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Geiger, Wilhelm
Leading Iraniologist and doyen of Middle Eastern archaeology, whose stellar
academic credentials lent Atlantology important credibility in the early 20th cen-
tury. Referring to the ancient Athenian military commander and statesman,
Alcibiades I, as cited by Plato, Geiger remarked:
Quite unique stands the statement, “He was a Greek, or one of
those who came forth from the continent on the other side of the
Great Sea.” This last expression is very obscure. It sounds too
mysterious to designate the Greeks of Asia Minor. Is it, perhaps,
some reminiscence of the passage of primitive man to the six
Keshvars (mythic realms in Iranian tradition)? Or of Atlantis?Gigantomachy
In Greek myth, a conflict between the Titans and the Olympians that could be
a metaphor for the Atlanto-Athenian War described by Plato. Atlas was a Titan,
and the Gods might have been fashioned into glorified images of the victorious
Greeks. For his participation in the Gigantomachy, which he led after the resig-
nation of Kronos, Atlas was condemned to bear the sky on his shoulders. His
punishment was probably a mythic device to reaffirm the conquest of Atlantis,
because in other traditions he supports the sphere of the Zodiac, not in an image
of defeat, but as the inventor of astrology-astronomy.Ginunngigap
In Norse myth, a great deluge that once drowned the whole world. After the
waters receded, the first dry land was exposed. In various sagas, Ginunngigap
was survived by various flood heroes who founded human society.
(See Esaugetuh Emissee)Giron-Gagal
According to the Quiche cosmological book, the Popol Vuh, the Giron-Gagal
was a power-crystal presented to Balaam-Qitze by Nacxit, the “Great Father” of
Patulan-Pa-Civan, the Mayas’ version of Atlantis. He was about to lead a com-
pany of “Old Men,” the U Mamae, across the ocean to Yucatan. The Giron-Gagal
was a “symbol of power and majesty to make the peoples fear and respect the
Quiches.”
(See Balaam-Qitze, Chintamani, Nacxit, Patulan-Pa-Civan, The Tuaoi Stone,
U Mamae)