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basket. On his arrival, he visited a sunken palace belonging to the sea-god. Its
described towers and walls are reminiscent of the stone structure found by scuba
divers in 1985 off the coast of the Japanese island of Yonaguni.
(See Mu, Yonaguni)Honomu
One of several place names in Hawaii commemorating the lost civilization of
the Pacific, it means literally “Sacred Mu.”
(See Lono, Mu)Horaizan
Known throughout the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan as a sunken king-
dom of great antiquity and former splendor. It derived its name from the island’s
highest mountain, Horai, on the summit of which grew the Tree of Life.
(See Hesperides, Mu, Yonaguni)Hotu-matua
The legendary founding father of Easter Island arrived from over the sea
with a fleet of his family and followers after surviving a great catastrophe. The
god of earthquakes, Poku, had upended Hotu-matua’s homeland with a crowbar,
sinking Hiva into the ocean depths.
(See Lemuria, Mu)Hrim Thursar
In Scandinavian myth, a new race begat by the only man and woman to survive
the Great Flood. All Norse traced their descent to the Hrim Thursar, or “Hoar Frost.”Huitzilopochtli
In Aztec myth, he was the divine leader who rescued an ancestral people from
his devastated island kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean, Aztlan. Arriving in the
Valley of Mexico, they built a new capital to commemorate their lost city, when
Tenochtitlan was constructed on a rocky island at the center of a man-made lake.
That Aztlan was the Nahuatl word for the Greek Atlantis is no less obvious than
Huitzilopochtli’s identification with Atlas: The 14th-century Codex Borgia, at the
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, depicts Huitzilopochtli supporting the sky on his
shoulders. In other words, he was remembered as a leader who guided a large