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Quitt argues Plato’s Atlantis is a coded allegory for pole-star cycles
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Strange Encounters With Other Beings - Jason Quitt | Ep. 98
"If if you look up in the sky at the northern sky at that time, the north pole is directly in between the legs of Hercules in the sky. So the myth or the story of Atlantis mirrors the actual date and timing of the stars in the heavens."
Discussing his book on Atlantis, Quitt argues Plato embedded astronomical knowledge in the story, linking the quoted 9,000-year timeframe to the position of the north celestial pole relative to the constellation Hercules. He claims the narrative functions as an ‘as above, so below’ allegory for precession and the changing pole star, rather than a literal map to a sunken landmass.
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