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U Mamae
The Quiche Mayas’ Chilam Balam reports that “the wise men, the Nahuales,
the chiefs and leaders, called U Mamae [“the Old Men”], extending their sight
over the four parts of the world and over all that is beneath the sky, and, finding
no obstacle, came from the other part of the ocean, from where the sun rises, a
place called Patulan. Together these tribes came from the other part of the sea,
from the east, from Patulan.” The civilizing mission of these U Mamae and their
arrival over the Atlantic Ocean leave little doubt that they came from the same
island capital described by Plato, a conclusion broadly underscored by the obvious
philological resemblance between the Quiche “Patulan” and the Greek “Atlantis.”U-Mu
Literally “He of Mu,” Tahitian for “high priest,” an apparent linguistic heirloom
from the sunken Pacific Ocean kingdom of Mu.
(See Mu)Unnefer
“He Who Is Continually Happy,” an epitaph for the Egyptian Osiris in his role
as the god of resurrection, a concept originating in Atlantis. The final scene of The
Book of Gates, an illustrated scared text inscribed on the alabaster sarcophagus
of Pharaoh Sety I, at Abydos, depicts the distended body of Osiris encircling
Sekhet-aaru, the Egyptian “Atlantis.”
According to Tibetan records examined by James Churchward around the
turn of the 20th century, Unnefer, having been educated in the Navel of the World
mysteries, undertook a worldwide mission to spread his own interpretation of the
cult. Churchward concluded that the Osirian concept of survival after death was
misunderstood and degraded by the Egyptians into the lucrative business of mum-
mification. Unnefer is described in Egyptian myth as “a world traveler.”Unu-Pachacuti
Literally, “The World Overturned by Water,” the Inca version of the Great
Flood, associated with the penultimate Atlantean destruction in the early 17th
centuryB.C. and the coming of a prominent culture-bearer, Thonapa.
(See Thonapa, Viracocha)Unuycit
Mayan for the Great Flood that destroyed a former “world” from which the
founding-fathers of Mesoamerican Civilization sailed to Yucatan.