Flood Stories from Around the World
Mandan (North Dakota):The earth is a large tortoise.
Today, a plank structure called the "big canoe" stands in the central plaza of a Mandan village.
The Mandans celebrate the subsidence of the flood every year with a ceremony called Mee-nee-ro-ka-ha-sha, held when willow leaves are fully grown because the twig that the turtle-dove brought home had such leaves.
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The Kings of Atlantis become the Gods of the Greeks
The Mandan Indians celebrated the Flood with twelve typical characters, who danced around the ark.
The Bronze Age in Europe
The Mandan Indiana built round houses very much of this appearance.
The Question of Complexion
We have already seen that the Mandans preserved an image of the ark, and possessed legends of a clearly Atlantean character.
"A stranger in the Mandan village is first struck with the different shades of complexion and various colors of hair which
And I recollect perfectly well that Governor Clarke told me, before I started for this place, that I would find the Mandans a strange people and half white.
And by passing this hair through my hands I have found it uniformly to be as coarse and harsh as a horse's mane, differing materially from the hair of other colors, which, among the Mandans, is generally as fine and soft as silk.
"The stature of the Mandans is rather below the ordinary size of man, with beautiful symmetry of form and proportion, and wonderful suppleness and elasticity."
The Mandans are as light as the peasants of Spain, while their brothers, the Crows, are as dark as the Arabs.
The Indentity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the New
In the buffalo dance of the Mandan Indians the dancers covered their heads with a mask made of the head and horns of the buffalo.
The Deluge Legends of America
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
It must be remembered, as we will show hereafter, that many of these Mandan Indians were white men, with hazel, gray, and blue eyes, and all shades of color of the hair from black to pure white; that they dwelt in houses in fortified towns, and manufactured earthen-ware pots in which they could boil water--an art unknown to the ordinary Indians, who boiled water by putting heated stones into it.
I quote the very interesting account of George Catlin, who visited the Mandans nearly fifty years ago, lately republished in London in the "North American Indians," a very curious and valuable work.
The Mandans were evidently of the race of Atlantis.
This explanation is confirmed by the fact that in the legends of the Iowa Indians, who were a branch of the Dakotas, or Sioux Indians, and relatives of the Mandans (according to Major James W.
The Mandans celebrated their great religious festival above described in the season when the willow is first in leaf, and a dove is mixed up in the ceremonies; and they further relate a legend that "the world was once a great tortoise, borne on the waters, and covered with earth, and that when one day, in digging the soil, a tribe of white men, who had made holes in the earth to a great depth digging for badgers, at length pierced the shell of the tortoise, it sank, and the water covering it drowned all men with the exception of one, who saved himself in a boat; and when the earth re-emerged, sent out a dove, who returned with a branch of willow in its beak."
But the recurrence of "white men" as the miners, and of a white man as "the last and only man," and the presence of white blood in the veins of the people, all point to the same conclusion--that the Mandans were colonists from Atlantis.
And here I might add that Catlin found the following singular resemblances between the Mandan tongue and the Welsh:
According to Major Lynd, the Dakotas, or Sioux, belonged to the same race as the Mandans; hence the interest which .attaches to these verbal similarities.
The Story of Atlantis
From the white tint of the Menominee, Dakota, Mandan and Zuni tribes, many of whom have auburn hair and blue eyes, to the almost negro blackness of the Karos of Kansas and the now extinct tribes of California, the Indian races run through every shade of red-brown, copper, olive, cinnamon, and bronze.
American Evidences of Intercourse with Europe or Atlantis
The Mandans exhibited a remarkable diversity in complexion and hair color, with individuals ranging from light to dark skin and various hair colors, including silvery-gray.
The Deluge Legends of America
Mandans: Celebrated a festival involving a "Big Canoe," representing the ark.