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Maker.” Long ago, all humanity dwelt in an underworld, from which the colossal

Tree of Life grew to pierce the sky. But when the time came for men and women

to emerge into the outer world, they neglected to close the hole through which

they passed after them. The ocean gushed out, flooding the whole world to drown

most of mankind. Widapokwi survived by riding out the cataclysm in a “hollow

log,” in which she had provisioned herself with a great number of animals. After

the waters subsided, she used these creatures to repopulate the Earth.

Mu was synonymous for the Tree of Life.

(See Tree of Life)

Wigan

As told by the Ifugao, a Philippine people residing high in the cordillera of

Luzon, Wigan and his sister, Bugan, were lone survivors of the Great Flood. The

Ifugao version is similar to Babylonian and other accounts which describe an

unusual period of extreme drought immediately prior to the deluge, accompanied

by a sudden darkness, the result of volcanic eruptions and/or meteorite collisions.

Wigan and Bugan, as in accounts

of flood heroes everywhere,

floated safely to the top of the

world’s tallest mountain. But here

its name suggests the destruction

of Mu: Amuyao.

Wilmington Long Man

The colossal, chalk outline of

a man apparently pushing his way

through a portal in the green side

of a hill outside Bristol, in the

south of England. He has been

tentatively dated by archaeologists

to the Iron Age, although evidence

of nearby flint manufacturing

from the late fourth millennium B.C.

suggests a Neolithic provenance.

Like Britain’s other hill-figures—

the Cerne-Abbas Giant and

Uffington Horse—the Long Man’s

Atlantean identity is implied by

the horned helmet with which he

was originally adorned before it was obliterated on orders of churchmen con-

vinced it made him seem demonic.

A comparable figure is found on the other side of the world, in southern

Wisconsin. On a hill in Greenfield Township, outside Baraboo, the Man Mound is

Wilmington’s Long Man, in the south of England, has

Atlantean counterparts in North and South America.