The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-26

some of the most eminent of the
worlds geologists-the question of its
destruction arises. What occasioned
catastrophe which swept out of ex-
istence not only vast continent but
also a civilization well advanced, even
if not, as the traditions of antiquity
imply, superior to our own? In an
swer to this question the Thomasson
hypothesis turns for the moment from
oceanography to astronomy:
About 1880 years ago, as the fig
ures have been handed down to us by
the Egyptian priests, figures appro-
Ximately confirmed by modern geolo-
gical estimates Independently made
and without thought of any connection
between the two events, at one of
the expected recurrent periods of the
falling stars, VIXEN probably the Pleia-
des were at their midnight culmina-
ton, a star-shower came from their
direction, and among, or probably pre-
ceding the multitude of smaller stars,
there came a great one, a meteoric
body that might have been 100 to 300
miles or more in diameter. 1t struck
and shattered Atlantis. 1t passed
through the atmosphere into the white
hot interior of the globe. There, sud-
denly stopped, as a physical conse-
quence, it's momentum was converted
into tremendous heat and terrific ex-
pansive force-far more violent than
dynamite or any explosive substance
that we know anything about I'm
der the unrealizable internal pressure
thus suddenly created, all the weak
places on the globe gave way; the
eartn was fairly shattered in places
and all the great mountain chains
were either then formed or greatly en-
| larged or uplifted. In the Himalayas,
tertiary formations were raised to an
! altitude of 10000 feet, and in the Alps,
10000 feet. Earthquakes occurred all
over the earth, terrible ones. Our
| North American Indians tell how the
| ground rolIed like the pillows of the
ocean and now they fled in terror. 1t
was, probably, one of these earth
quakes that swallowed up the victo-
rious Athenian army after its con-
quest of the Atlanteans. Revelation
tells how a great star fell from hea-
tells how a great star fell from hea-
ven, the size of a great mountain,
burning like lamp, how it opened
up the bottomless pit, whence a great
smoke arose, as from great furnace,
darkening the atmosphere and blot
ting out the sun, the moon and the
stars. In our Western States, in
Greenland and In India, there are
great basaltic overflows that probably
occurred at this time. The Chaldeans
tell how the spirits of the earth lifted
up their torches, indicating volcanic
activity; and Mexican tradition says
the red rocks came up out of the
ground, the red-hot molten rocks, un'
doubtedly, of the earth's interior"
From the great vent hole of the shat
tered island of Atlantis, probably a
thousand miles in circumference, vol
canic fire, dust and smoke and lava
must have shot forth, storming the
high heavens-a volcanic activity such
as before or since no human being has
ever dreamed of or witnessed, com
pared with which the great explosion
that blew off the whole top of the vol
cano Krakatoa was as nothing. Thirty
to fifty miles would not be an exces'
sive estimate of it's height. 1t would
spread like a fountain in every direc'
ton from its center of propulsion
The great island, as one tradition
says, rose and fell, rose and fell again
leaped twice from it's foundations and
collapsed into the bosom of the deep
carrying millions of human beings into
humiliation.
In this white, hot center of the
world, through the great submarine
crater at Atlantis, the oceans must
have poured ten thousand Niagaras
to be expanded instantly into high
pressure steam or possibly resolved
in part by the terrific heat into the
> elements of oxygen and hydrogen, tC
be hurled forth, to again unite in the