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the diplomatic service and as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he
published an estimated three million words in numerous books and magazine
articles, many of them devoted to a rational understanding of the Atlantis contro-
versy. Sykes’s erudite journals and encyclopedias of comparative myth went far to
sustain and expand interest in Atlantis throughout the mid-20th century. As such,
he succeeded his predecessors, Lewis Spence and Ignatius Donnelly, as one of
the three greatest Atlantologist scholars of modern times. He died in 1983, just
before his 90th birthday, but a legacy in the form of his large library of Atlantis-
related material is preserved in its own room at Edgar Cayce’s Association for
Research and Enlightenment, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
(See Donnelly, Spence)Szeu-Kha
The Pima Indians’ flood hero, he led their ancestors to North America after a
flaming serpent fell from the sky with its fiery brood to burn up the original home-
land of all mankind, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Fearing that the
conflagration would spread throughout the Earth, Szeu-Kha pushed the burning
island beneath the sea, creating a world-wide deluge. He led the early Pima away
from this catastrophe before too many were drowned.First Dynasty stone representation of Horus, the divine
patron of kings, wearing the Red Crown of Lower
Egypt. Atlantean culture-bearers arriving at the Nile
Delta were known as “Followers of Horus.”