In this article we will try to demonstrate that the characteristics, geographical and otherwise, attributed by Plato to the mythical island of Atlantis actually correspond to those of Greenland, the vast island located in the North Atlantic. Not only that: these characteristics, in particular its strategic geographical position combined with its mineral wealth, explain the interest of global powers such as the United States, China and Russia.
The article presents the results of a study aimed at finding a logical solution to a famous riddle from the Book of Revelation:
“Here is wisdom. He that has understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six".
Revelation proposes this riddle at the conclusion of an episode in which a great, evil dragon appears in the sky and persecutes a pregnant woman, but is thrown to Earth by Michael, then two demonic beasts appear.
In this article, aimed at identifying the real location of the mythical Pillars of Hercules, it is first verified that in the works of Plutarch and Plato there are correct references to a continent beyond the Atlantic Ocean. Plutarch mentions a “great continent” surrounding the Atlantic Ocean and the islands that lie on that route, and then focuses on an ancient settlement of Europeans, called "continental Greeks", in the Canadian region of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, of which he indicates the latitude with astonishing precision.
The first mention of the famous ‘Sword in the Stone’ of the Arthurian tradition is found in Robert de Boron’s Merlin, a medieval French poem, part of the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail cycle of French romances also known as the Vulgate Cycle
Biblical Samson challenged his wedding guests with a riddle: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet”. The simple answer is Samson was referring to a swarm of bees which had made a honeycomb inside the carcass of a lion he had previously torn apart with his bare hands in Timnah. But there is a deeper metaphor to be mined, using a metallurgical key, in the light of archaeological discoveries in the Timnah Valley (southern Israel), of an Egyptian shrine associated with ancient copper mines.
Over centuries explorers as well as ethnologists noting the myths, legends, customs and folklore of the cultures native to the Pacific Ocean islands, have accumulated enough evidence to attest to contact between the ancient Greek world and the Polynesians.
