A: Aalu to Aztlan 59
Atziluth
The Cabala, literally “the received tradition,” is a mystical interpretation of
Hebrew scriptures relying on their most ancient and original meanings. The
cabalistic termAtziluth refers to the first of four “worlds” or spiritual powers that
dominated the Earth. It signified the “World of Emanations” or “Will of God,”
the beginning of human spiritual consciousness. Philological and mythological
comparisons with Atlantis, where modern man and his first formalized religion
came into existence, appears preserved in the earliest traditions of the Cabala.Autlan
Located in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains, Autlan
was the home of the highly civilized Tarascans of Michoacan. The only
Mesoamericans known to have established regular trade with the civilizations of
coastal Peru, because of their seafaring abilities, the Tarascans’ superior bronze
weapons enabled them to fight off the Aztecs. Their chief ceremonial center was
at Tzintzuntzan, renowned for its outstanding Atlantean architectural features,
including circular pyramidal platforms profuse with the sacred numerals of Atlantis,
5 and 6, mentioned by Plato (in Kritias). Autlan’s philological resemblance to
“Atlantis” and the Atlantean features of the Bronze Age-like Tarascans define
both the site and its people as inheritors from the drowned island civilization.Autochthon
Literally, “Sprung from the Land,” he was the sixth king of Atlantis listed in
Plato’sKritias. Autochthon was also mentioned in Phoenician (Canaanite) myth—
the Sanchoniathon—as one of the Rephaim, or Titans, just as Plato described him.
The first-century B.C. Greek geographer Diodorus Siculus wrote of a native people
dwelling in coastal Mauretania (modern Morocco), facing the direction of Atlantis,
who called themselves the Autochthones. They were descendants of Atlantean
colonizers who established an allied kingdom on the Atlantic shores of North Africa.
According to the thorough Atlantologist Jalandris, “Autochthon” was a term by
which the Greeks knew the Pelasgians, or “Sea Peoples” associated with Atlantis.Avalon
From the Old Welsh Ynys Avallach, or Avallenau, “The Isle of Apple Trees.”
The lost Druidic Books of Pheryllt and Writings of Pridian, both described as “more
ancient than the Flood,” celebrated the return of King Arthur from Ynys Avallach,
“where all the rest of mankind had been overwhelmed.” Avalon is clearly the
British version of Atlantis, with its grove of sacred apple trees tended by the
Hesperides, Daughters of Atlas (that is, Atlantises). Avallenau was also the name
of a Celtic goddess of orchards, reaffirming the Hesperides’ connection with