With the couvade, the practice of circumcision, unity of religious beliefs and customs, folk-lore, and alphabetical signs, language and flood legends, we array together a mass of unanswerable proofs of prehistoric identity of race.
The summer solstice, coinciding with the heliacal rising of Sirius, marked the beginning of the annual Nile flood, crucial for Egypt's agriculture.
He emphasizes that this is the first of three flood stories in the early chapters of Genesis, and notes that two different flood narratives have been combined in Genesis 6.
"There seems to be no way of accounting either for the early use of letters among so many different nations, or for the resemblance which existed between some of the graphic systems employed by those nations, than by supposing hieroglyphical writing, if I may be allowed the term, to have been in use among the Tsabaists in the first ages after the Flood, when Tsabaisin (planet-worship) was the religion of almost every country that was yet inhabited."
It may be said that it is improbable that the use of an alphabet could have ascended to antediluvian times, or to that prehistoric age when intercourse existed between ancient Europe and America; but it must be remembered that if the Flood legends of Europe and Asia are worth anything they prove that the art of writing existed at the date of the Deluge, and that records of antediluvian learning were preserved by those who escaped the Flood; while Plato tells us that the people of Atlantis engraved their laws upon columns of bronze and plates of gold.
The Druids believed in books more ancient than the Flood.
3.) Suidas, a Greek lexicographer of the eleventh century, expresses tradition when he says, "Adam was the author of arts and letters." The Egyptians said that their god Anubis was an antediluvian, and it wrote annals before the Flood." The Chinese have traditions that the earliest race of their nation, prior to history, "taught all the arts of life and wrote books." "The Goths always had the use of letters;" and Le Grand affirms that before or soon after the Flood "there were found the acts of great men engraved in letters on large stones." (Fosbroke's "Encyclopædia of Antiquity," vol.
In one form of the Tower of Babel legend, that of the Toltecs, we are told that the pyramid of Cholula was erected "as a means of escape from a second flood, should another occur."
in the Deluge legends of the Hindoos (as given on page 87 ante), we have seen Manu saving a small fish, which subsequently grew to a great size, and warned him of the coming of the Flood.
"'Thou shalt enter the spacious ark, and continue in it secure from the Flood on one immense ocean.' .
All this reminds us of "the fountains of the great deep and the flood-gates of heaven," and seems to repeat precisely the story of Plato as to the sinking of Atlantis in the ocean.
The ancient Mexican legends say that, after the Flood, Coxcox and his wife, after wandering one hundred and four years, landed at Antlan, and passed thence to Capultepec, and thence to Culhuacan, and lastly to Mexico.
35.) The Stygian flood, and Scylla and Charybdis, are found among the legends of the Caribs.
The Bachelor and Admiral rivers, and the numerous mineral springs which arise in that part of the island, are all running a thick white flood, like cream milk.
The Hindoo legend of the Flood speaks of "the marine god Hayagriva, who dwelt in the abyss," who produced the cataclysm.
Berosus, in his version of the Chaldean flood, says:
"The deity, Chronos, appeared to him (Xisuthros) in a vision, and warned him that, upon the 15th day of the month Dœsius, there would be a flood by which mankind would be destroyed.
The Hindoo Bhâgavata-Purâna tells us that the fish-god, who warned Satyravata of the coming of the Flood, directed him to place the sacred Scriptures in a safe place, "in order to preserve them from Hayagriva, a marine horse dwelling in the abyss."
The cause of these similarities can be easily explained: the legends of the Flood did not pass into America by way of the Aleutian Islands, or through the Buddhists of Asia, but were derived from an actual knowledge of Atlantis possessed by the people of America.
This flood is represented as the last cataclysm that devastates the earth."
The learned Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg translates from the Aztec language of the "Codex Chimalpopoca" the following Flood legend:
The native Mexican historian, Ixtlilxochitl, gave this as the Toltec legend of the Flood:
they wandered 104 years through different parts of the world before they reached Hue Hue Tlapalan, which was in Ce Tecpatl, 520 years after the Flood." ("Ixtlilxochitl Relaciones," in Kingsborough's "Mex.
He opened a breach in the earth at Tequendama, through which the waters of the flood escaped, precisely as we have seen them disappearing through the crevice in the earth near Bambyce, in Greece.
Now turn to the sculpture in the Flood tablet (on the great Calendar stone).
There you will find represented the Flood, and with great emphasis, by the accumulation of all those symbols with which the ancient Mexicans conveyed the idea of water: a tub of standing water, drops springing out--not two, as heretofore in the symbol for Atl, water--but four drops; the picture for moisture, a snail; above, a crocodile, the king ofCALENDAR STONECALENDAR STONEthe rivers.
The above figure represents the Flood tablet on the great Calendar stone.
According to Father Charlevoix, the tribes of Canada and the valley of the Mississippi relate in their rude legends that all mankind was destroyed by a flood, and that the Good Spirit, to repeople the earth, had changed animals into men.
All this happened very long ago, at the first land, Netamaki, beyond the great ocean Kitahikau." Then follows the Song of the Flood:
The beings and men all go forth from the flood creeping in shallow water or
Water running off, it is drying; in the plains and the mountains, at the path of the cave, elsewhere went the powerful action or motion." Then follows Song 3, describing the condition of mankind after the Flood.
After the flood came a dispersing of the people, and a separation into hunters and tillers of the soil.
Among the Mandan Indians we not only find flood legends, but, more remarkable still, we find an image of the ark preserved from generation to generation, and a religious ceremony performed
which refers plainly to the destruction of Atlantis, and to the arrival of one of those who escaped from the Flood, bringing the dreadful tidings of the disaster.
To which be replied by narrating the sad catastrophe which had happened on the earth's surface by the overflowing of the waters, saying that 'he was the only person saved from the universal calamity; that he landed his big canoe on a high mountain in the west, where he now resides; that be has come to open the medicine lodge, which must needs receive a present of an edged tool from the owner of every wigwam, that it may be sacrificed to the water; for,' he says, 'if this is not done there will be another flood, and no one will be saved, as it was with such tools that the big canoe was made.'
Here we have the image of the ark; here we have a white man coming with the news that "the waters had overflowed the land," and that all the people were destroyed except himself; here we have the sacrifice to appease the spirit that caused the Flood, just as we find the Flood terminating, in the Hebrew, Chaldean, and Central American legends, with a sacrifice.
Here, too, we have the image of the tortoise, which we find in other flood legends of the Indians, and which is a very natural symbol for an island.
Here we have the Flood legend clearly connected with a lost island.
The Nicaraguans believed "that ages ago the world was destroyed by a flood, in which the most part of mankind perished.
75.) The wild Apaches, "wild from their natal hour," have a legend that "the first days of the world were happy and peaceful days;" then came a great flood, from which Montezuma and the coyote alone escaped.
The Pimas, an Indian tribe allied to the Papagos, have a peculiar flood legend.
This has already been observed by Pictet, who lays due stress on the following passage of the Bhâgavata-Purâna: 'In seven days,' said Vishnu to Satyravata, 'the three worlds shall be submerged.' There is nothing like this in the Brâhmana nor the Mahâbhârata, but in Genesis the Lord says to Noah, 'Yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth;' and a little farther we read, 'After seven days the waters of the flood were upon the earth.'.
It relates how Yima, who, in the original and primitive conception, was the father of the human race, was warned by Ahuramazda, the good deity, of the earth being about to be devastated by a flood.
It is said that in his time the whole land was covered by a flood, whose waters reached the sky, and from which he, together with some companions, escaped in a vessel.
At Megara, in Greece, it was the eponym of the city, Megaros, son of Zeus and one of the nymphs, Sithnides, who, warned by the cry of cranes of the imminence of the danger of the coming flood, took refuge on Mount Geranien.
was the Thessalian Cerambos, who was said to have escaped the flood by rising into the air on wings given him by the nymphs; and it was Perirrhoos, son of Eolus, that Zeus Naios had preserved at Dodona.
No one can read these legends and doubt that the Flood watt an historical reality.
But we have not reached the end of our Flood legends.
Egypt does not contain a single allusion to the Flood.
The Egyptians had preserved in their annals the precise history of the destruction of Atlantis, out of which the Flood legends grew; and, as they told the Greeks, there had been no universal flood, but only local catastrophes.
The four rivers he supposes to be gushing up the spouts of Paradise." They are depicted on the above map: O is the Mediterranean Sea; P, the Arabian Gulf; L, the Caspian Sea; Q, the Tigris; M, the river Pison; "and J, the land where men dwelt before the Flood."
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
"And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
"And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
"And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
We will see hereafter that the Hebrews and their Flood legend are closely connected with the Phœnicians, whose connection with Atlantis is established in many ways.
It will be more and more evident as we proceed in the consideration of the Flood legends of other nations, that the Antediluvian World was none other than Atlantis.
And so the line was taken, when three thousand years of government flew by, by king a rover bold, a son of him who wore the cross of promise; one who stemmed the flood of bitter opposition to a war which nearly wrecked the navy—in that day a feeble line of galleys, later great and striking awe to every heart where sailed the wondrous fleet in southern sea.
The king who reigned in Egypt when the flood destroyed Atlantis was Osiris, son of him who reigned in that ripe age when law perfected brought to that doomed land all things of Earth.
Thus they read the law—"all nature at its flood."
Fifth, the testimony of ancient writers, of early race traditions, and of archaic flood-legends.
Fifth.—It only remains now to summarize some of the evidence obtainable from ancient writers, from early race traditions, and from archaic flood-legends.
The marvellous uniformity of the flood legends on all parts of the globe, alone remains to be dealt with.
It would be needless waste of time and space to go over these flood stories one by one.
Egypt must now be referred to, and the consideration of this subject should let in a flood of light upon its early history.
This event, which occasioned a great dispersion of the Frisian race, became the commencement of a chronological reckoning corresponding with 2193 before Christ, and is known by geologists as the Cimbrian flood.
Last year I saved them in the flood, as well as you and your mother; but they got wet, and therefore began to perish.
If Wr-alda had given us no organs, we should have known nothing, and been more irrational than a piece of sea-weed driven up and down by the ebb and flood.
My house was strong enough, he said, but the flood and the wind destroyed it.
After the great flood of which my father wrote an account, there came many Jutlanders and Letlanders out of the Baltic, or bad sea.
The first great destruction of Atlantis occurred around 11,500 BCE due to natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods.
The Great Flood described in Genesis is often linked to the destruction of Atlantis.
Ignatius Donnelly argued that the flood myth in the Bible and similar legends in Chaldean records and other ancient texts could be a cultural memory of the catastrophe that submerged Atlantis.
Genesis 7:12: It rained for 40 days and 40 nights during the flood.
During his visit, Solon allegedly learned about ancient civilizations from an Egyptian elder priest named Sanus, who claimed that the Greeks only remembered one great flood but that there had been many.
Snelling, previously featured in a documentary, led research projects in the canyon, focusing on sediment layers from the Flood.
Snelling hypothesizes that the layers were laid down during the Flood and folded while they were still soft, just a year later.
The speaker highlights a Pharaoh’s dream about a global flood and subsequent efforts to preserve knowledge through the construction of pyramids.
my God!" she exclaimed, bursting into a flood of tears that were as quickly repressed.
She broke into a storm of agonized weeping, and I sought not to stop the flood, knowing that sometimes tears are a blessed relief.
Knew in a flood of bitter memory, which recalled how recreant I had been to the high resolve on Pitach Rhok to be successful, as a result of being true to my divine, God-considering selfhood.
In the Bible, the pre-flood period, often referred to as the antediluvian period, primarily focuses on the early descendants of Adam and the broader human population before the Great Flood.
They are said to be the offspring of "the sons of God" and "the daughters of men." They are often associated with the pre-flood era and are considered part of the reason for the corruption that led to the flood.
The Bible briefly mentions the line of Cain in Genesis 4, focusing on individuals rather than a nation or tribe, but it represents the early human population before the flood.
Description: Technically, all pre-flood humans are Adamites, as they are descendants of Adam.
This includes the lineage leading to Noah, who is key in the pre-flood narrative.
Description: A pre-flood figure from the line of Seth who is notable for "walking with God" and being taken by God without dying (Genesis 5:24).
Description: A descendant of Cain, known for his boastful declaration in Genesis 4:23-24, which reflects the increasing violence and moral decline of the pre-flood world.
We come now to another question: “Did the Aryan or Japhetic race come from Atlantis?” If the Aryans are the Japhetic race, and if Japheth was one of the sons of the patriarch who escaped from the Deluge, then assuredly, if the tradition of Genesis be true, the Aryans came from the drowned land, to wit, Atlantis. According to Genesis, the descendants of the Japheth who escaped out of the Flood with Noah are the Ionians, the inhabitants of the Morea, the dwellers on the Cilician coast of Asia Minor, the Cyprians, the Dodoneans of Macedonia, the Iberians, and the Thracians. These are all now recognized as Aryans, except the Iberians.
Aryans and Japhetic Race: The passage suggests that if the Aryans are the Japhetic race and if Japheth was a son of Noah who survived the Deluge (biblical flood), then according to the tradition of Genesis, the Aryans would have originated from Atlantis.
Nephilim: Mentioned in Genesis 6:4, possibly associated with the pre-flood era.
The Mighty Hunter named Nimrod receives a brief mention after the flood in Genesis 6-9 as a great-grandson of Noah, grandson of Ham.
Both are lists of post-flood rulers of cities.
Mesopotamia played an enormous role in the development of the Genesis creation stories—Adam and Eve, the flood, and now the post-flood table of nations, which includes the Tower of Babel resembling a Babylonian ziggurat.
This derogatory usage likely stems from the negative reputation given to this post-flood hero.
Although the Book of Genesis portrays Nimrod favorably as the first post-flood king and builder of cities, the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible presents him as a giant and mistranslates the Hebrew phrase meaning "before Yahweh" as "in opposition against God." Consequently, Nimrod became associated with idolatry, embodying the archetypal idolater.
Both figures are connected to the post-flood world.
Both are connected to the post-flood world.
Gilgamesh is depicted as a king ruling in the aftermath of the flood, and Nimrod is portrayed as a prominent figure in the generation following the deluge.
Paul Wallis began the discussion by addressing the complexity of flood narratives found across various ancient cultures, including the Biblical stories of Noah.
Wallis pointed out that even within the Bible, there are multiple flood narratives, which may represent different events or a series of planetary resets.
Matthew LaCroix responded by highlighting how his research had been focused on connecting these ancient flood stories with other global narratives, particularly those of Atlantis, Peru, and the Sumerian civilization.
This story is paralleled in the Biblical narrative of Noah, where five bloodlines survive a global flood.
The conversation then turned to the Legend of Etana, a set of tablets that describe the rebuilding of civilization after a great flood.
LaCroix proposed that the survivors of the flood, including the descendants of Noah, traveled to various parts of the world, bringing with them the knowledge of construction, astronomy, and spirituality.
This, according to LaCroix, is further evidence of a global civilization that spread across the world after the great flood.
Great Flood
Recovery after the great flood
The Bible's Preflood Stories - While not directly mentioning Atlantis, some interpretations link the story of Atlantis with the Biblical flood, though this connection is speculative.
Genesis 6:17: “For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven.
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.”*These verses describe the Great Flood, which can be interpreted as a divine judgment leading to the destruction of a significant civilization, potentially linked to the sinking of Atlantis in the theory.
In fact, you may see the upheaval in the depiction that you have in the Bible of the Great Flood.
Nir (Noah's brother, mentioned in 2 Enoch) and any other unnamed siblings, as well as extended family members, did not survive the flood according to the biblical narrative and associated texts.
Only the eight individuals on the Ark were preserved through the flood.