Atlantis in America: Navigators of the Ancient World

by Ivar Zapp

Book Overview

This text presents evidence for a new theory that the great stone spheres of Costa Rica and sighting stones throughout the Pacific were used to teach sea routes and constellation paths to navigators... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932813526
• ISBN13: 9780932813527
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

America Fusang?

This author collects a lot of information to entertain the idea of Atlantis in America. It is fun to explore with him in this American history who came here before Columbus. Native Americans are one of the lost tribes of Israel or of China? They came by foot or boat? Petroglyphs along West Coast may give a clue? This book motives readers to research more who came across the ocean to establish the Inca, Maya, Aztec and Olmec.

Beginner to Expert, its a MUST READ

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I have had others read it and solicited them for reviews and all are positive. All have enjoyed it. It is an eye-opener to many of the things we already know but have not heard from authorities, such as "If your theory or evidence conflicts with mainstream acceptance, you will be summarily dismissed from discussions and even muzzled if you are being successfully heard." and "There are references and evidence all over the place alluding to sophisticated civilizations in our distant past that have more than once been decimated and forgotten, even though descendants survive and repopulate the world." The opinions of the authors is always backed up with detailed research, and if the reader chooses to skip some of the more intensive scientific arguments, even the basic layman's arguments make for a very successful presentation. I have had high school drop outs who've read it debating with college grads who've read and it has livened our local discussions on many varied subjects. It has much more than Atlantis within it.

One of a precious few

- "Antiquity is full of the praises of another Antiquity still more remote", says Voltaire (quote on p.7). Authors Zapp and Erikson go to great lengths in order to show us that the Antiquity of the Golden Age, as extolled by magniloquent poets and ancient philosophers and as described in our global treasury of myths, was not the mere fruit of the imagination of "pre-scientific humans" or even the outpourings of some hypothetical "collective unconscious", but existed de facto. On little under 400 pages readers are presented with a most impressive array of cultural and archaeological evidence for the existence of prehistoric seafaring civilizations spanning the entire earth - though each would have had its own center - and living in relative harmony for millennia on end.However, since the evidence presented falls within a range of quite ambitious proportions and the material is very heterogeneous, Zapp and Erikson have not been able to analyze and discuss it thoroughly; references are few for the breathtaking number of claims the authors make, and one misses a more consistently concomitant exposition of the old-paradigmatic views and interpretations of mainstream archaeologists, though this would of course bore some readers terribly and also have doubled or tripled the size and price of the book. The way it is, readers will have to take the evidence at face value and suspend a definitive judgment until after the authors' suggestions - exceedingly fertile - have been meditated on and possibly backed up by independent research/reading.Archaeology is in itself not enough to make prehistory come alive before our eyes. Though considered irrelevant by those educated in a strictly materialistic and rationalistic worldview, tools such as spiritual insight or religious experience, intuition, synderesis, Platonic anamnesis and a solid cultural background are indispensable for correctly appreciating who our ancestors were and what they were capable of. This has nothing to do whatsoever with romanticizing the past or with imposing extravagant and feeble-minded vagaries upon the unknown. Our ancestors were fully human (in fact, we don't seem to compare favorably to them ourselves) and therefore possessed the characteristics by which the human being is safely distinguished from all other creatures, namely transcendental intellect, free will and theomorphic constitution. It is time we give up the childish, chronocentric outlook by which we keep judging older periods as inferior to our own, and rid our minds of the silly association of technology with human excellence, as if even the lowliest elements of true culture stood a chance of surviving under the oafish influence of an all-encompassing, technology-obsessed society (see comments on p.181).Though Zapp and Erikson warn us not to fall into the traps of evolutionary-inspired preconceptions about the primitiveness of prehistoric people and remind us of the mechanisms by whi

Fascinating study of global navigation of ancient times.

This is wonderful material on the mysterious spheres of Costa Rica. Atlantis in America presents a wealth of information on navigators and civilizations, thousands of years ago. Highly recommended!

This book is a cornucopia of new ideas on Atlantis

Of all the books on Atlantis to appear in recent years, I value Erikson and Zapp's book as one of the best. It is a cornucopia of new ideas regarding the origins of Mesoamerican civilisation and the Atlantean tradition. Its clues on ancient navigation could provide vital keys in understanding trans-oceanic contact prior to the age of Columbus. Well worth the read.

Revisionist history for a better future

ATLANTIS IN AMERICA is a must read for anyone wanting to understand more about the significance of the "Prehistoric Spheres" of Costa Rica and other authentic anomalies indicating the presence of ancient maritime navigators who evidently used tools that in some ways exceed present-day knowledge. The book also touches on chaos and catastrophe theory, and considers what the ending of the ancient Mayan calendar in December 23, 2012 may mean. If this sort of revisionist history is your cup of tea, you might also want to consider reading THE ALPHABET VERSUS THE GODDESS, by Leonard Shlain, which is equally provocative. Both books are highly recommended as ways to greatly illumine your vision of both past and future.