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angrily wielding a sky-serpent, or comet, with which she threatens to bring about
a deluge for the destruction of a sinful mankind. Other portrayals show her over-
turning a vase to drench the world with water, likewise suggesting the flood. In
the Codex Mendoza, Ixchel appears with her husband, Itzamna, the “White Man,”
riding the flood toward Yucatan, her baggage spilling out on the waves. Her myth
unmistakably describes Ixchel as a culture-bearer from Atlantis.
(See Crystal Skull, Itzamna)Ix Pucyola
An obscure sea-deity, perhaps the Mayan name for Atlantis. Ix Pucyola means
“She, the Destroyer in the Heart of Water.”Izanagi and Izanami
The Japanese creators of all life on Earth. From the Celestial Bridge, or Milky
Way, Izanagi stirred the ocean with his jeweled spear. Out of the agitated waters
arose the island of Onogoro, where he built an octagonal tower located at the
center of the world. Afterwards, while giving birth to fire, Izanami died and went
to the Underworld. In mourning for his wife, Izanagi undertook a quest to find
her, but she could not return with him because she had tasted a single fruit grown
in the dark kingdom. Henceforward, she became the Queen of the Land of the
Dead.
This is almost precisely the Western legend of Persephone, an allegorical myth
for the fundamental tenet of eternal rebirth belonging to the Atlantean Navel of
the World mystery cult. It appears again in the octagonal tower, its eight sides
representing the cardinal and sub-cardinal directions defining the sacred center.
The resemblance of this Japanese couple to another pair of founders in
ancient Mexico is an additional theme connecting Atlantis. Izanagi and Izanami
compare with Itzamna and Ixchel, the husband-and-wife creators of Maya civili-
zation, who arrived at the shores of Yucatan following a terrible deluge.