'Britain's Atlantis' found in North sea - a huge undersea world swallowed by the sea in 6500BC

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'Britain's Atlantis' found at bottom of North sea - a huge undersea world swallowed by the sea in 6500BC

    Divers have found traces of ancient land swallowed by waves 8500 years ago
    Doggerland once stretched from Scotland to Denmark
    Rivers seen underwater by seismic scans
    Britain was not an island - and area under North Sea was roamed by mammoths and other giant animals
    Described as the 'real heartland' of Europe
    Had population of tens of thousands - but devastated by sea level rises

By Rob Waugh

PUBLISHED: 18:32 EST, 2 July 2012 | UPDATED: 05:49 EST, 3 July 2012

'Britain's Atlantis' - a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea - has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.

Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.

Divers from oil companies have found remains of a 'drowned world' with a population of tens of thousands - which might once have been the 'real heartland' of Europe.

A team of climatologists, archaeologists and geophysicists has now mapped the area using new data from oil companies - and revealed the full extent of a 'lost land' once roamed by mammoths.



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Sometimes "ancient' myths loosely line up,  like winning a rare lottery ticket. But knowing Sanskrit helps to decipher these stories. --CSR

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The Imperishable Sacred Land

The first continent -- the Imperishable Sacred Land -- is the most mysterious of the seven continents. It is said to be located in the region of the north pole.

    This 'Sacred Land' . . . is stated never to have shared the fate of the other continents; because it is the only one whose destiny it is to last from the beginning to the end of the Manvantara throughout each Round. It is the cradle of the first man, and the dwelling of the last divine mortal, chosen as a Sishta for the future seed of humanity. Of this mysterious and sacred land very little can be said, except, perhaps, according to a poetical expression in one of the Commentaries, that the 'polestar has its watchful eye upon it, from the dawn to the close of the twilight of "a day" of the GREAT BREATH [In India called 'The Day of Brahmâ.']. (SD 2:6)

    The statement that the first continent never sinks or perishes is repeated many times, e.g.:

    It is averred in Occultism that the land or island, which crowns the North Pole like a skull-cap, is the only one which prevails during the whole Manvantara of our 'Round.' All the central continents and lands will emerge from the sea bottom many times in turn, but this land will never change. (SD 2:400fn; see also 330, 372fn, 400-1, 408fn, 606fn)

    The first continent surrounded and included the north pole and extended, like the leaves of a lotus, somewhat southwards from the pole in seven different zones (FSO 287, SOP 260). These zones included Greenland, Spitzbergen, Sweden, Norway, and east and west Siberia (SD 2:327, 775), together with other former land areas in the far north that have since been submerged (SD 2:360).
    The central locality of the first continent was right at the north pole. Blavatsky writes:

    If, then, the teaching is understood correctly, the first continent which came into existence capped over the whole North Pole like one unbroken crust, and remains so to this day, beyond that inland sea which seemed like an unreachable mirage to the few arctic travellers who perceived it. (SD 2:401)

G. de Purucker draws attention to the phrase 'If, then, the teaching is understood correctly . . .', and points out that Blavatsky was not permitted to give out all she knew (SOP 555).
    Blavatsky makes several other references to the idea prevalent in her own time that the polar region might be ice free, and might also contain land: 'Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green' (SD 2:12); 'Every arctic traveller suspects a continent or a "dry island" beyond the line of eternal ice' (SD 2:399); the expression 'from the neck of mother-earth downward' means 'from the inland sea now beyond the impassable barrier of ice' (SD 2:401fn). Since these remarks were written, explorers have reached the north pole, but no land has yet been discovered near the pole, only a polar sea covered with ice. Purucker stated that the discoveries of Commander R.E. Peary and Admiral R.E. Byrd concerning a polar sea about 10,000 feet deep at the north pole needed further confirmation (SOP 555). There is controversy as to whether the exact north pole was reached by Peary (on foot in 1909) and Byrd (by plane in 1926), but there is no doubt that later explorers have done so.
    Blavatsky says that the whole globe is convulsed periodically and since the appearance of the first root-race it has been convulsed four times.

    Yet, though the whole face of the earth was transformed thereby each time, the conformation of the arctic and antarctic poles has but little altered. The polar lands unite and break off from each other into islands and peninsulas, yet remain ever the same. Therefore northern Asia is called the 'eternal or perpetual land,' and the Antarctic the 'ever living' and 'the concealed'; while the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Pacific and other regions disappear and reappear in turn, into and above the great waters. (SD 2:776)

    This passage implies that parts of the polar lands do in fact rise and sink, and indeed a Commentary speaks of 'three polar lands which have changed form several times, at each new cataclysm, or disappearance of one continent to make room for another' (SD 2:776). It could therefore be argued that the central part of the first continent, which -- 'if the teaching is understood correctly' -- covered the north pole like a skull-cap, is now temporarily submerged. This is also suggested by Purucker:

    Though at first a continuous system or massif, the northern continent changes throughout the ages but never completely vanishes. It is subject to continuous secular variations in its topography due to sinkings and risings of portions thereof. The actual geographical center at the Pole may be either above or below the water, but the surrounding system of islands, large and small, peninsulas, etc., will remain, despite all minor changes, from the Round-manvantara's beginning to its end. It never finds as a whole a watery grave in the abysmal deeps of the ocean's floor. (SOP 557)

    It is possible that, rather than providing here the definitive solution to the mystery, Purucker was actually drawing the veil. After all, all the major continents are known to have very ancient nuclei or shield areas that have remained stable and largely above water for very long periods. These 'shishta' (surviving) portions are incorporated into the continental system of each successive root-race. Given the many references to the first continent's sacred and eternal or imperishable nature, it would seem that while it is true that parts of the polar land do sink beneath the water, the 'central land' itself could also refer to something quite different.
    Some theosophical writers have suggested that the first continent was nonphysical or astral.* One writer has contended that Greenland was the first continent and invokes the far-fetched idea that it may once have been situated right at the north pole, until a hypothetical slippage of the earth's crust moved it to its present location.** Neotheosophists of the Besant-Leadbeater tradition claim that the first continent was not situated at the north geographical pole but at the earth's spiritual pole, which is currently located in the Gobi desert.***

    *Boris De Zirkoff (ed.), The Secret Doctrine, TPH, 1979, 2:799; Adam Warcup, Cyclic Evolution, TPH, 1986, pp. 111-12.
    **Jean Overton Fuller, Blavatsky and Her Teachers, East-West Publications, 1988, pp. 204-5. For a refutation of the crustal slippage theory, see: Poleshifts, part 2, section 3.
    ***A.E. Powell, The Solar System, TPH, 1930, pp. 189-90.

    Another, far more radical solution to the mystery can be found in a remarkable, long-forgotten article, almost certainly from the pen of H.P. Blavatsky, published in The Theosophist, July 1884, pp. 251-4. The article is a review (actually, little more than a summary) of a book entitled The Hollow Globe, which proposes that the earth is hollow (relatively speaking), and that the inner surface of its solid outer shell is habitable, just like the outer surface on which we live. In this interpretation, the 'first continent' therefore refers to two different things: the polar land on the outer surface of the earth, and the sacred central land or 'inner circle' in the earth's interior, which will continue in existence until the earth itself perishes. Likewise, terms such as 'the blessed land of eternal light and summer' and the 'Land of the Eternal Sun' (SD 2:11-12; TG 186) could refer either to the polar land at a time when the earth's axis was more or less upright and the earth enjoyed an 'eternal spring', or to the inner central land if the earth's interior is self-luminous or contains a central sun. (See Mysteries of the inner earth.)


Hyperborea

The second, Hyperborean continent comprised the regions around the north pole in the arctic circle, including Greenland, Spitzbergen, Scandinavia, and northern Asia (SD 2:7, 11-12, 401, 775; TG 147).

    During the Second Race more land emerged from under the waters as a continuation of the 'head' from the neck. Beginning on both hemispheres [east and west], on the line above the most northern part of Spitzbergen on Mercator's Projection, on our side [northern hemisphere], it may have included, on the American side, the localities that are now occupied by Baffin's Bay and the neighbouring islands and promontories. There it hardly reached, southward the 70th degree of latitude; here it formed the horse-shoe continent of which the commentary speaks; of the two ends of which, one included Greenland with a prolongation which crossed the 50th degree a little south west, and the other Kamschatka, the two ends being united by what is now the northern fringe of the coasts of Eastern and Western Siberia. This broke asunder and disappeared. (SD 2:401-2)

    During a cataclysm at the time of the appearance of the second race, northern Asia was cut off from its root-continent at the north pole and divided by glacial waters (SD 2:138, 146, 400-1). Regarding the destruction of Hyperborea, Blavatsky writes:

    Esoteric philosophy . . . teaches distinctly that after the first geological disturbance in the Earth's axis which ended in the sweeping down to the bottom of the Seas of the whole second Continent, with its primeval races . . . there came another disturbance by the axis resuming as rapidly its previous degree of inclination; when the Earth was indeed raised once more out of the Waters . . . (SD 1:369)

    The ever-blooming lands of the Second Continent (Greenland, among others) were transformed, in order, from Edens with their eternal spring, into hyperborean Hades. This transformation was due to the displacement of the great waters of the globe, to oceans changing their beds; and the bulk of the Second Race perished in this first great throe of the evolution and consolidation of the globe during the human period. (SD 2:138)

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