The narrative of the origin of the Dorian institutions, which are said to have been due to a fear of the growing power of the Assyrians, is a plausible invention, which may be compared with the tale of the island of Atlantis and the poem of Solon, but is not accredited by similar arts of deception.
We have already seen—in the Theaetetus, where he supposes that in the course of ages every man has had numberless progenitors, kings and slaves, Greeks and barbarians; and in the Critias, where he says that nine thousand years have elapsed since the island of Atlantis fought with Athens—that Plato is no stranger to the conception of long periods of time.
Because there was a Persian empire which was the natural enemy of the Greek, there must also have been an Assyrian empire, which had a similar hostility; and not only the fable of the island of Atlantis, but the Trojan war, in Plato's mind derived some features from the Persian struggle.
Bridgman-Metchim's Atlantis: The Book of the Angels, from the cheap edition printed in London by Swan Sonnenschein in 1903.
THE days when the sons of Adam increased and multiplied, and in the days when they overran Atlantis and builded themselves cities, the noise of their sin rose up the Heaven.
Fain would I lose myself in profound meditation, yet it may not be; and ever arises in sad memory the dreamy glories of Atlantis and starry nights of love.
He stood now the real, though not openly acknowledged, leader of the armies of the mightiest power of Atlantis and the World[^7] — the Last-created.
The old Pueblos of Mexico — the successors to the Pallos of Atlantis, were generally one enormous building occupying three sides of a court, (see note y p.
Until at last the whole great land of Atlantis was subservient to Tekthah, yet only such parts as were fairest being occupied ; and such savage races as menaced the frontiers were kept afar by the terror of their conquerors.
Tekthah, Tzan of Atlantis, with a brilliant court, led the nation afar from its upright paths, followed willingly enough, for indeed human nature ever sins naturally.
So falling, those early sinners who came to Atlantis with a pure faith and knowledge of God, raised descendants who fell still farther into idolatry and wickedness, degraded superstition, and still more degraded practices, mingling with them a ferocious and dauntless prowess in war and a luxuriance of living in later days that caused their name to be spoken of with respect and reverence and their power to be undisputed among the races who had been there beyond the legends of all time.
Superstitious, ferocious, and of tremendous powers, Atlantis lay under the foot of the sons of Adam ; but the world instead of being improved, threatened to sink in a chaos of confusion and blood, and all by the desire of Tekthah, who wished to maintain his high estate.
who can equal me in all Atlantis ?
[^18]: It is evident that the art of shipbuilding had reached a considerable proficiency in the old days of Atlantis, and in after times we are informed by the best authorities that the Egyptians possessed ships nearly 3000 years B.C.
Against such infamy is his own godlike person, all the peoples of Atlantis, and mc, my old father, me I Huitza must be absent from Zul when this comes about, that he may be shut out and we may come to terms with him.
Yet will I rule supreme in Atlantis !
"And thou lovest me?" she said, musingly; "whilst others scorn; and I, Tizin of Atlantis!"
But while Azta meant the great Temple, Mah meant the city and Atlantis, "Now give heed unto me, my old father, for it is of a great matter I would speak," said Azta; and to him she told all the affairs of the morning, what had happened at the after-worship.
For his advancement by Rhadaman he will destroy his master and thou shalt reign with thy propitious lord whom thy tool will remove in season, leaving thee Tizin of Atlantis in very truth."
That great, strong heart that had marched to the throne of Atlantis through tears and blood saw itself alone and deserted.
The Throne of Atlantis, the Seat of the King of the Earth, was in a hall in the centre of the palace, from which could be seen a portion of the red terraces of steps, showing through the entrance, and the openings in the long shadowy courts and colonnades that spread in mazy vistas all around.
Nevertheless I wished to see in how much his passion for her ran, and how she received him ; and she was minded to relent, so that he entered and made a deep obeisance to her, kneeling and pressing her hand to his lips, the golden vulture-wings bending low before the Glory of Atlantis.
Thou, a Chief of armies; I, a mere helpless — " "Say it not!" he cried passionately, kissing her with rude rapture: "one moment of thee were worth all Atlantis!" " Shame, shame !
"Thou knowest how I love thee," he said earnestly, drawing her close to him; "thou knowest that thy title is an empty glory : wouldst thou not wish to have the name of Azta revered from one end of Atlantis to the other?"
The trumpet sounds for the single combat on the third day, when the Champion of Atlantis steps forth and dares one to face him This time one appears.
If thou conquerest I will be the Queen of Atlantis."
"Thou didst vow to be Queen of Atlantis?" I said, .still feeling sore.
Also those who were more sober would wish for Huitza to rule them and raise the glory of Atlantis still higher, and thus the capital wavered in imbecile helplessness.
The strains of music from the palace and the roar of the lions that guarded the Hall of the Throne of Atlantis excited those who were within reach of the sounds, and they howled and roared as though wild beasts themselves, drunk with wine and full of mischief, revelling in the unwonted luxuries of the city, and particularly the herbs burnt in pipes and inhaled.
Then came the princes of Atlantis : Rhadaman with his great winged helmet, Mehir, Nezca, Amal, Colosse and a hundred other well-known figures ; conspicuously Shar-Jatal, the People's Representative, smiling in order that the jewels in his teeth might gleam ; the Chief Adar, covered from head to foot in glittering scales of bronze, beautiful and dreadful to look upon ; all walking slowly and haughtily, their armour flashing as they moved, their cothurns clanking to their heavy tread.
There rode my Love, the haughty Azta, her hair falling in two great waves either side of her face, the returning ends brought up under the jewelled strap above which reposed in queenly majesty the Lunar crown of State, the headdress of the Tizin of Atlantis.
The next day was the same as the first, on a grander and still larger scale; the third day was for human combats only, to finish with that foretold scene when the Champion of Atlantis should fight with an unknown person, and — And what!
This was the challenge of the Champion of Atlantis to dispute his right by single combat to the title.
A captain advanced to the centre of the arena and in a stentorian voice announced that the Lord Rhadaman, first-born of the King of the Earth, and Tzantan of the armies of Atlantis, desired to be known as Champion, and challenged all or anybody to dispute the title by trial of single combat Then, after a silence, the prince took the stand of the retired herald and was blessed by Acoa, and that ended it.
Thou .shalt be Tizin of Atlantis!"
Yet many again loved Tekthah for the sake of the old days ; and although the Chieftain had sunk into the luxurious and overbearing Emperor, he was still the grand old warrior who had made Atlantis what it was.
By degrees the news spread to the farthest boundaries, and then a strong rumour gained ground that their great chief would appear again, and all Atlantis grew to believe in it and look for it.
To the same argument as dead Rhadaman's — "Thou shalt be Queen of Atlantis when I am Emperor " — she had answered, "Thou wilt never be the Tzan." And when, maddened by her taunts, he had rushed on her, she smote him by my arts so that he staggered back and lost all his courage.
It was night on Atlantis, a dark, troubled night, where voices seemed to cry in the air and spirits floated like horrid larval in the atmosphere.
The Hall of the Throne of Atlantis leaped into light as fires flared from torch and brazier all around, swiftly ignited by the twtrling-sticks turned by a bow that all used to produce flames.
And thus died Tekthah, Tzan of Atlantis.
Yet it was a serious matter that those of Zul, although the greatest of the land, should have to cope with the thousands of Atlantis, and there were held many anxious consultations, and much time passed.
" Shall the fairest woman of Earth be content to remain hidden and alone when half the throne of Atlantis will be proud to hail her mistress?" asked the chief; and again as in a dream I saw dead Rhadaman with the same question on his lips, and saw the same struggle in Azta's face, but with blunted feelings.
All these things I saw, and wondered which should conquer in the end ; and in these years Azta's love for Toltiah grew and increased with his growth, and I knew that it was spoken that he should be Lord of Atlantis.
Dagons and Bellerophons, Centaurs, antlered men and winged monsters and the hermaphrodite gods of Atlantis were represented under various names ; but by far the greater number were the most grossly prostituted representations of female forms, the producers and nurses of life.
Thus he would come, and in this favoured city would he appear, preferring it before any of Tek-Ra, and would make it a mighty name in Atlantis.
For one moment, as I thought of Zul and the land of a thousand cities, I felt a great joy at the thought that it would be his own and he would wield the sceptre of Atlantis from that great red palace, and influence the peoples for good and for Jehovah.
Above the river barricades appeared three moving poles, the foremost topped with the Cross of Atlantis, and no explanation was needed to tell the crowd what they signified.
The Dodo, which, classified among the pigeons, was a giant of its species 5 the gigantic ostrich-like Dinornis of New Zealand 5 the Pelagornis, a winged monster of the albatross tribe ; the Moa, the Gastornis Parisiensis, whose remains have been recently found in the Eocene conglomerates of Meudan — all these as birds far surpass any we can muster now, but would not furnish a parallel to the bird of Atlantis, although they might prove the descending scale of size.
There he fought, the tall wings gleaming above the press, the ruddy hair that there had been no time to wrap round the head flying in yellow masses ; the returned Chief, the Prince on whom the hopes of Atlantis were centreed !
This boldness pleased the chiefs, and that night was the youth proclaimed publicly Tzan of Atlantis, king of the Earth, and presented amid impressive ceremonies with the National Standard, taken from its temple for the purpose of being used as the battle-standard until peace should come again.
Arrogant with victory and believing himself to be, as the people declared, a god, he wished to enjoy those growing passions that possibilities bred and nurtured ; but the savage impatience of Azta and the exhortations of the governor and the Tzantans advised him to be energetic until the Throne of Atlantis was actually beneath his feet.
This was the Hfe that won her admiration, and now she wished that, Tizin of Atlantis, she could be surrounded by such guards, their Chieftainess.
Riots occurred and much wantonness was committed through suppressed energy, yet the leaders could scarce deem such rabble as was most of that vast array prepared sufficiently to conquer Atlantis.
In imagination he saw the defeat of Izta and rejoiced in the welcome necessaries captured ; he saw the surrender of Budil and the armada and then the triumphant march to the Throng of Atlantis.
" the march to the Throne of Atlantis commenced.
And thus I sat and pondered on that starry night, what time Toltiah marched with his legions to the conquest of Atlantis.
More than all the rest was she disturbed at the rumour that Azta was in Talascan, because she knew Shar-Jatal loved the Tizin and that her power was very great in the land, all believing her to be under the special protection of Zul, and a goddess ; thus, inwardly deploring the weakness of her chosen lord, she stirred him up to resist the failings of his nature, to take his power and dispense it as became the Tzan of Atlantis and master of a headstrong nation threatened with dissolution.
Yet, compelled by some power, the Shades of Huitza and Ju demanded the vengeance of Atlantis upon Shar-Jatal ; and opposing them fiercely, the Elemental spirits of Bel, the captain of Pocatepa's guards, and Arioch the archer dared the bold besieger to farther annoy the city where slept the dust of Tekthah, the chosen abode of Zul.
To thee is the sceptre of Atlantis, and the opening gates of Zul shall hail thee conqueror crowned with wisdom and glory.
Up, up, Atlantis!
He ceased, and a great multitude of voices echoed : "Up, up, Atlantis!
Mid veils of high-splashing waters the black legions covered the walls, and high waved the victorious Standard of Atlantis as tall Shem raised it to the skies and shouted a jubilant war-whoop.
Forward for Zul and Atlantis!
ATLANTIS!
But in a pool of blood Toltiah slipped and Bel's great sword had then and there ended his career and perchance have saved Atlantis; but smiting up the blade with his own, Alam leaped upon him, bearing him to the earth beneath his buckler, (which warrior was that son of Pharno whom I had seen aforetimes).
For earlier in the palace Toltiah had received the orbed sceptre from the Keeper of the Throne, which was the lord Lamech, the son of Jaal of the family of Enoch the righteous, and upon his head Amaziel had placed the Solar crown of Atlantis, upon the head of Azta placing the crown which held the crystal symbol of the Moon ; and now, upon the highest platform of Zul before counties?
There were men, women and youths, noble and great, children of Tzantans and Chiefs, Queens and Princes; old men who had grown gray in Tekthah's wars, venerable tribe-leaders who had followed the four-armed Cross of Atlantis from the north-east to the hill of southern Zul and beyond.
Tairu, sweetest of musicians, declaimed in a clear space in the midst of the tables, singing the glories of Atlantis and of her present Ruler.
Inside, Azta arose and drank a full horn to " the warriors of Atlantis," such as were able to move staggering to their feet with a shout of salute, Toltiah among the rest.
and in good time they twain would have wrought a mighty evil when the arms of Atlantis were carried in red victory to the ends of the Earth, and the race of Adam, weakened by wars and intermarriage, should no longer be of use for a leaven of holiness and wisdom.
For as the days sped, so much the more the throne of Atlantis leaned to Azta.
Such now was becoming Atlantis, the people solacing themselves unchecked by unequalled excesses, while the savage tribes around raided their lands, destroying villages and out-lying cities and carrying off the women, untroubled by the plumed legions who quartered themselves on the inhabitants of large cities and spent their time in violence and lust.
The throne of Atlantis was hers !
" Now art thou in very truth Queen of Atlantis," I said ; "yet art satisfied.''"
In the midst of the Wonder stood a Being, terrible beyond all that Azta had seen, winged with falling cascades of quiver- ATLANTIS.
Toltiah, flushed with wine and excesses, dreamed with visions of a greater grandeur and vaster enjoyment than Atlantis could give, newer and more glorious ; and inflamed by Gorgia he perceived the Tree of Life whose fruit is Immortality.
There is our birthright, old one, and who more fit to lead the warriors of Atlantis than I!
Ruler of Atlantis, for thou hast sinned in that, having the chief power, thou hast raised the rebellious head to Heaven and would presume to strive with the Almighty, which is the Creator of all.
Thou art the ruler of Atlantis, strong in thy power and the wonder of thy presence ; thou, O Queen, canst cause the sin of the land to cease.
Shame not thyself and me, ruler of Atlantis!
They prayed for Atlantis, for Zul, for all those gay princes and ladies, and Susi prayed for Azta.
For behold in the youth Toltiah is the curse of Atlantis, and I, myself, have wrought this thing in the sight of Heaven."
Amaziel brought out from the central tower the sacred symbol of Atlantis, the four-armed Cross, that had led the nation under great Tekthah to its victorious empire, and with a shout lifted it towards the sky.
Invisible, I looked upon the Earth, rolling in far spaces; surveying the shadow world from the hot womb of the tropics to where the illuminate electricity floated in wavy bands above the poles and the mystic axis,[^50] I looked upon Atlantis, a torment of thought in my mind, as I felt the fever of unanswerable riddles, and suffering that could not be analyzed ; the bitterness of self-inflicted torture and a terrible yearning for what could never be.
And upon them I cast dreams and visions, and behold it appeared to the warrior that in Zul he entered the Hall of the Throne of Atlantis and prepared to climb to the seat.
Touching which, Nezca : "Wherefore hesitate ye, lords of Atlantis?
For it was necessary that they should go in as strong guise as possible, remembering their brothers and all those families of Adam which they had parted from , when they came first to Atlantis, (whose possible arrival Tekthah warned them of,) which might dispute their passage, or might even have taken the land for themselves.
Yet this, as I have said, they never did, being destroyed with Atlantis.
Yet these understood that some great thing was to come by reason of the evil of Atlantis and the confusion of Mankind, and all prayed greatly to Heaven and were afraid.
As a goddess of Atlantis she appeared to them, wondrously arrayed, and never stood forth such a standard-bearer!
Toltiah, sullen and observant, dared not rise to hinder the ambitious act that should have been his, and Azta, moved by an uncontrollable pride, cried out: "To-night am I Queen of Atlantis!" " Hail, Neptsis!" cried Nezca, bending low before her his golden crest.
It smote Surapa upon its tall hill, and swept away such devastated cities of Hava as remained; passing thence from far Trocoatla with incredible speed, pregnant with its rolling masses and rushing majesty of destruction ; to cast its trophies with a seething roar at the foot of the walls of distant Zul, where it broke in a majesty of foam and flung its spray over the remains of the temple crowning the doomed heights of the last city of Atlantis.
Against this bright background stood the bare black crater, steaming but silent, the last point of Atlantis, but above it appeared to gather rolling spheres, and among them moved great bodies, bursting and filling the air with molten lines of electricity.
She felt again the pang of unrequited love, that appeared to instantly change to a sudden wild joy as she gazed steadfastly upon the great War-chief of Atlantis and then looked beyond to where sat the Emperor and the gleaming Guards.
For now to her the brilliant chief appeared as a Devil, the incarnated power of her demon-father whose spells were so heavily upon her, and brother to herself who had conceived and brought forth the Curse of Atlantis; but her Love came in clear guise and filled her whole soul with complete and unutterable joy, high and sublime, gazing from its pure heights of intensity upon the petty ambitions of Earth, and raising her upward.
Queen of the Dead she stood, wondrous in unearthly majesty; for the first time she raised her voice in song, as an echo from far away that grew and swelled into an impassioned melody, in inspired words born of the new life within her soul ; and over the grave of Atlantis floated the Requiem of Earth, the Welcome to Love.
And thus passed Azta, once ruler of Atlantis, last of all those thronging crowds that had stood before her there where the waters flowed.
§ 1.—Concerning the existence of the semi-mythical island of Atlantis there appears to be no definite information, and it is probable that there never will be; for even could we find its whereabouts stated, the geography of the world has altered since and would render such statement of no avail.
Lyell would have taken place in the later Miocene period, which would correspond with my theory as to the period of Atlantis (g 4).
§ 4.—The theories as to the period of Atlantis, the Glacial epoch, and the evolution and creation of Man, are mutually dependent upon one another, and can hardly be separated.
I place Atlantis in the Pliocene epoch, just before that of the Glacial, by these arguments : i , the creation of Adam ;, 2, the blood.
Buckland, in full support of my theory of there being such a land of Atlantis at such a period submerged by a cataclysm of the Glacial epoch following, " the missing links between men and apes, if existent, probably lie deep down in oceanic mud, and therefore their discovery is more than improbable ; for if we would trace man back to his origin, we must imagine a world geographically quite unlike that we inhabit." Then, when the Adamites increased and multiplied and the beauty of their daughters tempted the sons of God to stray, so that all became confusion, the cold winds ushered in that tremendous change which passed over the world, and the land of the ancient legends was erased by the waters of the Flood.
This being so, our Saviour appeared in earthly form to conquer Earth, being, as the Angels of Atlantis, an incarnated spirit.
Ask ten people where Atlantis was and you get ten answers.
Edgar Cayce said parts of Atlantis would be found near Bimini.
Many scholars link the Thera eruption to the Atlantis story.
See the Minoan civilization as a colony of Atlantis.
Charles Hapgood and Rand Flem-Ath argued that a crust shift moved Atlantis under the ice.
See Where Was Atlantis.
Some researchers place Atlantis in the Doñana marshes near Cádiz.
See the Iberian colonies of Atlantis.
See Atlantis in North Africa.
Arysio Santos placed Atlantis on the drowned Ice Age shelf of Indonesia.
Atlantis was not one fixed place in one moment.
He placed Atlantis between the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean.
The position as the continent Atlantis occupied, is that as between the Gulf of Mexico on the one hand—and the Mediterranean upon the other.
That land along the Atlantic seaboard formed the outer portion then, or the lowlands of Atlantis.
Stewart Pearce gives Atlantis the widest reach of all.
Atlantis was much, much bigger than you anticipate.
— were all high peaks of the mountain range that contained the Temple of Poseidon at the very spiritual heart of Atlantis.
When Andrija Puharich asked about Atlantis, Tom gave a location, a date and a name.
Atlantis, Tom explained in reply to Andrija's question, was a civilisation originated by a migrant group from Aksu.
So Atlantis was not one island.
Tom also said the name Atlantis is wrong.
The name Atlantis was in fact a corruption, and it should be known as the Altean civilisation, for its people 'were of the civilisation of Altea'.
'And have you known that those from Altea are those of what you call Atlantis?'
Now as regards Atlantis: all the theories about the nature, location and dating of this prediluvian civilisation are highly speculative, but Tom's dating corresponds with the general view that a cataclysmic event, the origin of world-wide flood legends, took place between 10000 and 12000 BC.
I have found that Atlantis was not a single continent, city, or place.
He says Atlantis began with a migration through the Americas.
Atlantis was created by a migration from Lemuria across the North, Central, and South American continents, creating what you now refer to as the American Indian civilizations that ultimately reached Atlantean shores.
In the Timaeus an Egyptian priest tells Solon where Atlantis lay.
Plato already gives Atlantis an empire beyond its island.
Ignatius Donnelly wrote Atlantis: The Antediluvian World in 1882.
He put Atlantis in the Atlantic and saw Egypt and the Maya as its offspring.
He also said Egypt was the oldest colony of Atlantis and its civilization, which along with that of the Mayans of Central America represented a primitive reproduction of the Atlantean culture.
We must not forget that Plato informs us that the priests of Egypt assured Solon, when he visited them 600 years before the Christian era, that all communications between their people and the inhabitants of the "Lands of the West" had been interrupted for 9,000 years, in consequence of the great cataclysms, during which, in one night, the large island of Atlantis disappeared, submerged under the waves of the ocean.
It speaks of a land called Atland that sank in 2193 BC.
Rand and Rose Flem-Ath built on this to place Atlantis in Antarctica.
Gavin Menzies wrote The Lost Empire of Atlantis in 2011.
He equated Atlantis with the Minoan empire and its end with the Santorini eruption.
Jim Marrs covers his case on Where Was Atlantis.
Arysio Nunes dos Santos wrote Atlantis: The Lost Continent Finally Found.
He placed Atlantis in Indonesia, on land that drowned at the end of the Ice Age.
In the 1920s, the “sleeping prophet,” Edgar Cayce, saw Atlantis as a continent-size region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, with ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.
Cayce predicted that portions of Atlantis would be found in modern times.
Atlantis was large, it lasted a long time, and it left colonies behind.
For more books on the subject, see Books about Atlantis.
On The Story of Atlantis he writes:
On The Oldest Son of Noah he calls them "that mysterious people" whose bronze implements agreed exactly in style with those he thought came from Atlantis, and he reports Isaac Taylor's paper on Etruscan numerals: two dice found in a tomb carried words instead of pips, and those words matched the first six numbers of the Altaic branch of the Turanian languages.
The Story of Atlantis and Karnak both note that this kind of arch is identical in Central America, in the oldest buildings of Greece and in Etruscan remains.
The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New finds the Etruscan belief that evil spirits fought over the dead among the Mosquito Indians, and The Irish Colonies from Atlantis compares the Irish wake with the funeral feasts of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans.
The Story of Atlantis
In Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis, the Cushites become something much larger: a red, sunburnt branch of the Atlantean stock, a vast early empire, a script, and a form of government.
On The Destruction of Atlantis described in the deluge legends, the flood traditions are said to belong to three races: Aryan, Semitic, and Chamitic or Cushite.
On Traditions of Atlantis, Donnelly quotes Rawlinson on the reach of the early Cushite Empire, "from the Caucasus to the Indian Ocean, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the mouth of the Ganges," and calls it the empire of Dionysos, the empire of "Ad," the empire of Atlantis.
Traditions of Atlantis
Every Atlantis story on this site passes through one city.
The German book Atlantis, die Urheimat der Arier quotes the opening of the story in Plato's Timaeus, where Critias, one of the speakers, places the city:
Jürgen Spanuth's Atlantis dates Solon's visit to around 560 BC and notes the priest's claim that Sais was founded 8,000 years before Solon and Athens 9,000 years before (Timaeus 23e).
Ignatius Donnelly quotes the priest's rebuke to the Greeks on The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks:
The priests did not only speak of Atlantis.
Donnelly notes on The Destruction of Atlantis described in the deluge legends that the priest of Sais told Solon of a noble race in Athens before "the great deluge of all", which resisted Atlantis before the destruction came.
And in the letter Paul Schliemann published on How I found the lost Atlantis, his grandfather's last note points straight back to the city:
Jürgen Spanuth's Atlantis
How I found the lost Atlantis
The Destruction of Atlantis described in the deluge legends
That gap is one of the most concrete arguments in the Atlantis literature, and it is why I keep coming back to this metal.
On The Occult Sciences in Atlantis:
On Minoan Civilization: Colony of Atlantis, Gavin Menzies, in his 2011 book The Lost Empire of Atlantis, writes of ingots of nearly pure copper found in a sunken Minoan ship near Thera.
Plato's Atlantis had a metal second only to gold, orichalcum, which Spence glosses as mountain copper.
Minoan Civilization: Colony of Atlantis
The Atlantis writers of the nineteenth century reached for them again and again, and so do several channeled sources.
I sort the material in three groups: the historical Druids, the Druids of the Atlantis writers, and the Druids of the channeled and regression sources.
Donnelly places the Druids in his Atlantis chain twice.
See The Irish Colonies from Atlantis and The Origin of Our Alphabet.
See The Problem of Atlantis.
On The History of Atlantis he gives the Druid flood as a lake, Llyn Llion, that burst and covered the earth.
On The Occult Sciences in Atlantis he compares their training with Caesar's description.
Karl Georg Zschaetzsch adds on Atlantis, die Urheimat der Arier that the Druids of Gaul said part of their people came from the outermost islands of the ocean.
See The Story of Atlantis and Stone Henge.
On Kaloo and The Essenes Speak of the Kaloo Tribe from Atlantis the Kaloo bring their knowledge from Atlantis to the Druids.
The Irish Colonies from Atlantis
In the other, the Theosophical one, it is the name of a race that ruled Atlantis a hundred thousand years ago.
Babylon itself is the Akkadian Babilim, the Gate of the Gods, see Babylon's connection with Atlantis.
Scott-Elliot, in The Story of Atlantis, lists the Akkadians as the sixth sub-race of the Atlanteans.
See The Story of Atlantis.
The Story of Atlantis
The Aztec sources on this site call their homeland Aztlan, a name close to Atlan and Atlantis.
In the reading of Ignatius Donnelly and the writers after him, it is a memory of Atlantis.
See my review of The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies.
Matías De Stefano remembers that in Atlantis the high priests were called the blue ones.
What I see is that different sources, from Bashar to Matías De Stefano, place the blue gods at the same crossing of Lemuria, Atlantis and the Anunnaki.
Edgar Cayce places Amilius in Atlantis 100,000 to 98,000 years before Ram entered India.
Patricia Cori writes in Atlantis Rising that Atlantis dates back just about 100,000 earth years, with the first appearance of Homo sapiens.
See The beginning of Atlantis and Floods, Meteor strikes and Mantel shifts.
Patricia Cori also speaks of the 100,000 years of evolution of Atlantis, in which it rose and fell three times.
See Atlantis rose and fell in 3 distinct cycles.
An Atlantis author gave the same scene a different name for the god.
Donnelly reads that flood as a memory of Atlantis.
He says the Chaldean story points to "the land of Chronos, or Saturn" and to "the dominion of Atlantis".
Andrew Tomas, in his Atlantis book, belongs here too.
Another puts it on Atlantis.
In Atlantis and the Creation of Races Matias also says how the work was done.
Ignatius Donnelly, in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882), goes looking for the river that splits into four.
He finds it again and again, and he brings every copy home to Atlantis.
Donnelly still traces every copy back to Atlantis.
Donnelly does, and he chooses Atlantis.
In The Occult Sciences in Atlantis, the world before the flood, the Garden of Eden, and Atlantis are one place.
A Coptic writing, in what he calls the Arcane Tradition, sets the rivers of Atlantis in circles.
After that, Atlantis, where Donnelly and Spence both set the story.
Atlantis after that.
Bashar is speaking of the Anunnaki base in the age after Mu, and before Atlantis.
Donnelly's, and Spence's, is Atlantis, and Cayce's Adam, Amilius, lives in that age.
Set in the order of the ages, the first gardens were probably on Mu, then in the Middle East, then on Atlantis.
I read Lord Arundell of Wardour's The Secret of Plato's Atlantis for the place he gives Atlantis, the dates he will keep, and the secret he thinks Plato was using.
I set him beside the book he is answering, Donnelly's Atlantis: the Antediluvian World, and beside Plato's own Timaeus and Critias.
Title: The Secret of Plato's Atlantis.
What he claims: Plato's Atlantis is not a lost continent in the Atlantic, and its sinking is not the universal deluge.
Idealised from that voyage, Atlantis would be coextensive with the Carthaginian empire, including the Canary and Fortunate Islands, and the colonising of the islands and of the mainland beyond the Atlas mountains.
At the end of Chapter I he says he has one statement left, and that he hopes in a later chapter to disclose the secret of Atlantis (p.
He calls that document the backbone of the Atlantis (p.
Plato, he thinks, states no fact about Atlantis that is not taken from it, except what Plato drew from general or family tradition.
If Atlantis was idealised from Hanno, it would be coextensive with the Carthaginian empire, including the Canary and Fortunate Islands (p.
Against a nine-thousand-year memory of slight Atlantis details, he keeps a three-thousand-year memory of paradise, the universal deluge, and the dispersion.
If Atlantis were the first seat, the trace should run west to east.
For the book this one answers, see Atlantis: The Antediluvian World.
The footnote names it: Atlantis: the Antediluvian World, by Ignatius Donnelly, seventh edition, Sampson Low, London, 1883.
The subsidence of the island or continent of Atlantis, at some indefinite period, was attended by similar circumstances, and the tradition of that catastrophe spread and created the impression of a universal deluge.
First, that an island or continent of Atlantis existed and sank.
He quotes Donnelly's own heads, from the existence of a large island opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean, a remnant of an Atlantic continent, through Plato's description as history, Atlantis as the place where man first rose from barbarism, the overflow to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Pacific coast of South America, the west coast of Europe and Africa, the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Caspian, and Atlantis as the true antediluvian world: Eden, the Hesperides, the Elysian Fields, the garden of Alcinous, the Mesomphalos, Olympos, and Asgard.
He calls the Atlantis story, in Donnelly's own term, "a novel proposition," not the tradition of the human race.
Donnelly's best point, as he grants it, is the string of names: the Atlas mountains on the African shore nearest the supposed site, an Atlan town on the American shore, Atlantis along the north-west coast of Africa, an Aztec people from Aztlan, the Atlantic, the deity Atlas, and an immemorial tradition of an island.
He answers that one form of the legend already makes Atlas king of Mauritania, where the mountains and the Atlantis are, and that Atlas turned into a mountain by Perseus may be enough to explain a story of a power out of the Atlantic checked by Athens, the city of Athene.
The Irish colonies chapter opens as if Spain and France had already been shown to owe a great part of their population to Atlantis.
Language of that kind, he says, proves a common origin and a migration from Mesopotamia as readily as an emigration from Atlantis, unless one is prepared to derive the Mayas from Maia, daughter of Atlas.
A passage Donnelly gives as the barbarians' awe of the civilised people of Atlantis, their tread shaking the earth, their speed, their wisdom, is, he says, Murray on the Olympians.
Donnelly has decided that Olympos and Atlantis are the same name, so everything said of one is said of the other.
He allows that Atlantis, Olympos, and Asgard can be parts of one common tradition.
The onus is on Donnelly to show that Meru, Olympos, Elysium, Asgard, and Midgard centred on Atlantis.
Donnelly's line, that nations west of the Atlantic look east and nations east of it look west, so that tradition converges on Atlantis, is, he says, equally true if mankind started from the plain of Sennaar.
He asks the reader to decide whether Atlantis belongs with the one historic narrative, or whether all the others grew out of the slender reminiscences in Plato.
Given the amount of scepticism which will attach to the transmission of traditions of such calibre as the garden of paradise, the universal Deluge, the dispersion during 3000 years, how much will exist as to the preservation of the slight reminiscences of Atlantis, as above, during 9000 years?
Atlantis, if the geological argument is kept, sank.
Donnelly, he says, uses that tradition to send the legendary heroes out as survivors of Atlantis and civilisers of the countries they reach, rather than as memories of Noah.
Kronos and Poseidon are not sent in the same way, because Donnelly needs them at the start of Atlantis.
Lenormant's Ilu is the god the Greeks likened to Kronos, and one ideographic name is a land cut by canals, explained as cleansing or inundating, "the god of inundation, the god of the deluge." Poseidon in Atlantis encircles a hill with zones of sea and land and cuts canals.
If those are the same diluvian traditions, Plato's Atlantis would contain diluvian traditions from before the alleged subsidence, which he calls impossible.
Ergo, I should infer, a conclusion at which I shall arrive more definitely by another route, that Atlantis was, in the main, only general tradition taking form and embodiment in the mind of Plato.
Donnelly's lines, and if the submersion of Atlantis took place 9000 B.C., writings extending back only six thousand years do not help us at all.
This chapter, however, has already run to too great length, and the statement will perhaps be more appropriately reserved for consideration in a subsequent chapter, in which I think I shall be able to disclose the secret of Atlantis.
He prints both texts in full in the appendices, Hanno from Heeren and the Atlantis description from Jowett's Critias.
It is my contention (1) that this document forms, so to speak, the backbone of the Atlantis.
Assuming that Atlantis was idealised from the narrative of Hanno, Atlantis would be coextensive with the Carthaginian empire, including the Canary and Fortunate Islands.
The warm and cold springs under the central island, and the food springing abundantly, he says Plato has moved a little earlier than Hanno's order, so as to give Poseidon at Atlantis the same feat as at Athens, where in the reign of Cecrops he called forth a well on the Acropolis with his trident.
The Atlantis island, or continent, thus shrinks to these dimensions.
The other leaves a volcanic subsidence impending, to be read with the earlier statement that Atlantis was sunk by an earthquake.
In speaking of the Atlantis as a fiction I by no means intend that it was a fabrication intended to deceive his contemporaries.
It is not a second site for Atlantis.
In the last chapter I ventured to contend that the Periplus of Hanno was the main foundation for Plato's myth of Atlantis.
Whether the story was true or false, universal or only the drowning of Atlantis, it was either the deluge of Moses, the Hebrews, the Chaldaeans, and general tradition, or the subsidence Donnelly puts under all of them.
On the other side, the deluge of Genesis would be only one line of the tradition of the submersion of Atlantis, "that great deluge of all," as Plato calls it.
If Atlantis is Plato's fiction, every imported tradition will be located there.
He says the extracts are taken somewhat at random, but that pieced together they exhaust Plato's disclosures about Atlantis.
The conception of Atlantis probably originated in some development of the diluvian tradition.
An allegory of Atlantis, in the interval, would have served the same enthusiasm.
Poseidon receives Atlantis, begets children by a mortal woman, and settles them.
It is not a new site for Atlantis.