(I hate when that happens.) The devil intentionally left the gate open to the raging sea, and it rose like a cliff, swallowing all of Ys.

Knowing that only her father held the keys to the gate, she fetched them and gave them to the knight. She is said to have loved orgies that angered the gods, often murdering her own lovers when morning came.Įventually, a handsome red knight arrived at Ys but couldn’t pass the city gates, although Dahut wanted to let him in. But Dahut would also be the one to bring about the demise of her beloved city. She pleaded with her father to build a city at the edge of the sea, and so Ys was founded. Legend says that Dahut, a magician and the daughter of Gradlon, King of Kerne, had a deep love for the sea. It was the most wealthy trading giant in the Atlantic and its citizens were living comfortably. RELATED: Otherworldly Deep Sea Creatures of the Mariana TrenchĬeltic Breton mythology holds that a magnificent city known as Ker Ys (low city) once towered over Douarnenez Bay in France’s Brittany region. Some people also associate Lemuria with the Tamil creation story, which talks of a lost continent known as Kumari Kandam, said to be the birthplace of Tamil civilization. “The anomalies of the Mammal fauna of Madagascar can best be explained by supposing that … a large continent occupied parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans … that this continent was broken up into islands, of which some have become amalgamated with … Africa, some … with what is now Asia and that in Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands we have existing relics of this great continent, for which … I should propose the name Lemuria!”Ī more likely explanation for the anomalies noted by Sclater is Pangea, a supercontinent that fossils and the geology of modern continents indicate broke apart 175 millions years ago. In 1864, he wrote in The Quarterly Journal of Science: He discovered that fossil records for the lemurs existed in faraway India, but not in nearby Africa, and came to the conclusion that some larger continent must have once connected the two. The lemurs of Madagascar, a primate species found nowhere else in the world, puzzled Sclater. Much of the hype surrounding Lemuria is owed to British zoologist Philip Sclater. However, modern-day understanding of plate tectonics shows that Lemuria as it is typically described could never have existed. RELATED: 10 Places on Earth That Look Like They Belong in a Fantasy LandĪccording to legend, Lemuria was a continent that once existed in the Indian Ocean, thriving just south of modern day Sri Lanka. Atlantis could be no more than a figment of his imagination–or a real island he, and other Athenians, witnessed sink beneath the sea. After all, Plato did live in a part of the world which was often subjected to tsunamis and earthquakes. This find raises questions about whether or not other lost cities really existed.

But in 1963, archaeologists found remnants of the sunken city off the coast of India, where it was fabled to have stood. Dwaraka was thought to be a mythical place, much like the city of Atlantis. After Lord Krishna left, the city sunk into the Arabian Sea. One example is the city of Dwaraka, which was said to be visited by the Hindu god Lord Krishna. Myths can be far-fetched ways to explain real events and can have some truth to them. This type of research is called geomythology, or the study of finding a real geological event that inspired myths about the great creation or destruction of places.

RELATED: Tomb of Doom: The Mysterious Past of the 'Cursed' Memphis Pyramid However, many scholars over the years have argued that Plato may have based the story of Atlantis' destruction on real-life events. It’s commonly accepted that Atlantis was fictional. Atlantis sinks into the sea.Įven though Atlantis itself played a relatively small part in Plato’s body of work, it has been represented throughout many other artistic and literary movements as a lost utopia. Eventually, the gods turn their back on Atlantis, burning it to ashes and allowing the island to collapse in on itself from earthquakes. In the latter, Atlantis launches an attack on Athens, to which Athens responds with unprecedented force. The fictional island of Atlantis was introduced in Plato’s allegorical dialogues Timaeus and Critias.

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