12 The Atlantis Encyclopedia
Abnakis
Algonquian tradition tells how the eponymous founding father, from whom
this North American tribe derived its name, came “from the rising sun,” the
direction of the Abnakis (“our white ancestors”), after he was forewarned in a
dream that the gods would sink their land beneath the sea. In haste, he built “a
great reed raft” on which he sailed away with his family. Aboard were a number of
animals that, in those days, could speak. The beasts grew impatient with the
long voyage, ridiculed the Father of the Tribes, and were about to mutiny, when
land was finally sighted. Everyone disembarked safely, but the formerly rebellious
animals, as punishment for their onboard behavior, were deprived by the gods
of their ability to converse with humans.
(See Noah)Aclla Cuna
In Quechua, the language of the Incas, “The Chosen Women,” or “The Little
Mothers.” They referred to the seven visible stars in the constellation of the
Pleiades, associated with a great deluge, from which Con-Tiki-Viracocha (“White
Man of the Sea Foam”) arrived in South America to found Andean Civilization.
Aclla Cuna was also the name of the Incas’ most sacred mystery cult com-
posed exclusively of the most beautiful, virtuous, and intelligent women, who
orally preserved the high wisdom and ancestral traditions of the red-haired
Con-Tiki-Viracocha. They dressed in Atlantean colors (red, white, and black)
and were provided magnificent estates at Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire,
and the mountain citadel of Machu Picchu. The Chosen Women identified with
the Pleiades, or “Atlantises,” as they were known similarly in Greek myth.Ad
A palatial island capital punished for the wickedness of its inhabitants by a
terrible flood. The story of Ad is preserved in pre-Islamic traditions and men-
tioned in the Holy Koran, which condemned its inhabitants for building “high
places for vain uses.” The Adites were said to have “worshiped the sun from the
tops of pyramids,” a singularly un-Arabic practice more evocative of life in Atlantis.
Ad was known as “the City of Pillars,” or “the Land of Bronze.” Plato similarly
described the pillar cult of the Atlanteans, while their city was the pre-classical
world’s foremost clearinghouse for the bronze trade.
In Arabic tradition, the Adites are portrayed as giants (the Atlantean Titans
of Greek mythology), superior architects and builders who raised great stone
monuments. Even today, rural tribes of Saudi Arabia refer to any ancient ruins
of prodigious size as “buildings of the Adites,” and apply the expression “as old
as Ad” to anything of extreme age. In the 19th century, the royal monarch of the
Mussulman tribes was Shedd-Ad-Ben-Ad, or “Descendant and Son of Ad.” The
progenitor of the Arab peoples was Ad, grandson of the biblical Ham.