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The Adites are still regarded as the earliest inhabitants of Arabia. They were
referred to as “red men,” for the light color of their hair. Several accounts of
Atlantis (Egyptian, Irish, Winnebago, etc.) depict the Atlanteans, at least in part, as
redheads. The Adites had 10 kings ruling various parts of the world simultaneously—
the same number and disposition described by Plato in his Atlantis account, Kritias.
The Adites arrived in the country after Ad was annihilated by a colossal black
cloud with the ferocity of a hurricane, an obvious reference to the volcanic eruption
that accompanied the destruction of Atlantis.
“Ad” is still the name of a Semitic tribe in the province of Hadramut, Saudi
Arabia, whose elders claimed descent from their eponymous ancestor, the great-
grandson of Noah.
(See Adapa)Adad
The Atlantean concept of Atlas imported into Sumer (after 3000 B.C.). Adad was
a fire-god symbolized by an active volcano, its summit wreathed by the constellation
of the Pleiades—the “Atlantises,” or daughters of Atlas. Oppenheimer writes that
the Sumerian version of the flood was “catastrophic. The storm came suddenly with a
loud noise and darkening the sky and a raging wind from Adad...One of the gods,
Anzu, is described as tearing the sky with his talons.” According to the Sumerian
version of the Deluge, “No one could see anyone else. They could not be recognized
in the catastrophe. The flood roared like a bull. Like a wild ass screaming, the winds
howled. The darkness was total, and there was no sun.”Adapa
In Babylonian myth, Ea, the god of the seas, destroyed the great city of Ad with
a catastrophic deluge, killing all its sinful inhabitants except his virtuous high priest,
Adapa. This “Man from Ad” arrived in the Near East as a culture-bearer to pass
on the arts and sciences, principles of government, and religion, from which all
subsequent Mesopotamian civilizations traced their development. The Babylonian
Ad is equivalent to the drowned capital preserved in Arabic traditions, and both are
clear references to the same primeval civilization of Atlantis.
(See Ad)Adena
Named after an Ohio mound group dating from ca. 1000 B.C., Adena represents
the earliest known civilization in the American Midwest and along the eastern
seaboard. Its people built colossal ridge-top or linear burial mounds of stone,
often longer than 100 feet, and great conical structures; the greatest, at 66 feet
high, is West Virginia’s Creek Grave Mound. The Adena people also laid out
sprawling enclosures oriented to various celestial phenomena. Their prodigious