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Eumelos
According to Plato in Kritias, the Greek name for Gadeiros, an Atlantean
monarch in Spain.Eupolemus
A first-century B.C. Greek author of a lost history of the Jews in Assyria.
Surviving fragments tell how Babylon was founded by Titans after the Great Flood.
They built the so-called “Tower of Babel,” destroyed by a heavenly cataclysm
which dispersed them throughout the world. In Greek myth, Atlas was leader of
the Titans. The cometary destruction of Atlantis, his island kingdom, and flight
of his people across the globe are represented in the fate of the Tower of Babel.Evenor
“One of the original Earth-born inhabitants” on the island of Atlas, according
toKritias. “Evenor” means “the good or brave man,” who lived and died before
Atlantis was built. Evenor’s myth implies that his homeland had a human population
previous to the development of the megalithic pattern upon which the city was
raised. This means that the island was at least inhabited in Paleolithic times, during
the Old Stone Age, 6,000 or more years ago. We may likewise gather that the
original creation of Atlantis was a product of Neolithic megalith-builders, thereby
dating its foundation to circa 4000 B.C. However, it almost certainly began as a
ceremonial center, like Britain’s Stonehenge. As it grew over time, the sacred site
expanded to become, in its final form, a Late Bronze Age citadel and city.
There is something singularly provocative in Evenor’s story, because it relates
that civilization was not native to his island, but an import. His daughter, Kleito,
married Poseidon, an outsider, who came from across the sea to lay the concentric
foundations of the city. In other words, an external influence initiated its con-
struction, perhaps by culture-bearers from some community older even than
Atlantis itself. Civilization, at least as it came to be known after 3000 B.C., may
have first arisen on the island of Atlas, but seafaring megalith-builders from an-
other unknown homeland may have arrived to spark its Neolithic beginnings.
Modern Berber tribes of North Africa still preserve traditions of Uneur and
his “Sons of the Source,” from whom they trace their lineage. Evenor and Uneur
appear to be variations on an original Atlantean name.Exiles of Time
A 1949 novel about Mu by Nelson Bond. In his destruction of the Pacific realm
through the agency of a comet he anticipated late 20th-century scientific discov-
eries concerning impact on early civilization by catastrophic celestial events.