Tlavatli
A popular 1920s novel about the survival of an Atlantis princess into then modern times, by the German author, Otto Schultz.
Tlazolteotl
Described in Maya myth as the Earth Mother, “the Woman who sinned before the Deluge.” Tlazolteotl signified the seismic upheavals that wracked Aztlan and accompanied the Great Flood. According to the mestizo chronicler Enrique Camargo, Tlazolteotl came from “a very pleasant land, a delectable place, where are many delightful fountains, brooks and flower gardens. This land was called Tamoanchan, the Place of the Fresh, Cool Winds.” It was here, at Tamoanchan, that Tlazolteotl committed some offense against the gods, who destroyed the “Place of the Fresh, Cool Winds” with a terrific flood. Sailing with a remnant of her warrior women, she eventually arrived on the shores near Veracruz.
The Aztecs also knew her as Toxi, “Our Grandmother,” a reference to their sunken, ancestral homeland.
Tobacco
A variant of the story of the Great Flood familiar to many Native American tribes tells of a long-haired god who was sleeping near a campfire, or star in the night sky. A demon crept up on him, then suddenly pushed his head into the flames. The god’s hair instantly caught fire, and he dashed wildly throughout the heavens until the demon tripped him, and he fell to Earth. There he ran around the world, causing terrible conflagrations wherever he went. Finally reaching the ocean, he jumped into the water to extinguish his flaming hair. But in so doing, he caused a massive flood that killed off almost all mankind. Afterward, the survivors discovered that at each place where his burning hairs had fallen to the ground, tobacco was growing. Henceforward, they used it in sacred rituals to commemorate their escape from the deluge.
Comets are traditionally described as “hairy” or “long-haired,” and its association here with the Great Flood suggests the Atlantis cataclysm.
Tollan
Topiltzin, the Toltec version of the “Feathered Serpent,” was a prince in Tollan, the glittering capital of a magnificent empire located on an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. After its destruction by a natural catastrophe, he led Toltec ancestors to the shoes of Mexico.
Toxi
The Aztec “Grandmother” synonymous with Atlantis.
Tree of Life
A mythic allusion to the human spinal column as the bearer of seven major energy centers known as chakras, or spiritual “wheels” in Indian kundalini yoga. The concept originated in Atlantis, with its seven Hesperides, daughters of Atlas, and the golden apples of eternal life they guarded. Its Atlantean roots are also found in the Mayas’ Imix Tree, symbolic of the Great Flood from which their ancestors, Ixchel and Itzamna, came from across the Atlantic Ocean. Yucatan’s Ceibra was revered for its association with the Imix. In Norse myth, the goddess, Iduna, likewise tended a tree bearing apples filled with immortality.
Tripura
The most famous Indian epic of its kind is the Mahabharata. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, it was based on actual events which took place from the 15th to 11th centuries b.c., the same time parameter framing the zenith and fall of Atlantis. Beginning in the Drona Parva (Section XI), the destruction of Tripura is set forth. It is described as a wealthy and powerful oceanic kingdom, whose eastern shore faced the coast of Africa. The Mahabharata calls it “the Triple City” after its trident presented to the residents by Shiva, the island’s creator, as a national emblem.
The city itself was designed by a Maya “of great intelligence,” who raised two more, configuring each one on a massive, opulent scale and “shaped like a wheel [Chakrastham, Sanskrit for "circular"]. And they consisted of houses and mansions and lofty walls and porches. And though teeming with lordly palaces close to each other, yet the streets were wide and spacious. And they were adorned with diverse mansions and gateways. Each of these cities, again, had a separate king.”
Tripura’s Bronze Age time frame, location in the near Atlantic Ocean, circular design, luxury, and Poseidon-like trident could only describe Plato’s Atlantis.
Tsuma
Familiar to the Cuna Indians of Venezuela as the fair-haired survivor of a great deluge that wiped out the rest of his people in the Atlantic Ocean during the deep past, Tsuma belonged to the “Feathered Serpent” accounts known all along the eastern coast of the Americas—a clear reference to culture-bearers from Atlantis.
Tsunokiri
A ceremony conducted from mid-October to early November at the Kasuga Taisha in Nara, Japan. Sacred bucks are lassoed by priests, who carefully saw off the antlers of the animals corralled at the shrine. As Churchward observed, deer were the holy symbols of mankind’s emergence from Mu, the Pacific Ocean civilization destroyed probably between the 18th and 16th century b.c. Deer symbolism likewise plays a central role in Tibetan Boen-Buddhism, with its roots deep in traditions of Mu. In the Japanese practice, trimming of the antlers, which gradually grow back, commemorates the death of Mu but also its partial resurgence in prehistoric Japan.
That the annual Tsunokiri should take place in Nara is particularly significant, because the city is generally believed to be the oldest one in the country. Moreover, the Tsunokiri service between mid-October to early November coincides with the final destruction of Atlantis, suggesting the Lemurian and Atlantean cataclysms were combined or somewhat confused in Japanese tradition.
Tuaoi Stone
The “Fire Stone” allegedly represented the epitome of Atlantean crystal technology, because it was able to harness and direct the natural energies of the physical universe for material and spiritual purposes. “It was in the form of a six-sided figure,” according to Edgar Cayce:
.. .in which the light appeared as the means of communication between infinity and finite; or the means whereby there were the communications with those forces from the outside [outer space?]. Later, this came to mean that from which the energies radiated, as of the center from which there were the radial activities guiding the various forms of transition or travel through those periods of activity of the Atlanteans. A special structure housed the Tuaoi:
The building above the stone was oval, or a dome, wherein there could be or was the rolling back, so that the activity of the stone was received from the sun’s rays or from the stars; the concentrating of the energies that emanate from bodies that are on fire themselves—with the elements that are found in the earth’s atmosphere. The concentration through the prisms or glass, as would be called in the present, was in such a manner that it acted upon the instruments that were connected with various modes of travel, through induction methods—that made much the character of control through radio vibrations or directions would be in the present day; through the manner of the force that was impelled from the stone acted upon the motivating forces in the crafts themselves.
There was the preparation so that when the dome was rolled back there might be little or no hindrance in the application directly to the various crafts that were to be impelled through space, whether in the radius of the visioning of the one eye, as it might be called, or whether directed underwater or under other elements or through other elements. The preparation of this stone was in the hands only of the initiates at the time.
Cayce spoke of “a crystal room” in Atlantis, where “the tenets and the truths or the lessons that were proclaimed by those that had descended to give the messages as from on High” were received by the initiates of a mystery cult. They “interpreted the messages that were received through the crystals.” Atlantean adepts achieved levels of proficiency in all the transformational arts and mastery of psychic powers through their understanding and use of crystals, a lost science of the paranormal only just beginning to be reclaimed in our times, almost instinctually, it would seem, through growing popular interest in the spiritual qualities of quartz crystal. (Cayce: 2072-10 F.32 7/22/42; 440-5 M.23 12/20/33; 3004-1 F.55 5/15/43; 440-5 M.23 12/20/33)
Possible confirmation of his statements describing the “Fire Stone,” the name Cayce gave to the Tuaoi, occurs in the languages of several peoples directly influenced by Atlantis. For example, the Mayan word tuuk means “fiery.” Cayce said “the records [describing the Tuaoi] were carried to what is now Yucatan, in America, where these stones are now.”
On the other side of the world, the Sumerian counterpart to the Mayas’ seafaring culture-bearer, Kukulcan, the “Feathered Serpent,” was Utnapishtim, another deluge hero who rode out the watery destruction of a former age in an ark. He belongs to the oldest Mesopotamian mythic traditions, which also include a mysterious, sacred object called “the Stone that Burns,” “the Fire Stone,” precisely the same term used by Cayce. Remarkably, its original Sumerian word is Napa-Tu, from which the English word naphtha derives through Persian.
Roughly midway between the Mayas of America and the Sumerians of Mesopotamia lie the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa. Until their extermination by the Spaniards, beginning in the 15th century, indigenous inhabitants who called themselves the Guanches likewise told of a catastrophic flood; well they might, situated as they were in the immediate vicinity of lost Atlantis. The Guanche word for “fire” was tava; through phonetic evolution, a standard linguistic process, “tava” may be traced back to the sound-value from which it originally sprang: tua or tuoh.
According to James Churchward, the leading symbol of Mu—the Pacific counterpart and contemporary civilization of Atlantis—was a T-sign, pronounced Ta-oo, signifying the emergence of the island from the sea. Several Polynesian folk traditions speak of the wide use of crystals for high spiritual purposes on a Lemurian kind of lost kingdom. Australian aboriginals still refer to its sunken towers of crystal. In central Ireland, a white crystalline granite omphalos sculpted with patterns suggesting energy forms is known as “the Turoe Stone.” Although conventional scholars speculate about its Celtic identity, the Turoe Stone suggests an earlier Bronze Age provenance.
These widely disparate peoples, separated by vast distances and many centuries, never knew each other. Yet, they shared common accounts of a world-class flood associated with a “fire stone” described, despite the otherwise complete dissimilarity of their languages, by the same word-value: Tuuk, Napa-Tu, Tava (Tua, Tuoh), Turoe, Ta-oo—cultural-linguistic variants of Edgar Cayce’s Tuaoi.
Tuatha da Danann
Variously translated as “Followers of the Goddess Danu,” the Celtic divine patroness of water, or the “Magicians of the Almoners” (those who dispense sacred wisdom), the Tuatha da Danann are described in medieval Irish chronicles, such as the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as a “sea people.” Encyclopedist Anna Franklin states that Danu was an Indo-European water-god, appropriate for an Atlantean sea people. According to O’Brien, they arrived on the south coast of Ireland in 1202 b.c., closely coinciding with the final destruction of Atlantis; its late Bronze Age date was not known in O’Brien’s time (1834).
The Tuatha da Danann’s Atlantean identity is further emphasized by a philological resemblance of their name to the Tuaoi, the sacred stone of Atlantis. They may have represented the class of initiates responsible for its care or operation, as implied by O’Brien’s interpretation of their name as “almoners.” He points out that the Tuatha da Danann practiced the same religion as the Fomorach, an earlier Atlantean people who settled in Ireland at the end of the 4th millennium b.c. He competently argues that the strange, obelisk-like towers still found in Ireland were erected by the Tuatha da Danann, citing the 10th-century topic of Leccan, which tells of “the Tuathan tower.” Ruins of several such towers are found, appropriately enough, in County Roscommon, at Moy-tura, where the Tuatha da Danann decisively defeated their immediate predecessors, the Fir-Bolg. Known more correctly as Moye-tureadh, the battle-area is translated as “the Field of Towers.” Edgar Cayce mentioned that the Tuaoi stone was set up in a special tower. Perhaps those erected in Ireland by the Tuatha da Danann (“Keepers of the Tuaoi Stone”?) were raised after their prototype in Atlantis. Ireland’s Turoe Stone, a granite omphalos, may signify a correlation between Cayce’s Tuaoi and the Tuatha da Danann.
Interestingly, the three major cataclysms of Atlantis with their attendant migrations in the late fourth and third millennia b.c. and Late Bronze Age are respectively paralleled in Old Irish tradition of the Fomorach, Fir-Bolg, and Tuatha da Danann.
Tulum
The Mayas’ only walled ceremonial center is a Late Classic site overlooking the Yucatan coast. Its walls feature sculpted images of the Diving God, representing survivors jumping into the water to escape the destruction of Valum. This was the unseen Atlantic kingdom from which Votan—one of the Mayas’ overseas culture heroes—arrived on the coast of Yucatan. Tulum was raised to commemorate his arrival, which signaled a new dawn for Mesoamerican civilization. There is, moreover, a philological resonance between “Tulum” and “Valum.” Both appear to be native versions, like the Toltecs’ “Tollan,” of the Greek “Atlantis.” Votan, the Atlantean culture-bearer, is perhaps symbolized by the Diving God himself.
The Maya ceremonial city of Tulum, on the Yucatan shore.
Tundum
According to chronologer Neil Zimmerer, Tundum was a Lemurian prince who perished along with his father in the Great Flood. (See Lemuria, Mungan Ngaua)
Tutulxiu
The Mayas’ “Land of Abundance,” or “the Bountiful,” original oceanic homeland of their white-skinned ancestors, who arrived en masse in a fleet of ships “carving twelve paths through the sea,” according to their cosmological topic, the Popol Vuh.
Tutulxiu is an obvious recollection of Atlantis and the appearance its culture-bearers on the shores of Yucatan. (See Ah-Auab, Halach-Unicob)
Tyche
An Atlantis, a Hyade, daughter of Atlas by Arethusa.
