Father of Gods: Donnelly emphasizes Chronos’s position as the father of the Olympian gods, particularly Zeus, and connects this with broader themes of divine authority and cosmic order.
Father of Zeus: Like Plato and Donnelly, Bridgman-Metchum emphasizes Chronos’s role as the father of Zeus and the other Olympian gods, highlighting the familial dynamics and power struggles.
Patriarch of the Olympian Gods: All three writers emphasize Chronos’s role as the father of Zeus and the other Olympian gods.
Zeus "The king of the gods" in ancient Greek mythology
Jove’s rule began: Jove, the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Zeus, overthrew his father, Saturnus (equated with Cronus in Greek mythology), and banished him to Tartarus, a dark underworld prison.
Zeus, the god of gods, who rules by law and sees all things, perceived their wretched state and resolved to punish them, that they might be chastened and restored to virtue.
So he gathered all the gods in their most holy sanctuary, which, placed at the center of the world, beholds all created things.
Donnelly points out that the Egyptian god Amun-Ra, a supreme deity, shares similarities with Zeus in terms of power and authority.
Amun-Ra is often depicted with attributes that are reminiscent of Zeus, such as the control over elements and a dominant position among the gods.
The Norse god Odin shares many characteristics with Zeus, including being the chief of the gods and having control over aspects of the natural world.
Indra, the king of the gods in Hindu mythology, wields a thunderbolt and controls the weather, similar to Zeus.
Indra's role as a warrior god and his position as a leader of the gods reflect Zeus's attributes.
While these civilizations had their own distinct pantheons, Bridgman-Metchum suggests that the overarching concept of a supreme god with control over the elements can be traced back to Atlantean influences.
High Priest of Atlantis and God of the Seas (Diana Cooper)
Poseidon is the god who establishes the island of Atlantis.
As the god of the sea, Poseidon’s dominion over Atlantis is fitting, given its island nature.
Poseidon’s identity as the sea god is central, with his control over the waters symbolizing the power and isolation of Atlantis.
the ideas about the possibility for man to communicate with God directly, without intermediates, without rituals… France, Germany, the Netherlands… This process was completed with the liberating wave of Napoleon, which washed out almost completely the filth of the inquisition from the Earth.
— worshipped as a god.
The narrator already notes that it is feared, venerated, and worshipped as a god.
There was horror and frenzied approbation in that assent of a nation that their symbol should be sacrificed, all who perceived knowing and understanding that by such thing a nation signified its surrender to a Divinity whose power they did not comprehend, and which, their suddenly-strung consciences told them, was not the God of their fathers.
That assent marks surrender to a divinity they do not comprehend, and that their consciences say is not the God of their fathers.
Noah's condemnation of the idolatrous practices and his prophetic warnings about the destruction of Atlantis highlight the tension between the worship of Jehovah and the idolatry of the Fish-god.
It is also the site of the worship of the Fish-god, with a monstrous statue receiving offerings from the fishermen.
The Fish-god is a significant religious figure, particularly for the fishermen and those who frequent the harbor area.
Here are some details about the Fish-god based on the text:
Depiction: The Fish-god is described as a monstrous image, part man and part fish.
Location: The statue of the Fish-god is located at the entrance to the harbor.
Rituals and Worship: The Fish-god is regularly adorned with ornaments, especially during significant events such as the Jubilee of Zul.
Symbolism: The Fish-god holds a model of the Tacoatlanta in its hands, symbolizing its connection to the sea and maritime life.
Noah's condemnation of the idolatrous practices and his prophetic warnings about the destruction of Atlantis highlights the tension between the worship of Jehovah and the idolatry of the Fish-god.
At the same time, the followers of the Fish-god embody corruption and defiance of true worship.
The Atlanteans believed their forefather Adam to have been a god and deified their ancient ancestors.
This included obscene representations of mystical creation and effigies of degraded and bestial gods placed in every temple, grove, and garden.
This included the disembowelment of children and adults, with their blood being used in rituals to appease the gods.
Initially, the inhabitants of Atlantis possessed a pure faith and knowledge of God.
They maintained moral integrity and adhered to the commandments and teachings of God, avoiding the sensual and debased rituals that characterized the idolatrous practices.
Mercury, an Atlantean god, was revered by the Celtæ.
The Greek god Zeus, associated with Atlantis, parallels the Hindoo god Dyaus, indicating a shared origin.
The Hindoo god Deva-Nahusha, identified with Dionysos, was a king of Meru, which Theopompus described as the land of the Meropes, or the people of Atlantis.
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 great god of the Semites, El, is linked to numerous names and traditions across Semitic and Aryan languages, hinting at a shared origin.
It was the Mesomphalos of the earlier Greeks, and the Omphalium of the Cretans, dominating the Elysian fields, upon whose tops, bathed in pure, brilliant, incomparable light, the gods passed their days in ceaseless joys."
"It was a region of wonders of all kinds; Okeanos lived there with his wife Tethys: these were the Islands of the Blessed, the gardens of the gods, the sources of nectar and ambrosia, on which the gods lived.
On the mountains dwelt the gods; they had palaces on these mountains, with store-rooms, stabling, etc.
They were far famed in antiquity; for it was there that springs of nectar flowed by the couch of Zeus, and there that the earth displayed the rarest blessings of the gods; it was another Eden." (Ibid., p.
the enchanted gardens' of the Chinese and Tartars, watered by the four perennial fountains of Tychin, or Immortality; it is the hill-encompassed Ilá of the Singhalese and Thibetians, 'the everlasting dwelling-place of the wise and just.' It is the Sineru of the Buddhist, on the summit of which is Tawrutisa, the habitation of Sekrá, the supreme god, from which proceed the four sacred streams, running in as many contrary directions.
"And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." (Gen.
The Miztecs, a tribe dwelling on the outskirts of Mexico, had a tradition that the gods, "in the day of obscurity and darkness," built "a sumptuous palace, a masterpiece of skill, in which they male their abode upon a mountain.
The rock was called 'The Place of Heaven;' there the gods first abode on earth, living many years in great rest and content, as in a happy and delicious land, though the world still lay in obscurity and darkness.
The children of these gods made to themselves a garden, in which they put many trees, and fruit-trees, and flowers, and roses, and odorous herbs.
Subsequently there came a great deluge, in which many of the sons and daughters of the gods perished." (Bancroft's "Native Races," vol.
For many generations, as long as the divine nature lasted in them, they were obedient to the laws, and well affectioned toward the gods, who were their kinsmen; for they possessed true and in every way great spirits, practising gentleness and wisdom in the various chances of life, and in their intercourse with one another.
The Pyramid.--Not only are the Cross and the Garden of Eden identified with Atlantis, but in Atlantis, the habitation of the gods, we find the original model of all those pyramids which extend from India to Peru.
This, too, is the ordinary form of the altars dedicated to the Assyrian god of fertility.
The pyramidal imitations, dear to the hearts of colonists of the sacred mountain upon which their gods dwelt, was devoted, as perhaps the mountain itself was, to sun and fire worship.
In Germanic myth, the chief god appears under several dialect names.
They name the same deity complex, not three unrelated gods.
They are dialect names of one Germanic chief-god complex.
Ignatius Donnelly opened his 1882 chapter “The God Odin, Woden, or Wotan” in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by stating the Germanic identity, then moving into Olympus and Atlantis:
In the Scandinavian mythology the chief god was Odin, the Woden, Wotan, or Wuotan of the Germans.
He is represented with many of the attributes of the Greek god Zeus, and is supposed by some to be identical with him.
He dwelt with the twelve Æsir, or gods, upon Asgard, the Norse Olympus, which arose out of Midgard, a land half-way between the regions of frost and fire (to wit, in a temperate climate).
He places Odin with the twelve Æsir on Asgard, the Norse home of the gods.
The Æsir are the Norse gods of Odin’s tribe.
Germanic Odin, Woden, and Wotan are the same chief god.
Wotan, Woden, and Odin are dialect or cognate names of the same chief god, from reconstructed Wōðanaz.
What does Woden mean?Woden is the Old English form of the same god.
Not only were the gods of the Greeks the deified kings of Atlantis, but we also find that the mythology of the Phoenicians was drawn from the same source.
In the Phoenician cosmogony, the Titans (Rephaim) derive their origin from the gods Agrus and Agrotus.
The Phoenician god Ouranos had a daughter named Astarte (Ashtoreth) and another called Rhea.
Chronos traveled to different regions of the habitable world, giving Egypt as a kingdom to the god Taaut, who invented the alphabet.
The Egyptians called him Thoth, and he was depicted as "the god of letters, the clerk of the under-world," bearing a tablet, pen, and palm-branch.
The royal personages who formed the gods of Greece were also the gods of the Phoenicians.
The Phoenician gods and their myths show a deep connection to the kings and legends of Atlantis.
Ptah was the father of Ra, the sun-god, who was the supreme divinity.
Phoenicians: Their chief god was Baal-Samin, the god of light and creator.
The Greeks converted the kings of Atlantis into their gods and depicted Atlantis as the heaven of the human race.
The mythology of Greece contains references to gods who acted and behaved like humans, pointing to the historical kings of Atlantis.
Immortality: Greek gods were believed to be immortal but not eternal.
Human-like Attributes: The Greek gods had human qualities, including love, pain, and conflict, suggesting they were deified humans.
Olympus, the home of the Greek gods, is reminiscent of Atlantis:
Inhabitants: The gods of Olympus, like those of Atlantis, were twelve in number, including Zeus, Poseidon, and others.
At-tit: The Guatemalan deity associated with the worship of the true God, reminiscent of Atlantean religious practices.
The Spirit of God: The Bible says (Gen.
1:2), "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." The Quiche legend says, "The Creator—the Former, the Dominator—the feathered serpent—those that give life, moved upon the waters like a glowing light."
1:9), "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so." The Quiche legend says, "The creative spirits cried out 'Earth!' and in an instant it was formed, and rose like a vapor-cloud; immediately the plains and the mountains arose, and the cypress and pine appeared."
Divine Approval: The Bible tells us, "And God saw that it was good." The Quiche legend says, "Then Gucumatz was filled with joy, and cried out, 'Blessed be thy coming, O Heart of Heaven, Hurakan, thunder-bolt.'"
2:7) we are told, "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground." The Quiche legend says, "The first man was made of clay; but he had no intelligence, and was consumed in the water."
The gods, angered by their presumption, destroyed the structure and scattered the builders.
2:21-22), God created Eve from Adam's rib while he slept.
3:22-23), God expels Adam and Eve from Eden to prevent them from eating from the tree of life and living forever.
The Quiche legend states that the gods feared that men had become too perfect and clouded their vision.
Quetzalcoatl was a high-priest and god of the Toltecs, credited with various cultural advancements such as gem-cutting, metal-casting, and the invention of the Mexican calendar.
Ancient Mediterranean traditions, including those of Homer and Orpheus, refer to the ocean as the source of gods and life.
A little more, and they would make a god of it.
Before weeding the patch, incense was burned at each of the four corners of the field, to the four gods of the winds and rains; and the first fruits were consecrated to holy uses.
The Stone God, indeed, is a prominent figure in their mythology, as it was in their daily life.
This was the sacred Chay Abah, the Obsidian Stone, which was the oracle of their nation, and which revealed the will of the gods on all important civil and military questions.
In the Cakchiquel Annals, as in the Popol Vuh and the Maya Chronicles, we hear of the city of the sun god, Tulan or Tonatlan, as the place of their origin, of the land Zuiva and of the Nonoalcos, names belonging to the oldest cycles of myths in the religion of the Aztecs.
The Bible agrees with Plato in the statement that these Antediluvians had reached great populousness and wickedness, and that it was on account of their wickedness God resolved to destroy them.
In both the Bible history and Plato's story the destruction of the people was largely caused by the intermarriage of the superior or divine race, "the sons of God," with an inferior stock, "the children of men," whereby they were degraded and rendered wicked.
Popul Vuh: Describes a great flood caused by the god Hurakan, resulting in a resinous rain and darkness, akin to the Chaldean and biblical accounts.
Divine Intervention: Gods or spirits often warn of the flood and provide means of survival.
Chaldean Legend: Xisuthros (Khasisatra) is warned by the god Cronos (Ea) of a flood.
After the flood, Xisuthros sacrifices to the gods and is taken to live among them.
He builds a vessel and is guided to safety by the fish, which is an incarnation of a god.
Purânas: King Satyravata is saved by a fish-god, who warns him of the deluge.
The shorter, ancient version by Berosus describes how Xisuthros (Khasisatra) was warned by the god Cronos (Ea) of a coming flood and instructed to build a vessel to save his family, friends, and animals.
After the flood, Xisuthros’s vessel lands on a mountain, and he sacrifices to the gods.
Xisuthros and his family are then taken to dwell with the gods, while the survivors return to Babylon to disinter sacred writings and rebuild civilization.
The narrative includes precise instructions from the god Ea on building a large vessel, loading it with provisions and animals, and surviving a cataclysm involving rain, thunder, and earthquakes.
The hero releases birds to find land, and upon finding dry ground, he sacrifices to the gods, who then grant him and his wife immortality.
Chronos (Saturn): The god who warned of the flood is linked to a great civilization in the Atlantic, matching Atlantis’s description.
Ea: The fish-god who brought civilization from the ocean, indicating a maritime culture similar to the Atlanteans.
In Zulu mythology, the creator god Unkulunkulu emerged from a reed and began to create everything, including humanity, animals, and the physical features of the world.
The Shona people of Zimbabwe believe in a supreme god called Mwari, who created the world.
The Kikuyu people of Kenya believe in a god named Ngai, who lives on Mount Kenya (Kirinyaga).
He is remembered for his wisdom, leadership, and the divine favor he received from Ahura Mazda, the supreme god in Zoroastrianism.
Ahura Mazda: The supreme god in Zoroastrianism, who warns Yima of the impending catastrophe.
Against the White Cave of Initiation in the City of the Golden Gates was set up the Dark Cave in which the mysteries of Pan, the Earth-God, were celebrated.
Spiritual Journey: Man, as a spiritual being, originates from God and eventually returns to God.
WHENCE comes man and whither goes he t In the fullest answer we can only say : Man, as a spiritual Being, comes forth from God and returns to God; but the Whence and Whither with which we deal here denote a far more modest sweep.
And yet the title is not wholly wrong, for he who comes from God and goes to God isjijgj; precisely 'Man'.
That great Sage, Plato, one of the world's masterintellects, whose lofty ideas have dominated European thought, makes the pregnant statement: "God geometrises.
The religious student will think of the seven Ameshaspentas of the Zoroastriaii, of the seven Spirits before the throne of God of the Christian: the Theosophist of the supreme Triple Logos of the system, with His Ministers ; the
In the Monadic Sphere, on the super-spiritual level, dwell the Divine Emanations, the Sons of God, who are to take flesh and become Sons of Man in the coming universe.
Highlights of his writing career included addressing topics such as: the existence of a loving God, The Masters of Wisdom, what happens after death, immortality of the human soul, reincarnation, Karma or the Law of Consequence, development of clairvoyant abilities, the nature of thought forms, dreams, vegetarianism, Esoteric Christianity.
But the grandest display of all was at one of the great feasts of the Sun-God, when the people came together, each robed in the gorgeous vestment of his tutelary Deity, and the whole immense multitude performed the solemn circumambulation of the Suntemple.
It was His benediction that was sought by those who were more especially born under His influence, and He was regarded by them much as the great Archangels, the " seven Spirits before the throne of God," are regarded by the devout Christian — as a mighty Minister of the divine power of the LOGOS, a channel through which that ineffable splendour manifests itself.
It will be obvious that when the Manu and His lieutenants — great Adepts from a far higher evolution — incarnated among the youthful Race which They were labouring to develop, They were to those people absolutely as Gods in knowledge and power, so far were They in advance of them in every conceivable respect.
Fruit and flowers were offered in their temples, not from any idea that the Sun-God desired such service, but simply as a token that they owed all to Him; for one of the most prominent theories of their faith was that all light and life and power came from the Sun — a theory which is fully borne out by the discoveries of modern science.