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These two points in the Kritias—the existence of elephants in Atlantis and
the Atlanteans’ generous use of ivory—form internal evidence for herds of such
animals which have been additionally confirmed by deep-sea finds. Unless he read
it in an authentic document describing Atlantis, Plato could never have guessed
that elephants once inhabited an area of the world presently covered by the ocean,
hundreds of miles from the nearest landfall.Elianus
A second-century Greek naturalist, who recounted in Book XV of his Historia
Naturalis that the rulers of Atlantis dressed to show their origins from the sea-god
Poseidon. Like all other works by Elianus lost with the fall of classical civilization,
Historia Naturalis survives only in quoted fragments.El-Khadir
In Muslim legends, a pre-Islamic figure referred to as the “Old Man of the
Sea,” a survivor of the Great Flood. Edgerton Sykes wrote that El-Khadir was
previously known as Hasisatra, a derivation of the Sumerian deluge hero.
(See Xiuthros)Elmeur
According to Edgar Cayce, an Atlantean prince who lived at a time when the
Law of One cult was being formed. “Elmeur” suggests a phonetic variant of Evenor,
an early Atlantean mentioned in Plato’s account, Kritias.Elohi-Mona
Cherokee oral tradition tells of a group of five Atlantic islands known collec-
tively as Elohi-Mona, from which their sinful ancestors arrived on the shores of
North America following a world-class conflagration eventually extinguished by
the Great Flood.
In Edgar Cayce’s version of Atlantis, he likewise spoke of five islands lost
during the second Atlantean catastrophe. The number of islands may have served
at least partially as the basis for Plato’s statement in the Kritias that 5 was a sacred
numeral revered in Atlantis.
Elohi-Mona is remarkably similar to Elohim, or “gods,” from the singular eloh,
found in the Old Testament. The Cherokee Elohi-Mona and Hebrew Elohim
appear to have derived from a common source in Atlantis.
(See Atali, Cayce)