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Alkyone of the Pleiades, in the constellation of Taurus the Bull, at noon of the
spring equinox (March 21) in 2141 B.C. Suggestion that the Alkyone alignment
was deliberately intended by the pyramid’s designer is supported by the fact that
the feature corresponding to the Scored Lines in the so-called “Trial Passages” is
a flat surface that could have been used as a pelorus for stargazing (Lemesurier, 193).
In view of the Great Pyramid’s function, at least partially, as a monument to
Atlantis, the third-millennium B.C. date may commemorate some related anniver-
sary, either of the Atlantis catastrophe itself or an Atlantean arrival in the Nile
Valley. Lemesurier suggests as much: “The Pleiades were firmly linked in the
Egyptian tradition with the goddess Hathor, the ‘goddess of the Foundation’, and
instigator of the primeval ‘deluge’.” Hathor, or Aether, was, after all, the Egyptian
version of Alkyone, herself the personification of Atlantis (151).
“The Egyptians observed three solemn days that ended when these stars [the
Pleiades] culminated at midnight. These days were associated with a tradition of a
deluge or other race-destroying disaster. The rites began on the seventeenth day
of Aethyr, which agrees with the Mosaic deluge account, namely, the seventeenth
day of the second month of the Jewish year” (154). Both the Egyptian Aethyr
and the second month of the Jewish year correspond to our late October/early
November. With the year provided by a proper lunar calculation of the date given
by Plato in Kritias and Egyptian records of the XX Dynasty, we arrive at a date for
the final destruction of Atlantis: November 3, 1198 B.C.Ama
A Japanese tribe, of numerical insignificance, with genetic links to popula-
tions directly descended from the Jomon Culture of the ninth millennium B.C.
Today, the Ama live around the Saheki Gulf (Ohita prefecture). Their oldest
known settlements were at Minami Amabe-gun (Ohita prefecture), Amabe-cho
(Tokushima prefecture), Kaishi-cho in Sado (Niigata prefecture) and Itoman-
cho (Okinawa prefecture). These areas coincide with some of the country’s oldest
habitation sites. The Ama believe they are direct descendants of foreigners from a
high civilization across the sea in the deeply ancient past. The visitors, remembered
as the Sobata, preached a solar religion, and its symbol, a rising sun, became the
national emblem of Japan. It also signified the direction from which the Sobata
came; namely, the eastern Pacific Ocean. Their island kingdom, Nirai-Kanai, was
eventually overwhelmed by a great flood and now lays at the bottom of the sea.
To commemorate these events, the Ama still conduct an annual ceremony at
the eastern shores of Japan, held in early April or October. At dawn, the celebrants
gather on the beach to face the dawn and pray for the souls of their ancestors, the
Sobata. Following purification with seawater, a designated leader walks into the
ocean, up to his neck, bearing a small tree branch in his hand. After a pause, he
turns to face the shore. Emerging from the water, he is greeted with the wild
beating of drums and joyful chanting, as though he had survived some catastrophe.
InThe Lost Continent of Mu, James Churchward stated that the sunken civili-
zation of the Pacific was symbolized by the Tree of Life. The word for “timber” in