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The hollow earth theories are actually a lot more embedded in human history than people realise, for example 'Shangri-La' is a phrase that most people will reco
by NikkiA 7y ago
The hollow earth theories are actually a lot more embedded in human history than people realise, for example 'Shangri-La' is a phrase that most people will recognise, and is an alternative name for the Kingdom/City of Shambahala myth at the basis of this expedition. The myth also mutated into a competing form as 'Agartha' which is said to be a large internal kingdom protected by many mythical beasts that inhabit the caves of Tibet.
Verne's novel is mostly based on the Agartha version of the myth.
- yters 7y agoThe Odyssey, a couple of Plato's dialogues, The Aeneid, Dante's Inferno, and the Bible speak of a land of the dead that is within the earth. Probably based on the older cosmology that associated the elements with moral status of souls. Bad = earthy = go down. Good = fire = go up. In the earth is down, in the heavens is up. Souls go somewhere when the body dies, so bad souls go down into the earth and good souls go up into the heavens with the stars. Also the reason for earth centered universes. Not because ancient thinkers thought humans were so great, but because they thought humans were so bad. Saying the earth (ball of dirt and badness) orbits the Sun (ball of fire and goodness) made no sense in that context.