Atlantis and the Silver City (55 page)

Solon: ancient priest and,
180
; Athens, Greece, and,
11
; books/documentaries and,
27
; errors/misunderstandings by,
26
,
60
,
78
; island’s existence and,
66
; measurements and,
116
,
145
; Plato and,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
19
,
245
,
246
,
247
,
251
; in Sais, Egypt,
11
; Silves and,
117

South America: alphabet/script in,
189
; ancient civilization’s destruction and,
11
; Atlantean race and,
196
,
198
,
199
,
200
,
201
; Atlanteans’ influence on, theory about,
163
; boats landing in,
163
; buildings in,
218–19
; citadel in,
218–19
; civilization in,
9
; Guanches and,
151
; Incas in,
198
; Mayan buildings in,
41
; orichalcum in,
219
; on Piri Reis map,
74
; pyramids in,
220
,
222
,
231
,
233
; record destruction in,
232
; rulers in,
89
; sun position changed in,
80
; trade with,
157
,
174
;
tumbago
in,
83

Southeast Asia,
28

South Wales, England,
222

Southwest Script/Southwestern Alphabet/southwestern script,
50
,
177–78
,
183
,
184
,
187
,
188
,
189
,
202

Spain: alphabet/script and,
177
,
178
,
183
,
189
; archaeologists in, studying Cádiz area,
30
; Atlantean race and,
198
,
202
; author’s theory about Atlantis in,
59
; the Basques and,
165
,
191
,
202
; blond-haired people in,
197
,
198
; Castelos, Carlos Alberto Basilio, project in,
180
; Celts in,
51
,
202
; Diaz-Montexano, Georgeos, and,
242
; earth-quake tremors in,
35
; Guanches people and, in Canary Islands,
151
,
152–53
; migration to,
171
; mountains in,
147
; record destruction and,
232
; wild life in,
94
,
95

Spanuth, Jurgen,
242

Spartel Island, just outside Straits of Gibraltar,
72
,
73
,
241

Sphinx,
220
,
233

springs,
15
,
98
,
99
,
118
,
140
,
156
,
224
,
248

St. Brendan’s Isle,
27–28

St. Vincent, Cape (Portugal),
35
,
57
,
62
,
68
,
69
,
74
,
130

stag bone, engraved letters on,
181–82

standing stone(s) (menhir[s]): age of,
210–11
,
212
,
213
; The Alatuir,
214
; alphabet on,
175
; author and,
3–4
,
7
; description of,
207–8
; egg shape of,
216
; in Lagos museum,
207
,
213
; location of,
211–12
,
217
; motif/DNA helix on,
4
,
196
,
208
,
209
,
209
,
213
,
216–17
; from Silves’ area,
207
; Slavic legend about,
5
; in southwestern Algarve region,
55
,
133
story about,
206
; Vinca and,
215
,
221

statues,
18
,
156
,
159
,
199
,
251

step-pyramids/pyramids,
146–47
,
151–52
,
197
,
215
,
217
,
219–23

Stone Age,
80
,
81
,
208
,
224

Stonehenge,
221

stones/rocks,
100–101
,
120–22
,
125
,
177
,
182
,
202
,
250
.
See also
standing stone(s) (menhir[s])

Strabo,
54
,
155
,
173
,
174
,
175
,
178–79

Straits of Gibraltar: Atlantis and,
76
,
77
,
166
,
167
; Gadeirus’ rule extending to,
166
; Gades’ region and,
62
; geography of,
66
,
67
,
68
; Gorringe Bank and,
151
; island in front of,
65
; Kolaios in,
54
; legendary king in,
53
; navigation and, in ancient times,
143–44
;
pelagos
and,
241
; The Pillars of Hercules located in,
59–60
,
60
; in Plato’s account,
14
; trade through,
51