The Richat Structure,also known as the Bull's of Africa,Eye of the Sahara and Guelb er Richat,is a prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert near Ouadane,west–central Mauritania.
From the archives of the Oshar " In modern times it is now called Richat structure. It is 1,480 feet above sea level now. The Richat structure is a hydrothermal volcanic symmetrical uplift. There is three types of mineral, in the center lime stone. The rings are made up alkaline volcanic rock that was formed by magnetic spirals. The outer ring and wall are made up of quartzite rock. There are hot spring rivers that spin around the rings and have a strong current, going from the inside out, which then turns into the Ated sea that leads out into the Atlantic ocean near Cape Deverd islands.
There lived a ' High Priest-King named Atlas which was said to have been an astronomer that was known for his knowledge of spherical navigation, and celestial spherical math. He used this spherical math to navigate in subsurface volcanic tunnels. He used sea,ocean,and river networks to travel all over the world. Every 20,000 years the axis shifts to create a tropical wet time period. The last one end around 13,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. Africa Sahara region was warm and fertile. Large amounts of water flooded in from the Giza delta and then ran across the Sahara. Vast underground water ways run to Atlaspolis. Then these salt waters are heated up by volcanic heat under it. Then it springs out into the circle enclosed rings. Large underground temples were built on a network of water ways. All of them use 'Polis' as the ending of the name. Polis meaning city state inside a circle. In Egypt it was the Necropolis or ancient sunken temple of Osiris, and store house of Thoth. Atlas and his people, the Athanasius fought the Arians and won. Later Berber and then became known as the Phoenicians, which controlled the trade routes from Americas to the Mediterranean.
There have only been to signs to date that have been found at the site. A stone with drawings of the design for Atlaspolis and a few other smaller sites near by.
Eustathius, Commentarii in Dionysium, v. 215), which began at the shores of the Atlantic ocean and stretched towards south of Mauritania, Numidia and Cyrenaica, appear by their name, as well as by their traditions and ethnic character, as a population migrated there from the south-east parts of Europe. The episcope Isidor of Sevilla writes about them: “It is said that Getulii were Getae, who departing from their places in very large numbers, with their ships, had occupied the Syrtes of Libya, and because they had come from the territory of the Getae, they were called Getuli” (Origines, lib. IX. 1. 118). Other pastoral tribes which had gone forth from the Carpathians and the Lower Danube, had settled in Ethiopia even in very remote times. Pliny the Old mentions in the upper parts of the Nile, in Ethiopia, a tribe with the name of Dochi, and near them another population with Pelasgian mores and beliefs, called by the Greek authors Macrobii (lib. VI. 35. 12), long lived. Under this name were known in Europe the Hyperboreans, about whom it was said that they lived longer and happier than any other people in the world (Mela, lib. III. 5). Among the Ethiopian kings some have until late the name of Ramhai, Letem, Rema and Armah (Drouin, Les listes royals Ethiopiennes, Paris 1882, p.50-53), names the origin of which goes back to ante-Roman times.
. Ammon was one of the most ancient kings of Libya and Egypt. This Ammon was, as traditions tell us, a great shepherd, a “man rich in sheep” (Tertullian, De pallio. 3), nephew of Atlas from the country of the Hyperboreans (according to some old traditions Ammon’s mother was Pasiphae, the daughter of Atlas – Plutarch, Agis, c. 9), that Atlas who appears at the same time as the ancestor of a number of famous dynasties and families of Hellada, Troy and Latium. In the sacred texts of the Egyptians, Ammon has also the name of Altaika (Pierret, Le livre d. morts, Ch. CLXV. 1-3), a form derived from Alutus, Greek ‘Atlas, which corresponds to the Romanian ethnic name of “Oltean”, from the region of Olt. He is also named Remrem (Ibid. Ch. LXXV. 1. 2), meaning Ramlen, Arim or Ariman and Harmakhis or Armakhis (Pierret, Le Pantheon egyptien, p. 95), which presents only an Egyptian form of the ethnic Greek work ‘Arimaspeios and ‘Arimaspos, which in turn was only a simple variant of the name ‘Arimaios and ‘Arimfaios. Suidas also mentions that ‘Arimanios was the god of the Egyptians (see ‘Arima).
and from Asia Minor continued little by little down, along the shores of Lebanon, and finally, together with other tribes from Hellada and the islands of the archipelago, they reached the expansive plains of the Nile. Disciplined people, religious, laborious and warlike at the same time, the Pelasgian shepherds and farmers were masters during those remote times, wherever they settled. They took with them their national institutions, an established ancestral religion, their divinities and priests, and they formed their political centers wherever they settled. But the sacred country of the Egyptian Pelasgian religion was still that particular one from the ends of the earth, from the Oceanos potamos or Istru. In that part of the world were for the ancient Pelasgians of Egypt “the divine region”, their ancient religious monuments, the images of their protective gods, the country of their ancestors, worshipped as gods. Their sacred mountains, the sky columns were there. According to ancient Egyptian beliefs the divine region of the wheat was there (Pierret, Le livre d. morts. Ch. CXI. 5), there was the place of abundance, where the wheat grew 7 ells high, the straw 4 ells and the ear 3 ells. There was the place of rebirth, the country of eternal life, the Hyperboreans.
En engraving on an Etruscan mirror shows Helen dressed in a rich Pelasgian costume, sitting on a throne and stretching her hand towards Agamemnon, whom she receives in her kingdom in Leuce island. Between these two persons is figured Menelaus as a young man, holding in his right hand a phial, and in his left hand a lance. In the traditions of the Pelasgians of the Peloponnesus, the places from the north of Istru (land if Oasis and Ishtar), from the country of the pious and blessed Hyperboreans, were considered as the original lands of their sacred history, as the country of residence of their protective divinities.
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The science:
This structure is a deeply eroded, slightly elliptical, 40 km in diameter dome. The sedimentary rocks comprising this structure dip outward at 10°–20°. Differential erosion of resistant layers of quartzite has created high-relief circular cuestas.
* * * Richat Structure is not the site of an ancient meteor crater, as many people originally postulated. These concentric circles are actually alternating layers of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks that were pushed upward in a symmetrical anticline, geologic dome, from below due to a small incursion of magma.
Initially interpreted as an asteroid impact structure because of its high degree of circularity, it is now argued to be a highly symmetrical and deeply eroded geologic dome.
Exposed within the interior of the Richat Structure are a variety of intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks. They include rhyolitic volcanic rocks, gabbros,carbonatites and kimberlites. The rhyolitic rocks consist of lava flows and hydrothermally altered tuffaceous rocks that are part of two distinct eruptive centers, which are interpreted to be the eroded remains of two maars. According to field mapping and aeromagnetic data, the gabbroic rocks form two concentric ring dikes.
The inner ring dike is about 20 m in width and lies about 3 km from the center of Richat Structure. The outer ring dike is about 50 m in width and lies about 7 to 8 km from the center of this structure. Thirty-two carbonatite dikes and sills have been mapped within the Richat Structure. The dikes are generally about 300 m long and typically 1 to 4 m wide. They consist of massive carbonatites that are mostly devoid of vesicles. The carbonatite rocks have been dated as having cooled between 94 to 104 million years ago. A kimberlitic plug and several sills have been found within the northern part of the Richat Structure. The kimberlite plug has been dated being about 99 million years old. These intrusive igneous rocks are interpreted as indicating the presence of a large alkaline igneous intrusion that currently underlies the Richat Structure and created it by uplifting the overlying rock.
Spectacular hydrothermal features are a part of the Richat Structure. They include the extensive hydrothermal alteration of rhyolites and gabbros and a central megabreccia created by hydrothermal dissolution and collapse. The siliceous megabreccia is at least 40 m thick in its center to only a few meters thick along its edges. The breccia consists of fragments of white to dark gray cherty material which are hydrothermal alterations, which created this breccia.
[Dietz, R.S., et al. 1969. Richat and Semsiyat Domes (Mauritania): Not Astroblemes. Geological Society of America Bulletin 80: 1367–1372]
Geological fieldwork also showed that this structure is not a simple volcanic caldera (a large volcanic crater). There is, however, evidence of past igneous and volcanic activity here (movement of molten rock -magma - in the subsurface).
Geologically, the structure is composed of three nested rings dipping outwards from the center. They are composed of a sequence of sedimentary rocks dating from the Upper Proterozoic Period (about 650 million years ago) to the Ordovician Period (about 450 million years ago). The center of the structure is a limestone shelf with a lens of breccia (rock created from angular fragments of rock cemented together). The whole structure is intruded by various types of volcanic rocks.
So a new questions we must.
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Some people are amazed by the resemblance of this structure with the representation we have of Atlantis by Plato.
According to Plato, the island was circular, divided into concentric circles of land and water: "There were 2 of land and 3 of water... Atlantis when sunk by the earthquake became an impossible barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to any part of the ocean..." And he spoke about a mount sheltering the city by North and "and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south "...etc.
(1) Atlantis in Greek means Atlantis, nesos : the island of Atlas.
(2) Atlantis mean multiples of Atlas.
And we get near the geologic eye at the North the Mount Atlas. According to Plato, Atlantis was lying "out side the Pillars of Hercules".
It is an interesting point of view anyway and deserving more research. I think the first thing to do is to investigate is the depressed corridor accessing to the "eye" from West.
It is a possible ancient canal that access to the Atlantic Ocean and to the east becomes the Yellow Nile. It is much more easy to get results there because the "eye" suffered alot of collapsing and geologic changes that is making discoveries difficult.
Atlantis according to the text of Plato in Timaeus & Critias was written in 360 BC.
In 2008, George Sarantitis put forward the idea that the Richat Structure was the location of Atlantis, supporting his contention with an intensive reappraisal of the translation of Plato’s text(g). *[In 2006 George S. Alexander and Natalis Rosen were struck bythe similarity of the Richat feature with Plato’s description and decided to investigate on the ground. The carbonatite rocks have been dated as having cooled between 94 to 104 million years ago.
So we are talking about a 100 millions years ago geological structure, we have to keep in mind this, but if old stratas were uplifted it is normal. And we get extensive hydrothermal alteration of rhyolites and gabbros and a central megabreccia created by hydrothermal dissolution and collapse there too.
We know also that 40000 years ago it existed huge lakes in Sahara. We know that Sahara was still with some humidity 6500BC. Sahara desert covering ten countries of Africa with 9,400,000 square kilometres was 100 Millions of years ago all covered by sea. So in any case I think that this is a research that deserve alot more attention.
Constant movement of the plates creates worldwide earthquakes and increase volcanic activities. The constant expansion of the underwater ridges continues to push island and continents in to each other and other land masses disappeared under the seas. And finally, Plato’s Atlantis disappeared and was submerged, and reappears as part of North Africa.
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Atlantis was described as larger ancient sea faring civilization. It existed far out in the Atlantic ocean, in front of the straits known as ‘The pillars of Heracles’. The story goes that when Poseidon, Atlas first took responsibility for the well being of Atlan. The first king fathered a large and extensive family. Atlantis was then divided into ten kingdoms and all the children of Atlas would govern over these separate kingdoms peacefully.
On Atlantis there was a mountain in the center of the land. Atop the mountain, there was a glorious temple constructed in honor of Poseidon. It also housed the holy of holies a temple tower that acted as a modern day reactor. The inhabitants would regularly offer sacrifices to their patron god and worship him faithfully. Within the temple of Poseidon there existed a column which was inscribed with all the laws of Altea,engraved in gold. This was a Celestial record of God's covenant with Atlas. This was before the time of Adam. Enoch and Zadok are the only prophets of Atlas. However the Melchizedek Priesthood combines both. It described how the massive nation would be governed and it lead the inhabitants to live peacefully and prosperously. The ten kings lived in harmony and celebrated in each other’s friendship and love and did not concern themselves with the superficial treasures that can poison a kingdom.
We can see that the facts for our planet crime scene are evident and overwhelming. How much proof do we need and why science is not investigating? Let open a discussion to prove or disapprove this overwhelming evidence.