Bridgman-Metchum argues that many Mediterranean cultures, including the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, incorporated aspects of Atlantean mythology into their own religious systems.
We can trace it back through various cultures until we reach the ancient Egyptians and early forms of the Phoenician, Hebrew, and Cushite scripts, but beyond this, the historical trail fades.
According to the Phoenicians, the art of writing was invented by Taautus, known to the Egyptians as Thoth, or "the first Hermes." This figure is associated with Maia, a daughter of Atlas, and the Maya of Central America (Baldwin's "Prehistoric Nations," p.
The transition from picture-writing to a phonetic system is exemplified by the Phoenician alphabet, which originated from hieroglyphics but evolved to meet practical needs.
The Maya "o" resembles the circular forms used in Phoenician and other alphabets.
Phoenician Influence: It was once believed that the Phoenicians brought bronze to Europe, but recent arguments challenge this view.
Differences in ornamentation, burial practices, and the known use of iron by the Phoenicians suggest otherwise.
This practice was widely adopted by ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Phoenicians, and Hebrews.
The Phœnicians were familiar with the magnet, using a magnetized needle floating crosswise on water, symbolized by a woman figure on their ships pointing the way.
The Greeks, Phœnicians, and Hebrews share common deities and linguistic roots, suggesting an Atlantean origin.
It was the symbol of symbols, the mystical Tau, 'the bidden wisdom,' not only of the ancient Egyptians but also of the Chaldeans, Phœnicians, Mexicans, Peruvians, and of every other ancient people commemorated in history, in either hemisphere, and is formed very similarly to our letter T, with a roundlet, or oval, placed immediately above it.
If the alphabet of the Phœnicians is kindred with the Maya alphabet, as I think is clear, then the Phœnicians were of the same race, or of some race with which the Mayas were connected; in other words, they were from Atlantis.
Now we know that the Phœnicians and Hebrews were of the same stock, used the same alphabet, and spoke almost precisely the same language.
The Phœnicians preserved traditions, which have come down to us in the writings, of Sanchoniathon, of all the great essential inventions or discoveries which underlie civilization.
If, then, the original seat of the Hebrews and Phœnicians was the Garden of Eden, to the west of Europe, and if the Phœnicians are shown to be connected, through their alphabets, with the Central Americans, who looked to an island in the sea, to the eastward, as their starting-point, the conclusion becomes irresistible that Atlantis and the Garden of Eden were one and the same.
"In fact," says one writer, "this form of temple (the flat-topped) has been found from Mesopotamia to the Pacific Ocean." The Phœnicians also built pyramids.
Cabrera, inside Donnelly, reads Chivim as Hivim or Givim, a Phoenician Hivite stock.
If the Phoenician and Cadmus beat is useful, it already has a home on the Phoenicians.
He added language links to Arabian, Cushite, Chaldean, and Phoenician tongues.
The American Votan trail and the Humboldt-Jones weekday parallels give labeled diffusion hooks, including Phoenician and serpent readings.
The Phoenicians: soft frame for Cabrera’s Hivite / Cadmus-serpent reading of Chivim.
Not only were the gods of the Greeks the deified kings of Atlantis, but we also find that the mythology of the Phoenicians was drawn from the same source.
In the Phoenician cosmogony, the Titans (Rephaim) derive their origin from the gods Agrus and Agrotus.
This connects the Phoenicians with the island in the remote west, in the midst of the ocean, where, according to the Greeks, the Titans dwelt.
Ouranos married his sister Ge, and in Phoenician mythology, Ouranos had by Ge four sons: Ilus (El), who is called Chronos, Betylus (Beth-El), Dagon (signifying bread-corn), and Atlas (Tammuz?).
In the Phoenician myths, Ouranos attempted to kill the children he had by Ge due to jealousy.
The Phoenician god Ouranos had a daughter named Astarte (Ashtoreth) and another called Rhea.
The Phoenician legends also mention Poseidon, founder and king of Atlantis.
This not only connects the Phoenicians with Atlantis but also shows the relationship between Egyptian civilization and both Atlantis and the Phoenicians.
The royal personages who formed the gods of Greece were also the gods of the Phoenicians.
Autochthon, Atlas, and Poseidon appear in both Greek and Phoenician legends.
The Phoenician figures Mestor and Mneseus correspond to Misor and Amynus.
The Cabiri set down records of the past by the command of Taaut, passing them on to foreigners, including Isiris (Osiris), the inventor of the three letters, and the first Phoenician.
This suggests that the Phoenicians may have descended from an older race that contributed significantly to early civilization.
There was an ancient tradition among the Persians that the Phoenicians migrated from the shores of the Erythraean Sea.
The Phoenicians, like the builders of Central American cities, practiced human sacrifices, worshipped fire and water, used the totemic system, and had extensive trade networks.
When Columbus sailed to discover the New World, he took his departure from a Phoenician seaport.
The Phoenician gods and their myths show a deep connection to the kings and legends of Atlantis.
The learning of Egypt, Greece, and Judea, as claimed by Sanchoniathon, was derived from the Phoenicians.
This connection supports the idea that the Phoenicians succeeded the Atlanteans in their arts, sciences, and commercial supremacy, maintaining the legacy of a once-great civilization that bridged the Old and New Worlds.
Ancient civilizations such as the Peruvians, Egyptians, Babylonians, and Phoenicians practiced sun worship.
Phoenicians: Their chief god was Baal-Samin, the god of light and creator.
The Hebrews are a branch of the great family of which that powerful commercial race, the Phoenicians, who were the merchants of the world fifteen hundred years before the time of Christ, were a part.
Ancient texts and traditions identify early races as red or sunburnt, including the Cushites, Ethiopians, and Phoenicians.
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 refers altogether to the Mediterranean races, the Aryans, the Cushites, the Phœnicians, the Hebrews, and the Egyptians.
Glancing forward, we saw him once incarnated among the Rmoahls, in order to be with Ursa and others, then several lives were passed in the Turanian, the fourth sub-race — a Chinese stage — and a number in the Akkadian, the sixth; he was observed trading among a people who resembled the Phoenicians of later times.
This event, believed to have annihilated an advanced civilization and its vast population, is preserved in the deluge myths of numerous cultures, including the Hebrews, Aryans, Phoenicians, Greeks, Cushites, and even some indigenous American tribes.
The Hebrews are a branch of the great family of which that powerful commercial race, the Phoenicians, who were the merchants of the world fifteen hundred years before the time of Christ, were a part.
For example, the Ammonite god Milcom and the Phoenician god Baal share certain similarities in terms of worship practices and attributes.
In the ancient Phoenician-Canaanite system, the word for Saturn was El.
Note: this connection appears in Philo of Byblos (1st–2nd century CE), who reports that the Phoenician god El/Elus was equated with Kronos.
In the original Phoenician-Canaanite system, El was not the name for Saturn.
The Canaanites were known for their cities, trade networks, and the development of the Phoenician alphabet, which greatly influenced later alphabets.
The Canaanites, particularly the Phoenicians, a subgroup of the Canaanites, are credited with developing one of the world's first alphabets.
This Phoenician alphabet is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including the Greek and Latin scripts.
Archaeology around Phoenician and Carthaginian tophets adds a labeled debate about infant sacrifice.
Associations I keep careful: Canaanite and Phoenician milieu around Israel; Ammonite attachment via 1 Kings 11; condemned practice in Judah centered on Hinnom and Topheth.
For Carthage and other Phoenician tophets, I write that scholars debate whether every Tophet burial was sacrifice.
Taaut (Phoenicians)
This not only connects the Phoenicians with Atlantis but also shows the relationship between Egyptian civilization and both Atlantis and the Phoenicians.
“So Taautos himself regarded as divine the nature of the serpent and snakes, as did the Phoenicians and Egyptians after him; for this animal, according to the tradition established by him, was fiery and the most filled with breath of all crawling things. Moreover, it displayed a matchless swiftness by means of its breath, without feet, hands, or any other external members by which the other animals make their movements.
From another perspective, Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann published 1657 a commentary in which he tries to demonstrate, using the linguistic methods of the time, that the Emerald Tablet was not initially written in Egyptian but in Phoenician.
The Hebrews are a branch of the great family of which that powerful commercial race, the Phœnicians, who were the merchants of the world fifteen hundred years before the time of Christ, were a part.
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Eden, Aden, Haden, Ah-den, Jeden, are of the same meaning in the Vedic, Phoenician and Chinese languages, and are from the Panic word Spe-a, or, rather, S’pe-a; i.e., a heavenly place on earth.