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Silver, Bronze, Heroism, and Iron. They coincide remarkably well with modern
archaeology in some respects, and roughly correspond to the fourth-millennium
Neolithic Period, when golden sunlight, not gold coin, was most prized by the
megalith-builders. Long after incorporating solar alignments into their standing
stones, a shift to lunar orientations was followed by the Bronze Age, characterized
by Hesiod as extremely bellicose.
The Heroic Age comprised the last century or so of the Bronze Age to include
the Trojan War, and ended with the destruction of Atlantis. Hesiod wrote of the
Iron Age as a period of general ignorance, savagery, and decline—all of which
typify the Dark Age that overspread Europe, Asia Minor, and most of the Near
East for nearly five centuries after the Atlantean holocaust.
Hesiod’sWorks and Days traces some discernably Atlantean themes. The
Silver Age, which climaxed when Atlantis suffered massive geologic upheavals
circa 2100 B.C., came to its conclusion as it was “engulfed by Zeus,” who likewise
ordered the final destruction of the Atlantean capital in Plato’s account. Hesiod
characterized Bronze Age men as extraordinarily large of stature (the Atlanteans
were descendants of “Titans”), and outstanding metalsmiths, who crafted great
walls of bronze; in Kritias, the Atlanteans are described as wealthy metallurgists
who ringed their city with bronze-sheeted walls.Heva
The legendary “first woman” who, together with Ad-ima, arrived at the Indian
subcontinent after the Great Flood destroyed a former age of civilized greatness.
Throughout Polynesia, numerous island traditions recall a similar catastrophe in
which the ancestral kingdom of Hiva was lost. Both appear to be reflections of the
same deluge account, a suspicion underscored by Heva herself, referring to the
drowned land she and her husband escaped.
(See Ad-ima)Hiintcabiit
The Arapaho Indian version of a horned giant who arose from the bottom of
the sea to save victims of the Great Flood by carrying them to the eastern shores
of Turtle Island, or North America. On the walls of Ramses III’s “Victory Temple,”
in West Thebes, some of the Atlantean invaders he fought wore horned helmets.
In Greek myth, the Atlanteans, like Hiintcabiit, are depicted as Titans.
(See Wolf Clan)Hina-lau-limu-kala
“Hina-of-the-Leaves-of-the-Limu-kala,” or seaweed, a patroness of Hawaiian
sacred practices known as kahuna, inherited from the drowned Motherland of Lemuria.
(See Lemuria, Limu-kala)