Fish was always a popular item on menus in Atlantis, but some descendants developed a tradition of not eating seafood, such as the Iroquois of North America and the Tuaregs who lived in the Atlas Mountains of Africa.
The Cherokee share kinship with the Iroquois, also called Haudenosaunee, whom the readings identify as pure Atlantean descendants (1219-1).
The Iroquois moved north while the Cherokees went south.
The Cherokee hold equal status with the Iroquois as descendants of the Atlanteans.
Iroquois myth (Native American, Northeast US): Ancient ancestors emerge from a subterranean world inside the Earth, forming the basis of their creation narrative.
Source: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) oral tradition, as recorded in ethnographic studies (19th century, translated).
The Iroquois recount a story of the Stone Giants, or "Genoskwa," who were large, hairy beings with immense power.
The snake-locks of Medusa are represented in the snake-locks of At-otarho, an ancient culture-hero of the Iroquois.
"In the Greeks of Homer," says Volney, "I find the customs, discourse, and manners of the Iroquois, Delawares, and Miamis.
So, also, among the Iroquois the bride and bridegroom used to partake together of a cake of sagamite, which the bride always offered to her husband." (Ibid.)
"Among the Iroquois there is a tradition that the sea and waters infringed upon the land, so that all human life was destroyed.
The Iroquois Creation Myth:
Indigenous Narratives: Stories from the Iroquois, Yoruba, Edo, and Zulu people, which describe advanced beings shaping and populating Earth with life.
Iroquois Mythology: The Great Turtle carries the world on its back.
Iroquois, Chickasaws, Sioux: All have flood legends involving a single family or person surviving and repopulating the earth.
That the Mexicans had other traditions, now lost, touching this matter is probable, for they had a form of baptism for children in which they prayed that those baptized might be washed from "the original sin committed before the founding of the world." And this had to do, in all probability, with a legend akin to that of the Iroquois, who told of the primeval mother falling and then of the earth being built up to receive her when precipitated out of heaven.
But, according to an Iroquois legend, the great mother of the human race lost heaven for a pot of bears' grease.
In Iroquois lore, the mythical "little people" known as the Jogah, or Drum Dancers.
They are known to aid respectful Iroquois farmers and harbor an affinity for strawberries.
This is a legend of the Iroquois.
Optional neighbors on the same comparative shelf: Cochiti (white pigeon and flower) and Iroquois (Great Spirit warning; Mount Marcy landing in some tellings).