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contingent of survivors from the destruction of Atlantis to Mexico, where they
founded Mesoamerican civilization.
(See Atlas, Aztlan)The Hulluk Miyumko
The California Miwok name for the Pleiades. The Hulluk Miyumko were
female deities who gave birth to “beautiful star chiefs,” just as the Atlantean
Daughters of Atlas bore sons who were the first leaders of men.
(See Pleiades)Hun yecil
“The Drowning of the Trees,” identically known to the later Aztecs as Hun-
Esil; an episode from the Mayas’ cosmological book, the Popol Vuh. It tells how
survivors of an Atlantic cataclysm built a temple near the banks of the Huehuhuetan
River to thank the gods for their escape. The Hun yecil is associated with the final
destruction of Atlantis.Huruing Wuhti
In the Hopi Indian creation story, they were a pair of women who survived
the Great Flood. The Huruing Wuhti were later venerated as mother goddesses,
because they gave birth to the Hopi people, suggesting Atlantean culture-bearers
and tribal progenitors in the American southwest. Chronologist, Neil Zimmerer,
writes that the Huruing Wuhti derived their name from a single survivor of the
Atlantis catastrophe, who “fled north with many others to start a new kingdom.”Hyades
“Rainy” or “Deluge,” these Atlantean Daughters of Atlas became a formation
of stars in the night sky. When they appear, another constellation of Atlantises,
the Pleiades, is in conjunction with the sun at the time of the rainy season,
suggesting the deluge that destroyed Atlantis.Hy-Breasail
Another name for Atlantis in Celtic myth. Some of the Atlantean Tuatha da
Danann, after severe military reverses in Ireland, were said to have returned to
Hy-Breasail. As late as the 17th century, the island was still pictured and so named
on Irish maps of the mid-Atlantic. As encyclopedist, Anna Franklin, observes,
“maps have even existed which usually depict it as round, divided in the centre by