18 LEMURIA, MU AND THE ATLANTIS
Since ancient times, there are legends about the existence of continents that were submerged under the sea, Lemuria and Mu in the East and Atlantis in the West, these legends have been transmitted from generation to generation until they end up becoming simple mythological stories, but they may have a logical explanation. 15.000 years ago, the Earth was covered in 50% of its surface by the ice of the last glaciation, this situation caused that a part of the water that now forms the seas was in the form of ice in the polar areas, this means , that many lands that are now islands in those days could have formed a large tract of united land. It is also possible that because of the low sea level Japan and the Philippines were joined to the Asian continent, or separated by a thin strip of sea, in this way, the entire Indonesian archipelago would continue uninterrupted until reaching Australia. This would also happen with the islands of the Pacific Ocean, because in those times the amount of land that had emerged would be much greater than what we now know, in this situation, it would be easy to move from one island to another with simple canoes. In those days, the sea level could be a hundred meters lower than the current one, this, in global terms is not too much, but it could significantly increase the surface area in the shallow areas. When the glaciation ended about 12.000 years ago, the ice began to recede and the seas advanced inland. It must be borne in mind that in those times a large part of human society lived from fishing in coastal areas, this means that the advance of the sea would end up covering its peoples, therefore, this fact would be remembered throughout the world as something catastrophic. Later, the inhabitants of those towns would be forced to build new ones in higher places with respect to the sea, all this would be accompanied by abundant rains. Thus the legend of the universal flood would begin throughout the world. It is evident that this flood did not cover the entire world but it did cover many of the coastal towns that existed in those days.
Something similar happened with Atlantis, the legend of this island surely had its origin in the Minoan civilization, this civilization had its capital in Crete and in ancient times it controlled the entire Mediterranean Sea with a large fleet in charge of trade between Egypt and primitive Greece. To make this trade safer, they used a port as a stopover on the small island Santorini located a little south of Greece, its inhabitants did not know that this island was actually a dormant volcano and when it erupted in 1650 BC. C destroyed not only the island but also the Minoan civilization and caused serious damage to Egypt and other nations. This eruption caused a large column of smoke and ash that, when traveling to other countries and deposited on the ground, caused damage to crops for several years. This event was the origin of the biblical legend of the ten plagues of Egypt, it also caused a great tsunami that destroyed many coastal towns. In the Bible, it was described as an event made by God against the Egyptian army as punishment for persecuting the Hebrews. The effects of Biblical plagues exactly coincide with the effects that volcanic eruptions can cause, therefore, the comparison is quite evident. The philosopher Plato believed that Atlantis was located on the Atlantic coasts to the south of Spain, the most likely explanation for this confusion could be because centuries after the volcano destroyed the Minoan civilization there was another tsunami that destroyed the coastal cities located south of the Iberian Peninsula, for this reason, Plato, must have confused the two stories.
This means that the events described in the Bible are surely true in part, but were modified to make them more interesting to future generations. This climatological disaster destroyed thousands of square kilometers of fertile lands that took several years to recover, also causing the exodus of the Hebrews to the future Israel, this means that this exodus was certainly not, as they tell us, a flight from Egypt against the Pharaoh's will, but rather it was allowed, or even ordered by it, given the impossibility of feeding all the inhabitants. In addition, it is most likely that the Hebrews were not slaves of Pharaoh but surely worked for a salary. This shows that ancient legends always have a part of truth, although it is difficult to find out what it is.
Later, the legends would show us the Atlanteans as prodigious and giant beings, they would not be prodigious but very technically advanced for their time. Nor would they be giants, but their civilization or the size of their buildings would be if we compare them with many of those that existed in those times. Today, there are those who try to justify the existence of a continent in the middle of the Atlantic by the similarities that exist between some civilizations, or between the flora and fauna of most continents, but they do not take into account that during the Last ice age there was an ice passage in the Bering Strait that made the migrations of people or animals possible. But, the definitive proof that shows that this continent never existed, is the absolute coincidence in the shape of the coastlines of America and Africa. This shows that in the past all the Earth's continents were united and slowly separated by continental drift.