sanskrit was the first alphabet

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If we wish to take this line of extrapolation further, I would suggest that these Sanskrit speaking Anatolians may have been forced to relocate due to the expansion of the Semetic (Hebrew based) speaking Akkadian Empire into Anatolia. If this is the case they may have sailed to the then uninhabited island of Crete to set up a new society which flourished into the Minoan civilization (which I hypothesized in an earlier post in this thread also spoke Sanskrit). Tragically the Minoan civilization ended in flood (well tsunami) as well.

It seems like the Atlanteans were followed by water wherever they went, then, based on what you are saying or conjecturing!

The following from the website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32086737/ns/...Djn5KDCrEx

Lost city of the Incas remains a mystery


In 1911, U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham scrambled up a steep mountain side in southern Peru and encountered an ancient city of sorts beneath the undergrowth. The site, Machu Picchu, is popularly known as the Lost City of the Incas. What exactly the city was, however, remains a mystery. Scholars have variously theorized it was the birthplace of the Incas, a private estate, and a spiritual destination. Prior to Bingham's encounter, the city was lost to the jungle for about 500 years.

Could Machu Picchu possibly be the location of Atlantean settlement in Peru? There is some more interesting information here that could be pertinent too -- http://sacredsites.com/americas/peru/machu_picchu.html

While I am a lot more well versed in the history of the Mediterranean region, I have always found Machu Picchu a fascinating site. That said, I am fairly ignorant on the subject. While reading through that sacredsites.com article one thing that jumped out at me, and might provide a link between the culture that thrived at Machu Picchu and other possible Atlantean refugee cultures, is the concept of the Intihuatana stone which, when touched with the forehead, opened one to the spirit world.

A similar phenomena is found in Minoan towns, many of which had sacred stones referred to as baetyls. There are many depictions on Minoan seal stones of the use of the baetyl, which seems to involve the person 'hugging' the stone and being shown visions of the Goddess, possibly a Minoan version of Hathor. The use of the baetyl in minoan culture is often paired with the worship of trees, as we see on this Minoan signet stone:



It should be noted however that the name Baetyl is Hebraic in origin and that the minoans likely used a different, possibly sanskrit name for these stones. Consider the story of Jacob, where he sleeps using a stone named the Beth El as a pillow and is shown a vision of God. Beth El translates as 'House of God.' Baetyl stones show up ALL OVER the Mediterranean world from the Phoenicians to the Hebrews to the Greeks to the Romans, though the Greeks only had one and they named it the Omphalos, meaning the 'navel' and they considered it the navel of the world. While there is no direct evidence for this claim, I don't see why this practice couldn't have started in the region of Anatolia during the Neolithic and spread along with Indo-Aryan culture.

I think that it is fairly obvious that baetyl stones are a stand-in for the pineal gland, given their general shape and usage. And while the development of the Intihuatana stones in South America might have been a completely independent development, I find it interesting that two such similar practices could develop in such geographically disparate regions.

Phew, I don't know if this line of comparison is useful, but I do love thinking about this kind of thing