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.
Ignatius Donnelly, in Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, argues that the gods of the Phoenicians were, like the gods of the Greeks, the remembered kings of Atlantis.
The full chapter is on https://drumsofatlantis.com/book/atlantis-the-antediluvian-world/the-gods-of-the-phoenician-also-kings-of-atlantis.
In Donnelly's reading, the Phoenician cosmogony gives the Titans (Rephaim) an origin in the gods Agrus and Agrotus, which ties the Phoenicians to the island in the far west where the Greeks placed the Titans.
Chronos then travels the habitable world and gives Egypt to the god Taaut, the inventor of the alphabet, whom the Egyptians called Thoth (see https://drumsofatlantis.com/thoth), "the god of letters, the clerk of the under-world".
For Donnelly the names line up with Plato: Autochthon, Atlas and Poseidon appear in both, and Plato's kings Mestor and Mneseus "are probably the gods Misor and Amynus of the Phoenicians".
He writes that Ptah "was the object of their highest adoration" and was "the father of the god of the sun." That sun god was Ra, whom Donnelly calls the supreme divinity at On, or Heliopolis, near Memphis.
Donnelly gives the Babylonian trinity as Hea, Anu and Bel, with Bel as the sun and the favourite god, and Sin as the goddess of the moon.
The Phoenicians, he says, honoured the sun as Baal-Samin, "the great god, the god of light and the heavens, the creator and rejuvenator." See also Baal.
Donnelly claims the Greeks were too young to have shared the religion of Atlantis but kept a memory of it, and so "proceeded to convert its kings into gods, and to depict Atlantis itself as the heaven of the human race." He supports this with Murray's "Mythology."
Murray on gods who could die
Murray also writes that the gods were thought to have human form and to be, like men, "subject to love and pain." Donnelly reads this as a sign that the gods of Greece were deified kings.
Donnelly lists the twelve gods of Olympus, after Murray, as Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis, Hephæstos, Pallas Athena, Ares, Aphrodite, Hermes and Hestia.
He calls these "doubtless the twelve gods from whom the Egyptians derived their kings."
In Plato's account Poseidon was the god of Atlantis, and in Greek myth he was the god of the sea.
Donnelly writes that the land of the gods passed through a Golden Age and a Silver Age of peace, then a Bronze Age and an Iron Age, and was finally lost to a flood that Zeus sent as punishment.
Donnelly takes up the gods of Phoenicia in the next chapter.
In Hindu myth the Aditya are the oldest group of gods, the "sons of Aditi".
Donnelly, following Whitney's Oriental and Linguistic Studies, notes that they are gods of light, that there are twelve of them, and that they ruled the twelve months of the year.
Varuna, "the god of the ocean" in the Vedas, is one of them, and Donnelly matches him with the Greek Uranos.
He adds that Genesis 5:2 says God "called their name Adam", the name of a whole people.
Across the ocean, the people of Guatemala said they came from a goddess called At-tit, "grandmother", who lived four hundred years and first taught the worship of the true God.
The Mexican calendar stone, he says, shows the sun usually called tonatiuh, but called Atl-tona-ti-uh when it is the god of the Deluge.
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.
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.
And when Xisuthros inquired in what direction he should steer his bark, he was answered, 'toward the gods,' and enjoined to pray that good might come of it for men.
When they stop coming back, he sees the ship has grounded on a mountain, sacrifices to the gods and vanishes with his wife, his daughter and the pilot.
In the account Donnelly quotes from François Lenormant, it is the eleventh tablet of an epic of Uruk, in which the hero, sick with a kind of leprosy, seeks out Khasisatra, the survivor of the flood whom the gods made immortal.
Khasisatra then offers a sacrifice on the peak, and he and his wife are carried away to live like the gods "at the mouth of the rivers." Lenormant, as Donnelly quotes him, finds that the narrative "follows with great exactness the same course as that, or, rather, as those of Genesis".
The first is about the god who gave the warning.
In Donnelly's account: Chronos (Saturn): The god who warned of the flood is linked to a great civilization in the Atlantic, matching Atlantis’s description.
More on that god is at https://drumsofatlantis.com/chronos and https://drumsofatlantis.com/saturn.
His other points, in short: Ea, the god of the tablets, was a half-man, half-fish god of "the abyss" who brought civilization and letters, so he stands in Donnelly's view for a maritime nation.
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.
In the fullest answer we can only say : Man, as a spiritual Being, comes forth from God and returns to God
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.
God Consciousness: The ultimate level of existence and awareness.
There you find an indication of what the initiates of the East had to give, and what was given back to them by the Celts was the Balder myth, the myth of the god of light and the god of darkness.
They added to this myth something that lay in the future, namely the fall of the gods.
Balder could not withstand this fall, so a second migration was prepared for after the twilight of the gods.
North: Masculine gods were revered; warlike nature present.
In this talk he argues that the Bible keeps the memory of other beings who arrived on Earth, and that later editors painted over it with a single God.
He says the name Yahweh was pasted over older stories of the Elohim, and that treating those stories as the acts of God has been used to excuse violence.
He also talks about his own family and the people who write to him, and says Jesus saw God as a father and kept clear of the Yahweh stories.
Wallis says the Hebrew scriptures were reworked in the sixth century BCE to look like a story of one God, and that older stories of rival powerful beings still show through.
He says the name Yahweh was pasted over earlier Elohim stories, and that reading them as the acts of God has been used to excuse violence.
He says Jesus spoke of God as a father, and that the early church dropped the Hebrew law in Acts 15.
He says the Eden story does not work if it is read as God against the devil.
if you worship a god who will do genocide you have to justify genocide
that in which we all live and move and have our being and i think that's a wonderful definition of god
He likes the way Paul in Acts 17 describes God.
Du'uzu: named after the god Tammuz.
Festivals to thank the gods and ask for blessings.
Included processions of god statues, a recitation of the Enuma Elish, temple rites at the Esagila, the king's humbling (stripped and then reinstated), sacrifices and feasts.
It was mainly associated with the Babylonian god Marduk and with the renewal of kingship and of the cosmos.
It symbolized the victory of the god Marduk over the forces of chaos.
Statues of gods from temples in Babylon and nearby cities were brought to the Esagila, Marduk's temple.
Many animals and other offerings were sacrificed to Marduk and the other gods.
Its rituals stressed the king's divine right to rule and strengthened his authority and his tie to the gods.
In Assyria, the festival included elements specific to the Assyrian gods and political setting, though many core elements stayed close to the Babylonian tradition.
Autumn festivals (September-October) marked the end of the agricultural year and the preparation for winter, with harvest celebrations, offerings of first fruits, and rituals to thank the gods for their protection and blessings.
The most important belonged to the chief god of each city-state, above all Marduk in Babylon.
Babylon's Akitu festival is the best documented, but other Mesopotamian cities held similar festivals for their main gods.
In the Assyrian city of Assur (Ashur), the temple of the god Ashur was the centre of the New Year celebrations, which shared elements with the Babylonian Akitu festival.
Ashur, the chief god of the Assyrians, was honoured with rituals that affirmed his supremacy and the king's divine mandate.
Nabu, the god of wisdom and writing, was another important god in the Akitu festival.
Nippur, the religious centre of Sumer, held a similar festival for Enlil, the chief god of the Sumerian pantheon.
Temples were purified to prepare for the presence of the gods.
Sacred texts such as the "Enuma Elish" were recited to tell of the gods' victories and the creation of the world.
Statues of the gods were carried from their temples in elaborate processions, often moving between temples to symbolize journeys through the cosmos.
Animals, food and other offerings were given to the gods to win their favour and blessing for the coming year.
He gained early fame by defeating the Philistine giant Goliath with a slingshot, showcasing his bravery and faith in God.
He is revered as a model king and a "man after God's own heart," despite his flaws.
The stele begins with an introduction by King Mesha, who identifies himself as the son of Chemosh-yat, the king of Moab, and a devout follower of the god Chemosh.
Chemosh was the primary god of the Moabites, and his worship was central to their religious and cultural identity.
For example, in 1 Kings 11:7, King Solomon is criticized for building a high place for Chemosh on a hill east of Jerusalem, as part of his accommodation of the foreign gods worshipped by his wives.
In Judges 11:24, Jephthah, a judge of Israel, acknowledges Chemosh as the god of the Moabites in a diplomatic context, illustrating the recognition of Chemosh's importance to Moab.
Chemosh is often depicted as a god of war and victory, reflecting the martial character of Moabite society.
For example, the Ammonite god Milcom and the Phoenician god Baal share certain similarities in terms of worship practices and attributes.
These sacrifices were meant to appease the gods, seek their favor, or atone for sins.
Worship of these gods included feasts and festivals, which involved communal meals, offerings, and celebrations.
Baal, being a storm and fertility god, had festivals that celebrated agricultural fertility and the seasonal rains.
This was facilitated by the close interactions and sometimes overlapping territories of the peoples who worshiped these gods.
Temples dedicated to these gods housed statues or idols representing the deity.
Archaeological evidence from various sites in the Levant shows similar architectural styles and decorative motifs in temples dedicated to these gods.
Worshipers of Chemosh, Milcom, and Baal often made vows or offered intercessory prayers to gain the gods' favor for personal, agricultural, or military success.
David's legacy includes unifying the Israelite tribes, establishing Jerusalem as the capital, and his covenant with God, which promised that his descendants would rule Israel.
Adam recoiled with horror, and exclaimed, “God has given me one thousand years; wherefore comest thou now?”