I have to call BS on this. Plato (427-347 BCE) was the first to mention Atlantis. He was a Greek. They had no idea at all that we even existed back then, so there's no way in hell that Native traditions could have been part of the myth.
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What is with you people showing up to shit talk fantasy world building, Jesus Christ. READ THE CONTEXT.
aug 29, 2025, 1:03 pm • 7 0 • view
Siiggghhh... 1) Yes I know Atlantis comes from Plato, I've read his dialogues about it 2) I'm writing my own fantasy version of Atlantis based on multiple sources, including Plato 3) In my Atlantis story they colonize several parts of the Mediterranean, African Coast, Iberian Peninsula & Central
aug 29, 2025, 1:02 pm • 9 0 • view
American/Caribbean area, & after the island sinks the survivors all flee to those areas. So my idea *in the story* is that aspects of their culture (from around 10000-9000BCE) could have been adopted into other cultures & evolved over time, bc that's how humans are. So any resemblance to Native
aug 29, 2025, 1:02 pm • 9 0 • view
American folklore or anything else, *in the story,* is meant to be seen as something that came first & got passed through the grapevine thanks to migration & cultural assimilation. But it's a story. Atlantis was made up (probably) by Plato. I'm just having fun.
aug 29, 2025, 1:02 pm • 10 0 • view
Realistically, there were no doubt many things that Plato likely incorporated unconsciously that he'd learned in his life that may have come from other sources. That's just how people work. Atlantis as a concept has also been used as white supremacist dog whistle utopia for hundreds of years. Hence,
aug 29, 2025, 1:31 pm • 8 0 • view
Emily, because she's not a shitty person, wanting to acknowledge peoples and myths from all over the world in her *fictional* Atalantis, rather than go with the generally racist, 'cradle of civilization' version of Atlantis often depicted in fiction of the past.
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