Atlantian Diaspora and the Autonomous Republic of Atlántis (La república autónoma de Atlántis)
(Note: There are references to multiple fictional texts that are either related to Atlantis or inspired by them.)
The Atlantean archipelago is a cluster of small islands located in the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantean archipelago was originally an island roughly 697,000 km2 in size. It sits on the Antediluvian continent, which broke off from the European Continent during the Paleocene, roughly 60 million years ago. Most of the island's unique flora and fauna died during Eocene–Oligocene extinction event. The first humanoid inhabitants was a group of Neanderthals about 41 thousand years ago. Around 40 thousand years ago, the first homo sapiens arrived on the island. The neanderthal and homo sapiens populations did interbreed, leading the modern descents of the island to contain 6% neanderthal DNA, as opposed to the 1-4% in the rest of Eurasia. Around 2900 BCE, the first cities were founded on the island including Atalantë, Avalon, Dinas Ffaraon, Baltia, Meropis, Norumbega, and Themiscyra. By 2500 BCE, the first Kingdoms are formed including the Kingdom of Atalantë, the Kingdom of Meropis, and the Queendom of Themiscyra. Around the late 1300 BCE, the nation-states on the Atlantean Island collapsed, devolving into civil war. The Bronze Age Collapse would occur in 1200 BCE and groups of people from the Atlantean Island banded together into raiding bands of pirates, collectively known as the "Sea Peoples", began to raid the Mediterranean Sea and the collapsing states on the coasts, including Egypt and Mycenaean Greece, where they would capture some people and bring them back to their home island. By 900 BCE, the "Sea People", some nobility from Atalantë, and a small group of Mycenaean and Egyptian slaves would form a Kingdom of Atlantis, often just called Atlantis. By 743 BCE, they had reunited the entire island under their control, including the ancient city of Atalantë, which was restored and rebuilding into the legendary city that is mentioned in Herodotus' Atlantis.
Atlantis would conquer across the Mediterranean Sea, until they suffered from both a defeat by the Delian League in 461 BCE. In 444 BCE, an earthquake would occur in the ocean somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, which would cause a massive tsunami to crash into the Island of Atlantis, which sent the entire Kingdom to be washed beneath the waves. Some small cities would survive on the highest parts of the island, what is now the Atlantean Archipelago. While the colonists on the mainland would eventually be assimilated into the surrounding tribes, kingdoms, and city-states, these Atlantians would survive on the island chain, forming a small island confederation that would last until they were conquered by Spanish in 1493, after they were fully rediscovered by Christopher Columbus. The island inhabitants would be dispersed away from their home islands, some ending up in the Spanish colonies in the America, others in Spanish African colonies. The Atlantean colony of Opar, located in Western Africa, would remain a small local power before being "rediscovered" by British Explorer Earl John Clayton Greystoke in 1888.
Due to a large influence of the Mycenaean and Egyptian Slaves brought from their homelands, the religion of the Atlantian people is a mixture of Atleantean, Mycenaean, and Egyptian religions. The religion's main four deities are Poseidon, god of the sea who eventually would become a mythical founder of the city, the war goddess Appollymi, and Thoth, the Egyptian god of writing and knowledge, and a trio of lesser deities that includes Dagon, a corruption of the Mesopotamian fertility god into a deep water god, Mother Hyrda, a multiheaded serpent headed goddess that is said to hunt in the flooded remains of the Kingdom of Atlantis who serves as the goddess of storms, and Cthulhu, a dragon-squid like being that serves as the god of nightmares. During the 1880s, some scholars attempted to rebuild an Atlantean culture that was derived from sources that originated in the city of Opar and the Atlantean Archipelago. By 1900, a small movement of Atlantian descendants began to push for more rights, especially to practice their traditional religion. To this end, a flag was made to unify the movement.
The red on the flag represents the tsunami that sunk Atlantis and the blood of those lost, the stars represent the islands that survived the catastrophic event, and the yellow represents a bright future and reunification of the Atlantian peoples around the world.
The movement would gain traction throughout the 20th century, leading to Spain creating the autonomous republic of Atlántis in 1984 which would use the Atlantian diaspora flag. A large amount of Atlantian decedents would return to the island and create an Atlantian Renaissance, with novels, plays, poems, music, paintings, films, and a few cartoons being created from 1984-2012.
While some would historically attribute their survival of the islands during the Flooding of Atlantis to the gods of Atlantis, some modern theorists belief that extraterrestrials saved the few islands, hence why the flags stars seem to show a triangular UFO with a tractor beam pulling seven stars from the sea. This theory is regarded as nonsense by Atlántian historians.
(Note: There are references to multiple fictional texts that are either related to Atlantis or inspired by them.)
The Atlantean archipelago is a cluster of small islands located in the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantean archipelago was originally an island roughly 697,000 km2 in size. It sits on the Antediluvian continent, which broke off from the European Continent during the Paleocene, roughly 60 million years ago. Most of the island's unique flora and fauna died during Eocene–Oligocene extinction event. The first humanoid inhabitants was a group of Neanderthals about 41 thousand years ago. Around 40 thousand years ago, the first homo sapiens arrived on the island. The neanderthal and homo sapiens populations did interbreed, leading the modern descents of the island to contain 6% neanderthal DNA, as opposed to the 1-4% in the rest of Eurasia. Around 2900 BCE, the first cities were founded on the island including Atalantë, Avalon, Dinas Ffaraon, Baltia, Meropis, Norumbega, and Themiscyra. By 2500 BCE, the first Kingdoms are formed including the Kingdom of Atalantë, the Kingdom of Meropis, and the Queendom of Themiscyra. Around the late 1300 BCE, the nation-states on the Atlantean Island collapsed, devolving into civil war. The Bronze Age Collapse would occur in 1200 BCE and groups of people from the Atlantean Island banded together into raiding bands of pirates, collectively known as the "Sea Peoples", began to raid the Mediterranean Sea and the collapsing states on the coasts, including Egypt and Mycenaean Greece, where they would capture some people and bring them back to their home island. By 900 BCE, the "Sea People", some nobility from Atalantë, and a small group of Mycenaean and Egyptian slaves would form a Kingdom of Atlantis, often just called Atlantis. By 743 BCE, they had reunited the entire island under their control, including the ancient city of Atalantë, which was restored and rebuilding into the legendary city that is mentioned in Herodotus' Atlantis.
Atlantis would conquer across the Mediterranean Sea, until they suffered from both a defeat by the Delian League in 461 BCE. In 444 BCE, an earthquake would occur in the ocean somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, which would cause a massive tsunami to crash into the Island of Atlantis, which sent the entire Kingdom to be washed beneath the waves. Some small cities would survive on the highest parts of the island, what is now the Atlantean Archipelago. While the colonists on the mainland would eventually be assimilated into the surrounding tribes, kingdoms, and city-states, these Atlantians would survive on the island chain, forming a small island confederation that would last until they were conquered by Spanish in 1493, after they were fully rediscovered by Christopher Columbus. The island inhabitants would be dispersed away from their home islands, some ending up in the Spanish colonies in the America, others in Spanish African colonies. The Atlantean colony of Opar, located in Western Africa, would remain a small local power before being "rediscovered" by British Explorer Earl John Clayton Greystoke in 1888.
Due to a large influence of the Mycenaean and Egyptian Slaves brought from their homelands, the religion of the Atlantian people is a mixture of Atleantean, Mycenaean, and Egyptian religions. The religion's main four deities are Poseidon, god of the sea who eventually would become a mythical founder of the city, the war goddess Appollymi, and Thoth, the Egyptian god of writing and knowledge, and a trio of lesser deities that includes Dagon, a corruption of the Mesopotamian fertility god into a deep water god, Mother Hyrda, a multiheaded serpent headed goddess that is said to hunt in the flooded remains of the Kingdom of Atlantis who serves as the goddess of storms, and Cthulhu, a dragon-squid like being that serves as the god of nightmares. During the 1880s, some scholars attempted to rebuild an Atlantean culture that was derived from sources that originated in the city of Opar and the Atlantean Archipelago. By 1900, a small movement of Atlantian descendants began to push for more rights, especially to practice their traditional religion. To this end, a flag was made to unify the movement.
The red on the flag represents the tsunami that sunk Atlantis and the blood of those lost, the stars represent the islands that survived the catastrophic event, and the yellow represents a bright future and reunification of the Atlantian peoples around the world.
The movement would gain traction throughout the 20th century, leading to Spain creating the autonomous republic of Atlántis in 1984 which would use the Atlantian diaspora flag. A large amount of Atlantian decedents would return to the island and create an Atlantian Renaissance, with novels, plays, poems, music, paintings, films, and a few cartoons being created from 1984-2012.
While some would historically attribute their survival of the islands during the Flooding of Atlantis to the gods of Atlantis, some modern theorists belief that extraterrestrials saved the few islands, hence why the flags stars seem to show a triangular UFO with a tractor beam pulling seven stars from the sea. This theory is regarded as nonsense by Atlántian historians.
