Atlantis, The Antediluvian World

teans in the most ancient trad

king of the Mussulman

son of Ad,

tory of the East," Lenormant and Chevallier, vol. ii., p. 295.), Ad came from the northeast. "He married a thousand wives, had four thousand sons, and lived twelve hundred years. His descendants multiplied considerably. After his death his sons Shadid and Shedad reigned in succession over the Adites. In the time of the latter the people o

on of the celestial Paradise, of whose delights he had heard." ("Ancient History of the East," p. 296.) In other words, an ancient, sun-worshipping, powerful, and co

ngs of the Adites." To this day the Arabs say "as old as Ad." In the Koran allusion is made to the edifices they built on "high places for vain uses;" expressions proving that their "idolatry was considered to have been tainted with Sab?ism or star-worship." (Ibid.) "In these legends," says Lenormant, "we find traces of a wealthy nation, constructors of great building

ery few who escape because they had renounced idolatry. A black cloud assails their countr

in other words, they were a red or sunburnt race: their great temples were pyramidal, surmounted by buildings. ("Ancient History of the East," p. 321.) "The Sab?ans," says Agatharchides ("De Mari Erythr?o," p. 102), "have in their houses an incredible number of vases, and utensils of all sorts, of gol

riptions given by the Spaniards

ly solar... It was originally a religion without images, without idolatry, and without a priesthood." (Ibid., p.

we see resemblance

the empire of Dionysos, the empire of "Ad," the empire of Atlantis. El Eldrisi called the language spoken to this day by the Arabs of Mahrah, in Eastern Arabia, "the language of the people of Ad," and Dr. J.

the god of a foreign country, and who

cient race, the Indo-Euro

upon an island, said to be Ceylon; they left the island and reached the main-land, when, by a great con

recollection of the d

d of the Phoenicians; from it was derived the name of the Greek god "Ad-onis." The Arv-ad of Genesis was the Ar-Ad of the Cushites; it is n

sacred book, in a heavenly language, to which the Mussulman author gives the Arabic title of 'Desatir,' or 'Regulations.' Mashab-Ad was, in the opinion of the ancient Persians, the person left at the end of the last great cycle, and consequently the father of the present world. He and

gs of Atlantis. But it seems that these ancient divinities are grouped together as "the Aditya;" and in this name "Ad-itya" we find

ther as the Aditya are the most

r solar gods. (Whitney's Orienta

twelve of t

presided over twelv

ndian religion to take a new development in a moral direction, which a change in the character and circumstances of the peop

ons to "the sons of Adab," who were the first metallurgists and musicians. "Aditi

resented their gods as equally wakeful and omniscient. "Their character is all truth; they hate

ometimes addres

ranos, whose identification with Atlantis I have s

es long life, wealth, power, are the objects commonly prayed for, of the Aditya is craved purity,

Yama is the god of the abode beyond the grave. In the Persian story he appears as Yima, and "is ma

that the legends of the "sons of Ad," "the Ad

a dark race, the Zalmat-qaqadi, who were called Ad-mi, or Ad-ami; they were the race "who had fallen," and were contradistinguished from "the Sarku, or light race." The "fall" probably refer

m as 'Haadam,' 'Adamite humanity.'" The race of Cain lived and multiplied far away from the land of Seth; in other words, far from the land destroyed by the Deluge. Josephus, who gives us the primitive traditions of the Jews, tells us (chap. ii., p. 42) that "Cain travelled over many countries" before he came to the l

hip of the true God, which they afterward forgot. (Bancroft's "Native Races," vol. iii., p. 75.) While the famous Mexican calendar stone shows that the sun was commonly called t

bians, the Chaldeans, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Ethiopians, the Mexicans, and the Cent