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Tiamuni
The Acomas claimed that their ancestors were white people washed ashore
on the east coast of North America by the Deluge. The chief who led these hapless
survivors was Tiamuni. The name compares favorably with Tiamat, the Babylonian
personification of salt water (the ocean), itself derived from the older Sumerian
version. Tiwat was a sun-god of the primordial flood known to the Luvians, a
people kindred to the Trojans, in west-coastal Asia Minor.Tien-Mu
In Chinese myth, a range of mountains far across the Pacific Ocean. According
to Churchward, Mu was a mountainous land.Tien Ti
China’s Imperial Library featured a colossal encyclopedia alleged to contain
“all knowledge” from ancient times to the 14th century, when additions were still
being made. The 4,320-volume set included information about a time when Tien
Ti, the Emperor of Heaven—ancient China’s equivalent to Zeus—attempted to
wipe out sinful mankind with a worldwide deluge: “The planets altered their
courses, the Earth fell to pieces, and the waters in its bosom rushed upwards with
violence and overflowed the Earth.”
Another god, Yeu, taking pity on the drowning human beings, caused a giant
turtle to rise up from the bottom of the ocean, then transformed the beast into
new land. Remarkably, this version is identical to a creation myth repeated by
virtually every tribe north of the Rio Grande River. Native American Indians
almost universally refer to their continent as “Turtle Island,” after a gigantic turtle
raised up from the sea floor by the Great Spirit for their salvation from the Deluge.
Another Chinese text explains how “the pillars supporting the sky crumbled,
and the chains from which the Earth was suspended shivered to pieces. Sun, moon,
and stars poured down into the northwest, where the sky became low; rivers, seas,
and oceans rushed down to the southeast, where the Earth sank. A great confla-
gration burst out. Flood raged.”
(See Pipestone, Asteroid Theory)Timaeus
The first of Plato’s Dialogues describing Atlantis. It is presented as a colloquy
between Socrates, Hermocrates, Timaeus, and Kritias (whose own Dialogue
immediately followed).
InTimaeus, Solon visits the Temple of Neith, in Sais, at the Nile Delta. There,
the high priest tells him that 9,000 before, the Athenians saved Mediterranean