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of a worldwide deluge. The Zend-Avesta is recognized as the repository of traditions
going back many centuries earlier than the lifetime of its writer in the sixth century
B.C. Zoroastrianism may be the only surviving religion, at least in part, from Atlantis,
specifically, the Law of One described by Edgar Cayce. Both have important features
in common, including a monotheism fire-worship.Zer-panitu
“Lady of the Abyss,” in Babylonian myth, Zer-panitu is the divine personification
of the sea, “creatrix of the seed of mankind.” Zer-panitu signifies the Atlantean
origins of civilized humanity.Zeu-kha
Deluge hero of the Patagonian Indians, philologically similar to the Sumerian
flood hero Ziusudra and not unlike the Greek Zeus. Perhaps these and other
mythic figures around the world derived from a single Atlantean progenitor.
(See Ziusudra, Zuhe, Zume)Ziusudra
The Sumerian flood hero, the 10th pre-diluvial king. The particulars of his myth,
composed at least 2,000 years earlier than the Old Testament, closely parallel Noah’s
version in Genesis. Ziusudra’s deluge is associated with the first mass migrations
from Atlantis, which took place around 3100 B.C. Some investigators have en-
deavored to see in his name the evolution of the Greek King of the Gods, Zeus. As
Walker writes, Ziusudra carried the seeds of new life “between destruction of one
world and the birth of the next” (1101). He is the Babylonian “Utnapishtim.”Zschaetzsch, Karl Georg
Born in 1870, he was a prominent German Atlantologist during the interwar
period. His 1922 book, Atlantis, Urheimat der Arier (“Atlantis, Primeval Homeland
of the Aryans”) was a national best-seller. Zschaetzsch and his generation were a
link between previous German Atlantologists, such as turn-of-the-20th-century
anthropologist Leo Frobenius; the early photographer of Maya ruins in Yucatan,
Teobert Mahler; and popular postwar investigators Jurgen Spanuth and Otto Muck.
(See Maler, The Third Reich)Zu
A Sumerian sky-god who brought the Tablets of Destiny from Lemuria.
(See Har-Sag-Mu)