There is a beautifully written passage on the submerged continent and city Atlantis to be found in Jules Verne's famous novel published in French in 1869/1870. The English translation of the chapter is available online. For simplicity reasons I simply copy the link to...
Waves are a popular element in Japanese arts and crafts, particularly in the many wood carvings from the 19. century, like the famous "Great Wave" (around 1830) by Hokusai. Here is an example, a small saucer from a random Asian food store in Germany: In an...
English-American painter Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) created a series of five images depicting the rise and the destruction of an imaginary coastal city. The series is entitled "The Course of Empire". Above, the fourth painting depicts the catastrophe and destruction of...
A fairy tale as collected by the Brothers Grimm: A little louse and a little flea kept house together. They were brewing beer in an eggshell when the little louse fell in and burned herself to death. At this the little flea began to cry loudly. Then the little parlor...
There is an optical phenomenon called looming in which objects at sea appear to be floating in the air above water level. In Spring 2021 such an image photographed went viral online. (click n the image for article.) Apparently this phenomenon was well known throughout...
This is the version from Ludwig Bechsteins collection of German Legends from 1853: Bei der Insel Usedom ist eine Stelle im Meere, eine halbe Meile von der Stadt gleichen Namens, da ist eine große, reiche und schöne Stadt versunken, die hieß Vineta. Sie war ihrer Zeit...
Japanese culture has a long history of natural disasters, mostly earth quakes. Also the so called Triple-Disaster of 2011 was caused by an earthquake, which caused a Tsunami and then the explosions at the Fukushima atomic plant. In Japanese culture the catfish...
Painting of the Goldauer Bergsturz by at the time sixteen year old Swiss artist David Alois Schmid (1791 - 1861). It depicts the massive landslide that completely destroyed the town Goldau in the Swiss mountains.
Gédéon Reverdin: Étude dessinée d'après le tableau d'une Scène de Déluge peint par A.L. Girodet (1828). Here is the original painting by Girodet from 1806.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnDxZsxHzdw "Le roi d'Ys" is an opera by French composer Édouard Lalo (1823 – 1892), to a libretto by Édouard Blau, based on the old Breton legend of the drowned city of Ys (assumed geographical location).
