> Selon Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>:
>
> >
> > Atlantis seems to be really required content in juvenile fantasies.
>
> Seems to be. I have mine as well ;) . OK, this seems to have become a long
> post
> as well, you are warned!
>
> > My Atlantids also were interplanetary. And I traced their history
> > back to more than 30,000 years BP. They definitely could have met the
> > Neanderthals - and did, according to my still readily readable notes.
> >
>
> My Atlandids called themselves Dhastem (or Ddastem, depending on the
> transliteration scheme I used). They were humans, more advanced than we are
> now,
> but not starfaring. Their technology was also quite different from ours,
> with
> more advances in chemistry and biology than what we have right now, but in
> physics they were only slightly more advanced than us. They didn't have the
> global communication network we have, for instance, which might be because
> they
> mainly kept to their island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
>
> I know they called their language Astou, although I don't remember how they
> called their continent (it's somewhere in my notes). Unlike other
> Atlantis(es?),
> the history of the Dhastem can be traced no further than 10,000BC, and they
> were
> still around when Ancient Greece began using the Greek alphabet. Indeed,
> the
> only examples of Astou we have are artefacts found in Greece, and the
> language
> is written with an archaic form of the Greek alphabet. It seems the Dhastem
> thought their own writing system was somehow sacred, and wouldn't use it
> outside
> their island. On the small Dhastem colonies they had on other continents,
> they
> would only use indigenous writing systems to write their language, usually
> adapting them more or less efficiently (they didn't need perfect
> transliteration
> systems).
>
> The island of the Dhastem was destroyed somewhere around 700BC, a cataclysm
> suffered by the whole world (and probably the origin of various Flood
> legends).
> It was not moral corruption that destroyed the island, nor failed Dhastem
> experiments. The Dhastem were certainly imperialistic, and felt themselves
> superior to the primitive cultures around them, but they were not morally
> corrupt as such. They just thought it was their duty to protect the
> primitive
> people around them. And they did, against another technologically advanced
> civilisation based on a continent in the middle of the Pacific ocean, which
> I
> called Mu, for lack of a better name. The people of Mu were technologically
> advanced humans like the Dhastem, but through history they became a
> theocracy,
> which slowly began to take a turn to the fanatic, the xenophobic, until
> they
> started attacking the Dhastem who they considered sinners that were soiling
> the
> world and prevented it to reach true perfection. The Dhastem defended
> themselves
> with better technology than Mu had expected, and for decades a Cold War
> followed. Small battles happened here and there, but mostly the continents
> of
> the Dhastem and of Mu were spared. The "primitive" civilisations on the
> other
> continents could only watch, and many considered the Dhastem and Mu to be
> some
> kinds of gods anyway, and battling gods was not considered unusual, as we
> can
> see in various legends around the world.
>
> The Cold War was broken when Mu unleashed a weapon of unknown nature
> against the
> home continent of the Dhastem. Reason would have made clear that Mu was
> signing
> its own death warrant that way, but by that time people on Mu were so
> fanatic
> that the few people that tried to warn of their impending doom were
> attacked and
> slaughtered as infidels. The Dhastem knew Mu was developing such a weapon
> early
> enough, and knew very quickly what it could do, as they had developed
> something
> similar but had refused to use it, but their cover attempts to prevent Mu
> from
> using it failed. When they detected the weapon being used, it was already
> too
> late. As I wrote earlier, the Dhastem had this belief of superiority, and
> never
> even considered that their continent could ever be targeted itself by a
> weapon
> that couldn't be stopped by their defences. They had no recourse. Their
> continent, which was already straddling the Atlantic riff and wasn't the
> most
> stable place to live, was completely and utterly destroyed, and sank into
> the
> ocean. Only one small bit stayed above water level, once everything
> settled:
> Iceland, which unfortunately was completely uninhabited at the time of the
> Dhastem (being the top of a mountain too high for humans to inhabit it).
> The
> cataclysm caused giant tsunamis to sweep over the coasts of Europe, Africa
> and
> America. Shock waves across the Earth woke up volcanoes and caused
> earthquakes
> everywhere. Those shock waves ended up concentrating themselves on the
> opposite
> point of the Earth, which was where the continent of Mu was situated. They
> created a kind of super earthquake that shattered the continent and made it
> sink
> as well. Mu destroyed itself when they tried to destroy the Dhastem.
>
> It took months before things settled. Very few Dhastem survived (the very
> few of
> them who lived in colonies, a few hundreds at maximum). Even fewer Mu
> people
> survived (Mu was very centralist and didn't have colonies). The colonies
> didn't
> use much technological items (they didn't want them to fall into the hands
> of
> the "primitive people" around them), and certainly didn't keep many books
> (since
> they refused to have anything with their original writing system anywhere
> except
> on their own continent). So their technology slowly faded and the survivors
> themselves ended up mixing with the people around them, over the course of
> centuries, so that by the time of the Roman empire all that was still known
> generally were distorted legends. Some "secret societies" kept some
> artefacts
> that were miraculously spared, as well as some knowledge, and a few books
> written in that Astou transliterated using the Greek alphabet, and that's
> the
> only thing that reached us and allows us to know the Dhastem existed at
> all.
>
> I'll need to recheck my notes. I especially like the Astou language, which
> features an Indo-European-like morphology for nouns, but a more
> South-American-like morphology for the verbs.
> --
> Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets.
>
>
http://christophoronomicon.blogspot.com
>
http://www.christophoronomicon.nl
>
> It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.
>