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Dwarka
A magnificent city built and governed by Krishna, a human manifestation of
the god Vishnu. Although sometimes thought to have been located on a large
island off India’s northwest coast, Dwarka’s actual position was uncertain.
Like Plato’s Atlantis, it was encircled by high, powerfully built walls similarly
sheeted with gold, silver, and brass set in precious stones guarding monumental
buildings and organized into spacious gardens during a golden age. This period
came to an abrupt end with the dawning of the Age of Kali, the cosmic destroyer,
in 3102 B.C., according to the Vishnu Purana. It tells tells how “the ocean rose and
submerged the whole of Dwarka.”
The late fourth-millennium B.C. date coincides with the first Atlantean cata-
clysm, which inaugurated cultural beginnings in South America (the Salavarry
Period), Mexico (with the simultaneous institution of the Maya calendar), the
start of dynastic civilization in Egypt, the foundation of Troy, and so on. Krishna’s
semi-divine origins parallel those of Atlas, the first king of Atlantis, the son of
Poseidon the sea-god, by Kleito, a mortal woman.Dzilke
Also known as Dimlahamid, the story of Dzilke is familiar to every native
tribe across Canada. Among the most detailed versions are preserved by the
We’suwet’en and Gitksan in northern British Columbia. They and other Indian
peoples claim descent from a lost race of civilizers, who built a great city from
which they ruled over much of the world in the very distant past. For many gen-
erations, the inhabitants of Dzilke prospered and spread their high spirituality to
the far corners of the Earth. In time, however, they yielded to selfish corruption
and engaged in unjust wars. Offended by the degeneracy of this once-valiant people,
the gods punished Dzilke with killer earthquakes. The splendid “Street of the
Chiefs” tumbled into ruin, as the ocean rose in a mighty swell to overwhelm the
city and most of its residents. A few survivors arrived first at Vancouver Island,
where they sired the various Canadian tribes. Researcher Terry Glavin, relying
on native sources, estimated that Dzilke perished around 3,500 years ago, the
same Bronze Age setting for the destruction of Mu around 1500 B.C. and Atlantis,
300 years later.