The notion of mountains as sacred links between heaven and earth was prevalent throughout the ancient Near East.
Masai (East Africa):Tumbainot, a righteous man, had a wife named Naipande and three sons, Oshomo, Bartimaro, and Barmao.
Facing north, east, and west, the man swore that the woman was his sister; facing south, the man said she was his wife.
Fitzroy River area, Western Australian:During the Dreamtime flood, woramba, the Ark Gumana carrying Noah, Aborigines, and animals, drifted south and came to rest in the flood plain of Djilinbadu (about 70 km south of Noonkanbah Station, just south of the Barbwire Range and east of the Worral Range), where it can still be seen today.
The white man's claim that it landed in the Middle East was a lie to keep Aborigines in subservience.
Andingari (Southern Australia):Gabidji, Little Wallaby, traveled east carrying a full waterbag.
It was spreading inland, too, but Bird Women came from the east and restrained the waters with a barrier of roots of the ngalda kurrajong tree.
Moved by his penitence, Ruahatu told him to go with his wife and child to Toamarama, a small low island (not more than two feet above sea level) in a lagoon on the east side of Raiatea.
The father of all tribes, who lived in the east, was warned in dreams of a deluge.
The Changer sent a Spirit Man from the east to teach them civilization.
The canoe came down where it was built and can still be seen on the east side of Toppenish Ridge.
These first animal people now live at a great rock far to the east.
He dug a tunnel at the east end of the world, filled it with fir bark, and lit it.
He drew a cross and placed magic parcels at the east and west points, and his song brought forth from them two women, Utset, the mother of all Indians, and Nowutset, the mother of all other races.
Coyote reported that there was sea to the west, south, and east, but seemingly endless land to the north.
(In other versions, the vessel was a canoe.) She closed him in and caulked the cracks, and he floated in the flood for five years, first floating south, then north, then west, then east, then rising upward as the whole world flooded.
Cora (east of the Huichols):As in the Huichol myth, a woodman was warned of a coming flood by a woman.
The speaker explains that the Diné (Navajo) people’s origin is traditionally understood to come from the East, countering more recent teachings suggesting a northern origin.
Upon completion, the Hogan is dedicated in a sacred ceremony, marking the four directions—east, south, west, and north—with white clay or cornmeal.
New rocks are placed to the east of the entryway, where a fire heats them.
Both Hogans are traditionally constructed using juniper wood and designed with entrances facing east.
This ceremony includes marking four directions with white clay or cornmeal inside the Hogan, starting with the east and moving in a sacred pattern.
East: Silver (white metal)
East: Represents thinking.
However, he notes that despite ongoing conflicts, including recent wars in the Middle East, the feared end-of-world scenarios have not materialized.
Yoruba religion shares similarities with Vodun practiced by the neighboring Fon and Ewe peoples to its west and the religion of the Edo people to its east.
One of the most famous stories involving the Eight Immortals is the "Crossing of the East Sea".
According to legend, the Eight Immortals were once traveling to a meeting of the Immortals and decided to cross the East Sea (also called the Bohai Sea).
This voyage led to a confrontation with the Dragon King of the East Sea, who was angered by their passage through his domain without permission.
Rob Skiba introduces the topic by referring to the Genesis 6 event, which he calls the "Genesis 6 experiment." He notes that researcher David Flynn identified this location as 33.33 degrees east from the Paris prime meridian and 33.33 degrees north.
"He came from the East." He brought seven families with him.
(Lenormant and Chevallier, "Ancient History of the East," vol.
Their colonies and trading-posts extended east and west from the shores of the Black Sea, through the Mediterranean to the west coast of Africa and of Spain, and around to Ireland and England; while from north to south they ranged from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf.
The Samoyed woman says to the sun, "When thou, god, risest, I too rise from my bed." Every morning even now the Brahmans stand on one foot, with their hands held out before them and their faces turned to the east, adoring the sun.
"They are personified by a monarch to whom everything is ascribed, and to whom is assigned several centuries of life." ("Ancient History of the East," Lenormant and Chevallier, vol.
"It was a paradise that Shedad had built in imitation of the celestial Paradise, of whose delights he had heard." ("Ancient History of the East," p.
("Ancient History of the East," p.
He shows that the practice of flattening the head had existed from an early date throughout the East, and described an ancient skull, greatly distorted by artificial means, which had lately been found in Lower Austria.
On the whole, then, I consider that the first knowledge of bronze may have been conveyed to the populations of the period tinder review not only by the Phœnicians, but by other civilized people dwelling more to the south-east."
They were troublesome to the nations of the East for many centuries; for in 700 B.C.
120) says, "Whenever we find the bronze swords or celts, whether in Ireland, in the far west, in Scotland, in distant Scandinavia, in Germany, or still farther east, in the Sclavonic countries, they are the same--not similar in character, but identical." Says Sir John Lubbock ("Prehistoric Times," p.
The monument, facing due east, aligns with the constellation of Leo around 10,500 BCE during the vernal equinox.
of the East," vol.
This is in the alphabet of the Mayas, the ancient people of the peninsula of Yucatan, who claim that their civilization came to them across the sea in ships from the east, that is, from the direction of Atlantis.
They came, their legends tell us, from the East, from beyond the sea.
"In the beginning, before the light of the sun had been created, this land (Cholula) was in obscurity and darkness, and void of any created thing; all was a plain, without hill or elevation, encircled in every part by water, without tree or created thing; and immediately after the light and the sun arose in the east there appeared gigantic men of deformed stature and possessed the land, and desiring to see the nativity of the sun, as well as his occident, proposed to go and seek them.
Dividing themselves into two parties, some journeyed to the west and others toward the east; these travelled; until the sea cut off their road, whereupon they determined to return to the place from which they started, and arriving at this place (Cholula), not finding the means of reaching the sun, enamored of his light and beauty, they determined to build a tower so high that its summit should reach the sky.
Their mental superiority and command of the arts gave them the character of giants who arrived from the East; who had divided into two great emigrations, one moving eastward (toward Europe), the other westward (toward America).
Both legends were probably derived from Atlantis, and referred to some gigantic structure of great height built by that people; and when the story emigrated to the east and west, it was in the one case affixed to the tower of the Chaldeans, and in the other to the pyramid of Cholula, precisely as we find the ark of the Deluge resting upon separate mountain-chains all the way from Greece to Armenia.
Both the Jews and Mexicans worshipped toward the east.
The Mexican temple, like the Jewish, faced the east.
East," vol.
There is no etymology for it east of the Atlantic Ocean.
of the East," p.
547.) How did the red men of Central America know anything about "black men and white men?" The conclusion seems inevitable that these legends of a primitive, peaceful, and happy land, an Aztlan in the East, inhabited by black and white men, to which all the civilized nations of America traced their origin, could only refer to Atlantis--that bridge of land where the white, dark, and red races met.
The "Popol Vuh" proceeds to tell how this first home of the race became over-populous, and how the people under Balam-Quitze migrated; how their language became "confounded," in other words, broken up into dialects, in consequence of separation; and how some of the people "went to the East, and many came hither to Guatemala." (Ibid., p.
We hear of no civilization coining to the Mediterranean from Asia, Africa, or Europe--from north, south, or west; but north, south, east, and west we find civilization radiating from the Mediterranean to other lands.
Their territories extend from the Atlantic to the Ganges, and from Iceland to Ceylon, and are bordered on the north and east by the Asiatic Mongols, and on the south by the negro tribes of Central Africa.
East," vol.
"From the distant East, from the fabulous Hue Hue Tlapalan, this mysterious person came to Tula, and became the patron god and high-priest of the ancestors of the Toltecs.
He finally returned to the land in the East from which he came: leaving the American coast at Vera Cruz, he embarked in a canoe made of serpent-skins, and 'sailed away into the east.'" (Ibid., p.
That is to say, the birthplace of the race was in the East, across the sea, at a place called Tulan and when they emigrated they called their first stopping-place on the American continent Tulan also; and besides this there were two other Tulans.
According to Ixtlilxochitl, these people-which are conceded to be one occupied the world in the third age; they came from the East in ships or barks to the land of Potonchan, which they commenced to populate."
Lizana says that the smaller portion, 'the little descent,' came from the East, while the greater portion, 'the great descent,' came from the West.
He was the leader of a colony from the East." ("North Amer.
Inquiries instituted on Monday morning revealed the fact that, except on the south-east, the mud shower had not extended beyond the limits of the town.
of the East," vol.
The "Popul Vuh" tells us that after the migration from Aztlan three sons of the King of the Quiches, upon the death of their father, "determined to go as their fathers had ordered to the East, on the shores of the sea whence their fathers had come, to receive the royalty, 'bidding adieu to their brothers and friends, and promising to return.' Doubtless they passed over the sea when they went to the East to receive the royalty.
Now this is the name of the lord, of the monarch of the people of the East where they went.
This legend not only points to the East as the place of origin of these races, but also proves that this land of the East, this Aztlan, this Atlantis, exercised dominion over the colonies in Central America, and furnished them with the essentials of civilization.
"The good and the holy were the hunters;" they spread themselves north, south, east, and west." Meantime all the snakes were afraid in their huts, and the Snake-priest Nakopowa said to all, 'Let us go.' Eastwardly they go forth at Snakeland (Akhokink), and they went away earnestly grieving." Afterward the fathers of the Delawares, who "were always boating and navigating," find that the Snake-people have taken possession of a fine country; and they collect together the people from north, south, east, and west, and attempt "to pass over the waters of the frozen sea to possess that land." They seem to travel in the dark of an Arctic winter until they come to a gap of open sea.
Lynd), "all the tribes of Indians were formerly one, and all dwelt together on an island, or at least across a large water toward the east or sunrise.
"The invasion of the East," says Baldwin ('Prehistoric Nations,' p.
The shadows groan on the ways of Hel (the goddess of death), until the fire of Surt has consumed the tree. Hyrm steers from the east, the waters rise, the mundane snake is coiled in jötun-rage.
It will be observed that, while he locates Paradise in the east, he places the scene of the Deluge in the west; and he supposes that Noah came from the scene of the Deluge to Europe.
of the East," vol.
of the East," p.