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Uti-Mu
Site of an early landing by racially alien culture-bearers among the Maldive
Islands, in the Indian Ocean, at the equator. The name derives from their sunken
homeland, the lost Pacific civilization of Mu.
(See Mu, Redin)Utnapishtim
Flood hero of the Babylonian Deluge. Warned in advance of the coming
disaster by Anki, the god of wisdom, Utnapishtim built a ship for his family and
livestock. When the flood came, they rode out the raging seas until their vessel
finally came to rest on Mount Nizir, in Mesopotamia.
The Babylonians traced their direct descent from Utnapishim. He is associated
with the Late fourth-millennium B.C. geologic upheavals which prompted mass
migrations of Atlanteans from their oceanic homeland throughout the world.Uxmal
“Thrice-built” is the designation of a ceremonial center raised by the Mayas
in Yucatan. Local legends recount that its oval pyramid was constructed by a dwarf
sorcerer after a great flood; hence, its name, “Pyramid of the Magician.” The
elliptical design was intended to simulate the cosmic egg, repeated in a frieze on
its flanks, where it is shown regurgitated from the mouth of a serpent. The same
image appears some 1,500 airline-miles away, atop a high ridge in the Ohio Valley,
at the Great Serpent Mound.A proper perspective of Ohio’s Great Serpent Mound, the emblem of Atlantean
spirituality, may only be obtained from an aerial vantage point.