The Guanches, the first people of the Canary Islands, come up again and again in the Atlantis literature I read.
Professor Retzius, in his Smithsonian Report, considers that the primitive dolichocephalæ of America are nearly related to the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and to the population on the Atlantic seaboard of Africa, which Latham comprises under the name of Egyptian-Atlantidæ.
On The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New he calls the Guanches probably a fragment of the old Atlantean population, who believed in the immortality of the soul.
On Atlantis Reconstructed the page notes that the Guanches were men of very great stature.
On Mummification the Guanches stand beside the Egyptians and the Peruvians as peoples who preserved their dead.
For every page I tagged with Guanches, see the Guanches tag archive.
The colony and the Guanches.
The Guanches are the debris of a nation once flourishing, almost all massacred.
Unfortunately the Guanches, debris of a nation once so flourishing, were almost all massacred by the adventurers who, at various times, attempted the conquest of the Canaries.
A similar female cult flourished among the Guanches of the Canary Islands.
The Magades (also spelled Maguadas or Harimagades/Harimaguadas) were a sect of virgin priestesses among the Guanches, the indigenous Berber people of the Canary Islands.
The Guanches revered dragon trees as sacred.
How comes it that the sandals upon the feet of the statue of Chacmol, discovered at Chichen Itza, are “exact representations of those found on the feet of the Guanches, the early inhabitants of the Canary Islands, whose mummies are occasionally discovered in the eaves of Teneriffe?” Dr.
Professor Retzius, in his Smithsonian Report, considers that the primitive dolichocephalæ of America are nearly related to the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and to the population on the Atlantic seaboard of Africa, which Latham comprises under the name of Egyptian-Atlantidæ.
The Guanches of the Canary Islands were men of very great stature.
How comes it that the sandals upon the feet of the statue of Chacmol, discovered at Chichen Itza, are "exact representations of those found on the feet of the Guanches, the early inhabitants of the Canary Islands, whose mummies are occasionally discovered in the eaves of Teneriffe?" Dr.
266), declares, "With regard to the primitive dolichocephalæ of America I entertain a hypothesis still more bold, namely, that they are nearly related to the Guanches in the Canary Islands, and to the Atlantic populations of Africa, the Moors, Tuaricks, Copts, etc., which Latham comprises under the name of Egyptian-Atlantidæ.
That the Guanches of the Canary Islands, supposed to be a remnant of the Atlantean population, preserved their dead as mummies.
Religious Beliefs.--The Guanches of the Canary Islands, who were probably a fragment of the old Atlantean population, believed in the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of
Professor Retzius, in his Smithsonian Report, considers that the primitive dolichocephalæ of America are nearly related to the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and to the population on the Atlantic seaboard of Africa, which Latham comprises under the name of Egyptian-Atlantidæ.
In "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World" by Ignatius Donnelly, it is stated that the Egyptians, the Guanches of the Canary Islands, and the Peruvians all shared this belief and practiced mummification as a result.
Donnelly mentions that mummification was practiced by the Guanches of the Canary Islands, Egyptians, and Peruvians, indicating a widespread tradition that transcended geographical boundaries.
The practice of embalming the dead, found among the Guanches, Egyptians, Assyrians, and American civilizations, suggests a common religious belief in bodily resurrection.
The Guanches of the Canary Islands, Egyptians, and Peruvians all believed in the immortality of the soul and preserved their dead through mummification.