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to another

usions. They will, I trust, provoke further disc

man, or at least our own portion of the human race, including the white, yellow, and brown races, survived the great cataclysm and renewed the civilization of the

in pre-glacial times, and survived, in fragments, somewhere in the land

quity. Whether or not that period of almost insufferable temperature produced any effect upon the color of that race I shall not undertake to say

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pen prairies; and that those who have resided for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years in the dense forests of that tropical land are nearly white in complexion. If this be the case in a merely leaf-covered

rresistible energy have been evolved the dominant races of the west of Europe--the land-grasping, conquering, colonizing races; the men of whom it was sai

aking possessi

weeded-out survivors

proposition that man survi

nd Job referring to "the

erse 29, Eliphaz,

shalt say, There is lifting up; an

him? The next vers

logy of Braz

.

innocent: and it is delivered by t

ds which overwhelmed the earth and made a firmament, a place of solidity, a refuge, (chap. i, vs. 6

was westward from. Europe, f

the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword which

en, and the cherubims in the east of Eden faced him. The land where the Jew

," (chap. iv, verse 16.) There was, therefore, a constant movement of the human family eastward. The land of

is an island-land, the civilized land, the land of the Tritons or water-

ii, fable 1, "T

he earth has upon it men and cities, and woods and wild

.

bright with radiant gold, and carbuncle that rivals the flames; polished ivory cre

a civilized race, over which was a palace which remind

f ivory," in allusion, probably, to this ivo

er hills

weed and o

m man and

nd of

s and tracts of country that were on fire in the great conflagration, and

mid the waters of the main," (the ocean,) "and the springs dr

ly endures; and she calls on mighty Jove to put an end to the conflagration. And he does so. The rest of the world has been scarred and seared with the fire, but he spares and sav

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d, Jove repairs, with espec

the Meropes, the people of Merou. And the Greek traditions[1] show that the human race issued from Upa-Merou; and the Egyptians

as, receding under the great heat, the human race, crying out for

a little" in the ocean, and the Gothic and Briton (Druid) legends tell

sun and the comet, takes place on an island, the Island of Lanka,

rost. Gylfe goes to visit Asgard, as Herodotus and Solon went to visit Egypt: the outside barbarian was curio

d without it round abou

lantis,

--The Creation of the W

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it is Asgard. It is an isla

e giant-races to dwell in; and against the attack of restless

ncircled Asgard, the mother-country had given lands for colonies of the giant-races, the white, large, blue-eyed races of Northern

gends do not refer to some mythical island in the Indian Seas, or to the Pacific Ocean, but to the Atlantic: the west coasts of Europe were "the outer strand" where these white colonies were established; the island was in the Atlantic; and, as there is no body of submerged land

Asgard" as a land of temples and plow

hat Ragnarok com

f the Midnight Sun," vol

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sts of Sais the story of Atlantis. And it is here in Asgard that, as we have seen, "during Surt's fire two persons, ca

rope and tu

memory of his disciple Ardjouna the legend a

re t

ver the plains and in the air; white elephants roved unmolested under the shade of gigantic forests,

y Age, during which, as scientific researches have proved,

Adam,) and he makes a comp

tion localizes the legend by m

b their quietude; they had but to stretch forth their hands and pluck from surroundin

ented in Genesis, when Adam and Ev

"The Bible in I

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and knew neither sorrow nor suf

adise. Adima and Héva leave their island; they pass to a boundless country; they fall upon an evil time; "trees, flowers, fruits, b

egends looking, not westward, but eastwar

d the red-men go west; so that the Navajos inhabit a country west

eing one day assembled, a Turkey-Hen came flying from the direction of the morning star, and shook from her feathers an

vilizers of the race came from

e east, but they maintained intercourse fo

that when Joskeha renewed the world, after the great

"The Bible in

Native Races,"

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Indians the art. And in their legends the battle between the White

speaking of the Gr

e invoked to the medicine-lodge, the east is summoned in his name, the door opens in that direction, and there at the edge of the earth, where the

n a land surrounded by the ocean, to wit, an island; and there his power and his civilization are so great that he controls the movements of the sun, moon,

God to gather the waters together and enlarge the land, for they have only

escribed as an island west of Arabia, and it requires two yea

end of the battle

yths of the New

.

met, the scene is laid

e take refuge in a cave, in a mountain on an island. T

ay God first cr

island, in the ocean, in the midst of the waters; and this island, wherever the points of the compass are indicated, lies to the west of Europe and to the

tune, Poseidon. It is Neptune who cries out for mercy. And

tep further i

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