Why is the climate changing. (Page 9)

kittybobo34: Was it beyond or close, the language then was a bit muddy.

kittybobo34: same with the date, early Egyptian didn't diffferentiate between 1000 and 100

kittybobo34: so it was ether 900 years earlier or 9000

ghostgeek: Seeing that Santorini and the Pillars of Hercules are at opposite ends of the Mediterranean I'm not sure there's any way the two could be confused.

kittybobo34: To an Egyptian who weren't big on long distance voyages, I can see how they would. Remember this story came from an Egyptian historian Solon.

The 900 year date would also tie in with the Biblical story of the Exodus. Their plagues could easily be volcanic in origin.

ghostgeek: Er, no, Solon was a famous Greek who travelled to Egypt. The story of Atlantis, according to Plato, was related to Solon by an Egyptian priest.

kittybobo34: Oh ok, I stand corrected.

kittybobo34: Pity we lost the Library of Alexandria, so much history was lost there.

ghostgeek: Dates, of course, can get muddled but it seems strange to me that there seems to be no mention of Atlantis in the Egyptian record we have.

ghostgeek: Those records span thousands of years.

kittybobo34: To Egypt that would have been ancient history, In a country where no one reads or writes, only the priests keep up with it, then the whole thing burned down

kittybobo34: We may get lucky , they keep finding middle class tombs that have historical stuff on the walls

ghostgeek: Think how much we know about their history, yet not a squeak about Atlantis or the Exodus.

kittybobo34: They found the Egyptian version of the exodus, thought it was quite interesting

ghostgeek: Really? From what I can see in the story nothing unusual happened. A usual spring in Egypt and a few footloose workers on a building site.

kittybobo34: Lets see, from what I remember it went something like: Pharaohs will was sorely tested by the Hebrew workers, dirty and worthless Pharaoh bid them to leave. They left in mass and pillaged every village they past on their way to the Sea of Reeds. Pharaoh sent his army to punish them, but the great general (???) bid them to stop as the water was gone.

kittybobo34: in his wisdom he knew that the water would return as a great wave. When the wave came it was certain that the hebrews were destroyed.

kittybobo34: No reports from the Egyptian forts on the other side and on the way to Isreal saw them at all.

kittybobo34: As you recall the Hebrew version they turned south into the Sianai for their 40 year trek around Saudi Arabia.

ghostgeek: Wind setdown explains the water parting. Remember, the wind was blowing from the east.

kittybobo34: The Sea of Reeds was a huge salt swamp, miles of muck and shallow water.

kittybobo34: A tsunami there would have devastating qualities.

ghostgeek: The Plagues of Egypt are suffered yearly by the inhabitants of that country, except for the last one. As it happens, the tenth plague is the easiest to explain. It never happened. Moses lied about it. Read the account and you'll see the Israelites were shut up in their houses when it was supposed to have happened and were reliant on what Moses told them happened.

kittybobo34: Sounds like Moses could have been the ultimate politician.

ghostgeek: He was the ultimate con man.