Chumael-Ah-Canule
Described as “the First after the Flood,” in The History of Zodzil—a 16th-century collection of Maya oral traditions heard firsthand by Juan Darreygosa— he escaped the deluge that engulfed his island kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean, arriving first at the island of Cozumel, off the Yucatan coast. Proceeding to the Mexican mainland, Chumael-Ah-Canule and his immigrating fellow countrymen built Chichen Itza, or “Mouth of of the Well of Itza,” and 149 other cities, including Mayapan, Izamel, Uxmal, and Ake. His account suggests that not only these ceremonial centers, but Mesoamerican civilization itself was founded by Atlantean culture-bearers.
Cichol Gricenchos
King of the Fomorach, the earliest Atlantean inhabitants of Ireland. He opposed the arrival of a later Atlantean settlers, the “Family of Partholon,” survivors of the 2100 b.c. cataclysm that wracked Atlantis.
The Codex Chimal-Popoca
An Aztec version of the Great Flood from which their ancestors arrived on the eastern shores of Mexico. It reports, in part, “There suddenly arose mountains the color of fire. The sky drew near to the Earth, and in the space of a day, all was downed.” The Codex Chimal-Popoca reads almost identically to Plato’s Timaeus and Kritias dialogues, where he states that Atlantis was destroyed “in a single day and night.”
Collins, Andrew
British author of Gateway to Atlantis, in which he identifies the lost civilization with Cuba. Five years after its release in 1997, mineral prospectors probing the waters off the island’s northwest coast claimed to have picked up sonar images of what appeared to be a sunken city more than 2,000 feet beneath the surface.
Coronis
An Atlantis, one of seven daughters born to Atlas and the ocean-nymph Aethra. Coronis was the mother of Aesculapius by the god of healing, Apollo, after whom the modern word “scalpel” is derived. The Greeks revered Aesculapius as the founder of modern medicine. He in turn fathered two sons, Machaon and Podaliris, who were the earliest physicians after their father, and spread his scientific principles throughout the world. His only daughter, Hygeia, was the goddess of health.
This lineage demonstrates an important theme common to all the daughters of Atlas; namely, that their offspring were the first in their fields of high endeavor and the progenitors of civilization. Through poetic metaphor, these founding-father myths preserve national memories of culture-bearers who escaped the destruction of Atlantis to reestablish civilization in new lands. As such, the story of Coronis reminded the Greeks that they received the tenets of their medical science from an Atlantean immigrant.
Cosmas
A sixth-century Alexandrian monk who endeavored to prevent his fellow Christian theologians from anathematizing Plato’s account of Atlantis by drawing parallels between the Atlantean catastrophe and the biblical flood. Cosmas failed, and anything about the sunken city was condemned as “demonically inspired,” along with the rest of classical civilization.
Coxcoxtic
He and his wife, Xochiquetzal, were sole survivors in one of several Aztec versions of the Great Flood. During the previous era in which they lived, humanity spoke the same language. But their offspring in post-diluvial times received the gift of speech from a variety of birds. The children of Coxcoxtic and Xochiquetzal grew up speaking many different tongues. Later, they left their parents to wander over the face of the Earth, spreading new languages around the world. Their myth refers to the cultural unity of Atlantean times destroyed by a natural catastrophe, and scattered around the globe.
Coyolxauqui
Aztec version of the earlier Maya Ixchel, the White Lady, who brought civilization to Middle America from a lost kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean after a great flood. (See Ixchel)
Crannog
Also known as “the ruined city of Kenfig,” Crannog is familiar in both Irish and Scottish traditions as a sunken city. “Og” is a derivative of the Atlantean catastrophe in the British Isles, Greece, and South America.
Crow Deluge Story
The Crow Indians tell that the Great Spirit, angry with the sins of the world, destroyed all mankind with a great flood. After the cataclysm, he created another humanity by scooping up a handful of dust. Blowing upon it, the first black birds and a new race of people sprang into existence together. When he asked them what they wished to be called, they chose the name “Crow” after the birds that had appeared with them. The Crow, like virtually all Native Americans, trace their origins back to a catastrophic deluge. Similar to Plato’s account of Atlantis, the Crow flood story relates that a people were destroyed by the supreme being for their moral decay.
Crystal Skull
The life-size representation of a female human skull carved from a single piece of quartz crystal. Its earliest documented history began in 1936, when the Crystal Skull was obtained in Mexico from an unknown source by a British buyer, and put up for public auction in London eight years later, when it was purchased by a travel author, F.A. Mitchell-Hedges. After his death in the following decade, it passed to his adopted daughter, Anna, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, where it remains at this writing.
Both she and her father claimed the Crystal Skull was made in Atlantis, although without foundation. Even so, as a Mesoamerican symbol, it is associated with Ixchel, a transparently Atlantean figure worshiped by the Maya as the goddess of healing and psychic power who arrived on the shores of Yucatan as a flood-survivor. Her later Aztec version as Coyolxauqui was accompanied by a crystal skull, emblematic of the moon and her identification as a lunar deity.
The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull demonstrates an extraordinarily high level of craftsmanship, perhaps even a technology superior not only to that of the ancient Mexicans, but to our own, as well. Whether or not it is an authentic Atlantean artifact, it was probably used originally in an oracular function on behalf of Ixchel to predict the future or offer intuitive medical advice for her Maya or Aztec clients.
Plaster cast of the Crystal Skull, created during a forensic reconstruction of the actual cranial remains after which the jeweled masterpiece was modeled.
Cuchavira
A goddess who led survivors from the watery destruction of their former realm in the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of Colombia, where they intermarried with native peoples to engender the Muysca Indians.
