Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World

it approaches at one point, by its connecting ridge, quite closely to the shore of South A

Amazon and its tributaries; and, passing by the low and fever-stricken lands of Brazil, it rested not until it had reached t

d founding Aryan, Hamitic, and probably Turanian colonies on the farther shores of the Black Sea and on the Caspian. This is the universal empire over which, the Hindoo books tell us, Deva Nahusha was ruler; this was "the great and aggressive empire" to which Plato alludes; this was the mighty kingdom, embracing the whole of the then known world, from which the

hat preserved in the four tribal names of Athens." The laboring class (naturally enough in a new colony) obtained the supremacy, and its leader was named Pirhua-manco, revealer of Pir, light (p[~u]r, Umbrian pir). Do the laws which control the changes of language, by which a labial succeeds a labial, indicate that the Mero or Merou of Theopompus, the name of Atlantis, was carried by the colonists of Atlantis to South America (as

the Peruvian colonists,

nn, and the Santhal Ma

are found at the beginni

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even auburn hair; they had regular features, large heads, and large bodies. Their descendants are

tion as England in the sixteenth century held to the civilization of the empire of the C?sars. The Incas were simply an offshoot

iards arrived, "was a populous and prosperous empire, complete in its civil organization, supported by an efficient system of indust

. "In this place, also," says De Leon, "there are stones so large and so overgrown that our wonder is excited, it being incomprehensible how the power of man could have placed them where we see them. They are variously wrought, and some of them, having the form of men, must have been idols. Near the walls are many caves and exca

alaces arise on every hand, ruined but still traceable. Immense pyramidal structures, some of them half a mile in circuit; vast areas shut in by massive walls, each containing its water-tank, its shops, municipal edifices, and the dwellings of its inhabitants, and each a branch of a larger organization; prisons, f

caca. The buildings here, as throughout Peru, were all constructed of hewn

0 broad, and 150 high, constituting a solid mass with a level summit. On this mass was another 600 feet long, 500 broa

ga, and described by Cie?a de Leon. The native traditions said this city was built "by beard

ement, and making them very substantial." One extended four hundred and fifty miles across sierras and o

or leagues through the rock; great ravines were filled up with solid masonry; rivers were crossed by suspension bridges, used here ages before their introduction into Europe. Says Baldwin, "The builders of our Pacific Railroad, with their superior engineering skill and mechanical appliances, might reasonably shrink from the cost and the difficulties of such a work as this. Extending from one degree north of Quito to Cuzco, and from Cuzco to Chili, it was quite as long as the two Pacific railroads, and its wild route among t

nsaries were established for t

thousands of years before the time of the Incas. When Huayna Capac marched his army over the main road to invade Quito, it was

thing previously known in the history of the world. In the course of twenty-five years after the Conquest the Spaniards sent from Peru to Spain more than eight hundred millions of dollars of gold, nearly all of it taken from the Peruvians as "booty." In one of their palaces "they had an artificial garden, the soil of which was made of small pieces of fine gold, and this was artificially planted with diff

ubtless, like the Peruvians, its people regarded the precious metals as sacred to their gods; and they had been accumulating them from all parts of the world for countless ages. If the story of Plato is true, there now lies beneath the waters of the Atlantic, covered, doubtle

the Old and New Worlds, some of the remarkable coincidences which existed between the

ped the sun, mo

in the immortal

rrection of the body, and ac

als offered in sacrifice, and, like the Roman a

l virgins-nuns; and a violation of their vow was puni

d the year int

ecades and hundreds, like the Anglo-Saxons; and the whole nation

the trade of the father desc

minstrels, who sung

e as those of the Old World, a

toasts and in

ir returning heroes, and strewed the ro

used seda

f the nation, and held great agricultural fairs and festi

t celebration, and, like the kings of Egypt, he put h

ckled on the European knight; he was then allowed to use the girdle or sash around the loins, corresponding to the toga virilis of the Romans; he was th

World. It is enough for me to quote Mr. Ferguson's words, that the coincidence between the buildings of the Incas and the

VASES, TR

ge 397 strikingly confi

osely resemble what is found in the old Pelasgic cities of Greece and Italy, that it

laces and temples finds a parallel i

ace, with its walls covered with gold, as described by Spaniards, with its artificial golden flowe

s were fra

th the brazen

ers, which wi

framed; the ring

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and g

"that a study of ancient Peruvian pottery has constantly reminde

oy, found a number of what he calls "owl-headed idols

s with very much the

oubt that a fair-skinned, light-haired, bearded race, holding the religion which Plato says prevailed in Atlantis, carried an Atlantean civilization at an early day up the valley of the Amazon to the heights of

prove that the great Quichua language, which the Incas imposed on their subjects over a vast extent of territory, and which is still a living to

DED VAS

of Peru is barbarous and fluctuating. It is not one of the casual and shifting forms of speech produced by nomad races. To which of the stages of language does this belong-the agglutinative, in which one root is fastened on to another, and a word is formed in which the constitutive elements are obviously distinct, or the inflexional, where the auxiliary roots get worn down and are only distinguishable by the philologist? As all known Ary

of the Spaniards. We must now examine some of the forms which Aryan roots are supposed to take in Quichua. In the first place, Quichua abhors the shock of two consonants. Thus, a word like ple'w in Greek would be unpleasant to the Peruvian's ear, and he says pillui, 'I sail.' The plu, ag

-----------+--------------+ | Huasi, a house. | Vas, to inhabit. | +-----------+--------------+ | Huayra, air, au?'ra. | Va

nect with kalo's. Again, Quichua has an 'alpha privative'-thus A-stani means 'I change a thing's place;' for ni or mi is the first person singular, and, added to the root of a verb, is the sign of the first person of the present indicative. For instance, can means being, and Can-mi, or Cani, is 'I am.' In the same way Munanmi, or Munani, is 'I love,' and Apanmi, or Apani, 'I carry.' So Lord Strangford was wrong when he supposed tha

ichua and Mandan words for I o

and particularly the Arabic," in which tongue Dr. Falb has been skilled from his boyhood. Following up the lines of this discovery, Dr. Falb has found (1) a connecting link with the Aryan roots, and (2) has ultimately arrived face to face with the surprising revelation that "the Sem

e relationship of the Aryan and Semitic languages to the Quichua and Aimara tongues will be published in a year or two; the manuscript contains over two thousand pa

s the wide Atlantic to Europe if there had been no stepping-stone in the s

ica. The very traditions to which we have referred as existing among the Peruvians, that the civilized race were white and bearded, and that they entered or invaded the countr

ther-country along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, which, like a great river, may be said to flow out from the Black Sea, with the Nile as one of its tributaries, and along the shores of