Atlanteans

Ignatius Donnelly

The Aryan Colonies from Atlantis

The Mediterranean Aryans, including the Greeks and other ancient European civilizations, appear to have been influenced by the Atlantean culture.

Mercury, an Atlantean god, was revered by the Celtæ.

The Aryans' advanced civilization and their decimal system suggest a connection to the Atlanteans, who also used a decimal system in their administration.

The religious practices of the Aryans also suggest Atlantean influence.

The legends of kings like Deva-Nahusha and the mythological connections suggest that the Aryan migration was part of a broader dispersion of Atlantean culture.

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Atlantis reconstructed

Historical references, like the story of the Atlantean king Ouranos enforcing circumcision during a plague, suggest the practice's deep roots.

Based on various sources, we can piece together a picture of Atlantean life.

The Atlanteans resided on a large island surrounded by smaller islands, forming a network towards Europe, Africa, the West Indies, and America.

The Atlanteans were composed of at least 2 different races:

Evidence suggests the Atlanteans domesticated animals like cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, and possibly horses and swine.

Comparative studies of language, customs, and beliefs across the Atlantic can reveal more about Atlantean history.

The domestication of cattle and the symbolism of the ox-head in Atlantean culture suggest the use of oxen or horses for ploughing.

The Atlanteans achieved significant technological and cultural advancements.

In religion, the Atlanteans held advanced beliefs, including the concept of one universal, omnipotent God, symbolized by the sun, and the immortality of the soul.

The Atlantean civilization's influence extended to Europe, Africa, and America, shaping the development of subsequent cultures.

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The antiquity of some of our great inventions

The notion that the mariner's compass might have been known to the Atlanteans might seem fanciful.

Hercules, an Atlantean deity, was associated with the magnetic stone, referred to as the "Stone of Hercules." Greek mythology tells of Hercules using a magnetic cup to sail the ocean at night, a possible reference to using a magnetic compass.

The widespread knowledge of ironworking suggests it was inherited from a common Atlantean source.

The process was likely passed down from Atlantean times.

The Cushites, successors of the Atlanteans, established independent municipal republics, a system seen in later civilizations like the Greeks and Romans.

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The oldest son of Noah

The Greeks, Phœnicians, and Hebrews share common deities and linguistic roots, suggesting an Atlantean origin.

The Chinese civilization, like those of the Aryans and Hamites, appears to have been influenced by an earlier, possibly Atlantean, culture.

Numerous cultural practices, such as sun worship and agricultural ceremonies, found in civilizations as diverse as the Chinese and Peruvians, further support the theory of a common Atlantean origin.

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The Colonies of Atlantis

Given the commercial activity of the Atlanteans, it is plausible that they would have discovered and established trade routes to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.

As commerce often leads to colonization, it is likely that Atlantean trading posts evolved into settlements, spreading into the interior regions and the highlands of Mexico.

This suggests that Egyptian civilization may have stemmed from Atlantean influences mediated through Phoenician culture.

Claimed Ethnicity: The Egyptians identified themselves as red men, which might link them to the red-skinned Atlanteans described in various traditions.

Similar sun deities and sun festivals (e.g., Rama in Hinduism, Rana among the Toltecs, Raymi in Peru, and Rayam in Yemen) indicate a widespread Atlantean influence.

Atlantean Knowledge: The Egyptians had detailed knowledge about Atlantis, despite not being a maritime people.

This implies that Atlanteans brought this knowledge to Egypt.

The funerary practices of crossing water to reach the tombs on the west bank of the Nile, and the presence of a sacred ark in funeral processions, further suggest an Atlantean influence.

Ritual Practices: The perpetuation of a perpetual fire and other ritualistic practices among descendants such as the Natchez Indians reflects religious traditions that could trace back to Atlantean influences.

Both groups exhibit similar physical traits, cultural characteristics, and behaviors, hinting at a common Atlantean ancestry.

The Atlanteans, known for their maritime prowess, were believed to be the children of Neptune (Poseidon), introducing the worship of this god to other cultures, including the Egyptians.

The spread of Atlantean culture and religion through maritime activities could explain the presence of similar myths, deities, and cultural practices across distant regions.

The physical and cultural traits of the Bretons and Basques distinguish them from other European populations, aligning more closely with the Atlantean descriptions.

The persistence of unique languages, such as Euskara, and cultural practices suggests a deep historical continuity, potentially tracing back to an Atlantean origin.

The theory posits that Atlantean explorers ventured up the Amazon Valley, bypassing the inhospitable lowlands of Brazil, and eventually settled in the highlands of Bolivia and Peru.

The hypothesis suggests that the Atlanteans, renowned for their maritime prowess, expanded westward from their island homeland.

The Formorians are described as a warlike race, possibly Atlanteans, who arrived in Ireland from the West.

Partholan's People: Probably Atlanteans from Spain, defeated and expelled by the Formorians.

This lineage indicates a shared Atlantean ancestry.

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Gold and silver: the sacred metals of Atlantis

The Atlanteans' demand for these metals likely spread their value across cultures, establishing a tradition that persists to this day.

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The Pyramid, the cross and the Garden of Eden

The connection between these Atlantean traditions and the Bible record is shown in many things.

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The Gods of the Phoenicians also kings of Atlantis

This extensive network represents the area of the old Atlantean Empire.

This Atlantean sailor reopened the path of commerce and colonization, closed since Atlantis sank.

This connection supports the idea that the Phoenicians succeeded the Atlanteans in their arts, sciences, and commercial supremacy, maintaining the legacy of a once-great civilization that bridged the Old and New Worlds.

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The kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks

Greek mythology, when examined closely, reveals its roots in Atlantean history.

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Ad-, Atl-, At-, Atlantis

He introduced agriculture, commerce, and arts, and built cities and fortifications, much like the Atlantean kings.

Their number, twelve, aligns with the twelve months of the year and the twelve Atlantean kings described by Plato.

Solar Worship: The Aditya's solar association resonates with the sun-worshipping practices attributed to the Atlanteans.

Babylonian Flood: The flood narrative parallels the Atlantean deluge, indicating a shared memory of a cataclysmic event.

At-tit: The Guatemalan deity associated with the worship of the true God, reminiscent of Atlantean religious practices.

Ignatius Donnelly

American Evidences of Intercourse with Europe or Atlantis

Plato's account of Atlanteans possessing elephants supports the latter theory.

The Atlas Mountains in Africa and the Atlantes people in the vicinity are likely remnants of Atlantean influence.

Plato's account of Gadeirus, ruling a region extending to what is now Spain, implies that the Basques could be descendants of Atlanteans.

This centrality of the Mediterranean as a cultural and civilizational hub is consistent with the idea of an advanced Atlantean civilization spreading its influence through colonization and trade.

Similarities in rock carvings between Chiriqui and Northumberland, and in symbols between the Canary Islands and Lake Superior, further support the theory of a common Atlantean ancestry.

This connection points to a shared Atlantean heritage.

Ignatius Donnelly

The Identity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New

Plato described the Atlanteans as accomplished builders, constructing walls, temples, and palaces.

The Atlanteans mined and worked metals like copper, tin, bronze, gold, silver, and probably iron.

The Mexicans manufactured bronze, and the Incas mined iron near Lake Titicaca, indicating an advanced knowledge of metallurgy that could date back to Atlantean times.

Both the Atlanteans and American civilizations practiced sculpture.

Engraving on pillars was practiced by the Atlanteans, a tradition continued by the American civilizations, Egypt, Phœnicia, and Assyria.

Agriculture was central to both Atlanteans and the American civilizations, as well as the Egyptians.

The religion of the Atlanteans, described by Plato as pure and simple, involved worshipping the sun and making offerings of fruits and flowers.

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Conclusions of the Great Flood story

We will see hereafter that the Atlanteans passed through precisely similar stages of development.

Plato tells us the same thing of the earlier ages of the Atlanteans.

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The Deluge Legends (I)

Atlantis Connection: Many legends, including those of the Greeks, indicate an Atlantean origin for the flood myth, with references to Poseidon (Neptune) and the "three worlds" of Atlantis.

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The Chaldean Deluge

Ea: The fish-god who brought civilization from the ocean, indicating a maritime culture similar to the Atlanteans.

These stories indicate a sophisticated ancient civilization with advanced knowledge of navigation, disaster response, and preservation of culture, potentially pointing to an Atlantean origin.

Man: Whence, How and Whither

The Fourth Root Race

Most splendid and imperial of the Atlantean peoples.

Exhibited a mix of Atlantean and newer traits.

Intermediate development between earlier and later Atlantean sub-races.

Contributed to the cultural and technological advancements of the Atlantean civilization.

Played a key role in the spread of Atlantean culture and technology.

Represented the peak of Atlantean evolution before the eventual decline.

Contributed to the final stages of Atlantean civilization before the cataclysmic events.

The Lemurians were the predecessors of the Atlanteans.

Primitive in comparison to the Atlanteans, with simpler social structures and technologies.

Subba Rao distinguished the Lemurians as blueblack, the Atlanteans as red-yellow, and the Aryans as brown-white.

After the race-type was fully established, He thus had the materials for the rich red-brown of the Toltec, the third sub-race, the most splendid and imperial of the Atlantean peoples, which ruled the world for tens of thousands of years.

Annie Besant

Beginning of the 5th Root Race

During Atlantean Rule:

(The Atlanteans had conquered Egypt and were ruling the country at this period.

This great Atlantean civilisation perished; then came the flood, and a negroid domination, and another Atlantean Empire, and an Aryan (B.

The selection from the fifth Atlantean sub-race grew and multiplied exceedingly, and became a nation of several millions in about two thousand years ; they were quite isolated from the world in general by a belt of sand, which could only be crossed by caravans carrying with them plenty of water, and there was only one way across it with grass and water, about where Mecca now stands.

He was in possession of the City of the Golden Gates, and the nobler types of the Atlanteans were much oppressed.

Man: Whence, How and Whither

Turanian, in Ancient Chaldaea.

This idea of the use of coloured light to promote growth was common to several of the old Atlantean races, and was part of the teaching originally given in Atlantis itself.

The great bulk of the nation were clearly of Turanian stock, belonging to the fourth sub-race of the Atlantean Root-Race.

Man: Whence, How and Whither

Atlantean Peruvian Civilization

This example of Atlantean civilization had an autocratic government, a system shaped by the influence of great Adepts who acted as rulers and guides to early humanity, imparting wisdom and order from above.

so closely resembled that of the Toltec Empire in its zenith, that, having closely studied that period, we utilise it here as an example of Atlantean civilisation.

Egypt and India in their Atlantean periods, offered other examples, but, on the whole, the chief features of the Toltec Empire are best reproduced in the Peru which is here described.

Such representatives of the great third sub-race of the Atlantean Eoot Race as are still to be seen on earth are degraded and debased, as compared with the Eace in its glory.

Our Peruvian had the high cheek-bones and the general shape of face which we associate with the highest type of the Red Indian, and yet he had modifications in its contour which made him almost more Aryan than Atlantean; his expression differed fundamentally from that of most modern Red Men, for it was usually frank, joyous, and mild, and in the higher classes keen intellect and great benevolence frequently showed themselves.

Man: Whence, How and Whither

The Civilisation of Atlantis

However, these towns were vulnerable to aerial attacks by Atlantean air-ships, which could drop bombs and poison gas.

Atlanteans were skilled in many advanced technologies.

Airships and Bombs: The Atlanteans had developed advanced airships (akin to modern aeroplanes) capable of dropping bombs that released poisonous vapors.

Energy Manipulation: The Atlanteans possessed knowledge of forces that could repel gravity, facilitating the construction of large structures.

Air Attacks: Despite strong city defenses, Atlantean cities were vulnerable to attacks from the air, which could drop deadly bombs.

But such a city necessarily lay open to assaults from above, and the Atlanteans carried the making of air-ships — aeroplanes, we should call them now — to a high pitch of excellence; and, if such a city were to be attacked, these birds-of-war were sent to hover over it, and to drop into it bombs which burst in the air, and discharged a rain of heavy poisonous vapour, destructive of human life.

We have chosen two daughter civilisations which grew up in later days, far from the great centre of the fourth Root Eace — one descended from the third sub-race, the Toltec, the other from the fourth subrace, the Turanian — in order to give a more vivid and detailed picture of the level reached by the Atlanteans.

Rudolf Steiner

Germanic Mythology and Ancient Civilizations

Lemuria: The Lemurian root race was completely different in its organization from our present root race and even from the Atlanteans.

This race was completely different in its organization from our present root race and even from the Atlanteans.

Here we need to bear in mind that the third race, the Lemurians, already looked completely different from us and also completely different from the Atlanteans.

Atlanteans:

Mixture of Hyperboreans, Lemurians, and later Atlanteans.

Two races arose from this: one that became the foundation of the Atlanteans.

From this mixture of Hyperboreans, Lemurians, and later also Atlanteans, there emerged initiates who were different from the initiates we look upon as our teachers today.

Darryl Anka | Bashar

Atlantis – Taurid meteor shower

The Bahamas now are simply remnants of the main island of the Atlantean civilization, along with Cuba.

The Atlanteans spread into North, Central, and South America, and even crossed the oceans into Europe, the Mediterranean, and northern and western Africa.

Many people on your planet today imagine Atlantis with Grecian architecture due to ancient stories from Egypt passed to Greece, but the closest representation of Atlantean architecture is Aztec architecture: large stone blocks and pyramids like those in Central and South America.

The Minos architecture, specifically the Temple of Knossos on Crete, also provides a glimpse of Atlantean influence.

A greater chunk of the comet eventually struck the Atlantic Ocean, causing massive tsunamis and the final obliteration of Atlantean culture on the eastern seaboards of the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

Before the final destruction, the Atlanteans, observing the comet and understanding their time was running out, migrated to preserve their culture, knowledge, and civilization in South America, Africa, Europe, and eventually Egypt.

The Younger Dryas period, marked by this event, shifted your climate and raised ocean levels, submerging most of the Atlantean islands.

Imagine the thriving Atlantean civilization: great pyramidal structures, paved streets, and temples painted red, white, black, and sometimes sheathed in gold and silver.

The beautiful crystals gave light and power to the Atlantean cities and were used for long-distance communication.

The Atlanteans were deeply connected to the Earth and nature, but there was a split between those who retained this connection and those who succumbed to fear-based beliefs.

Knowing they were reaching the end of their cycle, the Atlanteans migrated to various parts of the world to preserve their knowledge.

In the last days, recognizing their end, the Atlanteans left in great ships, while others perished in the destruction.

The cycle has begun anew, and you are in both the end and beginning times, experiencing the glory and grace of the highest days of the Atlantean civilization.

The Atlanteans communicated with dolphins and whales, bringing them into their temples, and had great knowledge of herbs and foods that promoted healing.

The Ahnenerbe

Fourth Root Race: The Atlantean Race - Inhabitants of Atlantis, possessing advanced knowledge and technology.

The Aryan Race is said to have emerged from the survivors of the Atlantean Race.

Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce (1877–1945)

He claimed that Atlanteans had profound spiritual and psychic abilities but eventually faced destruction due to their misuse of power.

Who is god?

Leanna provides an in-depth explanation of the Atlantean perspective on God:

Cosmic Consciousness: God is viewed as the ultimate Cosmic Consciousness, an energy construct beyond any language, including the Atlanteans'.

Whales

Atlantean's whales and dolphins

Jesus’ Initiation

Atlantean Consciousness and Evolution: The text begins with a description of the consciousness prevalent in Atlantean times.

Atlanteans had a dim clairvoyance and could perceive the spiritual world more directly, though less clearly, than we do today.

Influence of Lucifer and Atlantean Leaders: The text discusses the influence of Lucifer on the evolution of human consciousness and the efforts of Atlantean leaders to guard against this.

It suggests that Atlantean leaders and oracles had a significant role in guiding people spiritually, especially in combatting negative influences.

Sinking of Atlantis and Post-Atlantean Mysteries: The narrative then shifts to the sinking of Atlantis and its consequences, including the continuation of spiritual oracles and mysteries in the post-Atlantean era.

Methods of Initiation and Evolution of Consciousness: Different methods of initiation used in post-Atlantean mysteries are detailed, including how they evolved up to Christian times.

Evolution Through Post-Atlantean Epochs: The narrative explores the progress of human orientation through the first four post-Atlantean epochs, culminating in the Greeks and their unique approach to the physical world.

Frank Ontario

The Great Separation

During parts of the Lemurian or Atlantean civilizations, no governments existed.

In the midst of the Lemurian and the early Atlantean civilization, the vibrational level was so elevated that Angels coexisted with human beings.