16 The Atlantis Encyclopedia
times the kings of Atlantis, descendants of Poseidon, wore on their heads, as a mark
of power, the fillet of the male sea-ram [a dolphin], and that their wives, the queens,
wore, as a sign of their power, fillets of the female sea-rams [perhaps narwhals].”Aethyr
The Egyptian month corresponding
to our late October/early November,
during which a world deluge associated
with the final destruction of Atlantis
was caused by the goddess Hathor.Agadir
A city on the Atlantic coast of
Morocco. Its name may have been
derived from the Atlantean king men-
tioned in Plato’s Kritias, Gadeiros.Ah-Auab
Literally “white men,” or “foreigners to the land,” a term by which the
Mayas of the Lowland Yucatan distinguished themselves from native Indian
populations, because they claimed descent from fair-skinned survivors of the
Great Flood.
(See Halach-Unicob, Tutulxiu)Ahson-nutli
Among the Navajo Indians in the American Southwest, Ahson-nutli was a
god who, in the days before the Great Flood, created a quartet of twin giants to
support the four corners of the sky. In Plato’s account of Atlantis, supreme
leadership of the antediluvian civilization belonged to twin brothers, likewise
Titans, or giants. Atlas, the first of these, was mythically perceived as supporting
the sky on his shoulders. His name derives from the Sanskrit atl, “to support or
uphold.”
(See Atlas, Ayar-aucca)Aiken, Conrad
Renowned 20th-century American author and master poet who wrote of
Atlantis in his 1929 works, Priapus and the Fool and Senlin.Queen Hatshepsut’s funerary temple at Deir el-Bahri,
West Thebes, was patterned after similar monumental
construction in contemporary Atlantis, circa 1470 B.C.