Tahiti
A mountainous South Pacific island, the original homeland of all Polynesian peoples, which was destroyed by a world-class catastrophe of hurricane gusts and a rain of stones falling from the sky. The entire island sank beneath the sea, killing every living thing, save for a husband and wife, who piled with their animals into a boat and landed atop the highest mountain peak, O Pitohito, the only remaining dry land. Later, after the waters abated, descendants of the surviving couple named a new island after the drowned homeland, today’s Tahiti.
Talli
Flood hero of North America’s Lenape Indians. He and his followers survived the Deluge by riding it out in “great canoes.” They landed at the Land of Snakes, where Talli led them successfully in battle.
Talvolte
In Maidu Indian myth, head of the Tortoise Clan, because he led his family to North America following the Great Flood that destroyed the rest of mankind. The tortoise is symbolic of the Deluge in many Native American traditions. The Mandan version recounts that “the world was once a great tortoise, borne on the waters and covered with earth. One day, in digging the soil, a tribe of white men who had made holes in the earth to a great depth, digging for badgers, at length perceived the shell of the tortoise. It sank, and the water covering it drowned all men with the exception of one, who saved himself in a boat.” Donnelly wrote, “The holes dug to find badgers were a savage’s recollection of mining operations; and when the great disaster came, and the island sunk in the sea amid volcanic convulsions, doubtless men said it was due to the deep mines, which had opened the ways to the central fires.”
Among the Arapaho, Turtle Woman is a creator-goddess, who dredged up mud from the bottom of the universal deluge to remake the Earth.
Tamil Sangham
In oral traditions from the south of India, an exclusive academy for spiritual initiates located on a distant island of mountain ranges, beautiful rivers, lush vegetation, abundant animals and 49 provinces. Tamil Sangham was destroyed in a sudden convulsion of nature that pulled the island to the bottom of the sea. Some of its students survived, however, to pass their wisdom on to Hindu mystics.
Ta-mu
Literally “the Man from Mu,” he was a deluge hero of the Carib Indians. Ta-mu was described as a fair-complected, light-haired, and light-bearded “sorcerer,” who escaped a terrible catastrophe at sea. It was Ta-mu with whom the 16th century Spanish conquerors were compared by the natives.
Tangis
According to the Berber scholar, Ouzzin, Tangiers was named after Tangis, a princess who founded the Moroccan city before she was lost at sea. Later, her husband was involved in the Greek war against Atlantis.
Taprobane
Known to classical Greeks and Romans, the famous geographer Strabo described it as the “beginning of another world.” They believed Taprobane was located, at most, 20 days sail from the southern tip of India. A number of unspecified islands, probably the Cocos, were supposedly passed en route to the large island with its 500 towns. Taprobane may have been Australia but was certainly not Mu, as some modern investigators speculate.
Tara
A pre-Celtic archaeological site used for public ceremonies during megalithic times, located 20 miles northwest of Dublin, and the ancient political capital of Ireland. It was originally named Tea-mhair after Queen Tea, the wife of Eremon, the “Euaemon” listed by Plato as a king from Atlantis. Together with her sister, Tephi, Queen Tea made Tara the spiritual hub for the Atlantean Navel of the World mystery cult, and the sacred center of Ireland itself. A huge oval enclosure called the Rath na Riogh, the “Fortress of Kings,” sits atop the “Mound of the Hostages,” stressing its identity as an omphalos, the metaphysical cosmic egg of eternal rebirth.
Beside this passage-grave still stands the Lia Fail, the “Stone of Destiny,” a later addition to Tara brought by the Tuatha da Danann, who arrived from the final destruction of Atlantis after 1200 b.c. Irish kings were crowned on or beside the monolith to demonstrate their Atlantean lineage, hence the name of another Tara earthwork known as Forradh, Gaelic for the “Seat of Kings.” The Atlantean character of their inauguration was demonstrated by the five druid priests involved in selecting a royal candidate, and the bull sacrifice they performed. In Plato’s description of ritual practices undertaken by kings at the Temple of Poseidon in Atlantis, a bull was sacrificed over a pillar not unlike the Lia Fail, and 5 was their sacred numeral.
The Feis Teamhra was another ceremony in which the new king was united with Ireland by symbolically marrying the goddesses of Irish sovereignty, Etain and Madb, both impersonated by a white mare. In the Kritias, Plato reported that the first lady of Atlantis was Leukippe, “White Mare.”
Tara’s “Mound of the Hostages” has been dated to circa 2100 b.c., coinciding with the second Atlantean catastrophe, in 2193 b.c., when refugees from Atlantis instituted their kingly rituals in Stone Age Ireland.
Tavwots
The Ute Indians tell of Little Rabbit, who very long ago picked a fight with the Sun by hurling his penis at it. The great disk exploded into thousands of burning fragments which crashed to Earth, igniting a terrific conflagration. Try as he might to escape the cataclysm, Tavwots was dismembered by falling solar debris. His head went rolling around the planet, tears gushing from his swollen eyes in such great quantities of remorse that they caused a universal flood that extinguished the flaming holocaust, but almost obliterated all life in the process.
Little Rabbit’s myth is the means by which a preliterate people preserve the memory of the world-wide Bronze Age catastrophe that destroyed Atlantis.
Tawantisuyu
A term by which the Incas referred to their South American empire. It derived from the collective name for their ancestors who migrated to the Andes as survivors from a Great Flood (Zorate, 9). The word may have the same Atlantean root as Tawy, which the ancient Egyptians used to describe Nile Civilization.
Tawiscara
North American flood hero of the Huron Indians, said to have “guided the torrents into smooth seas and lakes” following the disaster.
Tayasal
Sunken homeland of Yucatan’s Itza Indians. Before its watery demise, Tayasal dominated an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Taycanamu
The Lemurian city father of Chan Chan, a pre-Inca megalopolis on Peru’s northern coast. In fact, his name appears to mean, literally, “Taycan from Mu,” just as some Europeans used to be known by the places in which they were born: Francisco de Leon, Goetz von Berlichen, and so on.
Taygete
Fifth Atlantis of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas by the goddess Pleione. Taygete was an Atlantean kingdom in the Canary Islands, where the native name for a Guanche sacred province on their largest island, Tenerife, was originally known as Tegueste.
Tazlavoo
An early emperor of Atlantis, the first to possess a special crystal of alleged mystical properties, according to “ancient Asian chronicles,” cited by J. Saint-Hilair, of the Roerich Museum, in New York.
Tehom
The Sumero-Babylonian term for the Great Flood.
Tenmadurai
One of several “sunken civilizations” described in Hindu scripture, the inundation of Tenmadurai signaled the end of a golden age, just as the destruction of Atlantis closed the Bronze Age.
Tephi
A name helping to establish the Atlantean identity of the Milesians who occupied pre-Celtic Ireland. Tephi is a derivative of Tefnut, the divine wife of the Egyptian Atlas, Shu.
Thens
In Thai folk tradition, a people who fled across the Pacific Ocean from their sinking kingdom during the ancient past. All they managed to salvage from the rising waters was a single column from their chief temple. It was set it up at the center of their new city in Southeast Asia, where the Thens blended Lemurian mysticism and technology with the native peoples.
The column from an unidentified structure at Ilios, the Trojan capital, represents the same Late Bronze Age style found in the clean, monumental architecture of Atlantis. Troy Museum, Cannikale, Turkey.
Thera
The ancient Greek name of modern Santorini, a small Aegean island north of Crete, synonymous in the minds of some conventional archaeologists for Atlantis. They argue that a volcanic eruption experienced by Thera during the Middle Bronze Age was garbled in Plato’s account and subsequently remembered, imperfectly, as the fate of the lost civilization. While a Minoan settlement was indeed located on Thera, it was too small to exert any significant cultural, economic, or much less, military influence. Skeptics still sometimes attempt to use Thera and Crete to explain away Atlantis, but they represent a dwindling voice shunned even by most mainstream scholars.
