David Block on The Day the Demiurge Destroyed Atlantis

Summary

David Block presents a narrated, illustrated story about Vineta, the legendary sunken 'Atlantis of the Baltic', loosely built on Selma Lagerlöf's children's classic The Wonderful Adventure of Nils. In his telling, Vineta was a free, multi-ethnic node of a Tartarian-Atlantean energy grid that the Demiurge and its 'wardens' destroyed in 1170, while a Templar guide reveals a hidden chain of Gnostic knowledge running from Alexandria to Constantinople. It is the first part of a planned trilogy that will go on to cover the destruction of Atlantis around 10,500 BC and a farewell to Tartaria.

Key takeaways

• 1Block claims Vineta (also linked to Jumne, Jomsborg and Wolin) was destroyed in 1170, at the same time as Visby's sudden wealth and the founding of the Cistercian Roma Abbey on Gotland (1164).
• 2Pomeranian legends say Swedes from Gotland salvaged Vineta's treasures and carried its gates to Visby. Folklore collectors Jodocus Deodatus Temme and Alfred Haas are cited.
• 3Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis (c. 1075) calls Jumne 'the greatest of all cities which Europe contains.'
• 4Selma Lagerlöf's The Wonderful Adventure of Nils (1906-1907), commissioned as a school geography reader, is presented as hiding esoteric clues. Lagerlöf won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 5In the story, a Templar claims the order found 'Archon technology' beneath Jerusalem in 1119, and that knowledge saved from the Library of Alexandria passed through Gondishapur to Constantinople before the Fourth Crusade, backed by Venice's 'black nobility', sacked the city in 1204.
• 6The 10th-century traveler Ibrahim ibn Yaqub is portrayed as a Córdoban spy whose reports about Vineta allegedly led to its targeting by 'warden' control centers in Córdoba, Rome and Byzantium.

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Excerpt from Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, Sep 25, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.