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Arab accounts told of a pre-flood
king, Surid (pronounced shu-reed),
who was forewarned of the coming
cataclysm, and commanded to estab-
lish the Great Pyramid as “a place of
refuge.” Shu, the Egyptian Atlas, was
likewise portrayed as a man support-
ing the sphere of the heavens on his
shoulders. Perhaps the Arab Surid was
actually the Egyptian Shu, the most
Atlantean of all the gods. The same
Arab writers reported that the Great
Pyramid’s grand architect was Thoth,
the Egyptian god of literature and sci-
ence, the divine patron of learning,
keeper of the ancient wisdom. He was
equated by the Greeks and Romans
with Hermes and Mercury, respec-
tively, and these names are used inter-
changeably with Thoth in various
traditions, Arabic and Western, de-
scribing the Great Pyramid’s chief engineer.
Edgar Cayce certainly neither heard nor read anything of these obscure tra-
ditions in the 1930s or 40s. Yet, during one of his trance-states, he too spoke the
name of the genius most responsible for raising the Pyramid: Thoth. Of all the
deities associated with the structure, either astronomically or spiritually, the
Egyptian Hermes is the most Atlantean. His surviving myth recounts simply that
he arrived at the Nile Delta before the beginning of Egyptian civilization carrying
with him a body of knowledge preserved on “emerald tablets” from a flood that
overwhelmed his homeland in the primeval sea.
According to the Classical geographer Diodorus Siculus, “The Egyptians them-
selves were strangers who in very remote times settled on the banks of the Nile,
bringing with themselves the civilization of their mother country, the art of
writing and a polished language. They had come from the direction of the setting
sun, and were the most ancient of men.” Other contemporary writers described
Egypt as the “daughter of Poseidon,” the sea-god creator of Atlantis.
(See Cayce)Great Sphinx
The most famous anthropomorphic monument on Earth, its earliest known
name was Hu, or “guardian.” The Greek word, sphinx, describes various elements
“bound together,” referring to the human head atop its lion’s body. Rain erosion
appears to fix the creation of the Great Sphinx to circa 7000 B.C., a conclusion both
conventional scholars and Atlantologists find troubling; the former refuse to believeKhafre’s Pyramid, at the Giza Plateau, where
refugee Atlanteans and Nile residents cooperated
to create Pharaonic civilization.