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Perseus and Pegasus: Mythical Metaphors: Airbursts c1383 -c1327 BC
Perseus and Pegasus: Mythical Metaphors: Airbursts c1383 -c1327 BC © Nicholas Costa 2025 According to the latest research Halley’s comet was trapped in a 1:6 resonance with the planet Jupiter (meaning it completed one orbit for every six of Jupiter’s) between 1404 BC and 690 BC. These resonant periods affected the ejection of meteoroids, leading…
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Where was Cerne?
Where was Cerne? © Nicholas Costa 2025 Pliny(23–79 AD) in his Natural History (Book VI) demonstrates the confused state of affairs that existed in his time as to where Cerne was. There were conflicting reports as to its location. The Periplus of Hanno located a place which they named Cerne in the Atlantic near Senegal. Whilst…
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Where was Gadeira? The original locations of Gadeira, Erythia, and Cotinousa
© Nicholas Costa 2025 The original locations of the places which were ultimately relocated to the far west Cosmas Indicopleustes was aware that the original locations had by his time been mistakenly shifted to the far west. He wrote: “In like manner the philosopher Timaeus…supposes that there is to westward an island, Atlantis, lying out…
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Part Two: Mythical Allusions to the Airburst over Ephesus c1327 BC
Mythical allusions to the Airburst over Ephesus c1327 BC © Nicholas Costa 2025 It is evident that many of the place names and mythological events wrongly ascribed by Roman times to the far west and the shores of the Atlantic were originally located on the western shores of Anatolia. The myths rather than being a…
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The True Location of the Pillars of Heracles. Part One
The Pillars of Heracles. Part One. © Nicholas Costa 2025 Herodotus is the earliest surviving source which refers to the Pillars of Heracles as being in the far west adjoining the Atlantic Ocean. He recounts how the Greeks acquired knowledge of the far west with the story of Colaeus of Samos. He was a Greek…
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Journey to Atlantis- Ephesus, the Birth of Artemis, Part Two
Part Two © Nicholas Costa 2025: More evidence concerning the airburst of c1327 BC recorded in the Hittite tablets. Ortygia Strabo provides more information about the exact location of the initial airburst: “Then comes the harbor called Panormus, with a sanctuary of the Ephesian Artemis; and then the city Ephesus. On the same coast, slightly…
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Journey to Atlantis- Ephesus, the Birth of Artemis, and the Book of Revelations. Part One
St Paul’s Journey to Atlantis- Ephesus, the Birth of Artemis, and the Book of Revelations. Part One © Nicholas Costa 2025 Why Ephesus? Few, if any, understand the real reason why Ephesus became so central an element in early Christianity. Why did Paul choose to visit and finally settle there for 3 whole years instead…
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Journey to Atlantis- Iconium, the Birth of Athene, Plato and the Whirling Dervishes. Part Two
Saint Paul’s Journey to Atlantis- Iconium, the Birth of Athene, Plato and the Whirling Dervishes. Part Two © Nicholas Costa 2025 Mevlana Celaddiin-i Rumi Konya, known in antiquity as Iconium, is considered to be one of the most religiously conservative metropolitan centers in Turkey. It is best known as the final home of Rumi (1207-1273…
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Journey to Atlantis- Iconium, the Birth of Athene, and Plato. Part One
Saint Paul’s Journey to Atlantis- Iconium, The Birth of Athene , and Plato. Part One © Nicholas Costa 2025 Iconium The ancient city of Iconium is now known as Konya. It is located in central Turkey. The city lies at an elevation of about 1,027 metres (3,370 feet) on the southwest edge of the central…
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Journey to Atlantis, Part Two: The Birth of Aphrodite- a new analysis of a historical event
Paul’s Journey to Atlantis Part Two: The Birth of Aphrodite- a new analysis of a historical event. © Nicholas Costa 2024 Extant documents provide no date for the birth of Aphrodite, but to the Greeks she was considered to be the oldest of the 12 Olympian gods older even than Zeus. For them she was…