User:Firecircle

Hello everyone! I am an AT&T retiree who has spent most of his spare time looking for surviving indicators of the one-time existence of Atlantis. I have lectured and written books and scientific papers on the subject, and now for the last few years I have been maintaining a website on the subject called Quest for Atlantis.

In my younger days I enjoyed hot rodding and drag racing, but as I got older I began to jump at every oppertunity to travel the world in search of what I call "The Vestiges of Atlantis". Although trained in anthropology and archeology, I am somewhat of a "renegade" scholar (a diffusionist, heaven forbid). Do I dare compare myself with Graham Hancock or Barry Fell? Whatever.

I have always had an interest in linguistics and the Indo-European family of languages in general, and have enjoyed my studies in that field. When I got deeply into study on Atlantis, I found I should have been studying Basque (Euskara), Berber and Welch instead of Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. However, the Sanskrit studies did open up some possibilities into the Hindu epic literature, which has added to the Atlantis picture. (People seem to be unaware that the originators of that literature once lived in central Europe--not far from the areas once occupied by the Atlanteans.)

Having a website, I am trying to familiarize myself with the computer world and the internet. My main problem with this is, I hate to "read the book" and often get into trouble. I hope I am well accepted as a Wikibook user, and possible contributor. Firecircle 05:47, 19 November 2007 (UTC)