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Hiti
In Samoan myth, antediluvian giants who ruled the world before “the heavens
fell down” to set their island aflame. As it sank into the sea, new lands emerged
from the depths to become the Samoan Islands.Hmu
The original name of the Miao or Hmong, whose earliest historical period
began with their migration from China into the Laotian Peninsula, just 5 centuries
ago. But they are unique among all Southeast Asian peoples for their strong
Caucasoid racial heritage predating any contacts with modern Europeans. A persis-
tent creation myth described their origins as a Caucasian people in the Indo-Aryan
homeland, a folk tradition confirmed by recent DNA testing, which establishes
genetic traces back hundreds of generations to the Steppes of Central Russia. Hmong
oral traditions also tell of a great deluge, after which their ancestors, the Hmu
arrived in South East Asia. The Hmong still refer to themselves as “Hmu.”
(See Mu)Hoerbiger, Hanns
Austrian engineer who first published his Welteislehre (WEL), or Cosmic Ice Theory,
in 1913. Interest in Hoerbiger’s Glazial-Kosmogonie was eclipsed soon after by World
War I, so his book could not achieve recognition until the 1920s, when it became an
international best-seller in the millions of copies, and almost dominated the cosmo-
logical sciences for nearly 25 years. WEL was based on the supposition that large
fragments of ice from passing comets have often altered the natural, geologic and
human history of our planet, most notably, the destruction of Atlantis.
After Hoerbiger died in 1931, his ideas were popularized by a fellow Austrian,
Hans Bellamy, in England. But any serious consideration of Welteislehre was dis-
missed from all academic thought following World War II, for political if not always
scientific reasons. However, the ongoing discovery of icy moons and planets in our
own solar system and beyond, as revealed by space probes from the 1970s onward,
has done much to validate at least some of his fundamental conclusions.
During the last decade of the 20th century, Hoerbiger’s belief that Atlantis
was destroyed through the agency of cometary debris was given powerful impetus
by archaeo-astronomers who identified Comet Encke as the celestial culprit most
likely responsible for the Atlantean catastrophe.
(See Asteroid Theory)Ho-ho-demi-no-Mikoto
Cited in the Nihongi, a Japanese collection of pre-Buddhist myths, histories
and traditions, as a divine hero who descended to the ocean floor in an overturned