There were 4 atlantis topics in my search results (atlantis, plato's atlantis, atlantis fact or fiction, did atlantis exist), i wasn't sure which to post this in so i picked the most read one (though it maybe i should have picked the least posts one so this doesn't get lost in the mass of posts/pages).
I posted this on historum in 'America before Columbus' thread/topic but will post it here for those who have seen me mention about Atlantis & Tiahuanaco.
This Inca picture from the Coricancha in Cuzco is one of the proofs that Atlantis city/continent is Tiahuanaco/South America.
things in the picture that match Plato's Atlantis account are :
sun/stars/summer & moon/clouds/winter = 2 crops a year
criss-crossed rectangle = great plain with ditch & criss-crossing channels
man & woman = poseidon & cl(e)ito
concentric ringed city on left / concentric ringed city in lake on right = concentric ringed city.
(?mound in city/circle on left ~ akapana ~ (dwelling of poseidon &) cleito)
cliff
"mountains"?
plant/tree ~ woodlands or crop?
lake (titicaca) = city by/near sea.
[canal/river ~ canal/river/ditch?]
[7 dots ~ 7 cities/islands in some versions?]
I am not able to re-write up my paper with all my evidences at present, but Jim Allen's 'Atlantis in Bolivia' site has alot of info. Here is the start of a table of some evidences (not anywhere near detailed enough) :
Tiahaunaco/Peru/SAmeric -- Atlantis account
Atlantis city/isl -- Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku "Baalbek of New World" (Posnansky), Huinaymarka means "eternal city";
Atlantis continent/larger than Asia&Africa -- SouthAmerica?
near sea / 9.2km from sea -- Tiahuanaco 10miles from Titicaca
small low hill / (dwelling of Poseidon &) Clito -- Akapana
high mountains -- Andes
large plain with crisscrossing channels -- Altiplano, crosscrossed rectangle on coricancha picture
sinking/submergence, quakes&floods -- continental shift / Tiahuanaco flooded, ... force ...., long night?
bulls / bull sacrifice -- ceramic stone bulls on housetops, pottery cow / cow shaped vase / cow sacrificed & entrails put in vase, seated "deer" figure carrying a club (larouse world mythology)
900(0)yrs / c 1400s bc -- c1400/1394bc (long night) / "12000th yr" / [1580bc] <Moses/Josh>
Atlanteans own script --
orei-chalcum -- tumbaga (gold-copper alloy), (crespi collection, unusual alloys)
circular/concentric rings -- concentric canals Tiahuanaco, concentric in coricancha picture
central island 5 stades -- central island Tiahuanaco 2x1 miles
2crops a year -- sun/stars/summer&moon/clouds/winter on coricancha picture
temple / palace 185mx92m -- kalasasya 400x450ft / kantatayita / (puma pinku) / throne room160x130ft / [100x85ft / hall 45x22ft]
Atlas/world pillar -- world pillar motif
winged horses -- winged attendants on gate of sun?
opp/fac pillars of hercules at gibraltar -- opp/beyond poh at gibraltar (map projection, pole shift, continental shift)
west/Atlantic -- west/Atlantic
in real/true ocean/Atlantic not Mediterranean/sea -- is in Atlantic/Pacific ocean
midpoint of sea side of island -- is in middle area of Pacific side of SthAmerica
all kinds of animals --
boats -- totora/reed boats of Urus Titicaca (kon tiki)?
red, white & black -- (r w & blue steps church Paucarcolla), gold silver copper,
10 / 5x2 twins/kings [12 ks Scheria] -- 5 flanking either side on 'Gate of the Sun', (10 kings Taycanamo dynasty,) 11 pillars Tiahuanaco? viracocha adopts 5 pairs of Twins (Jim Allen).
The thesis/discovery is that Atlantis the continent is south America, the city is Tiahuanaco, the "sinking" was continental shift (the Atlantic was previously say half the current distance [and South America is centred further east than north America), and the date was 900 years or ca 1400s bc.
I can't really claim much credit for the discovery because Jim Allen more or less already discovered it himself (though his site is abit further south at Poopo, though i saw a webpage awhile ago that looked like he may have also or since identified the city as Tiahuanaco?), and i possibly wouldn't have been able to narrow down Atlantis from Americas (north &/or south) to south America and Peru/Bolivia and Titicaca and Tiahuanaco if it wasn't for his own info helping me abit, though the continental shift part of my theory was my own thesis from 1999 to now and i otherwise did all my own thinking/etc until certain that right site was Tiahuanaco. This discovery synthesises various reasearchers: Posnansky, David Fasold, Sitchin, Jim Allen, me, (HS Bellamy, Charles Berlitz,) etc.
ps people rubbish/discredit me just because some of my sources are like Sitchin, yet they can't deny that there is some true info in them like the coricancha picture (and that is all the sort of things i glean from them anyway (because some of us can only use what sources we have access to)). If it wasn't for Sitchin's Lost realms i may not have found the final proof. They can't rubbish the Incas (and other evidences).
Edited by Arthur-Robin - 27-Jan-2014 at 06:22