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Eochaid
King of the Atlantean Fomorach, who defeated later invaders from Atlantis,
but was murdered under treacherous circumstances.
(See Fomorach, Nuadu)Esaugetuh Emissee
The Creek Indians’ “Lord of the Wind,” like the Aztec Ehecatl, the Sumerian
Enlil, the Egyptian Shu—all ethnic variations of Atlas. In his creation legend,
Esaugetuh Emissee escaped a universal flood by climbing to the summit of a
mountain at the center of the world, Nunne Chaha. As the waters receded, he
fashioned the first human beings from moist clay.
Nun was the Egyptian god of the Primeval Sea, out of which arose the first dry
land, sometimes described as a “sacred mound” or mountain, where the earliest
humans were created. It also gave birth to the gods during the Tep Zepi, or the
“First Time.” Nun was represented in temple art as a man plunged to his waist
in the ocean, his arms upraised to carry the solar-boat with its divine and royal
passengers. He held them above the Flood engulfing their mountainous homeland
in the Far West, and brought them to the Nile Delta, where they reestablished
themselves in Dynastic civilization. Nun saved both gods and mankind from the
same disaster he caused at the behest of Atum, who had commanded a great deluge
to wash away the iniquities of the world.
The Sumerian Ninhursag, “Nin of the Mountain,” arose out of the Abzu,
the Primordial Sea, to create an island blessed with all kinds of herbs, wine,
honey, fruit trees, gold, silver, bronze, cattle, and sheep. But when Enlil, like
the Egyptian Atum, ordered a Great Flood, Ninhursag sank under the waves of
the Abzu. The god who actually caused the Deluge was Ningirsu, “Lord of Floods.”
Enlil’s wife was Ninlil, the sea, mother of all. Ninazu, the “Water Knower,” dwelt
in Arallu (the Egyptian Aalu, the Greek Atlantis). In Phoenician, the word for
“fish” was nun.
The Norse Ginunngigap was the sea that swallowed the world and doomed to
repeat the catastrophe at cosmic intervals for all eternity. The Ginunngigap, too,
was said to have brought forth the first land on which humans appeared.
The Native American Nunne-Chaha could not be clearer in its reflection of
the “Nun” theme threading its Atlantean story from Egyptian and Sumerian
through Phoenician and Norse myth. Nunne Chaha was the “Great Stone House”
on an island in the primeval Waste of Waters. The island was said to have been
surrounded by a lofty wall, and watercourses were directed into “boat-canals.”
The Egyptian Nun was also known as Nu, and Nu’u was responsible for the
HawaiianPo-au-Hulihia, the “Era of the Over-Turning,” the great flood of
Kai-a-ka-hina-li’i, “the Sea that made the Chiefs fall down.”