Atlantis, The Antediluvian World

me Greek traditions point to "this locality-particularly the expression me'ropes

at the people who inha

the peopl

ll us that the ocean is named after the mountains of A

top of the head. (Molina, "Vocab. en lengua Mexicana y Castellana.") From this comes a series of words, such as atlan-on the border of or amid the water-from which we have the adjective Atlantic. We have also atla?a, to combat, or be in agony; it means likewise to hurl or dart fro

lantis and the Atlanti

n of Poseidon, the f

it that we find it in the most north-western corner of Africa? And how does it happen that in the time of Herodotus there dwelt near this mountain-chain a people called the Atlantes, probably a remnant of a colony from Solon's island? How comes it that the people of the Barbary State

t of Africa; an Aztec people from Aztlan, in Central America; an ocean rolling between the two worlds called the "Atlantic;" a mythological deity ca

s to the whole opposite continent that surrounds that real sea." He calls it a real sea, as contradistinguished fro

d" the ocean in a great half-circle. Could Plato have guessed all this? If there had been no Atlantis, and no series of voyages from it that revealed the half-circle of the continent from Newfoundland to Cape St. Roche, how could Plato have guessed it? And how could he h

Europe, who have no lingual affinities with any other race on the contin

he country which is still called the region of Gades in that part of the world." Gades is the Cadiz of today, and the dominion of Gadeirus

ring to the Basqu

egun, day; and belhaur, the knee, from belhar, front, and oin, leg.... The fact is indisputable, and is eminently noteworthy, that while the affinities of the Basque roots have never been conclusively elucidated, there has never been any doubt that this is

can understand how the Basques could have passed from one continent to another; but if the wide Atlantic rolled at all

cted by themselves as red men on their own monuments? And, on the other hand, how c

h American Review for December, 1880, photographs of a number of idols exhumed at S

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Plongeo

of people with small heads, thick lips, and curly short hair or wool, regarded as negroes. 'We always se

the Palace of Palenque, figured by St

d near the volcano of Tuxtla, in the Mexican State of Ver

tence of a land connection between America and Africa via Atlantis, as revealed by the deep-sea soundings of the Challenger, or commercial relations between Am

d the rising of the sun, and prayed to the Heart of Heaven." (Bancroft's "Native Races," p. 547.) How did the red men of Central America know anything about "black men and white men?" The conclusion seems inevitable that these legends of a primitive, peaceful, and happy land, an Aztlan in the East, inhabited by black and white men, to which all the civilized nations of America traced their origin, could only refer

y different populations. Such are the Charruas, of Brazil, the Black Carribees of Saint Vincent, in the Gulf of Mexico; the Jamassi of Florida, and the dark-complexi

ns that point to Atlantis. We hear of no civilization coming to the Mediterranean from Asia, Africa, or Europe-from north, south, or west; but north, south, east, and west we find civilization radiating from the Mediterranean

of an older civilization, whose ships colonized its shores, as they did also the shores of America. P

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ablished themselves in all the lands now inhabited by the Caucasian race. Their territories extend from the Atlantic to the Ganges, and from Iceland to Ceylon, and are bordered on the north and east by the Asiatic Mongols, and on the south by the negro tribes of Central

n Atlantis modern civilization could not have existed. The inventive faculty of the present age

in Europe without Atlantis? It is an intrusive race; a race

claims to have discovered or developed them, and it has been impossible to trace them to their wild originals. Out of the whole flora of the world mankind in the last seven thousand years has not developed a single food-plant to compare in importance to the human family with these. If a wise

list of cities in Armenia Major in A.D. 140, the names of five cities wh

ol-ula | +---------+---------------+ | Colua. | Colua-can. | +---------+---------------+ | Zuivana. | Zuivan. | +-------

Americans of Ant

es are occasionally discovered in the caves of Teneriffe?" Dr. Merritt deems the axe or chisel heads dug up at Chiriqui, Central America, "almost identical in form as well as material with specimens found in Suffolk County, Engla

found on the shores of Lake Superior; and this has led M. Bertholet, the historiographer of the Canary Islands, to conclude that

early related to the Guanches in the Canary Islands, and to the Atlantic populations of Africa, the Moors, Tuaricks, Copts, etc., which Latham comprises under the name of Egyptian-Atlantid?. We find one and the same form of skull in th

the isles of Greece before the Pelasgi, and antedated the Phoenicians in the control of the sea. The Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg claims that these

have already alluded in a preceding chapter, to wit, the embalming of the body of the dead man, with a purpose

sed of an organized and influential priesthood, to

of the soul; and this implies a belief in rewards a

e body, and its resurrection from the grave o

tions hold to these beliefs; they must supplement these with a determination that the body shall not perish; that t

slight indeed. The doctrine of chances is all against it. There is here no common necessity driving men to the same expedient, with which so many resemblances have been explained; the practice is a religious ceremon

d nowhere else, we have certainly furnished evidence which can only be explained by admitting the existence of Atlantis, and of some great r

ds, supposed to be a remnant of the Atlantea

their dead in such vast multitudes that they are now exported by the

pians, the Persians, the Greeks, and

Peruvians, the Central Americans, the Mexicans, and

m, reaching through a belt of nations, and comple

ranean races look to the ocean as the

gin of gods and

The ancients always alluded to the ocean as a river encircling the earth, as in the map of Cosmos (see page 95 ante); probably a reminiscence of the great canal described

ereids with the

a-green sister

of Poseidon in Atlantis with th

e was a general destruction, caused by the sleep of Brahma, whence his creatures, in different worlds, were drowned in a vast ocean.... A holy king, named Satyavrata, then reigned, a servant of the spirit which moved on the waves" (Poseidon?), "and so devout that water was his only sustenance.... In seven days the three w

the flood-gates of heaven," and seems to repeat precisely th

lsh triads, "Hu the mighty," is found in the Hu-nap-bu, the hero-god of the Quiches; in Hu-napu, a hero-god; and in Hu-hu-nap-hu, in Hu-ncam, in Hu-nbatz, semi-divine heroes of the Quiches. The Phoenician deity El "was subdivided into a number of hypostases called the Baalim, seco