Ad

A palatial island capital punished for the wickedness of its inhabitants by a
terrible flood. The story of Ad is preserved in pre-Islamic traditions and mentioned
in the Holy Koran, which condemned its inhabitants for building “high
places for vain uses.” The Adites were said to have “worshiped the sun from the
tops of pyramids,” a singularly un-Arabic practice more evocative of life in Atlantis.
Ad was known as “the City of Pillars,” or “the Land of Bronze.” Plato similarly
described the pillar cult of the Atlanteans, while their city was the pre-classical
world’s foremost clearinghouse for the bronze trade.
In Arabic tradition, the Adites are portrayed as giants (the Atlantean Titans
of Greek mythology), superior architects and builders who raised great stone
monuments. Even today, rural tribes of Saudi Arabia refer to any ancient ruins
of prodigious size as “buildings of the Adites,” and apply the expression “as old
as Ad” to anything of extreme age. In the 19th century, the royal monarch of the
Mussulman tribes was Shedd-Ad-Ben-Ad, or “Descendant and Son of Ad.” The
progenitor of the Arab peoples was Ad, grandson of the biblical Ham.


The Adites are still regarded as the earliest inhabitants of Arabia. They were
referred to as “red men,” for the light color of their hair. Several accounts of
Atlantis (Egyptian, Irish, Winnebago, etc.) depict the Atlanteans, at least in part, as
redheads. The Adites had 10 kings ruling various parts of the world simultaneously—
the same number and disposition described by Plato in his Atlantis account, Kritias.
The Adites arrived in the country after Ad was annihilated by a colossal black
cloud with the ferocity of a hurricane, an obvious reference to the volcanic eruption
that accompanied the destruction of Atlantis.
“Ad” is still the name of a Semitic tribe in the province of Hadramut, Saudi
Arabia, whose elders claimed descent from their eponymous ancestor, the greatgrandson
of Noah.
(See Adapa)