Atalya

An important proof for Atlantis found in various parts of the world, specifically
and appropriately, within the Atlantean sphere of influence. “Italy” is a derivation
of its more ancient name, used even in late Roman times, “Italia”—a corruption
of “Atalya,” or “Land of Atlas,” the eponymous king of Atlantis, who likewise
brought civilization to the Italian peninsula. An alternative but closely related
Roman myth describes the origin of “Italy” from the country’s earliest ruler, Italus,
a brother of Atlas. In Kritias, Plato mentions that the Atlanteans occupied Etruria,
the homeland of the Etruscans in western Italy.
Atalya is also the name of an ancient, ceremonial mound in Biarritz. The
Basque still revere this mound as symbolic of the Great Ancestral Mountain in
the sea, from which their seafaring forebears traveled into the Bay of Biscay after
the sinking of “the Green Isle.”
Atalya appears on the “Opposite Continent” among the Aztecs, who similarly
venerated a holy mountain in the Valley of Mexico by the same name. Atalaia is the
name of a small Quechua Indian town in the High Andes about one day’s journey
from Cuzco, formerly the capital of the Inca Empire. A pre-Inca civilization was the
Chavin de Huantar, and in the ruins of Atalya, one of its early cities, archaeologists
found important collections of ancient
ceramics. Chavin de Huantar began
suddenly after 1200 B.C., coinciding with
the final destruction of Atlantis. Some
survivors apparently migrated to Peru,
where they established this ceremonial
center of Atalya.
Near Lake Atitlan, in Guatemala,
stands a round, Atlantean-style tower
in a ruined fortress known as Atalaya.
Similarly, the nuraghe stone towers of
the Balearic Isles in the western Mediterranean
are talayots, “a diminutive of
Atalaya, meaning ‘Giant’s Burrow’”
(Tyndale, quoted in Blackett). Southern
Portugal was the Atlantean kingdom of
Elasippos, featuring Bronze Age tumuli,
or domed tombs, dating to the height of
Atlantean civilization (1500 to 1200 B.C.).
Atalya is a Kritias-like mountainous
valley found at Gran Canaria, one of the
Canary Islands, anciently the Atlantean
kingdom of Diaprepes.