In the previous chapters of Atlantis, I looked at the likelihood that the Atlantean continent described by Plato was the territory of Sidon, the son of Canaan, remembered by the Greeks as the god Poseidon whose ten sons colonized the Altiplano of South America.
When the Egyptian priests told Solon the story of Atlantis, they used Atlantis as a proxy to represent a larger coalition of Canaanite and Abrahamic tribes. Members of that coalition included the Sidonians, Hittites, Hyksos Shepherds, Gutians, Semitic Amorites, Kassites, Midianites, and Amalekites. While the Sidonians specialized in shipbuilding and trade, the Semitic coalition members were tent-dwelling shepherd cultures descended from Abraham. Being exotic and far away, calling it Atlantis made the story far more interesting, even if it is unlikely that the Atlanteans contributed anything more than a symbolic military force to the conflict.
The Israelite Exodus from Egypt in 1491 BC was part of a chain of events that set the stage for Atlantean Hegemony. The wealthiest tribe from the Outer Continent was later credited with conquering and ruling Middle Earth, which is to say, the land around the Mediterranean Sea. In reality, however, the majority of any fighting was done by the local tribes of the Hyksos Shepherds.
Amalek and Allies Conquered Egypt and Babylon after the Exodus
While Jacob's Israelite children spent 215 years in Egypt from 1706 to 1491, Esau’s line was busy intermarrying with the Canaanites.
Genesis 36 informs us that Jacob’s brother, Esau, married two Canaanite women. Esau’s wives were Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite (no relation to Elon Musk), and Aholibamah, the granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite (Genesis 36: 1-4). Esau’s firstborn son was Eliphaz. Eliphaz had five sons by his wife, but he had a sixth son by his Horite concubine, Timna. Timna was the granddaughter of the Nephilim, Seir the Horite (Genesis 14:6; 36:12, 22). Her son’s name was Amalek.
Amalek fathered a tribe whose culture was a corrupted form of the Abrahamic shepherding lifestyle while being utterly devoid of his piety to God. Genetically, the Amalekites were three-quarters Canaanite with an admixture of Nephilim blood. The Amalekites were known for their cruelty in scripture, as were the Hyksos remembered by the Egyptians. In Deuteronomy 25, God told Moses why the tribe of Amalek would be blotted out:
“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord your God has given you rest from your enemies all around, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You shall not forget.
We have two witnesses in Manetho and the Ipuwer Papyrus that a group called the Hyksos Shepherds conquered Egypt immediately after the Israelites had departed during the Exodus.
It took about 12 years for the invading Hyksos to conquer all the way to Thebes in the far South. Queen Nitocris, the last ruler of Dynasty 6, died in 1479 BC, marking the completion of the Hyksos conquest. Two years later, they invaded Akkad (Babylon) in force with their allies, the Gutians, Amorites, and Kassites (Kasdim). Thus from 1491 to 1477 BC the entire Middle East was conquered by corrupted Abrahamic tribes from Esau, Ishmael, and Keturah’s sons, along with their Canaanite allies.
The Exodus and the Younger Dryas Impact
Several ancient cultures recorded terrifying events that occurred a few decades before the Exodus. The Greeks remembered the Fire of Phaeton in 1525 BC, which was followed a year later by the Flood of Deucalion II.
In the story of Phaeton, the son of Helios, the sun god, asks his father for permission to drive the chariot of the sun across the sky for one day. Despite his father’s warnings, Phaeton insisted on attempting the feat. First, he drove the sun chariot too high, causing the earth to freeze, then he drove the sun too close, causing the earth to burn, and the sea to dry up. The poet Ovid said that the Cyclade Islands became mountains and the Nile descended to the sea in a series of cataracts.
The Greek myth of Phaeton recalls the Ice Age when the earth was too cold. This was followed by a period of intense heat that caused the glaciers to melt. Geologists have confirmed that the Mediterranean Sea did indeed go mostly dry when it was separated from the Atlantic by the Isthmus of Gibraltar. If cut off from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea would evaporate into a brine pool like the Dead Sea in the space of only 1,000 years.
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis states that a comet broke up and struck the Earth in several places during the transition between the Pleistocene and the Holocene Eras. The impact craters it left are found in Saginaw Bay Michigan, Lake Mancougan, Canada, and Greenland, as well as tectites found in Europe.
These impacts occurred on the great ice sheets of North America, Greenland, and Europe, shattering the ice caps. The ash deposited by the impact would have made the rest of the ice caps dirty, causing them to melt much faster. Thus the “thunderbolt” that struck Phaeton to the Earth may have been the Greek memory of the comet impact of the Younger Dryas Event. They dated Phaeton and the Flood of Deucalion to the era between 1524 BC, in the lifetime of Moses.
The Flood of Deucalion was caused by the Baltic Ice Sheet rapidly melting, due to being struck by fragments of the comet, and then causing the Black Sea to overflow into the Mediterranean, cutting the channel through the Dardanelles. However, this did not raise the Mediterranean to the current sea level. It only began refilling the Eastern side of that sea to the point that it was still at least a thousand feet lower than the current sea level.
The Rise of Sea Level At the Time of Joshua’s Conquest
About 70 years after the Younger Dryas Impact, three ancient cultures recorded that the sea level suddenly rose and drowned settlements. The Greeks dated the Flood of Dardanus to 1451/1450 BC, when the sea suddenly rose and turned Samothrace into an island. Dardanus and his family had to build boats and cross over to the Anatolian mainland, where they later built Troy.
Indian sages record that the sea suddenly rose and swallowed the Temple at Dwarka in the year Krishna died, Cali Year 1,653, which corresponds to 1451 BC.
In Sri Lanka, also, the Tamil School was swallowed by the Sea around that same era.
The melting of the great Laurentian and Baltic ice sheets, which began with the Younger Dryas Impact, caused the world ocean to rise as the ice melted. In 1451 BC, it overtopped the Isthmus of Gibraltar, causing a flood of seawater to refill the Mediterranean. Geologists call this the Zanclean Flood. The Greeks remembered it and depicted it as part of Heracles' tenth labor when he cut open the channel between the Pillars of Gibraltar.
The end result of the rise of sea level in 1451 BC was that there was now a much shorter path to sail from Sidon to Atlantis without having to portage over the mountains of Gibraltar or cross the Pacific. This opened the way for the rise of the Phoenician trade fleets in the following centuries. That in turn enabled the Atlantean civilization to reach its apex of wealth and power by exporting bronze to the Ancient Near East.
Could you identify the sources for those durations? I'd love to have a look at them. That's a momentous discovery if it checks out- Scripture is clear that the history of Israel is the core history of the world, but your argument here gives that some heft: it draws threads which extends the story of the exodus and conquest outwards to the entire globe.