Vediouis
According to the Sumerian scholar Neil Zimmerer, Vediouis was a prince, who overthrew his aged father to become an early king of Atlantis, then suffering from an acute labor shortage. Vediouis attempted to solve the national dilemma by large-scale slave raids into Europe and Africa. These criminal acts were opposed by an Indo-Aryan leader of the Aegean World, Poseidon, much later deified as the Greek sea-god. He led a successful invasion of Atlantis, killing Vediouis in combat.
Venus
It was the personal symbol of the most important Atlantean culture-bearers and a telling link between the Old and New Worlds through the story of Atlantis. The Evening Star belonged to Osiris, “the Westerner” from Aalu, who was on a civilizing mission throughout the world. Inanna, the Babylonian “Ishtar,” was a Sumerian goddess who carried the Tablets of Destiny from Atu to Mesopotamia. She was represented by a twilight Venus in the center of a six-rayed circle, recalling the Atlantean sacred numeral of female energy and the divisional zones of Atlantis itself.
Quetzalcoatl, the “Feathered Serpent” founding-father of Mesoamerican Civilization, was symbolized by Venus. In his guise as Ehecatl, he was represented in Aztec art as a man emerging from a tsunami at Panco, the Vera Cruz port where he was said to have landed from his home kingdom across the Atlantic Ocean. As Ce Acatl, his Atlantean identity becomes clearer still. Plato described in Kritias how the kings of Atlantis performed bloody sacrifices over a sacred column located at the center of their most holy precinct in the Temple of Poseidon. This column, inscribed with the ancestral laws of the land, embodied the cultic concept of Atlas, who supported the sky on his shoulders. Quetzalcoatl was likewise often represented holding up the heavens. But as Ce Acatl, the planet Venus, a pillar cult was dedicated to him at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. At the very center of the city was erected a free-standing column over which bloody sacrifices were conducted. This column had the highly Atlantean name of “In the Midst of the Heavens.”
The association of Venus with some primordial culture spread to the North American Plains Indians. The Iowas’ story of the Deluge begins, “At first, all men lived on an island where the day-star is born.”
The Greek Hesperus, from whom evening vespers derives, was synonymous for Venus as it appears shortly after sunset; in other words, the Far West. According to Hesiod, the fifth-century b.c. Greek mythologist, he was the brother of Atlas and founder of Italy, known originally as Hesperia (Virgil, The Aeneid). His myth conforms with Plato’s Atlantis account, wherein Italy was specifically mentioned as the Etruscan extent of Atlantean power in Europe. The non-Platonic myth of Hesperus accentuates his Atlantean identity. It described his sudden disappearance in a “great tempest” (a volcanic eruption), while standing at the summit of Mount Atlas, as he observed the motions of the stars. The Atlantean connection is again stressed by his daughter, Hesperis, also associated with the Evening Star: She bore a trio of daughters to Atlas, the Hesperides, three additional Atlantises.
Classical European tradition associated the coming of civilization with Venus in the West (Osiris, Inanna, Ishtar, Hesperus), where it was seen as the Evening Star. Pre-Columbian myth connected the arrival of civilization with Venus in the East (Ce Acatl), where it appears as the Morning Star. The source of those widely geographically separate but fundamentally similar arrivals lay on a lost island in the mid-Atlantic, the Hesperides of Atlantis, between the Old and New Worlds.
Vimana
A flying machine capable of carrying human beings plus cargo. Examples were allegedly common at some early period in Atlantis, where they were invented. Evidence for Vimanas is found in abundance throughout Hindu literature. Its name, “That Which Measures,” may define the Vimana’s function as a device “measuring” territory over which it flies.
As David Hatcher Childress explains in his own research of the subject: Ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous it would take several topics to relate what they have to say. The Vaimanika Sasta [sometimes spelled Vimanika Shastra or Vymaanika-Shaastra], perhaps the most important ancient text on Vimanas, was first reported to have been found in 1918 in the Baroda Royal Sanskrit Library. Swami Dayananda Saraswati in his comprehensive treatise on the Rig veda, dated 1875, references the Vaimanaik Sastra in his commentary, as well as other manuscripts on Vimanas. The Vaimanaik Sastra refers to about ninety seven past works and authorities, of which twenty works deal with the mechanism of aerial flying machines. None of these sources claim Indian origins for the Vimana, but assign its creation to a remote period of earlier civilization before the Great Flood. From descriptions such as these, Childress and other researchers conclude the device was invented in Atlantis.
Hopi accounts of the flood hero, Kuskurza, tell how a pre-deluge, Atlantean-like people “made a Pauwvota, and in their creative power made it fly through the air. On this many of the people flew to a big city, attacked it, and returned so fast no one knew where they came from. Soon the people of many cities and countries were making Patuwvotas and flying in them to attack one another.”
In the Boen religion of pre-Buddhist Tibet, monarchs during ancient times were said to have had a power that enabled them to fly through the sky from one kingdom to the next. They called it the dmu dag, rmu thag, or “The Cord of Mu.” Remarkably, here is preserved not only the memory of prehistoric aviation, but an Atlantean contemporary, the lost Pacific civilization of Mu.
Edgar Cayce, who was presumably unfamiliar with Tibetan traditions, Hopi myth, or Hindu literature describing Vimanas, often spoke of aircraft in Atlantis. He said the Atlanteans possessed “things of transportation, the aeroplane, as called today, but then as ships of the air, for they sailed not only in the air but in other elements also” (Cayce 2437-1 1/23/41).
Many Atlantologists regard Indian and Hopi stories of Vimanas as early science fiction. To them, Cayce’s statements about airships in Atlantis were influenced by contemporary fantasy writers. Others point out his more convincing description of Atlantis in so many additional details, arguing that he may have been accurate here, too. And they find it difficult to dismiss the surprisingly large number of admittedly authentic ancient Indian texts which mostly depict Vimanas in unadorned, straightforward language.
There were certainly no aircraft in the Late Bronze Age, when Atlantis reached the zenith of its material greatness. During their life-and-death struggle in the eastern Mediterranean, the Atlanteans could have certainly used a squadron of Vimanas to stave off defeat. If such machines ever existed during ancient times (which is unlikely in the extreme), they were utterly forgotten by subsequent ages, except in Indian literature and Hopi and Tibetan myth. The earliest suggested period for Atlantis, and out of which it appears to have evolved, was the Neolithic. It is difficult to imagine any relationship between megalithic and aeronautical technologies. (See Cayce, Mu)
Viracocha
The Incas’ leading culture hero, believed to have escaped a world-class deluge that obliterated everyone else in his kingdom. He hid in the Cave of Refuge, emerging to found Andean Civilization. In a later variant of his myth, Viracocha rose from the depths of Lake Titicaca and recreated humans by breathing life into great stones lying about, a process that resulted in the pre-Inca city of Tiahuanaco. His action is similar to the transformation of stones into a post-deluge population achieved by the Greek deluge hero, Deucalion, suggesting a shared flood tradition. Viracocha’s name, “Sea Foam,” implies the bow wave of an arriving ship. He was described as fair-skinned, red-haired, and robed in a long garment decorated with a red flower motif. Viracocha taught the natives everything they needed to build the first Andean civilization, then sailed away from Peruvian shores into the west and was never seen again. It would appear that a culture-bearer associated with the Atlantis catastrophe around 2100 b.c. may have moved on to Lemuria after making his mark in Bolivia and Peru.
The mere appearance of Francisco Pizarro and his Conquistadors in South America during 1531 caused widespread confusion among the Incas. Emperor Atahualpa and his people were unsure if these bearded white men in the possession of magical technology were descendants of the beneficent Viracocha. The Spanish soon enlightened them on that account by kidnapping and executing Atahualpa, looting the Inca temples of their gold, demonizing their religion, and dismantling their empire. The paralysis that had gripped the Incas at the sight of Pizarro was identical to the Aztecs’ disabling uncertainty when confronted by Hernan Cortez, who they imagined might be their own white-skinned culture hero, Quetzalcoatl, the “Feathered Serpent.”
The Voguls
A Finno-Urgic-speaking people residing on either side of Russia’s Ural Mountains, whose tradition of the Great Deluge tells how the world was engulfed in waves of boiling hot water, suggesting a volcanic cataclysm.
von Humbolt, Alexander
Famous in the early 19th century as an explorer, the author of a 30-volume of the natural sciences, and organizer of the first international scientific conference, von Humbolt is remembered today as the founder of ecology and the modern earth sciences. Across the more than 6,000 miles that von Humbolt traveled through Central and South America, numerous flood traditions he learned firsthand from native speakers made him a firm believer in the historical reality of Plato’s Atlantis, which he identified with America itself. Von Humbolt is but one of the important scientific personalities who lend Atlantology significant credibility through their sympathetic understanding of the investigation.
Vue
An extinct race of fair-haired foreigners who passed thorough Melanesia in the wake of a cataclysmic flood. Described in folk tradition as the possessors of powerful mana, or magic energy, the Vue are believed to have built the mega-lithic structures scattered throughout the Pacific islands.
Machu Picchu from the Inca gate.
