The Old Wine Of Atlantis

You may, or you may not - know that a certain very ancient tradition endures down to this very day, in Santorini, which relates to the clothing of the Atlanteans.

Although the actual odd few fragments of ancient texts describe the particular but very beautiful azure attire as being 'robes' - which were drawn about them when the embers of their fires had died down, and joining together in a circle, they offered up prayers to their father, who was the god Poseidon... ...today, the tradition obtains to the so-called 'flying dresses' of the women of Santorini.

The trident symbol.

Tourists travel there nowadays and photograph themselves on top of hills, wearing those dresses whose skirts are extremely long and flowing, and billow like sails in the breezes.

The dresses themselves are quite expensive and there is in fact a small industry which thrives on merely renting the dresses to those who wish to be photographed wearing them.

What you may also not know is that the actual ancient beliefs about the people of Atlantis was that they called their destruction upon themselves, during these late night gatherings, because the basis of their prayer was that the gods should destroy their society and Empire, should any of their rulers ever depart from the standards handed down to them by their father.

Additionally, another aspect is that their attire was never meant only for women as a glamorous colorful thing, but their whole society was evenly divided between male and female - so much so that they had erected figures of male figures and female figures to represent the gods, whom they regarded as having utterly evenly-shared roles and power.

Another and a more important point, is that it was never intended that the Atlantean people should disappear completely, and in fact there are classical Greek texts which lay down some of the names of those families who survived.

The 'flying dresses of Santorini.'
Look it up online, if you don't
believe me.

Interestingly, many of these families make up the traditional founder families of the Republic of Venice - who also 'voted themselves out of existence on a single night' when Napoleon entered their city-state.

The self-destruction, or apparent self-destruction of otherworldly identities is of course contained in the Christian story, but again, this is another story whose underlying intentions and future expectations are not at all described in the modern narratives.

For example, there is the famous scene in which the main figure states that He will not ever again drink from the fruit of the vine, until He drinks again with all of his friends...

But that is not exactly, not precisely, what the text wording in its original Greek actual says.

It says: "I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until I drink it 'kainon...' with you all again when the Kingdom of my Father (again this appealing to some divine ancestry) comes."

Kainon does not mean 'new' as in the simplistic way most of the translations say 'new wine;' it means novel, and unprecedented.

Unlike the moral lesson implication of the destruction of Atlantis, in which the events were on account of the bad behavior of its rulers, the religious wine rite story is to do with something new and good -, but so good that it is unprecedentedly good!

There are Atlanteans still around in the world that you know today. These individuals are well-aware of the destruction of humans which is made inevitable in certain circumstances. 

But they are also well-aware of the moral lesson implications of the benevolently new and unprecedented - because that was the whole point of calling down the intervention of the gods onto their own society when it had turned away from its previous - as Plato calls it - noble nature.

What became of the Venetians who 'disappeared' themselves as rulers of their own state during the time of Napoleon? They had committed no crime on their own account and were merely choosing to hide themselves from the violence of Napoleon and the spirit of the age that he brought with him. Unlike in the tragedy of Atlantis they were not at all 'wiped out' as such.

The original owner of the Chateau Margaux and its estates and wineries, Elie du Barry, was executed in the French Revolution.

It is wise to 'disappear' from injustice and violence but certainly, it is not always easy a thing to do.

As the world proceeds towards a very full and final destruction, perhaps it may be that those who have long endured all of the vicissitudes of human history, will 'evidence themselves' to some...

Because it shall not be that everyone is destroyed. Just that most will be.

Some of you, may survive. And you will need powerful friends.