The ambiguity between reality and fiction is what makes Atlantis fascinating.
When I was still in elementary school, I knew Atlantis for the first time in promotional children's books labeled "Unsolved Mysteries of Prehistoric Civilization" .
Lost in the mainland, buried at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, I once imagined the life there, just like the Dragon Palace in "Journey to the West", floating freely and having close contact with seafood. It is exciting to think about it.
Then in 2011, the Feier band released a song called "Atlantis".
Singing in pursuit of hope, the rhythm is joyous, and the MV is full of underwater special effects, which is a bit cool.
That was probably the first time I saw Atlantis, where the water was rippling, and occasionally two bubbles popped up, matching the song, which was fascinating.
But I never thought that [Sea King] could be so cool.
After more than two hours, I didn't remember anything else, I was shocked by the weirdness of the underwater world, as if I watched an Atlantis travel promotion.
To this day, words, music, or movies are still spreading the story of Atlantis.
This landmark that runs through my short life also traverses history. There are always traces to follow, but it never seems to exist.
So, what is it exactly?
Everything has to start with ancient Greece.
In the fifth century BC, his cousin Creteus told Plato that around 10,000 BC, there was a continent in the Atlantic Ocean that was larger than Asia.
Located on the opposite side of the Pillar of Heracles (the Strait of Gibraltar), it is completely surrounded by the sea, with highly developed civilization, economic prosperity, and military power that surpasses the times.
The cousin's words were later included by Plato in the "Crete Ass" of Dialogues, which became the earliest written record of Atlantis.
However, his cousin had never been to Atlantis. This was a story he heard from his great-grandfather, who learned from a poet named Solon .
Of course, Solon has never been to this place. This is what he heard when he was traveling in ancient Egypt. It would be around 585 BC. According to his description, Atlantis had been sunk for almost 10,000 years. .
However, there is no description of Atlantis in the ancient Egyptian documents unearthed today.
Let's just think that what Solon said is true. After all, in the "Dialogue", Creteas emphasized three times that it was true, and Socrates also said that "it is not a fiction."
Therefore, Plato spent 18 pages in the "Dialogues" "Timeios" in detail to introduce the grand occasion of Atlantis.
It originally belonged to the territory of Poseidon, the god of the sea, on which Poseidon married a young girl and raised ten children.
After the child grew up, Poseidon divided the continent into ten kingdoms and handed over it to his management. Because his elder son was called "Atlantis", he was named Atlantis.
Regarding the destruction, Plato said that because of extravagant corruption and worship of the gods, angry Zeus dropped a great flood, and overnight, Atlantis sank to the bottom of the sea.
Legends of prehistoric floods are not uncommon in various civilizations, and Plato must have added a lot of oil and jealousy. It seems like a myth in every way.
Perhaps because of the gold everywhere, there are always future generations who are obsessed with these 18 pages. Since the 16th century, studies on Atlantis have been endless.
At the beginning, it was a Spanish historian named Gomora . It would coincide with the discovery of the American continent by Columbus, and he believed that it was Atlantis.
Although the Americas are not, Europeans did find gold on it.
Some people also insisted on Plato's original description that Atlantis was indeed on an island in the center of the Atlantic Ocean across the Strait of Gibraltar.
What is interesting is that in the Maya civilization that was discovered later in the Americas, there were also flood records. The Mayan solar calendar recorded the destruction of human civilization five times, and the fourth time was destroyed by the flood.
As a result, two unpredictable civilizations began to entangle, and to this day, people still think that the Mayans are descendants of Atlantis.
This is the case for Ignatius . He is the master of Atlantis studies in the United States in the 19th century, and is known as the "father of scientific Atlantis."
In 1882, he wrote the book "Atlantis: The Ancient World" , which strongly proved that the Mayan civilization is Atlantis, and it reads like science fiction.
By the beginning of the 20th century, due to the enthusiasm of Western exploration and more and more continents that humans set foot on, Atlantis’s conjecture became more and more mysterious, and theories such as Antarctica, Arctic tundra, Ireland, and Thera appeared.
Even Taiwan has become one of the shortlist.
The rumors became the truth ten thousand times. In the eyes of the fanatics, Atlantis seemed to be a faith.
Whether it exists or not is limited by the fact that there is no definite cultural relics and sites to support it. There is no final conclusion. The only thing that can be determined is that the mainstream archaeology community has long been reluctant to spend more time on it.
Although the archaeologists rejected Atlantis, [Sea King] did not.
Atlantis first mentioned in the 1939 DC comic "Action Comics #17" that the Sea King was not born yet, and it was about Superman.
Aquaman made his debut two years later, but it was only a supporting role and did not explain the background. At this time, Atlantis was still just a scene in Superman comics.
It wasn't until May 1959 that another DC comic "Adventure Comics #260" set the hometown of Aquaman as Atlantis, and the two were really hooked.
However, the comics still have very few pen and ink on Atlantis. Thanks to the rise of Aquaman's popularity, DC decided to open a series to introduce the history of Atlantis.
It was already 1990, and this series was called "Atlantis Chronicles" and there were seven issues in total.
In the comics, the Atlanteans are aliens. They came to Earth 65 million years ago and coexisted peacefully with the ancient apes, and possessed powerful magic.
However, this magic will fade over time, so, one million years ago, they began to turn to technology and established a powerful civilization to dominate the earth.
They also established 12 cities around the world, ruled by different lords, the most authoritative is the King and Queen of Atlantis.
More than 800,000 years later, a virtuous emperor named Calculha appeared in the kingdom, and civilization ushered in an unprecedented flourishing age.
Unfortunately, the queen is fascinated by black magic. She stole the magic cores of 12 cities and put the entire Atlantis at risk.
In order to stop the queen, Calculha exiled himself to the dark world, while his son Ahri'ahn turned his soul into pure magical energy and flew to the stars, protecting Atlantis.
After that, Atlantis slowly returned to stability, but due to the gradual disappearance of magical power and the rising humanity, the end came quietly.
First, the 12 cities based on magic began to gradually collapse, and Atlantis was embarrassed on all sides. At this time, Ahri'ahn, who was sacrificed in the past, was reborn and returned to the earth.
However, he did his best to change the fact that the magic has passed away. As the threat to mankind grew, the current King Orin built a giant protective shield to keep the capital Poseidonia safe.
And around 9600 years ago, the lingering Atlantis was hit hard again, meteorites fell from the sky, and the tsunami and earthquake caused the world's plates to move.
In the end, Poseidonia , with only protective shields left in the 12 cities, was spared, but he sank to the bottom of the sea.
At first, they used magic to survive in the water, but it was not a long-term solution.
Fortunately, after many years, scientists finally developed a serum that allowed the tribesmen to breathe in the water, but Orin's brother Shalako was unwilling to change and led some tribesmen to the deep sea.
These people still rely on magic for their livelihoods. Due to environmental influences, fins have evolved. Shalako's son is even more exaggerated, with green fish scales growing all over his body, and his hair turned golden.
The mutants were naturally not accepted by the orthodox people of Poseidonia, who later regarded the blonde tribe as a shame. The sea king in the comics was abandoned in the "port of mercy" because of his blond hair.
However, Atlantis finally stopped and became the largest underwater world in DC Comics.
Since the publication of Jules Verne's novel "Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea " in 1869 , cultural works have been tirelessly fictionalizing Atlantis.
This is true for science fiction, and so is for comics. Atlantis, who has never lacked believers, has a strong screen performance.
The French silent film [The Queen of Atlantis] in 1921 was its screen debut. In the movie, Atlantis went to the Sahara Desert.
The ruler is a enchanting woman who specializes in attracting young and strong French officers to make gilded mummies.
Then came the [Underwater Kingdom] in 1936 , which was the first time it landed on the American screen. It was also stretched due to special effects, and it looked like a battle of the Roman Empire.
It wasn't until the release of [Journey to the Center of the Earth] in 1959 that the special effects finally took off.
Facts have proved that special effects support is the most important thing for movies of this type .
In 1978, [Atlantis God of War] was even more imaginative, with ancient monsters, aliens, and sea monsters gathering all kinds of monsters and gods . Like [Sea King], Atlantis was divided into seven kingdoms.
Disney also launched an animated film [Atlantis: The Lost Empire] in 2001 , restoring the concentric kingdom of Plato's "Dialogue".
Of course, none of these previous works can compare to [Aquaman].
Wen Ziren obviously did his homework, and the various underwater scenes laid out in the movie are always dizzying, and even the plot is forgotten.
Today, it is impossible to know whether Atlantis is an archeological limitation or a human conjecture.
It is this ambiguity between reality and fiction that makes it fictional, mysterious and fascinating again and again on the screen.
The curiosity of the public is all out of this.
There will always be people who will study it, and there will always be people who will watch its movies.
It is the children's promotional book that I turned over that year, and it is also the ocean paradise where I went to the theater for more than two hours yesterday.
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Author/Yaoyao Wine
The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Pocier"
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