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Zac-Mu-until
Literally a “White Man” who founded the Maya city of Mu-tul. Both his name
and the city’s, as well as foreign racial characterization, bespeak fundamental
influences brought to bear in Middle America by culture-bearers from the sunken
civilization of Mu.
(See Mu, Mu-tul)Zalmat-quqadi
A people, also known in Babylonian myth as the Ad-mi, or Ad-ami, “who had
fallen” because of their sinfulness prior to a terrible flood, and from whom the
biblical “Adam” was taken. As the founder of modern Atlantology Ignatius Donnelly
observed, “The name Adam is used in these legends, but as the name of a race, not
a man.” The Zalmat-quqadi are equivalent to Atlanteans endeavoring to evacuate
the geologic violence afflicting their island in the mid- to late fourth millenniumB.C.Zend-Avesta
The “Interpretation of the Avesta,” sacred books of the Persian religion, compiled
by the prophet Zarathustra, or Zoroaster. Its Vendidad section narrates the story