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5 min readThe Basque Bloodline | Descendants of Atlantis
Around 360 BC, Plato wrote down a story that even his own audience found hard to believe. He didn't claim to have invented it. The story came from the Greek statesman Solon, who heard it from Egyptian priests. They said their records, going back thousands of years further than Greek history, described a great civilization in the Atlantic Ocean—an island empire that disappeared in a single day and night, 9,000 years before Solon heard the story. Plato described mountains ringing the island, a capital built in concentric circles of land and sea, a navy of 1,200 warships, and walls covered in orichalcum—a rare red metal almost as valuable as gold. The island was called Atlantis.
Today, a people called the Basques live in a small region between Spain and France. They look like everyone else. But their genes match nobody else in Europe. Their language, Euskera, has no relatives anywhere on Earth. And in that language, they still have a word for their ancestral homeland: Atlantica.
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- 1 The Basque Bloodline | Descendants of Atlantis
- 2 Main Outline
- 3 (01:19) **The Mystery of the Basque People** - The Basques live between Spain and France, but their genes match nobody else in Europe; science says they developed in isolation, but the Basques claim their homeland was destroyed thousands of years ago and they call it Atlantica
- 4 (03:28) **Plato's Account of Atlantis** - Around 360 BC, Plato wrote a story he didn't invent—the Greek statesman Solon heard it from Egyptian priests who described a great island empire that disappeared 9,000 years earlier in a single day and night
- 5 (05:59) **The Bull Ritual of the Ten Kings** - A dramatized scene of the ten kings of Atlantis gathering for the winter solstice contest where they must capture a bull alive using only their hands, no metal allowed
- 6 (08:34) **The RH Negative Blood Mystery** - One in three Basques is RH negative, double the rest of Europe and five times the world average, and this blood trait can cause mothers to reject their own children as a different species
- 7 (10:44) **The Divine Blood Connection** - Basque mythology says the weather god Mari lived among the people, and Plato wrote that Poseidon had children with a mortal woman on Atlantis; every ancient culture tells the same story of gods mixing blood with humans
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