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This primeval empire was based on an island in the more northern sea, taken to be Atlantis in the Tarzan books; the city of Opar, located on the more southerly sea, is portrayed as having been a small backwater in the Khokarsan realm. Farmer's novels mix in characters from the Tarzan series and H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain series.
There is a similar ambivalence in Janus Djurhuus' six-stanza "Atlantis" (1917), where a celebration of the Faroese linguistic revival grants it an ancient pedigree by linking Greek to Norse legend. In the poem a female figure rising from the sea against a background of Classical palaces is recognised as a priestess of Atlantis.
Atlántida (Atlantis) is an opera (titled a 'cantata escénica') in a prologue and three parts, by Manuel de Falla, based on the Catalan poem L'Atlàntida by Jacint Verdaguer. Falla worked on the score for twenty years but had not completed it at his death in Argentina in 1946; his disciple Ernesto Halffter prepared the score for performance. [1]
A map showing the supposed extent of the Atlantean Empire. From Ignatius L. Donnelly's Atlantis: the Antediluvian World, 1882. [1]There are several hypotheses about real-world events that could have inspired Plato's fictional story of Atlantis, told in the Timaeus and Critias.
The Prince of Atlantis is a short-lived CGI cartoon based on the legend of Atlantis. In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode " Atlantis SquarePantis ", SpongeBob , Patrick , Sandy , Mr. Krabs , Squidward and Plankton travel to the lost city of Atlantis, to find the world's oldest soap bubble, the Atlantic technology, the Atlantic treasure, the ...
J. R. R. Tolkien (his Númenor legend is partly based on Atlantis. Beleriand, the main theatre of action in The Silmarillion is sunk at the end of the story cycle. Both Númenor and Beleriand are referenced in his most famous work: The Lord of the Rings.) Jack Vance (Lyonesse Trilogy) Samael Aun Weor; Umberto Eco (The Island of the Day Before)
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William Scott-Elliot (sometimes incorrectly spelled Scott-Elliott) (1849–1919) was a Scottish nobleman, merchant banker, theosophist and amateur historian who elaborated Helena Blavatsky's concept of root races in several publications, most notably The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904), later combined in 1925 into a single volume called The Story of Atlantis and the Lost ...