The Mystery Sphere of Athens: Is This Sphere the Only Remaining Relic of an Atlantean Era Civilization?

By Alan V. Gordon

When is a mystery truly mysterious?
This was the thought that ran through my
puzzled mind, when I first saw the magic
sphere of Helios, exhibited at the new
Acropolis Museum in Athens.
Why is this antiquity so terribly understated?
Were the museum authorities trying to tell
the visitor to move on and not to waste their
valuable time looking at this particular exhibit?
I was completely fascinated by the strange
symbols and inscriptions, together with the
statue of liberty lookalike, all covering the
entire surface of the marble sphere.
My fingers had automatically reached into my
camera bag, pulling out my trusty old camera.
Within less than a minute I had taken
more than a dozen shots of this truly magical
globe, covered with what I perceived to be
sacred geometric symbolism.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jul 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514497357

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Contents

Prologue

Chapter One: The Prehistoric Civilizations that flourished and disappeared

Chapter Two: The difficult search for more information about the Sphere

Chapter Three: The Sphere and Solar cult worship in the Ancient World

Chapter Four: Epigraphical analysis of the meanings of the spheres and inscriptions

Chapter Five: Sphere as a Magical Monument

Chapter Six: The concept of the Sun God

Chapter Seven: The Unknown and very Advanced Prehistoric World

Chapter Eight: Signs and Symbols as Magical Information

Chapter Nine: Comparison with other Proto-Hellenic Civilizations

Chapter Ten: Concluding Remarks

Prologue

When is a mystery truly mysterious? This was the thought that ran through my puzzled mind, when I first saw the magic sphere of Helios, exhibited at the new Acropolis Museum in Athens.

Why is this antiquity so terribly understated? Were the museum authorities trying to tell the visitor to move on and not to waste their valuable time looking at this particular exhibit? I was completely fascinated by the strange symbols and inscriptions, together with the statue of liberty lookalike, all covering the entire surface of the marble sphere.

My fingers had automatically reached into my camera bag, pulling out my trusty old camera. Within less than a minute I had taken more than a dozen shots of this truly magical globe, covered with what I perceived to be sacred geometric symbolism.

Why was there so little information written on the display card placed in front of the sphere? This beautiful, but battered object with its unintelligible inscriptions and a representation of a strange looking figure, much like the famous statue of liberty.

The obvious antiquity of the item and its mysterious presentation to my mind necessitated that much more information should have been provided by the museum authorities and the numerous archaeologists’ employed at the world’s second most famous antiquity site.

Having taken the photos, I went to look for an official in the museum, who I thought might be able to shed some further light on this unique object situated among all the wealth of statues and artefacts of the Parthenon. Yet the more people I asked, the more blank were the stares that greeted me, until finally at the entrance hall, a young and obviously motivated lady pointed out to me where the archaeological department could be found, across the courtyard, housed in the old museum building.

Feeling much like a detective stumbling onto his first clue, I finally found myself knocking on the door of the learned specialists of the Archaeology department.

After a long silence, the door swung open and I was greeted by a somewhat bemused and jovial lady who ushered me