

But wait, there is also some facts about Atlantis written by Plato in his recorded dialogues Critias but mostly it contained more detail facts about Atlantis. I mean I dont want to write all of the detail of it. Let's just read from what Prof. Arysio Nunes dos Santos inserted in his website at http://atlan.org/articles/checklist/
OMG those are sooo much words, I was pushing like hell to read it!!!




Ok2...seriously....the most important thing is about the location of Atlantis itself. Many people thought it must be on Atlantic Ocean and beyond the strait of Gibraltar and it size must be bigger than Turkey and Libya. So many people tried to search a sunken continent on the Atlantic ocean and they couldn't find it. When they checked the bathimetry of Atlantic ocean, is it not possible and there no sign of existence of a sunken island beneath on the Atlantic ocean. The Atlantic ocean only consist ridge along north and south which separating North and South America continent with Europe and Africa continent. After this possibility of location if Atlantic ocean seemed not true, there were many other proposed location came out by scientist such as in Carribbean Islands, Greenland, Antartica and Indonesia

For Indonesia actually is quite strange, how come it could be the site of Atlantis since it's not on the Atlantic ocean. Prof. dos Santos claimed that the ocean that ancient Greek called Atlantic ocean was all of the ocean which encircled the earth, so it's different from what the Atlantic ocean we knows today. He stated that along time ago there is only one big ocean and it called Atlantic ocean, but after the event of continent separation long..long time ago it created many smaller oceans due to the continents displacement.

Well, so it means Indonesia could be another possibility of Atlantis. It make sense, and after that Prof. dos Santos gave another criteria based on the Critias dialogues as he wrote in his articles. I remember when I was in school learned that Indonesia located on two continental shelf which is Sunda shelf it strecth along the south of Asian continent from south Thailand, Malaysia, Kalimantan, Sumatera, Java and Sulawesi) and Sahul shelf (Papua, Australia) The sea on Sunda shelf is very shallow it less than 100 meters depth. The scientists stated after the end of ice age in Pleistocene era the sea level raises 100-150 meters. So along time ago there was a large land connected those area of Sunda shelf and after the end of Pleistocene it becomes below the sea level.



Another criteria he added is the volcanoes area. Indonesia is known as belt of fire region because there are so many volcanoes mountains which still active and known as the most active volcanic region in the world. It makes chain of volcanic mountains from Sumatera-Java-Bali-Lombok-Nusa Tenggara islands. He claimed also that the Pillar of Hercules which the Greek foretold was located between Java and Sumatera or Sunda strait. Because of a very big volcano eruption of Mt. Krakatau which separated Java and Sumatera happened along time ago and followed by floods(tsunami) and then this opened the Atlantis continent and can be the caused of the end of Pleistocene era and the event when Atlantis sunk beneath the ocean!




Ok, despite the truthness of the theory of Indonesian as Atlantis. Indonesia is a very unique country. It's a nation consists thousands of islands known as Jamrud Kathulistiwa , because when you see the world map it located in equator and very2 eye catching with the shape of the islands. Indonesia has so many natural resources, the nature is very beautiful, the people very friendly, rich of cultural heritage, the wide size of the land, the population number. So this country has a lot of potential to become a great country, it's the duty of all of the citizen to make it happen. Poverty, corruption, weak law still the main issues in Indonesia. I hope Indonesia will be better in the future and become the "new Atlantis"