The Atlantis

Ogma To Ova-herero

Ogma In Celtic myth, the chief of the Tuatha da Danann, refugees from the final destruction of Atlantis, who arrived in Ireland around 1200 b.c. Ogma was known in Gaul as Ogimos and in Wales as Gwydion. He is primarily remembered for the script associated with his name, Ogham. This is a system of notches […]

Oak To Oergelmir

Oak The tree sacred to Atlas; its branches, like his arms, supported the heavens. The oak’s association with Atlas implies a primeval tree cult or pillar cult, a memory of it surviving in Kritias, Plato’s Atlantis account, when he described a ceremonial column at the very midpoint of the Temple of Poseidon, itself located at […]

Ne-Mu To Nyoe

Ne-Mu Demigods or giants recalled by the Kai of New Guinea, the Ne-Mu are said to have been much taller and stronger than today’s men, and ruled the world before the Great Deluge. They introduced agriculture and house-building to Kai ancestors. When the Flood came, all the Ne-Mu were killed, but their bodies turned to […]

Naacals To Nemed

Naacals Literally, “Serpents” or “Serpent People,” denoting wisdom, the spiritual/ scientific elite or missionary “brotherhood” of Mu, who traveled to India in the west and Mexico in the east, following the destruction of their oceanic homeland. Nacxit The “Great Father” of Patulan-Pa-Civan, the Quiche Mayas’ ancestral realm across the sunrise sea. Before some of its […]

Memnon To Mu-yu-Moqo

Memnon Described in the Posthomerica, by Quintus of Smyrna (circa 135 a.d.), as an Ethiopian king who, with his 10,000-man army, came to the aid of besieged Troy after the death of its foremost commander, Hector. “Ethiopia” was, in pre-classical and early classical times not associated with the East African country south of Egypt, but […]

Makila To Meh-Urt

Makila The ancestral hero of North America’s Pomo Indians. Makila and his son, Dasan, leaders of a bird clan, arrived from “a great lodge” across the Atlantic Ocean to teach wisdom, healing, and magic. The Atlantean features of this myth are clear. Makonaima In Melanesian tradition, the last king of Burotu before it sank beneath […]

Macusis To Mai-Ra

Macusis The survivor, together with his wife, of a great flood that destroyed the world and from whom an Indian tribe in British Guiana derived its name. Madolenih-Mw The eastern half of Ponape, which features the island’s largest state. The Micronesian location is the site of Nan Madol, an extensive megalithic ceremonial center which resembles […]

Leucaria To Lyonesse

Leucaria A Latin version of the ancestress cited in Plato’s account of Atlantis, she and her husband founded the city of Rome. (See Italus, Kritias, Leukippe) Leukippe “The White Mare,” the first woman of Atlantis mentioned briefly by Plato in Kritias. A white mare motif in association with Atlantean themes appears in various parts of […]

Krakatoa To Kuskurza

Krakatoa A 6,000-foot (above sea-level) volcano on Pulau Rakata Island in the Sunda Straits of Indonesia. At 10 a.m., on August 27, 1883, Krakatoa exploded, sending ash clouds to an altitude of 50 miles, and generating shock waves registered around the Earth several times. The detonation could be heard in Australia, 2,200 miles away. Some […]

Ladon To Lesser Arrival

Ladon The serpent who guards the Tree of Life in the Garden of the Hesperides, scene of a mystery cult in Atlantis known as “The Navel of the World.” When Ladon entwines his length around its bough he becomes the Kundalini snake winding about the human spinal column, the symbolic force of rising consciousness and […]

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