274 The Atlantis Encyclopedia
Cayce spoke of “a crystal room” in Atlantis, where “the tenets and the truths
or the lessons that were proclaimed by those that had descended to give the messages
as from on High” were received by the initiates of a mystery cult. They “inter-
preted the messages that were received through the crystals.” Atlantean adepts
achieved levels of proficiency in all the transformational arts and mastery of psychic
powers through their understanding and use of crystals, a lost science of the para-
normal only just beginning to be reclaimed in our times, almost instinctually, it
would seem, through growing popular interest in the spiritual qualities of quartz
crystal. (Cayce: 2072-10 F.32 7/22/42; 440-5 M.23 12/20/33; 3004-1 F.55 5/15/43;
440-5 M.23 12/20/33)
Possible confirmation of his statements describing the “Fire Stone,” the name
Cayce gave to the Tuaoi, occurs in the languages of several peoples directly
influenced by Atlantis. For example, the Mayan word tuuk means “fiery.” Cayce
said “the records [describing the Tuaoi] were carried to what is now Yucatan, in
America, where these stones are now.”
On the other side of the world, the Sumerian counterpart to the Mayas’ sea-
faring culture-bearer, Kukulcan, the “Feathered Serpent,” was Utnapishtim, another
deluge hero who rode out the watery destruction of a former age in an ark. He
belongs to the oldest Mesopotamian mythic traditions, which also include a mys-
terious, sacred object called “the Stone that Burns,” “the Fire Stone,” precisely
the same term used by Cayce. Remarkably, its original Sumerian word is Napa-Tu,
from which the English word naphtha derives through Persian.
Roughly midway between the Mayas of America and the Sumerians of
Mesopotamia lie the Canary Islands off the coast of North Africa. Until their
extermination by the Spaniards, beginning in the 15th century, indigenous inhabit-
ants who called themselves the Guanches likewise told of a catastrophic flood;
well they might, situated as they were in the immediate vicinity of lost Atlantis.
The Guanche word for “fire” was tava; through phonetic evolution, a standard
linguistic process, “tava” may be traced back to the sound-value from which it
originally sprang: tua or tuoh.
According to James Churchward, the leading symbol of Mu—the Pacific
counterpart and contemporary civilization of Atlantis—was a T-sign, pronounced
Ta-oo, signifying the emergence of the island from the sea. Several Polynesian
folk traditions speak of the wide use of crystals for high spiritual purposes on a
Lemurian kind of lost kingdom. Australian aboriginals still refer to its sunken
towers of crystal. In central Ireland, a white crystalline granite omphalos sculpted
with patterns suggesting energy forms is known as “the Turoe Stone.” Although
conventional scholars speculate about its Celtic identity, the Turoe Stone suggests
an earlier Bronze Age provenance.
These widely disparate peoples, separated by vast distances and many centuries,
never knew each other. Yet, they shared common accounts of a world-class flood
associated with a “fire stone” described, despite the otherwise complete dissimilarity
of their languages, by the same word-value: Tuuk,Napa-Tu,Tava (Tua,Tuoh),
Turoe,Ta-oo—cultural-linguistic variants of Edgar Cayce’s Tuaoi.
(See Cayce, Crystal Skull)