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Glooskap
The Micmac Indians’ flood hero, who arrived on the eastern shores of Nova
Scotia from “beyond the sea.”Gloyw Wallt Lydan Gaelic Liathan
Literally “The days when the high seas parted the old kingdom,” a lost, medieval
epic describing an Atlantis-like flood and the arrival of survivors in ancient Wales,
where they became its first kings.Die Goetterdaemmerung
In Germanic myth, the “Twilight of the Gods”—a worldwide cataclysm,
brought about by “fire from heaven” and a universal deluge. Also known as Ragnarok.Gogmagog
British flood hero whose 150-foot-long image was cut into Dorset’s chalk hills,
near the town of Cerne-Abbas in the south of England, during the late Stone Age.
Gogmagog features the “og” appellation identifying Atlantean figures in Old Irish
and biblical traditions.Golden Age
In Greek myth, the first age of mankind, when happiness, truth, and right
prevailed on Earth. It was known as a “golden” age, not for any abundance of
gold wealth, but because the sun was universally worshiped as a beneficent god.
As such, some researchers point to the numerous solar orientations of ancient
structures throughout the world, such as Ireland’s 5,200-year-old tomb at New
Grange, with its “roof-box” aligned to the winter solstice. Identical alignments
occur throughout the world among North America’s prehistoric mounds; on the
Pacific island of Tonga; formerly at Heliopolis, the Egyptian Onur, in the Upper
Nile Valley; and at many other locations. This epoch was also known as “the Age
of Chronos,” a Titan associated with the Atlantic Ocean (“Chronos maris” to the
Romans). Indeed, Plutarch wrote that Kronos, after his defeat in the
Gigantomachy, was imprisoned “under a mountain” on Ogygia; this is an apt
description of volcanic Mount Atlas, because Ogygia was the island of Calypso,
which is as much to say the island of Atlantis.
Thus the Golden Age may refer to an early, pre-imperial period of Atlantis
in the fourth millenniumB.C., when seafaring culture-bearers were establishing
the spiritual-scientific principles of a solar cult around the world.
(See Fand)