THE STORY WITHIN THE STORY
“Do you think Atlantis really existed?” The question from my grandson caught me off guard. “I don’t know,” I replied, probably sounding rather weak. “Well, Grandpa, you need to read about Atlantis and what’s going on in archeology today.” So I read the books he suggested, and found that an array of nanodiamonds and other minerals point toward the possibility of a comet exploding in Canada around twelve centuries ago, its fragments spreading across the Atlantic Ocean to the European ice cap.
Many scientists speculate this disaster wiped out not only a primitive hunter-gatherer population, but also an advanced civilization which could be the lost civilization of Atlantis.
These facts are not unanimous among the archeology community, but certainly account for the opinions of a growing number of scientists.
Another thought provoking issue came up as I continued to read. It concerns the legends that human pre-history religions could be shared across distant civilizations?
For example, Egyptian, Mayan and Mississippian (North America) cultures all have legends about a perilous afterlife journey the soul must travel to enter the spirit world by ascending to the Milky Way, then making a jump to Orion specifically at dawn.
I had to ask myself how did these three communities so far apart so long ago end up worshipping the same religious paths. It doesn’t seem possible UNLESS a legacy group taught these ideas to people in each of these distant locations? The Atlanteans?
As I read, I wondered if these recent discoveries have so inflamed religious zealots by shifting the current popular focus from traditional creation beliefs such as human kinds’ origin in the Garden of Eden.
One group I researched is known as the Christian Identity. The movement first received widespread attention in 1984, when a terrorist group called The Order, embarked on a murderous crime spree before it was suppressed by the FBI.
They gained greater attention in 1992 and 1993, in the wake of the Ruby Ridge confrontation. Newspapers discovered that former separatist Randy Weaver had a loose association with the Christian Identity movement.
As you read my thriller, think about the facts I have found during my story within a story. Was my grandson on to something?
