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Endora
An Atlantis, one of seven Hyades by the sea-goddess Aethra. These daughters
of Atlas are best understood as names for cities or territories directly controlled
by Atlantis. Endora is the name of a particular place in the Atlantean sphere of
influence, although it can no longer be associated with any known location. When
their myth tells us that the Hyades and Pleiades were transformed into stars and
constellations, we are being informed by way of poetic metaphor that they died,
but their spirits live in heaven. As such, they enshrine the memory of the Atlantis
Empire and its various cities and provinces, from which survivors arrived in new
lands, just as the Hyades’ and Pleiades’ offspring escape a Great Flood to found
new kingdoms.Enigorio and Enigohatgea
Divine twins in the Iroquois creation story, brothers of a virgin birth, they
were survivors in North America after all other life had been wiped out by a world-
wide deluge. The flood was swallowed by a Great Frog, which Enigorio killed to
release its waters, creating peaceful lakes and rivers. In the Huron version, the
brothers are known as Tsentsa and Tawiscara. According to Plato, the first rulers
of Atlantis were likewise divine twins.Enki
In Sumerian myth, a sea-god who traveled on a worldwide mission to civilize
mankind in his great ship, The Ibex of the Abzu. Like the Egyptian Ausar, the
Greek Osiris, Enki was a pre-flood culture-bearer from Atlantis. The Abzu was
the primeval waste of waters out of which arose his “Mountain of Life.”Enlil
The Sumerian Atlas, known as the Great Mountain, who held up the sky.
Enlil was famous as the conqueror of Tiamat, the ocean, just as Atlantis dominated
the seas. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, where he is known as Bel, Enlil is responsible
for the Deluge.Enuma Elish
A poem dramatizing the Deluge from which the Oannes “fish-men” crossed
the sea to establish civilization throughout Mesopotamia. The Enuma Elish was
recited during each New Year’s festival at the Sumerians’ Easgila ziggurat, itself
dedicated to the sunken realm of their ancestors.