tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22889592894843778072024-02-20T14:21:32.562-08:00THE A-Z OF ATLANTISAn overview of the legendary lost city of Atlantis.Taking all aspects of the lost city of Atlantis.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-2440539687266497812010-01-31T14:30:00.005-08:002010-01-31T14:30:53.909-08:00AtauroA small island near East Timor, memorializing in native tradition a larger<br />landmass, long ago swallowed by the sea.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-52253857374129503412010-01-31T14:30:00.003-08:002010-01-31T14:30:34.792-08:00AtasNatives inhabiting the mountainous central region of Mindanao, a large<br />southern island in the Philippines. They tell how the Great Flood “covered the<br />whole Earth, and all the Atas were drowned except for two men and a woman.<br />The waters carried them far away.” An eagle offered to save them, but one of<br />the men refused, so the bird took up the other man and woman, carrying them<br />to safety on the island of Mapula. Here the Atas were reborn and eventually<br />multiplied sufficiently to conquer the entire Philippines. The Atas still claim<br />descent from these light-skinned invaders who, over time, intermarried with<br />the Negritos and aboriginal peoples.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-26552179562932296512010-01-31T14:30:00.001-08:002010-01-31T14:30:13.170-08:00Atarantes“Of Atlantis.” A people residing on the Atlantic shores of Morocco and<br />described by various classical writers (Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, etc.).Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-65565750128221907582010-01-31T14:29:00.003-08:002010-01-31T14:29:53.137-08:00AtaraAmong the Guanche, the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands, the word<br />for “mountain,” apparently derived from and related to the Atlantean mythic<br />concept of the sacred mountain of AtlasDive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-12028292064799279672010-01-31T14:29:00.001-08:002010-01-31T14:29:28.017-08:00AtapaskaThe Ascohimi Indians’ flood-hero, who arrived on the shores of North America<br />after some oceanic catastrophe. They relate that the world was deluged as the<br />result of a powerful earthquake, during which the air became extremely hot,<br />followed by a prolonged period of intense cold. Their tribal memory accurately<br />describes a celestial collision of a comet or associated meteoric debris with the<br />Earth, preceding the aftereffect of a so-called “dust veil event,” wherein thousands<br />of cubic kilometers of ash are extruded into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight<br />and drastically lowering world temperatures. Just such a catastrophe connected<br />with the final destruction of Atlantis and simultaneous close of the Bronze Age<br />did indeed take place around the start of the 13th century B.C.<br />The Athabascan Indians of Alaska derived their tribal name from their<br />Atlantean ancestor, Atapaska.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-36886251196834171672010-01-31T14:28:00.003-08:002010-01-31T14:28:55.018-08:00AtaoAccording to archaeo-linguists, a masculine name in Linear A,the language<br />spoken by the Minoans, who raised a great civilization on Crete from 3000 to 1500<br />B.C. “Atao” may be the Minoan version of the Greek “Atlas,” the eponymous<br />Titan of Atlantis.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-52423692842795117902010-01-31T14:28:00.001-08:002010-01-31T14:28:35.120-08:00AtanumThe Indian name for a river in Washington State. It means “water by the long<br />mountain.” Here, as elsewhere throughout the world, a name appears among a<br />native people, combining the “At” prefix to describe a mountain bounded by water.<br />In this instance, “Atanum” suggests the ancient Egyptian Atum (god of the Primal<br />Mound) and/or Nun (the sea-god who sank it), both intimately connected with<br />the Egyptian version of the Atlantis story.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-9277377356922878412010-01-31T14:27:00.000-08:002010-01-31T14:28:15.378-08:00AtanuaThe Marquesans’ memory of Atlantis, described in their oral epic “Te Vanana<br />na Tanaoa”: “Atanua was beautiful and good, adorned with riches very great. Atanua<br />was fair, very rich and soft. Atanua produced abundantly of living things. Atea [and<br />his brothers] dwelt as kings in the most beautiful palaces supported on thrones.<br />They ruled the space of heaven and the large, entire sky and all the powers thereof<br />[astrology]. The first lords dwelling on high. Oh, throne placed in the middle of the<br />upper heavens! The great lord Atea established in love to love the fair Atanua. A<br />woman of great wealth is Atanua. From within Atea came forth Ono [a terrible<br />sound, the explosion of Mt. Atlas erupting]. Atea produces the very hot fire.”<br />These lines from “Te Vanana na Tanaoa” vividly compare with Plato’s description<br />of Atlantis and its destruction. Atea’s, like that of Atlas’s association with a<br />volcanic mountain, was recognized by the early 20th-century anthropologist<br />Abraham Fornander: “In this sense, it would appropriately convey the idea of the<br />lurid light which accompanies an eruption of the volcano.”Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-8819052514475250012010-01-31T14:26:00.001-08:002010-01-31T14:26:56.519-08:00AtanaMeaning a “cultic center” or “sacred site” in Linear B, Atana is a linguistic<br />term archaeologists use to describe a Greek language spoken on the island of<br />Crete after 1500 to about 1200 B.C. “Atana” is comparable to sacred places around<br />the world identified with variants of “Atlantis.”Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-12366175987807283782010-01-31T14:25:00.001-08:002010-01-31T14:26:33.741-08:00Atami-sanMt. Atami, on the northeastern coast of Japan’s Izu-hanto, the Izu Peninsula<br />(Shizuoka prefecture ken, Honshu), facing Sagami-nada (the Gulf of Sagami), an<br />enormous but extinct volcano, the ancient source from which the city of Atami,<br />built within the crater, derives its name. Almost half sunk into the sea, Atami-san<br />presents an Atlantean appearance.<br />Atami was an important resort as early as the fifth century A.D., although<br />Neolithic finds in the crater prove the site has been occupied from much earlier<br />times, when the name originated. “Atami,” an Atlantean linguistic survivor, has<br />no meaning in the Japanese language.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-60483589617949377142008-08-14T09:59:00.001-07:002008-12-08T13:34:55.959-08:00AtlahuaAztec sea-god with apparent Atlantean provenance.<a href="http://hjlas.com/click/?s=65986&c=115316"><img src="http://hjlas.com/images/4065-115316-250x250.jpg?s=65986" style="width: 250px; height: 250px; border: 0px;"/></a>Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-30084114411348269702008-08-14T09:58:00.000-07:002008-08-14T09:59:09.264-07:00AtlaAs described in the Hyndluljod Saga, she was a giantess, the mother of<br />Heimdall, an important Norse god. Atlantean elements evident in the mythic<br />relationship between Heimdall and Atla begin in the obvious derivation of her<br />name. She was also a “daughter of the ocean,” who gave birth to her divine son<br />“at the edge of the world, where land and sea meet.” So too, in Greek tradition,<br />the Pleiades were daughters of Atlas—“Atlantises”—whose sons founded new<br />civilizations. According to MacCullow (111), Atla personified at once the waves<br />of the deep and the “Heavenly Mountain,” Himinbjorg, from which Heimdall<br />derived his name, just as Atlantis was known after the sacred Mount Atlas. Even<br />in modern Norwegian, himinbjorg refers to a mountain sloping down to the sea.<br />Like the Mayas’ fair-skinned Itzamna, who brought civilization to Yucatan after a<br />great flood in the Atlantic Ocean, Heimdall was “the White God,” the father of<br />mankind.<br />Another Atla is a town in Mexico’s central plateau region, inhabited by the<br />Otomi Indians who preserve the mythic heritage of their Aztec ancestors beneath a<br />Christian gloss. Some Otomi tribes are among the most culturally conservative<br />peoples in Middle America, refusing to wear modern dress and still preserving<br />ritual kinship institutions handed down from pre-Spanish times. Because of this<br />maintenance of prehistoric traditions, anthropologists regard the Otomi as reliable<br />guides to Mesoamerica’s past.<br />Pertinent to our study is the Otomi acatlaxqui, the Dance of the Reed-<br />Throwers. Every November 25, 10 dancers assemble in Atla’s main square, dressed<br />in red and white cotton costumes, and wear conical headgear. From the points of<br />these paper hats stream red ribbons. Each dancer carries a 3-foot long reed staff<br />decorated with feathers and additional reeds attached. The performers form a<br />circle, at the center of which one of their number, dressed as a girl, rattles a gourd<br />containing the wooden image of a snake. The acatlaxqui climaxes when the surrounding<br />dancers use their reeds to create a dome over the central character,<br />taken as a sign to begin a fireworks display.<br />The dance is not only deeply ancient, but a dramatic recreation of Otomi<br />origins. The 10 dancers symbolize the 10 kings of Atlantis, portrayed in their<br />conical hats streaming red ribbons, suggesting erupting volcanos. The reed was<br />synonymous for learning, because it was a writing instrument. The Aztecs claimed<br />their ancestors came to America from Aztlan, “the Isle of Reeds.” The boy “girl”<br />dancer at the center may signify the Sacred Androgyne, a god-concept featured<br />in an Atlantean mystery-cult. More likely, the female impersonator is meant to<br />represent Atlantis itself, which was feminine: “Daughter of Atlas.” His gourd<br />with the wooden snake inside for a rattle is a remnant of the same Atlantean<br />mystery-cult, in which serpent symbolism described the powers of regeneration<br />and the serpentine energy of the soul.<br />Forming a dome over the central performer may signify the central position<br />of Atlantis, to which all the allied kingdoms paid tribute, or it could represent the<br />sinking of Atlantis-Aztlan beneath the sea, an interpretation underscored by the<br />fireworks timed to go off as the dome is created. The Otomi’s acatlaxqui-Atlantean<br />identity is lent special emphasis by the name of the town in which it is annually<br />danced, Atla. Moreover, November is generally accepted as the month in which<br />Atlantis was destroyed. The name, Otomi, likewise implies Atlantean origins: Atomi,<br />or Atoni, from the monotheistic solar god, Aton.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-27149555904231518542008-08-14T09:57:00.004-07:002008-08-14T09:58:26.240-07:00Atius<strong></strong><br />Among the Pawnee Indians of North America, the sky-god, who controlled<br />and understood the movements of the sun, moon, and stars. The similarity of his<br />name and function to Atlas are affirmed by the Pawnee flood story.<br /><strong>Atjeh</strong><br />A mountainous area of Indonesian Sumatra bordering a sloping plain reminiscent<br />of Plato’s description of Atlantis. Even in this remote corner of the world,<br />“At” was anciently applied to sacred mountains.<br /><strong>Atl</strong><br />“Water” in Nahuatl, the Aztecs’ spoken language. The ancient Mexican Atl<br />is likewise found in Atlantis, a water-born civilization. Atl also occurs on the<br />other side of the Atlantic Ocean among Morocco’s Taureg peoples, for whom it<br />also represents “water.” Atlantis’ former location between Mexico and Morocco<br />suggests a kindred implication between the Nahuatl and Taureg words.<br />In the Aztec calendar, “4-Atl” signifies the global deluge that destroyed a former<br />“Sun” or age, immediately after which the Feathered Serpent arrived with his<br />followers to found Mesoamerican civilization. The date 4-Atl is depicted on the<br />Aztec Calendar Stone as a celestial bucket of water inundating a half-sunken<br />stone pyramid, a self-evident reference to the final destruction of Atlantis.<br />(See Quetzalcoatl)Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-19574156218071411682008-08-14T09:57:00.003-07:002008-08-14T09:57:42.587-07:00AtiuAn extinct volcano forming an atoll among the southern Cook Islands in the<br />southwest Pacific. “At,” associated with volcanic islands, occurs throughout the<br />Pacific Ocean.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-22864589381029033402008-08-14T09:57:00.001-07:002008-08-14T09:57:25.491-07:00AtitlanA lake in the Solola Department in the central highlands of southwestern<br />Guatemala, where Quiche-Maya Civilization reached its florescence. Atitlan<br />was named after its volcano surrounded by lofty mountains, a setting that could<br />pass for a scene from Plato’s description of the island of Atlantis in Kritias.<br />Blackett describes Atitlan as “the large and rich capital, court of the native<br />kings of Quiche and the most sumptuous found by the Spaniards.” The lake’s<br />name was apparently chosen to match its appropriately Atlantean environment;<br />this, together with its obvious derivation from “Atlantis,” and the extraordinary<br />splendor of its culture, identify Atitlan’s foundation by Atlantean colonizers.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-36969207967155101942008-08-14T09:56:00.003-07:002008-08-14T09:56:55.981-07:00AtinachThe name by which the natives of Tenerife referred to themselves, it means<br />“People of the Sky-God.” Antinach derived from Atuaman, the Canary Island Atlas.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-53703610053922323982008-08-14T09:56:00.001-07:002008-08-14T09:56:39.453-07:00At-ia-Mu-riSite of impressive megalithic ruins in New Zealand, believed by John Macmillan<br />Brown, a leading academic authority of Pacific archaeology in the1920s, to be<br />evidence of builders from a sunken civilization. The name of the site is particularly<br />interesting for its combining of At[lantis] and Mu, at this midpoint between the<br />two sunken kingdoms.<br />(See Mu)Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-32507453407606819442008-08-14T09:55:00.004-07:002008-08-14T09:56:01.569-07:00At-hothesThe earliest known name of Thaut, (Thoth to the Greeks, who equated him<br />with Hermes), the patron god of wisdom, medicine, literature, and hieroglyphic<br />writing, who arrived in Egypt after a deluge destroyed his home in the Distant<br />West. These western origins, together with the “At” beginning his name, define<br />him as an Atlantean deity. Arab tradition identifies him as the architect of Egypt’s<br />Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau. Edgar Cayce, who certainly knew nothing of<br />these Arab accounts, likewise mentioned Thoth as the Atlantean authority responsible<br />for raising the Great Pyramid.<br />(See Cayce)Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-87322444936831452622008-08-14T09:55:00.003-07:002008-08-14T09:55:36.303-07:00AtfihMore of an Egyptian symbol than an actual deity, he supported the serpent,<br />Mehen, that protectively surrounded the palace in which Ra, the sun-god, resided.<br />Here, Atlantis is suggested in the serpent, symbolizing the Great Water Circle<br />(the ocean) and in Ra’s palace, center of a solar cult, while Atfih, whose name<br />means “bearer,” was Atlas, who bore the great circle of the heavens.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-74999369879633024762008-08-14T09:55:00.001-07:002008-08-14T09:55:19.628-07:00AtesteThe Bronze Age capital, in northern Italy, of the Veneti, direct descendants<br />of Atlantis.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-241044690711593032008-08-14T09:54:00.002-07:002008-08-14T09:55:04.300-07:00AterThe Guanche Atlas, also worshiped in the pre-Conquest Canary Islands as<br />Ataman (“the upholder,” precisely the same meaning for the Greek Titan), and<br />Atara (“mountain,” Mount Atlas).Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-74746455890695760952008-08-14T09:54:00.001-07:002008-08-14T09:54:37.685-07:00AtepThe name of the calumet or “peace pipe” in the Siouan language. The<br />Atep was and is the single most sacred object among all Native American tribes,<br />and smoked only ritually. It was given to them by the Great Spirit (Manitou)<br />immediately after a catastrophic conflagration and flood destroyed a former world<br />or age, which was ruled over from a “big lodge” on an island in the Atlantic Ocean.<br />The survivors, who came from the east, were commanded by the Great Spirit<br />to fashion the ceremonial pipes from a mineral (Catlinite) found only in the southwest<br />corner of present-day Minnesota (Pipestone National Monument) and<br />Barron County (Pipestone Mountain), in northwestern Wisconsin. In these two<br />places alone the bodies of the drowned sinners had come to rest, their red flesh<br />transformed into easily worked stone. The bowl represented the female principle,<br />while the stem stood for the male; both signified the men and women who<br />perished in the flood. Uniting these two symbols and smoking tobacco in the<br />pipe was understood as a commemoration of the cataclysm and admonition to<br />subsequent generations against defying the will of God.<br />The Atep was a covenant between the Indians and the Great Spirit, who<br />received their prayers on the smoke that drifted toward heaven. It meant a reconciliation<br />between God and man, a sacred peace that had to be honored by all<br />tribes. The deluge story behind the pipe, the apparent philological relationship<br />of its name to “Atlas” or things Atlantean—even the description of the Indians’<br />drowned ancestors as red-skinned (various accounts portray the Atlanteans as<br />ruddy complected)—confirm the Atep as a living relic of lost Atlantis.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-5126217990564245482008-08-14T09:53:00.002-07:002008-08-14T09:54:06.216-07:00AtennuEgyptian sun-god, as he appears over the sea in the west. Another example of<br />the “At” recurring throughout various cultures to define a sacred place or personage<br />with the Atlantic Ocean.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-4122598454456734422008-08-14T09:53:00.001-07:002008-08-14T09:53:48.830-07:00AtemoztliLiterally “the Descent of Waters,” or the Great Flood, as it was known to the<br />Aztecs. A worldwide cataclysm accompanied by volcanic eruptions, its few survivors<br />arrived from over the Sunrise Sea (the Atlantic Ocean) to establish the first<br />Mesoamerican civilization. “Atemoztli” was also the name of a festival day commemorating<br />the Deluge, held each November 16—the same period associated<br />with the final destruction of Atlantis (late October to mid-November). Atemoztli’s<br />philological resemblance to Atemet, the Egyptian deluge figure, is clear.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2288959289484377807.post-58827389018906208772008-08-14T09:52:00.003-07:002008-08-14T09:52:41.842-07:00AtemetThe dwelling place and/or name of the goddess Hat-menit, who was depicted in<br />Egyptian temple art as a woman wearing headgear fashioned in the likeness of a<br />fish. Worshiped at Mendes, where her title was “Mother,” she was somehow connected<br />to the Lands of Punt often associated with the islands of Atlantis. Budge<br />believed Atemet was a form of Hathor, the goddess responsible for the world flood.<br />Atemet’s Atlantean name, fish-crown (queen of the sea), and connections to both<br />Punt and Hathor identify her with some of the leading features of the Atlantis story.Dive Jobs Worldwidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14971782239519846212noreply@blogger.com0