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Tree of Life
A mythic allusion to the human spinal column as the bearer of seven major
energy centers known as chakras, or spiritual “wheels” in Indian kundalini yoga.
The concept originated in Atlantis, with its seven Hesperides, daughters of Atlas,
and the golden apples of eternal life they guarded. Its Atlantean roots are also
found in the Mayas’ Imix Tree, symbolic of the Great Flood from which their
ancestors, Ixchel and Itzamna, came from across the Atlantic Ocean. Yucatan’s
Ceibra was revered for its association with the Imix. In Norse myth, the goddess,
Iduna, likewise tended a tree bearing apples filled with immortality.
(See Hesperides)Tr i p u r a
The most famous Indian epic of its kind is the Mahabharata. According to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, it was based on actual events which took place from the
15th to 11th centuries B.C., the same time parameter framing the zenith and fall of
Atlantis. Beginning in the Drona Parva (Section XI), the destruction of Tripura is
set forth. It is described as a wealthy and powerful oceanic kingdom, whose eastern
shore faced the coast of Africa. The Mahabharata calls it “the Triple City” after its
trident presented to the residents by Shiva, the island’s creator, as a national emblem.
The city itself was designed by a Maya “of great intelligence,” who raised two
more, configuring each one on a massive, opulent scale and “shaped like a wheel
[Chakrastham, Sanskrit for “circular”]. And they consisted of houses and man-
sions and lofty walls and porches. And though teeming with lordly palaces close to
each other, yet the streets were wide and spacious. And they were adorned with
diverse mansions and gateways. Each of these cities, again, had a separate king.”
Tripura’s Bronze Age time frame, location in the near Atlantic Ocean, circular
design, luxury, and Poseidon-like trident could only describe Plato’s Atlantis.Ts u m a
Familiar to the Cuna Indians of Venezuela as the fair-haired survivor of a
great deluge that wiped out the rest of his people in the Atlantic Ocean during the
deep past, Tsuma belonged to the “Feathered Serpent” accounts known all along
the eastern coast of the Americas—a clear reference to culture-bearers from Atlantis.Tsunokiri
A ceremony conducted from mid-October to early November at the Kasuga
Taisha in Nara, Japan. Sacred bucks are lassoed by priests, who carefully saw off the
antlers of the animals corralled at the shrine. As Churchward observed, deer were
the holy symbols of mankind’s emergence from Mu, the Pacific Ocean civilization