Atlantis, The Antediluvian World

e a part. The Hebrews carried out from the common storehouse of their race a mass of traditions, many of which have come down to us in that oldest and most venerable of human compositions, t

ilization; they had formerly been in a happy and sinless condition; they had become

apters of the Book of Genesis that cannot be duplicated from the legends of the American nations, and s

f the Creation we fin

d, and covered with water. In the Quiche legends we are told, "at first all was sea-no m

waters." The Quiche legend says, "The Creator-the Former, the Dominator-the fea

he dry land appear: and it was so." The Quiche legend says, "The creative spirits cried out 'Earth!' and in an instant it

egend says, "Then Gucumatz was filled with joy, and cried out, '

les, animals, and man were for

the dust of the ground." The Quiche legend says. "The first man was m

legend says, "The sun was much nearer the earth then than

he foliage displays the face of a woman. Torquemada admits the existence of this tradition among them, and agrees with the Indian historians, who affirm that this was the first woman in the world, who bore children, and from whom all mankind are

World which underlie Ge

Lost," appear in the Mex

the fall of Zou-tem-qu

the other rebe

ans possessed striking parallels to

legend which singularly resembles th

s from the lips of a native of Cholula, over one hundred years old, a version of

west and others toward the east; these travelled; until the sea cut off their road, whereupon they determined to return to the place from which they started, and arriving at this place (Cholula), not finding the means of reaching the sun, enamored of his light and beauty, they determined to build a tower so high that its summit should reach the sky. Having collected materials for the purpose, they found a very adhesive clay and bitumen, with which they speedily commenced to build the tower; and having reared it to the greatest possible altitude

HE TEMPLE

tal superiority and command of the arts gave them the character of giants who arrived from the East; who had divided into two great emigrations, one moving eastward (toward Europe),

on, 160 feet high, 1400 feet square at the base, and covers forty-five acres; we have only to remember that the greatest pyram

holic priest, shortly after the conquest of Mexico, from the lips

is legend and the Bible account of

mit should reach the sky," says the Indian legend. "And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men had builded. And the Lord said, Behold ... nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down and confound them," says the Bible record. "The Lo

story comes from a native of Cholula: it is told under the shadow of the mighty pyramid it commemorates; it is a local legend which he repeats. The men who built it, according to his account, were foreigners. They built it to reach the sun-

ne case affixed to the tower of the Chaldeans, and in the other to the pyramid of Cholula, precisely as we find the ark of the Deluge resting upon separate mountain-chains all the way from Greec

en Genesis and the America

is ribs. According to the Quiche tradition, there were four men from whom the races of the world descended (probably a recollection o

ese traditions when he said, "And man'

put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:" therefore God drove him out of the garden. In the

erica the Divinity parted the sea for their pass

n the "Popol Vuh," who, being captured by his enemies and placed in a pit, pulled d

at deal of the Central American history is taken up with

runs through a hu

Mexicans worshippe

outh "the right h

toward the four c

crifice of atonement wer

ious about washin

ils, and both were a

in childbirth as worthy of hono

dultery with st

anced before the ark

rchs before

he abiding-place o

pecies of se

RPENT MO

ion of the great serpen

ing description of a

tla

ble. The three peaks are seen over the length of the reptile when a person is standing on the head, or cairn. The shape can only be seen so as to be understood when looked down upon from an elevation, as the outline cannot be understood unless the whole of it can be seen. This is most perfect when the spectator is on the head of the animal form, or on the lofty rock to the west of it. This mound corresponds almost entirely with one 700 feet long in America, an account of which was lately published, after careful survey, by Mr. Squier. The altar toward the head in each case agrees. In the American mound three rivers (also objects of worship with the ancients) were evidently identified. The number three was a sacred number in all

ENTS OF EURO

keness between the wo

, as shown in the

ed for his deceased brother by marrying his widow," was found among the Central American nations.

rsons with it, they smeared it upon walls and stones. The Mexican temple, like the Jewish, faced the east. "As among the Jews the ark was a sort of portable temple, in which the Deity was supposed to be continually present, so among the M

as a sign that the earth would not be aga

, to cure a fever, formed a dog of maize paste and left it by the roadside, saying the first passer-by would carry away the illness. (Dorman, "Prim. Super.," p. 59

ken of humility; both anointed with oil; both sacrificed prisoners; both periodically separated the

cult power of water, an

s all filthiness; receive it: may the goddess see good to purify and cleanse thine heart.' Then the midwife poured water upon the head of the child, saying, 'O my grandson-my son-take this water of the Lord of the world, which is thy life, invigorating and refreshing, washing and cleansing. I pray that this celestial water, blue and light blue, may enter into thy body, and there live; I pray that it may destroy in the

gers in the mouth, the touching of the breast, the new birth, and the washing away of the original sin. The Christian rite, we kno

of their sacrificed enemies;

inst the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. And Moses said unto t

nemies, and carried the scalp at the pommel of the

and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on

his rival, Alfred, with six hundred followers, he "had them maimed, blinde

ead near the ears, and shakes the skull out." This is precisely the Indian custom. "Th

s as one of the characteristics of the Japhetic Libyans

y wear a scalp-lock, as

eads of the dead Tart

voured by t

en were the shaw

had a single lo

t was shave

represented "the lost tribes" of that people. But the Jews were never a maritime or emigrating people; they formed no colonies; and it is impossible to believe (as has been asserted) that t

o the time of the lost tribes. We must seek it in the relationship of the Jews to the family of Noah, a

ated for thousands upon thousands of years, especi

ore and fairy stories of the people. We see Votan, a hero in America, become the god Odin or Woden in Scandinavia; and when his worship as a god dies out Odin survives (as Dr. Dasent has proved) in the Wild Huntsman of the Hartz, and i

oth change into someth

tean custom, invented in the Stone Age. Tens of thousands of years have passed since the Stone Age; the ages of copper, bro

eaking of St. Peter'

ng in the adoration of Bacchus. The girdle and cassock of the priests came from Persia; the veil and tonsure were from Egypt; the alb and chasuble were prescribed by Numa Pompilius;

pe, yet to this day they preserve among their ancient books maps and descriptions of the western coast of Europe, and even of England and Ireland; and we

robably thousands of years before from the magicians of Chaldea. When the European conjurer cried out to the demon, "Hilka, hilka, besha, besha," he had no idea that he was r

seconds, and the second into 60 thirds; the division of the day into 24 hours, each hour into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds; the division of the week into seven days, and th

, it should teach us to regard the Book of Genesis with increased veneration, as a relic dating from the most ancient days of man's history on earth; its

cessarily a worship of "stocks and stones," and history teaches us that the gods decrease in number as man increases in intelligence. It was probably in Atlantis that monotheism was first preached. The proverbs of "Ptah-hotep," the oldest book of the Egyptians, show that this most ancient colony from Atlantis received the pure faith from the mother-land at the very dawn of history: this book preached the doctrine of one God, "the rewarder of the good and the punisher of the wicked." (Reginald S. Poole, Contemporary Rev., Aug., 1881, p. 38.) "In the early days the

ets of Rome; and, at a still earlier period, it could be heard in the palaces of Babylon and the shops of Thebes-in Tyre, in Sidon, in Gades, in Palmyra, in Nineveh. How many nations have perished, how many languages have ceased to exist, how many splendid civilizations have crumbled into ruin, how many temples and towers and towns have gone down to dust since the sublime frenzy of mo

with the laws of matter and reach down into the doings of men, would it not be to save from the wreck and waste of time the most sublime frui