134 The Atlantis Encyclopedia
Harimagadas
A select group of Guanche women at the Canary Island of Tenerife who sacri-
ficed themselves by jumping from a towering cliff into the sea. This act was meant
to propitiate the sea-god and prevent him from sinking their island, as long ago
happened to an ancestral kingdom. The ritual deaths of these virgins was an
apparent recollection of and response to the destruction of Atlantis, which
occurred approximately 600 miles north of Tenerife.
Harimagadas translates from Old High German for “Holy Maidens,” at least
one indication of the linguistic impact Atlantis made on two widely disparate
peoples and the common Atlantean heritage so many cultures share.Har-Sag-Mu
“Mu of the Mountain Range,” where Zu, the Sumerian sky-god, settled after
causing a terrible cataclysm. Thereafter, “stillness spread abroad, silence prevailed.”
In the later Babylonian version, as preserved in the Assyrian library of
Ashurbanipal, Zu stole the Tablets of Destiny from his fellow gods, and brought
them to Har-Sag-Mu. His self-transformation into a bird of prey, in order to fight
off a serpent guarding the Tablets, recurs throughout worldwide imagery of an
eagle battling a snake, from the Greek Delphi and Norse Yggdrasil to Aztec Mexico
and pre-Columbian Colombia.
It is also associated with the chakra system of spiritual conflict between the
kundalini serpent wound around the base of the human spine and Garuda, the
eagle of an enlightened crown chakra. Zu’s myth implies that this metaphysical
concept was brought directly from heaven to Har-Sag-Mu, a sacred mountain on
the Pacific island of Mu. Zu’s theft of the Tablets of Destiny, which first described
kundalini yoga, parallel the Western myth in which the brother of Atlas,
Prometheus, stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind. That “Promethean
heat” appears to have been no less analogous to kundalini energy, because the
Greek Titan suffered the daily digestion of his liver by an eagle.
During his “life-reading” of April 17, 1936, Edgar Cayce told of immigrants
from the Atlantean catastrophe arriving in the Near Eastern “lands of Zu.”
(See Cayce, Mu)Hathor
The Egyptian goddess of fiery destruction. She was identified in the wall texts of
Medinet Habu, West Thebes, with a flaming “planet,” in other words, a comet, that
destroyed the island home of the “Sea People” who invaded the Nile Delta in the
early 12th century B.C. These were the Atlanteans described by Plato in their
attempted conquest of the eastern Mediterranean. To extinguish the blazing island,
she sank it beneath the sea. In what may be a variation of this same destruction,
Hathor provoked the gods to inundate the world with a flood aimed at preventing