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176 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE<br />
the information that has been assembled about Atlantis and the<br />
catastrophe that made it disappear.<br />
According to Sonchis, 9,000 years before his time there was an<br />
immense island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, due west of<br />
the Pillars of Hercules, now called the Strait of Gibraltar. This<br />
island was bigger than all of North Africa and the Near East put<br />
together. Its name was Atlantis and it was inhabited by very advanced<br />
people of unknown origin, who were great mathematicians,<br />
astronomers, land cultivators, and masters in metallurgy.<br />
Their capital city, Poseidonis, was named after the god<br />
of the sea, Poseidon, and built in the middle of a vast plain, protected<br />
by mountain chains and connected with the ocean by a<br />
man-made waterway 600 ft wide and 100 ft deep. The canal<br />
ringed the entire city and served not only for local transportation<br />
but also for ocean-going vessels. The fields around Poseidonis<br />
were rich with crops, and horses, cattle, and elephants grazed<br />
there. Atlantis was protected both from east and west by a maze<br />
of small islands, and navigators had to go through these archipelagoes<br />
to come to the fabled place.<br />
Atlantis had lived many thousands of years in peace and prosperity<br />
until one day the leadership of the land was taken over by<br />
a military chque that decided to conquer all the people who<br />
lived around the Mediterranean. The generals of Atlantis raised<br />
an army of 750,000 men and many war chariots and easily<br />
conquered both sides of the Mediterranean, all of southern<br />
Europe except Greece, and all of North Africa except Egypt.<br />
Then they decided to push forward and make their victory total<br />
by smashing Greece and Egypt.<br />
At that time the highly cultured Egyptians were no match for<br />
the invader, but the best warriors of that era, the Greeks, saved<br />
the Egyptians by winning decisive victories<br />
over the invaders.<br />
They even liberated all the conquered Mediterranean lands.<br />
When the invader fled, the Greeks put together an expeditionary<br />
army and sent it to Poseidonis to make sure that there would be<br />
no new invasions. It was while the Greeks were in Poseidonis<br />
that, within one day and one night,<br />
powerful earthquakes and<br />
devastating tides destroyed Atlantis. The prospering continent<br />
sank beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Both armies and all the people<br />
perished. And, according to the description that Sonchis gave
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