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Aintzine-Koak
Literally “those who came before,” the forefathers of the Basque. The ances-
tral Aintzine-Koak are still remembered as former inhabitants of “the Green Isle,”
a powerful maritime nation that sank into the Atlantic Ocean after a terrible cata-
clysm and from which the few survivors sailed into the Bay of Biscay, eventually
bringing the holy relics of their mystery religion into the Pyrenees Mountains.
(See Atlaintika)Ainu Deluge Myth
The Ainu are mixed descendants of a Caucasian population that inhabited
Japan before Asian immigrations from Korea. They may have belonged to the
same white population that inhabited the kingdom of Mu and dispersed across
the Pacific Ocean after it was overwhelmed by a great flood. Remnants of this lost
race also appear among 9,000-year-old skeletal remains found in Washington State
(the so-called “Kennewick Man”), the untypically bearded Haida of coastal British
Columbia, and in parts of Polynesia.
The Ainu recall a time when the sea suddenly rose over the land, drowning
most humans. Only a few survived by climbing to mountaintops.
(See Mu)Alalu
The Hurrians were a people who occupied Anatolia (Turkey) from the early
third millennium B.C. Many of their religious and mythic concepts were absorbed
by their Hittite conquerors, beginning after 2000 B.C. Among these traditions
was the story of Alalu, the first king of heaven, a giant god who made his home
on a mountainous island in the sea of the setting sun. His son, Kumarbi, was
synonymous for the Greek Kronos, a mythic personification of the Atlantic Ocean
through Roman times. In Alalu survives a Hurrian memory of the mountainous
island of Atlantis.
(See Arallu, Arallu, Kronos)Alas, That Great City
Francis Ashton’s popular 1948 novel about Atlantis, influenced by Hanns
Hoerbiger’s Cosmic Ice Theory.
(See Hoerbiger)Alatuir
A magic stone, the source of ultimate power, at the very center of Bouyan, the
sunken island-kingdom from which the ancestors of the Slavic peoples migrated to