He proposed that Atlantis was a real advanced civilization destroyed by a cataclysm (linked to the biblical Flood) and that it served as the source of all major ancient cultures through hyperdiffusion.
In Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), Ignatius Donnelly advanced a catastrophist theory, claiming that a comet’s near-collision with Earth caused the biblical Flood, the destruction of Atlantis, and the extinction of mammoths.
The event involved major planetary changes (pole shift or inversion) that caused massive floods.
These floods appear in stories across cultures (Noah’s flood, Manu in India, etc.).
According to Rudolf Steiner, the decline and submersion of Atlantis resulted from increasing materialism, misuse of spiritual forces, and moral degeneration, events he linked to a great flood marking the transition to the current post-Atlantean epoch.
On this page I gather what the site says about Baalbek: the flood memory kept by its priests, the megaliths, the readings that tie it to the Tower of Babel and the Anunnaki, and the god Baal who gave it its name.
About eighteen hundred years ago Lucian recorded a remarkable story which illustrates how strong the traditions of the Great Flood were in antiquity.
Dan on Noah labels, floods, and debunking: a missing building record at Baalbek is not, on its own, a verdict about the builders.
In the reading of Jim Marrs, following Zecharia Sitchin, Baalbek was a post-Flood center of the Anunnaki, and an Arabic text found there says Nimrod tried to build a shem.
Great Flood
Carlson highlights how cultures worldwide, from ancient Peruvians to Egyptians and Mexicans, synchronized their calendars with the Pleiades’ rising, associating this time with flood and fire myths.
This is the temple from the 1903 visionary/interpretive work Atlantis: The Book of the Angels (sometimes styled Atlantis, the Book of the Angels), which presents a dramatic, often grim account of pre-flood Atlantean civilization centered on the characters Azta (Tizin Azta, empress/queen figure), Tekthah, Huitza, and others.
This account draws on biblical flood themes and presents a more dramatic, sacrificial, and visually intense temple than the meditative, unfed-light-focused Incalithlon in Oliver’s work.
In Edgar Cayce’s readings, “sons and daughters of men” (or “sons of men” / “daughters of men”) carries both a specific historical/esoteric meaning tied to Atlantis and pre-flood times, and a broader spiritual meaning referring to ordinary incarnated humanity.
OAHSPE has strong pre-flood parallels: angels/ethereans (“sons of God” type beings) descending and mixing with early earth beings (Asu/proto-humans), producing new races, leading to corruption, drujas (dark spirits), false gods causing chaos, and eventual floods/sinking of lands (e.g., Whaga/Pan).
But flood nor fire succeeded.Thus the sons and daughters of natural man filled the earth.
But we have something in us that sort of is quite amenable to the concept of a reset where earth goes through the cycle of perhaps overpopulation and depravity and then some angry god sets us right because we've been taught that God is vengeful and gets really angry with humanity and then punishes everyone and we all die in some great flood event.
They blame a comet for its end and for the flood Noah knew.
They read the biblical flood as a memory of that event, and say Noah was a priest architect of Atlantis who led ships to new colonies.
you may see the upheaval in the depiction that you have in the Bible of the great flood.
They tie the end of Atlantis to the flood story in Genesis.
God (Jehovih) called Abram from He-sa, led him to the ancient land of Ham (a pre-flood region associated with the descendants of Ham, later devastated by “druks”, a term in Oahspe for certain beings or peoples), and renamed him Abraham (Abra-Ham).
God led Abram away from He-sa, his native place, where he was a maker of baskets, and took him to the ancient land of Ham, which had been destroyed by druks, before the flood, as the name signify; whereafter God surnamed him Abraham, and made him chief rab’bah over the Faithists of Arabin’ya.
In many versions, she steals the key (sometimes with a lover's encouragement or devilish influence) to open the dikes—either for a party or by mistake—causing the sea to flood and destroy Ys.
The Flood: Only Gradlon escapes on horseback, often aided by a saint (St.
After the flood, Gradlon flees to Quimper, which becomes his new capital.
Its sixth chapter, Yvy Ru'o, is the flood, and its seventh, Yvy Pyaú, is the new earth.
The gods answered with a great flood, the Mba'e-meg̃ua guasu, which destroyed the First Earth, and then they withdrew to a dwelling in the sky.
Cadogan's table of contents for the flood chapter names two outcomes: the passage of the virtuous and the metempsychosis of sinners.
In it the flood starts as a great forest fire coming from the west.
They climb a pindó palm and cling to its crown, and as the water rises the palm grows with it, so the flood never reaches them.
After the flood Ñamandú decides to make a second, imperfect earth and asks Jakaira for help.
Plants, animals and people fill it, and the survivors of the flood come to live there, but now there is illness, pain, hunger and death.
For flood stories from other peoples, see flood stories from around the world and the deluge legends of America.
Grand Canyon (Flood history)
All lakes were large bodies of fresh water and the ‘Great Salt Lake’ was an inland sea of fresh floods, bearing icebergs from the glaciers on its northern shores.
These figures appear in Genesis 5 and contribute to a calculated timeline from creation to the flood of about 1,656 years, based on the ages at which each patriarch fathered the next in the line (e.g., Adam at 130, Seth at 105, and so on, up to Noah's 600th year at the flood).
Post-flood lifespans (e.g., in Genesis 11) are already shorter without adjustment, breaking chronological consistency if only pre-flood ages are lunar.
Undermines the narrative intent: The Bible emphasizes extraordinary pre-flood longevity to contrast with post-flood decline, symbolizing a shift in human condition due to sin or divine decree.
The biblical text presents the patriarchs as distinct individuals with personal stories (e.g., Adam's creation, Noah's flood role), not abstract dynasties.
The flood narrative ties to Noah's specific 600th year, suggesting literal chronology rather than symbolic spans.
This theory posits that Genesis 5 draws from older Mesopotamian texts, like the Sumerian King List, where pre-flood rulers reigned for tens of thousands of years.
Adjusting for Noah's 600 at the flood, the total from Adam to the flood becomes about 245,175 years—within 2% of the Sumerian King List's 249,200 years pre-flood.
Genesis parallels the Sumerian list with 10 pre-flood figures, ending in a flood.
Post-flood biblical ages (e.g., 10 patriarchs in Genesis 11) shorten naturally, but Sumerian lists have long post-flood reigns (e.g., 25,000+ years), suggesting selective adaptation.
This theory treats the ten patriarchs from Adam to Noah as a sequence of ten successive kings or rulers in a pre-flood civilization, Atlantis.
The total span from the first patriarch to the flood is therefore approximately 10,000 years.
Upon its destruction, these vast saline waters entered into the Earth’s atmosphere causing the first of two massive prehistoric deluges and tribulations that mankind would experience." (Tsarion describes the flood from Tiamat's oceans as the cause of Earth's first major deluge around 50,000 years ago.)
Do you not know that such a heaven is for you?7. The man replied, Of heaven we have heard; but then it is so far away, and we must live so many lives before we can reach that place!8. And Jesus said, My brother, man, your thoughts are wrong; your heaven is not far away; and it is not a place of metes and bounds, is not a country to be reached; it is a state of mind.9. God never made a heaven for man; he never made a hell; we are creators and we make our own.10. Now, cease to seek for heaven in the sky; just open up the windows of the hearts, and, like a flood of light, a heaven will come and bring a boundless joy; then toil will be no cruel task.11. The people were amazed, and gathered close to hear this strange young master speak,12. Imploring him to tell them more about the Father-God; about the heaven that men can make on earth; about the boundless joy.13. And Jesus spoke a parable; he said, A certain man possessed a field; the soil was hard and poor.14. By constant toil he scarcely could provide enough of food to keep his family from want.15. One day a miner who could see beneath the soil, in passing on his way, saw this poor man and his unfruitful field.16. He called the weary toiler and he said, My brother, know you not that just below the surface of your barren field rich treasures lie concealed?17. You plough and sow and reap in scanty way, and day by day you tread upon a mine of gold and precious stones.18. This wealth lies not upon the surface of the ground; but if you will dig away the rocky soil, and delve down deep into the earth, you need no longer till the soil for naught.19. The man believed.
No other land has been the homeland of such mighty men of thought as grace your scrolls of fame.13. A host of sturdy giants of philosophy, of poetry, of science, and of art, were born upon the soil of Greece, and rocked to manhood in your cradle of pure thought.14. I come not here to speak of science, of philosophy, or art; of these you are the world's best masters now.15. But all your high accomplishments are but stepping stones to worlds beyond the realm of sense; are but illusive shadows flitting on the walls of time.16. But I would tell you of a life beyond, within; a real life that cannot pass away.17. In science and philosophy there is no power strong enough to fit a soul to recognise itself, or to commune with God.18. I would not stay the flow of your great streams of thought; but I would turn them to the channels of the soul.19. Unaided by the Spirit-breath, the work of intellection tends to solve the problems of the things we see, and nothing more.20. The senses were ordained to bring into the mind mere pictures of the things that pass away; they do not deal with real things; they do not comprehend eternal law.21. But man has something in his soul, a something that will tear the veil apart that he may see the world of real things.22. We call this something, spirit consciousness; it sleeps in every soul, and cannot be awakened till the Holy Breath becomes a welcome guest.23. This Holy Breath knocks at the door of every soul, but cannot enter in until the will of man throws wide the door.24. There is no power in intellect to turn the key; philosophy and science both have toiled to get a glimpse behind the veil; but they have failed.25. The secret spring that throws ajar the door of soul is touched by nothing else than purity in life, by prayer and holy thought.26. Return, O mystic stream of Grecian thought, and mingle your clear waters with the flood of Spirit-life; and then the spirit consciousness will sleep no more, and man will know, and God will bless.27. When Jesus had thus said he stepped aside.
a catch of crabs, and lobsters, sharks and creeping things, with now and then a fish of better kind.13. Behold the thousands come to hear the Wild Man of the hills; they come in crowds that he may wash them in the crystal flood, and with their lips they do confess their sins.14. But when the morrow comes we find them in their haunts of vice again, reviling John, and cursing God, and heaping insults on the king.15. But blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see the king.16. And blessed are the strong in heart, for they shall not be cast about by every wind that blows;17. But while the fickle and the thoughtless have gone back to Egypt land for leeks and carnal herbs to satisfy their appetites, the pure in heart have found the king.18. But even those whose faith is weak, and who are naught but carnal manifests, will some day come again, and enter in with joy to see the king.19. O men of Israel, take heed to what this prophet has to say!
Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.29. The man who hears the words of life and does them not is like the man who builds his house upon the sand, which when the floods come on, is washed away and all is lost.30. But he who hears the words of life and in an honest, sincere heart receives and treasures them and lives the holy life,31. Is like the man who builds the house upon the rock; the floods may come, the winds may blow, the storms may beat upon his house; it is not moved.32. Go forth and build your life upon the solid rock of truth, and all the powers of the evil one will shake it not.33. And Jesus finished all his sayings on the mount and then he, with the twelve, returned unto Capernaum.
Be not deceived; go not into their ways.10. For when the son of man will come again no man need point the way; for as the lightning lights the heavens, so will the son of man light up the heavens and earth.11. But, lo, I say, that many generations will have come and gone before the son of man shall come in power; but when he comes no one will say, Lo, here is Christ; lo, there.12. But as it was before the flood in Noah's day, so shall it be.
The people ate, they drank,were filled with merriment and sang for joy,13. And did not know their doom until the ark was done and Noah entered in; but then the flood came on and swept them all away.14. So, also, in the days of Lot; the people ate and drank; they bought, they sold, they planted and they reaped, they went their ways in sin, and they cared not;15. But when the righteous Lot went from their city's gates the earth beneath the city shook, and brimstone fires fell from heaven;16. The gapping jaws of earth flew wide, and swallowed up their homes, their wealth, and they went down to rise no more.17. So shall it be when comes the son of man in power.18. I charge you men, as I will charge men then, Seek not to save your wealth, or you will lose your lives.
A Roman soldier dipped a sponge in vinegar and myrrh, and placed it to his lips.7. Now, at the ninth hour of the day the earth began to quake, and in the darkness of that sunless day, a flood of golden light appeared above the cross;8. And from the light a voice was heard which said, Lo, it is done.9. And Jesus said, My Father-God, into thy hands I give my soul.10. A Roman soldier in compassion said, This agony is all too great; relief shall come.
In the Bible that confusion comes after the Flood, when the sons of Noah spread over the earth and the Tower of Babel was left unfinished.
Post-Flood, Noah divided the continents: Asia to Shem, Africa to Ham, and Europe to Japheth.
Before the flood, the world is described as following a simpler cosmic order.
Tablet XI of Gilgamesh (the flood story) uses round 360-day calculations when counting time during the flood and its aftermath, reflecting the old schematic calendar.
Some late scholarly commentaries and omens describe the 13th month as something the gods “added later” to the original perfect 12-month year after the flood or after a cosmic disturbance.
an explicit pre-flood ice-age destruction caused by shaking the earth’s poles,
the exact sequence fire → ice → flood,
All other canonical and most extra-biblical Jewish sources suppressed or removed the fire and ice stages, leaving only the flood.
This follows an initial plague (or fire/drought in some reconstructions) and precedes the flood.
Escalation to flood: Enlil convenes the assembly (II viii 12–14): "Their clamour has become too irksome...
Flood execution: Tablet III details the seven-day deluge, Atrahasis's survival, and post-flood reforms (e.g., infant mortality to control numbers).
15–16) describes the Second World (Tokpa) ending in polar instability and global freezing, following fire (First World) and preceding flood (Third World).
Biblical final redactor: same motif → leads Israel after Egypt, long after the Flood The Hopi sequence therefore preserves the original logic of the motif:divine guidance → escape → world destroyed by fire → later flood.The Hebrew Priestly writer simply re-deployed the same ancient template centuries later for a different national story.
In the aftermath of this war, both the victorious ancient Athenians and the island of Atlantis itself were destroyed in a single day and night of catastrophic earthquakes and floods.
[…] At a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them, when the whole body of your warriors was swallowed up by the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner was swallowed up by the sea and vanished.” — Plato, Critias
"But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea."
Atlantean-Lumerian War: The Atlantean-Lemurian War occurred around 11,000 BC and caused a global flood.
This led to conflict, destruction, and widespread flood myths in cultures worldwide.
Much has been said about these supposed columns, some connect them to the "Seriadic Columns" mentioned by Manetho, supposedly erected by Thoth before the great flood.Others bring up the "columns of Enoch" of extrabiblical memory, however they are not related to Atlantis.I think this legend of Egyptian monuments, where the story of Atlantis could be read, has some basis of truth, if you look at the Edfu temple texts for example, the Egyptian creation stories, island of fire / island of the flame etc...
And finally, there were also some Christian authors including Tertullian and Arnobius who accepted the existence of Atlantis, sometimes linking it to the story of Noah's flood...This is what many people do even today, and it's wrong on so many levels, for example the dates do not coincide...
But even more important, and I always point this out, if we make the mistake of reducing all the floods to just one, we are doing the exact mistake that the Egyptian priests met by Solon tell us not to do, they said we are like children if we think there was only one flood, because instead there were many floods and cataclysms.
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, are the sole human survivors of the flood in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 1.
So, when earth, caked in mud from the recent flood, possessed the sun’s heat after the high water had remained on it, she produced innumerable species, partly re-creating previous forms, partly generating new monsters.
This progression illustrates how virtue erodes over time, leading to divine punishment via a flood.
During the Iron Age, Jupiter, outraged by human depravity (exemplified by King Lycaon's actions), convened the gods and ended that age by sending a great flood to destroy most of humanity, sparing only Deucalion and Pyrrha.
However, his reign extends through the subsequent ages, culminating in his decision to end the Iron Age with a flood (lines 163–312).
He destroys most of humanity with a flood, sparing only Deucalion and Pyrrha to repopulate the earth.
He chooses a flood instead, and he tells the gods that another race of humans will follow.
Jupiter then tests humanity through Lycaon (lines 177–243), confirming their depravity, and resolves to flood the earth (lines 244–261):
He chooses a flood instead, and he tells the gods that another race of humans will follow.
Ended by Jupiter's intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha to repopulate the earth
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, are the sole human survivors of the flood in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 1.
Ended by Jupiter's intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the sole human survivors of the flood, repopulate the earth
Zeus’s reign oversees the decline through the Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages, culminating in the flood to end human corruption, followed by repopulation through Deucalion and Pyrrha.
Ended by Jupiter's (Zeus) intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the sole human survivors of the flood, repopulate the earth
In Greek mythology, the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, as the sole survivors of a great flood who repopulate the earth by throwing stones that become humans, is primarily detailed in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book 1, lines 348–415), a Roman work that draws heavily on Greek traditions.
However, Greek sources also preserve versions of this flood myth, and some continue or connect to the narrative of human renewal, though they vary in detail and focus.
Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca (1.7.2) provides a Greek version of the flood myth, closely paralleling Ovid’s account.
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, survive a flood sent by Zeus to destroy the corrupt Bronze Age race.
"But Zeus, wishing to destroy the race of men, sent a flood upon the earth.
He describes them as surviving the flood and creating a new race from stones, connecting their act to the origins of the Opuntian people.
"When the dark cloud of the flood covered the earth, Deucalion and Pyrrha, leaving their ark, built their home on the heights of Parnassus.
While the flood and stone-throwing are not detailed in surviving fragments, the text continues the narrative by tracing their descendants, who shape the heroic age.
This connects the flood survivors to the heroic narratives of later Greek myths, such as the Trojan War.
"But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.
Ovid’s Description: Dominated by greed, crime, and impiety, ended by Jupiter’s flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha (Metamorphoses 1.128–312).
Verse (Flood): I do not quote a modern English of the flood.
Zeus’s decision to destroy Atlantis mirrors Jupiter’s flood in Ovid, both targeting human wickedness.
Atlantis could be a specific civilization within the Iron Age, destroyed by Zeus as part of or parallel to the broader flood that spares Deucalion and Pyrrha.
The catastrophic flood align with the Iron Age’s end, suggesting Atlantis as a localized example of divine judgment.
Connection: In Metamorphoses 1.275–292, Neptune (Poseidon) aids Jupiter’s flood, suggesting his role in both creating and destroying maritime civilizations like Atlantis, linking him to the Iron Age’s end.
While Hesiod does not mention Atlantis, his flood myth in Catalogue of Women (Fragment 2–5) connects Deucalion to Greek origins, paralleling Plato’s destruction of a corrupt society.
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, survives the flood in Ovid and Apollodorus.
Zeus’s punishment of Atlantis (Critias 121a–c) aligns with Jupiter’s flood to end the Iron Age (Metamorphoses 1.244–312), possibly as a localized event within a global deluge.
Mirrors Zeus’s destruction of Atlantis via floods and earthquakes (Critias 121a).
Plato’s Atlantis can be integrated into Ovid’s Iron Age as a civilization that rises under Poseidon’s Olympian influence and falls due to Zeus’s punishment for its corruption, paralleling the flood that ends the age.
Hesiod’s myths provide additional context, with Deucalion’s survival echoing broader Greek flood traditions.
Ended by Jupiter's (Zeus) intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the sole human survivors of the flood, repopulate the earth
His actions, involving human sacrifice and cannibalism, exemplify the moral corruption of the Iron Age, prompting Jupiter to destroy humanity with a flood.