110 The Atlantis Encyclopedia
Escape from Atlantis
A 1997 feature film, in which the protagonists sail through the Burmuda
Triangle, and are suddenly transported back to Atlantis. Escape from Atlantis is
one of several Hollywood movies (including Cocoon, for example) based on the
premise that Atlantis lies in the Bahamas.Etelenty
Ancient Egyptian for “Atlantis,” as it appears in The Book of the Coming Forth
by Day, better known today as The Book of the Dead—a series of religious texts
buried with the deceased to help the soul along its underworld journey through
death to its spiritual destiny. According to Dr. Ramses Seleem’s 2001 translation,
“Etelenty” means “the land that has been divided and submerged by water.”
Its Greek derivation is apparent, and was probably the same term Solon heard
spoken at Sais, which he transliterated into “Atlantis.”
(See Solon)Etruscans
The pre-Roman people who raised
a unique civilization in west-central
Italy, circa 800 B.C. to 200 B.C. Although
racially Indo-European, their largely
untranslated language was apparently
related to Finno-Urgic, making them
distantly related, at least linguistically, to
Hungarians, Estonians, and Finns. They
referred to themselves as the Rasna;
“Etruscan” was the collective name by
which the Romans knew them because
of their residence in Tuscany. Their
provenance is uncertain, although they
appear to have been a synthesis of na-
tive Italians, the Villanovans, circa 1200
B.C., with foreign arrivals, most notably
from northwest coastal Asia Minor.
Trojan origins after the sack of Ilios,
formerly regarded by scholars as entirely
fanciful, seem at least partially born out
by terra-cotta artifacts featuring Trojan
motifs. Etruscan writing compares with
examples of Trojan script, and Aeneas’
flight from Troy appears in Etruscan art.Recreation of an Etruscan temple, Via Guilia
Museum, Rome, that resembled Atlantean
counterparts.