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The simplistic rendition of the ‘myth’ of Atlantis by the American movie industry in the 50’s and 60’s has incited me to respond with a script of a more complete work of fiction entitled Atlantis,The Lost Empire(Trilogie) , in which I decipher the indications that are present in the myths and geotectonic history of America and the Mediterranean of a world that was suddenly and violently lost about 12500 years ago. Based on a novel by Michael Kokkinaris Idas,the Great.
(When 12500 years ago , no far from the western shores of Africa,the island of Atlantis still existed,the world as we know it today was completely different.
The southwestern end of Europe with peninsula of Tartisso ‘touched’the western horn of Africa leaving only a narrow passage through which the people of Atlantis passed from the Atlantic Ocean with their ships to the Western Middle World and reached theTyrrinic Sea laying the foundations of significant colonies in this enclosed body of water along the Europian as well as the African coast.
The Western Middle World had as its easternmost boundary the Tyrrinic Peninsula which stretched to the shores of Africa leaving there only a smallmarrine passageway where the northwestern tip of Sicily lies today.
Immediately after that began the Pontus of the Eastern Middle World (today’s Eastern Mediterranean)dominated by Caftor(Crete),the state of which stretched south to Nile river delta ant east to the coast of today’s Palestine.
In the Eastern Pontus of the Middle World,apart from the Cretans,there were also the Pelasgeans whose state extented from today’s southern Greece and the Peloponnese to the Aegean Sea and the coast of today’s Asia Minor.
At first,the Pelasgeans had secured port facilities in Egypt,having a considerable presence in numerous trading posts and financials centers there. Nevertheless,the naval superiority of the Cretans limited their influence and forced them to concede to their domination in the region.
The people of Atlantis,however,had another way out to the Eastern Pontus of the Middle World; the interior sea of Tritonas,the bottom of which is today’s Sahara Desert.
The Tritonas Sea had two outles;one on the Coast of West Africa and the other in the Region of the Nile River Delta which Communicated with the Eastern Pontus of the Middle World. )
Part one: The Election
Many centuries ago, the children of King Eudaimonas, Kouritis and Idas, are born just a few moments apart in the capital of Atlantis, Posidonia. A few years later, the Council of Kings which governs Atlantis is called upon to approve the election of Kouritis to take the place of his father who has grown old, solely on account of the fact that he is the first born, though not necessarily the most capable. In order to ensure that the succession remains uncontested, the Council exiles the young Idas beyond the Iberian Peninsula to Bordigala (today Bordeaux) where, in the past, undesirables from Atlantis had been driven out, in the hopes that they would be wiped out by the barbarian Celts who lived in the area and had mixed with the outcasts.
When the Atlantis trireme abandons Idas and his little company at the mouth of the Garonne river, his fate appears to be predetermined in this harsh, hostile environment with the wild Celts lurking everywhere. However, Destiny has other things in store for the greatest man ever to have been born in Atlantis. After covering a distance of three thousand stadia along the banks of the river Garonne, they arrive in Bordigala and explain to the Celtic King, Teutates, the reason why they are asking him to spare their lives.
It was Idas' intention, provided that Teutates allowed him to live, to conquer the coastal cities of the Triton Sea and thus to force the Council of the Kings of Atlantis to recognise him as the King of the countries of Middle Earth which he would subsequently occupy. Teutates' decision was eventually influenced by the wishes of his own daughter, Princess Rianon, who had once met Idas whilst on a peace seeking mission from Atlantis to her kingdom, and with whom she now felt to have fallen deeply in love.
In this way, by means of a simple incursion into Taressos, in other words into the entrance to the inner regions of the Triton Sea, Idas overtook ten triremes from Atlantis and with his small but highly-trained crews he encountered not the least resistance and became lord of the port of Tritonia Talo which led to the exit of the Sea of Middle Earth, an area inhabited by the great peoples of Egypt, the Keftiou and the Pelasgians. At this point, he realises that he has been followed by Princess Rianon, disguised as a soldier and with whom Idas is also in love.
When this unprecedented news reaches Atlantis, Idas' malicious persecuter, King Euinoras, will be forced to acknowledge the new status quo, and so he will persuade the Council of the Kings of Atlantis to charge Idas with the conquest of Egypt and the coastal cities of Middle Earth in the name of Atlantis and the council that governs it.
The epic encounter of the two men in Tritonia Talo will convince the wicked Euinoras that the dawning of a new era is upon Atlantis, a new reality embodied in the figure of the eleventh king of Atlantis, Ida. And in no time at all, from all the kingdoms far and wide where the fame of Atlantis had reached there arrived and gathered kings, soldiers and ships in Tritonia Talo, all preparing for their exit to Middle Earth and the conquest of its peoples.
The King of the Esperides, the eastern coast of the continent that extended westwards of Atlantis, the red-skinned Atlasidahou, the king of the Ufa, who lived on the banks of the Niger River and worshipped Olokun (Poseidon), Enugu and many others were placed under the orders of Ida in view of the great conquest which was about to begin.
And there, before his distinguished allies, Ida took Rianon's hand in marriage in a ceremony worthy of the princess and himself, someone who embodied the greatest desire of the people of Atlantis in terms of the expansion of the realm eastwards.
When the Atlantis fleet reaches the Pontos of Middle Earth, the conquest of Egypt is merely a matter of time, with the Keftiou (Cretes), weak and unable to react, watching helplessly as the Atlantis fleet lands in Egypt. Owing to their military superiority, the Atlantis invaders quickly occupy the coastal regions of Egypt and they then continue ahead towards Upper Egypt where the king Enugu is killed and in whose memory is built the Great Pyramid of Giza!
Following the completion of the conquest of Egypt, in moments of welcome respite in the palaces that were built on the Nile, Idas will not only become enchanted by a Keftiou slave, Telesilla, but also by the civilization of the Keftiou. He allows himself to be swept away by his passion for this woman completely disregarding the possibilty of Princess Rianon getting wind of the affair.
At that moment in time, the assassination in Atlantis of his brother, Kouritis, who has not yet acquired an heir, creates a gap in succession and fears that a possible attempt will be made by Idas to overthrow the Council of the Kings and with the power he wields to be declared the sole king of Atlantis.
On the arrival in Egypt of the evil king Euinoras, who reminds him that according to the laws of Atlantis he is ineligable to become king in the place of Kouritis although a descendant of his would be able to do so, and in this way puts Idas in a very difficult position for he has not yet been given a child by Rianon. At that very moment, he is astounded by the information that Telesilla is in fact pregnant!
Bearing in mind the painful issue of succession, Idas will whisk Telesilla away to Talo of Pontos, putting her in the protection of his trusted officer Apollodoros, without however managing to prevent Queen Rianon from learning the truth.
Yet, instead of being infuriated, Rianon quite simply requests that Idas take part in the campaign against the peoples of Eastern Pontos in Middle Earth on the side of King Atlasidahou, as she feels guilty about her sterility and the fact that she is unable to give her husband an heir.
Before accepting her decision, Idas will ask her to sail along the Nile together in order to pray with him to his protector, the god Poseidon, and that if even then they fail to conceive a child, she is free to decide whatever she sees fit.
Nevertheless, Destiny had already decided on her fate and Rianon could already feel it as her slaves assisted her in donning her suit of armor so that she could follow King Altasidahou on his venture to conquer the eastern coastal regions of Middle Earth, a place where the great trading routes of the East converged and where there were great walled cities with fortifications surrounding their ports and powerful armies.
ΑTLANTIS,THE LOST KINGDOMS
PART ONE
“THE ELECTION”
NARRATOR OFF
I,Apollodorus, son of Alkinoos from Tritonia Taloh, mortal and expendable must come to the decision to narrate the history of a King, King Idas, the Eleventh King of Atlantis, whom I accidently joined in a voyage to the edge of the Eastern Sea of Middle Earth…where no Atlas had ever dared tread, guided by Fate.
And as my hand engraves his history on the stone slabs, bringing back images of my life, what saddens me most of all is the inscrutable cruelty of Poseidon to obliterate so many proud generations of men!
APOLLODORUS
Μan's greatest enemy is oblivion.
Oblivion about those who lived before us, similar mortals like ourselves who refuse to accept whatever the gods have ordained for mankind.
And I wonder, as the courses of the celestial bodies are counting my waning life, if there is any point for me to inscribe on stone or teracota whatever my eyes have seen, that certainly no other mortal could have ever imagined even in his wildest and most elusive images the dream weavers may have fashioned for him!
When the bright disc of the sun returned,King Teutatis appeared, wearing his black wrought copper armor, ornamented
Part two: The Conquest of Middle Earth
When the invaders from Atlantis rapidly conquered Egypt and destroyed the trading posts of the Keftiou (Cretes), their king, Minos Lycastos, realised that his domination of the Eastern Pontos of Middle Earth had come to an end.
Perhaps the only solution was to enter into a peace treaty with the Atlantis conquerers, something that Lycastos sought to endeavour with his dispatching of admiral Euridamanda to Egypt. Nevertheless, Idas made efforts to disappoint him by inviting the admiral to attend a grandiose parade of the Atlantis military might in the valley of Saide, where once the Keftiou had built a temple to the goddess Athena. By doing so, Minos Lycastos came to realise that he would have to form an alliance with the Pelasgians and his Athenian vassals if he had any serious intentions of confronting Idas and his companions from Atlantis.
Or at least, so he thought... when the siege began of the first great walled city on the eastern coast of Middle Earth called Akka, which was inhabited by a mixed population of Keftiou and Pelasgians. The city was besieged from both land and sea by king Atlasidahou, a siege aided by the participation of Queen Rianon with her following of Celts. However, the thoughtlessness of her brother, Luxovios, leads to his capture and execution at the hands of the defenders of the city. And as for Rianon, she heedlessly makes moves to avenge his death and is killed by an arrow to the neck!
The news of her death is devastating for Idas who feels completely responsible for her fate. The queen's body is preserved in honey until Idas makes his way to Akka.
What follows is beyond the imagination of any mere mortal. Not only does the funerary procession last all day long in front of the walls of Akka with the whole military present, but also at sea, where the entire fleet of Atlantis lies at anchor. At nightfall, Idas lights up the huge pyre that is to cremate the body of the woman he truly loved and whom he had hurt with his decisions.
And then, at his signal, the archers light their arrows from Rianon's funeral pyre and take their aim at Akka. From the sea, more archers aim their flaming arrows at the sea walls of the city, The ensuing blaze burns everything to the ground and at dawn the army of Atlantis slaughters each and every one of those who have survived the fires!
The overtones of the destruction of Atta completely weaken the morale of all the other walled cities, such as Sor, Sido and the cities of the kings of the Phoenicians which fall one after the other in the hands of king Atlasidahou, while at the same time Idas prepares his fleet to invade Kaftor (Crete).
The birth of the son of Idas by the Keftiou Telesilla, in spite of the king's profound grief, closes the circle of uncertainty surrounding the succession to the throne of Atlantis and offers him the opportunity to return to Poseidonia to be officially proclaimed the eleventh King of Atlantis.
However, during Telesilla's return from Talo of Pontos with the heir to the throne in her arms, she is recognised by her husband, Seth, who had been severely wounded in the course of the invasion of Egypt by Atlantis. So, when Seth realised what had happened he made up his mind to kill Idas who had deprived him of his life.
The attempt on the king's life will occur during a grand parade of the Atlantis military in honour of their lord who is undertaking the preparation of fifty triremes in order to set sail for Atlantis.
Apart from his staff officers, also present in the stands is Telesilla with Idas' young son, Triptolemos. Seth attempts to stab Idas, having abandoned his place in the parade as a member of the naval detatchment.
The assassination attempt is a failure, with Telesilla shielding him with her body as Seth plunges the dagger killing her instead, while Idas with bloodied hands holds the little Triptolemos up high and recognises him officially as his son and heir.
And while Idas' fifty triremes make their departure for Atlantis, other triremes begin their reconnaissance of the coasts of Kaftor (Crete) in view of the planned occupation of the island.
Part three: The Lost Kingdoms of Atlantis
The return of Idas to Atlantis, his triumphal entrance into Poseidonia, the sacrifices carried out in the great temple dedicated to Poseidon and his oaths at the altar of the god determined his power and enabled the protector of Poseidonia to renew the trust of his electorate who would prepare to consolidate his worship in the Eastern Pontos of Middle Earth, where until then, the worship of the goddess Athena had prevailed.
When Idas returned to Egypt, Minos Lycastos had already passed away to be succeeded by Minos Lycaugis, while the Athenian King Kecrops, in an attempt to prevent the Atlantis reconnaissance triremes from approaching Cyclo (Santorini) had been killed in the sea battle and had been succeeded by his son, Erechthias.
So when the Atlantis triremes appeared in front of Phaisto of Kaftor, the Athenian triremes with Erechthias rushed to protect the other large port of Kaftor, Knossos. However, the superiority of the Atlantis fleet soon eliminated the resistance of the Keftiou and forced King Minos Lycaugis to sign a treaty, while the Athenians had a narrow escape from the Atlantis triremes which were being rowed at high speed with the intent of trapping them in the port of Knossos. But all the Atlantis triremes that were in hot pursuit of the Athenian triremes were caught in stormy weather off the coast of Cyclo, were bashed on the rocks of the island and their crews were ruthlessly wiped out by the Athenians and the Keftiou fugitives of Knossos.
Idas restored Kaftor, building facilities and palaces on the island and he married the daughter of Minos Lyaugis, Phaidra, an intractable woman who closely resembled Queen Rianon.
It was then for the very first time that Idas started thinking about putting an end to the conquests of the Eastern Pontos of Middle Earth, considering the Athenians to possess too little power to be of any serious threat to him.
Destiny, however, had determined it differently... the Oneiroi (Dreams) and the Erinyes (Furies) are sent by Poseidon to make Idas suffer from nightmares of the murdered Atlantis crew shipwrecked on Cyclo who are summoning him to take revenge. And so, on a lightning raid of the island of Cyclo, with the enormous volcano in the middle, the men from Atlantis kill the fugitives from Knossos and burn the Athenian naval bases to the ground as a first step towards the conquest of Athens. At that crucial moment in time, the evil King Euinoras dies and Idas, as the guardian of his son's throne, goes to Atlantis for the election of Euinoras' successor.
So there, in the big temple to the god Poseidon, as the formalities for the election of the king unfold, the god hurls a bolt of lightning onto his altar on hearing the proposal put forward by the other kings for Idas to put a halt to his confrontations with the Athenians. And with this omen begins the landing of the people of Atlantis on the northeastern shores of the Land of Attica.
The major confrontation occurred in Marathon, where the Athenians were united with many other Pelasgian kings, such as Erihthonos from Argos, Kratylos, the king of Eretria as well as Erisihthonos, the king of Tanagras.
The Atlantis army in grand formation with the various peoples of Atlantis distinguished by their different elaborate uniforms and their powerful weapons faced the nations of the Pelasgians, who may have been fewer in numbers but were determined to win.
And the Pelasgians were indeed victorious, even looting the barracks of the Atlantis soldiers who were forced, on Idas' orders, to abandon the Land of Attica although they would have been capable of winning eventually with their reserves against the exhausted Pelasgian army.
Idas' return to Kaftor was, however, not without troubles, when everything around him seemed to testify that something indefinable would spring forth, particularly from the turbulent sea that never seemed to calm.
At that point in time, Idas orders his devoted officer Apollodoros to accompany Queen Phaidra to Atlantis so that she can give birth to her child in safety.
This was Apollodoros' final journey to Atlantis. As his trireme was approaching the meeting of the Triton Sea with the Ocean, the colossal fury of Poseidon emptied the Triton Sea into the Ocean sinking the island of Atlantis and the enormous tidal wave that ensued flooded all the coastal cities of the Eastern Pontos of Middle Earth and totally wiped out all the people who had once breathed the air of the Ocean.
Apollodoros was miraculously blasted into one of the mines in the mountains of Atlantis which was sealed off by a fragment of rock and so he survived to return after three years to Egypt only to see with his very own eyes the extent of the destruction of a world that no longer existed.
And after many more adventures, he found himself back in the country of the Celts where he grew to a ripe old age describing the life that no other man would ever experience again.
The Trilogy is an epic historical account like “The Lord of the Ring” with 160 scenes which centers on cunningly manipulates both mortals and immortals alike.
All the other characters in the story participate in the narrative in order to attest to the dramatic events which climax in the destruction of Atlantis.
Queen Rianon, the slave Telesilla, Princess Phaedra, the red-skinned King Atlansindahou, King Enougou of Oufa, Minoas Lykastus, Minoas Lykauyis, the King of the Athenians Erechtheas and many other historic heroes come together in a narrative full of twists and turns and which at the same time renders the birth of the world that we have inherited after the destruction of Atlantis.
It would be worth taking note of the scene of the sinking of Atlantis which renders the enormous tidal wave that wiped out all the coastal cities of the Mediterranean while the rendition of the survival of the sole eye-witness, Apollodorus, from whose plaques we finally learned about Atlantis and Idas, is particularly inventive.