V:Vediouis to Vue 283
Quetzalcoatl, the “Feathered Serpent” founding-father of Mesoamerican
Civilization, was symbolized by Venus. In his guise as Ehecatl, he was represented
in Aztec art as a man emerging from a tsunami at Panco, the Vera Cruz port where
he was said to have landed from his home kingdom across the Atlantic Ocean. As
Ce Acatl, his Atlantean identity becomes clearer still. Plato described in Kritias how
the kings of Atlantis performed bloody sacrifices over a sacred column located at
the center of their most holy precinct in the Temple of Poseidon. This column,
inscribed with the ancestral laws of the land, embodied the cultic concept of Atlas,
who supported the sky on his shoulders. Quetzalcoatl was likewise often represented
holding up the heavens. But as Ce Acatl, the planet Venus, a pillar cult was dedicated
to him at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. At the very center of the city was erected
a free-standing column over which bloody sacrifices were conducted. This column
had the highly Atlantean name of “In the Midst of the Heavens.”
The association of Venus with some primordial culture spread to the North
American Plains Indians. The Iowas’ story of the Deluge begins, “At first, all men
lived on an island where the day-star is born.”
The Greek Hesperus, from whom evening vespers derives, was synonymous
for Venus as it appears shortly after sunset; in other words, the Far West. According
to Hesiod, the fifth-century B.C. Greek mythologist, he was the brother of Atlas
and founder of Italy, known originally as Hesperia (Virgil, The Aeneid). His myth
conforms with Plato’s Atlantis account, wherein Italy was specifically mentioned
as the Etruscan extent of Atlantean power in Europe. The non-Platonic myth of
Hesperus accentuates his Atlantean identity. It described his sudden disappearance
in a “great tempest” (a volcanic eruption), while standing at the summit of Mount
Atlas, as he observed the motions of the stars. The Atlantean connection is again
stressed by his daughter, Hesperis, also associated with the Evening Star: She
bore a trio of daughters to Atlas, the Hesperides, three additional Atlantises.
Classical European tradition associated the coming of civilization with Venus
in the West (Osiris, Inanna, Ishtar, Hesperus), where it was seen as the Evening
Star. Pre-Columbian myth connected the arrival of civilization with Venus in the
East (Ce Acatl), where it appears as the Morning Star. The source of those widely
geographically separate but fundamentally similar arrivals lay on a lost island in
the mid-Atlantic, the Hesperides of Atlantis, between the Old and New Worlds.Vimana
A flying machine capable of carrying human beings plus cargo. Examples were
allegedly common at some early period in Atlantis, where they were invented.
Evidence for Vimanas is found in abundance throughout Hindu literature. Its
name, “That Which Measures,” may define the Vimana’s function as a device
“measuring” territory over which it flies.
As David Hatcher Childress explains in his own research of the subject:
Ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous it would take
several books to relate what they have to say. The Vaimanika Sasta