Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson is G. I. Gurdjieff’s first series, subtitled An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man. The copy I read prints no publisher and no year, and it prints no page numbers. In the tale the Earth bursts while his tribe is on Mars, and two fragments fly off. The larger is later called the Moon. A continent called Atlantis still knew the smaller fragment, Anulios. During a second misfortune the chief continent, Atlantis, entered within the planet. On the first descent the ship Occasion lands there, at Samlios, the capital, where King Appolis lived. A second descent comes eleven of their centuries later. A year before the catastrophe a tribal pythoness sends his tribe to Grabontzi, which he says is now Africa. Hunters from Atlantis settle a continent he later calls Asia. The Society of Akhldanns was founded on Atlantis 735 years before that perturbation. On a fourth flight, Nilia is Egypt, and the capital he reaches is Thebes.
The book is in copyright. The quotations in the review are short excerpts.