ATLANTIS, TRUTH OR FICTION?

Somehow I had the impression this grouper was having a chuckle peering at the throngs of tourists who had paid $45 a pop for the privilege of wandering through its aquarium home; a very nice display in the Atlantis complex, Nassau, Bahamas.

Our tour guide proclaimed folks could rent an overnight suite, "...up there in the archway between the towers for $2,500 per night--four night minimum!."

Those accommodations are in the slot between the two tallest buildings (left)

The attraction is opulent indeed, evidently prepared to meet the most critical demands of a pampered public with sufficient means for such things.  Guests arriving through the main entrance are treated to this
massive and ornate entry:

I suspect some shrink would find my tipsy composition of the entry a reflection of my mood; knowing full-well this incredibly ostentatious complex is really attempting to capitalize on a fiction born in the writings of Plato about 300 years BC.

The story of Atlantis begins quite literally with two of Plato's dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.  These accounts are the only known written records which refer specifically to a lost civilization called Atlantis.  In other words, the compelling story of this lost city is purely a fiction, regardless of presentations posing as factual, such as this massive creation residing on Paradise Island, Nassau.

Mythology is marvelous but I have a problem with folks presenting fiction as fact in the raw pursuit of profit.