Challenge?

Well, where shall we begin? Atlantis, of course, right where Plato said it would be. An advanced race of humans with immense power existed there until one day, a giant comet streaked westward across the sky making content with the 1 mile+-thick sheet of ice overlaying what are now the Great Lakes. Ice was spewed into the air for hundreds of miles creating a debris field of "bays" where the ice landed and melted. Much of the energy was transferred to the ice, but some of it impacted the ground, creating a pulse that ignited wildfires all over North America. All major megafauna in the northern hemisphere died either in the initial blast or of starvation in the year-round winters that followed before the dust finally settled. The rapid loss of ice on the continent caused a massive tectonic shift and Atlantis sank beneath the waves.

Survivors of the great catastrophe made their way to land whereever they could and we pick up the trail in Asia minor (Turkey) where the first settled cities may be found, all strangely buried by immense hills of soil (tepes). But, they were not the only survivors. Atlantis had been a seafaring nation and survivors made their way to Europe, North America, North Africa, and South America. We have records in their pagan traditions of their messenger gods and tales of a great flood.

Fast forward 6,000 or so years, and we pick up the tale again with the Sons of Abraham. Yes, the Jews... (and it should be easy enough to link to about 100 other theories from there!)

And thusly, my creative writing exercise of the day is complete with this simple introduction to esoterica. Challenge: 2ez.