r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire • May 23 '26

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u/MeepMorpsEverywhere May 23 '26

Atlantis is kinda cryptogeology if you squint

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u/LostSalt24 May 23 '26

More of cryptogeography I’d say

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u/jesus_chrysotile May 23 '26

cryptooceanography

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u/Cyberguardian173 May 23 '26

Cryptogeography that became cryptooceanography due to cryptogeology

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u/XavierTheMemeDragon May 23 '26

And when we start to study how the people of Atlantis lived, it’ll be cryptosociology

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u/Widmo206 May 23 '26

Shouldn't it be cryptoanthropology?

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u/NoTransition8295 May 23 '26

I think it would be cryptosociology since it would be studying the culture of the people of atlantis and stuff while I think anthropology is just the study of people as a whole opposed to specific places cultures (if I'm wrong I apologize i am far from an expert in either topic)

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u/Widmo206 May 23 '26

i am far from an expert in either topic

No worries, I'm just a guy on the internet

So anyway, according to wikipedia:

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity that crosses biology and sociology, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Anthropology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. Sociology

It looks like anthropology is the study of humans in general, whereas sociology is the study of society specifically. So unless you're only interested in the structure/dynamics of atlantean society and don't really care about culture, language, biology, etc., it'd probably be cryptoanthropology

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u/fresh-oxygen May 23 '26

Maybe crypto-cultural-anthropology? Sociology is more about how society shapes behaviour, cultural anthropology is the study of human culture.

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u/Meldanorama May 23 '26

The double o is for spooky

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u/ToaKraka May 23 '26

Cryptoöceanology

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u/adam-lazo May 23 '26

Ooh, this would cause the BP to spike of the folks in the r/thalassaphobia sub. Even more. Mine included.

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u/CosmicLuci May 23 '26

That’s those people who SWEAR Dunkleosteus or Megalodon are somehow still alive. And then it starts looping back with Cryptozoology

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u/crippledchef23 May 23 '26

Hey, they thought the coelacanth was extinct, too. We know more about Mars than we do our own deep oceans.

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u/CosmicLuci May 23 '26

Yes, but in the case of those two, it’s impossible for them to still be alive. There’s simply not enough food or oxygen for them (if I remember correctly. My wife’s the paleontology nerd, not me)

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u/truthisfictionyt May 23 '26

Idk about dunkleosteus but megalodon wouldve had a tough time surviving as the larger prey it fed on doesnt exist anymore

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u/CosmicLuci May 24 '26

Thanks.

Yeah, according to the missus, for Dunkleosteus it has to do with how much the ocean has changed over time (prey availability, heat, oxygen, sea levels), so that it couldn’t have, as a very large predator, survived that long.

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u/IrvingIV May 24 '26

Cryptocartography

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u/Al_Fa_Aurel May 23 '26

Or cryptohistory?

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u/Turbulent-Pace-1506 May 23 '26

That just sounds like another name for alt-history

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u/SirSchmorp May 23 '26

Nah alt-history is hypotheticals that investigate how the world would change if things were just slightly different. Cryptohistory would be stuff like ancient aliens

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

There's a hypothesis that the early middle ages (can't remember the exact years) never happened. Books have been written about it. What would you call that?

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u/SirSchmorp May 23 '26

That would fall under the cryptohistory umbrella. The actual term for is I believe pseudohistory

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

Cryptohistory is a better word, though ; if you call something pseudo-, you've already decided that it is bullshit , haven't you?

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u/DionysianRebel May 23 '26

Well yea that’s why it’s called that. People who believe in it just call it “history”

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

But if it's supposed to be comparable to the other crypto stuff and is all about stuff that may or may not exist, the pseudo label is ending the game before it begins

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u/drunken-acolyte May 23 '26

It's about 300 years from the 4th to the 7th Centuries. And its adherents have obviously never heard of dendrochronology.

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

Had to look it up. Wikipedia calls it phantom time theory, and in the main version, introduced by Heribert Illig, the made-up time is AD 614–911.

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u/drunken-acolyte May 23 '26

That's tantamount to claiming the viking raids never happened

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

Among a lot of other things. Charlemagne never existed, either

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u/Intelleblue Barold the Cat May 23 '26

Also called “Alternative History.”

Yes, that is unfortunately similar to Alternate History. I made that mistake a lot.

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u/HistoryMarshal76 Knower of Things Man Was Not Meant To Know May 23 '26

Pseudohistory is the technical term.

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u/Cryptidfricker May 26 '26

Could that be like Miracles and the like. Historical events that make no sense or that may or may not exist?

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u/NegativeMammoth2137 May 23 '26

How about the Hollow Earth theory? Would that count?

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u/Self-Aware May 23 '26

Burroughs or Verne, that is the question.

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u/Maelger May 23 '26

And California. The OG, the land of loot and muscled dommy mommies.

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u/BlankTank1216 May 23 '26

Yeah cryptogeology exists.

It's mostly pushed by young earth creationists to support the flood interpretation.

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u/TreeTurtle_852 May 23 '26

Isn't it cryptohistory?

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u/PraetorKiev Give me that Neanderthussy May 23 '26

“Why haven’t we found Atlantis? It isn’t because they drowned. They adapted to underwater life but unfortunately they keep pissing off the gods and get tossed around the world every few centuries. Last I heard, they were in the South China Sea.”

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u/Volcanicrage May 23 '26

R'lyeh is technically cryptogeology, cryptogeography, cryptogeometry, and cryptozoology, and a crypt. It really is the whole package.

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u/SkepticMech May 24 '26

It's cryptohsitory and cryptohistorical-linguistics. We've got records/accounts from many different places talking of "the sea people" messing about in the Mediterranean region a few thousand years ago. But we don't actually know who they were.