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Jacolliot, Louis
French scholar (1837 to 1890) who collected local and regional myths during
a long sojourn through India, where his fluency in Sanskrit enabled him to read
about Rutas, a great and highly cultured kingdom that sank beneath the Pacific
Ocean in the deeply ancient past. Returning to France, Jacolliot published his
findings in Historie des Vierges, to popular acclaim.
(See Rutas)Jambu
A Tantric version of mankind’s birthplace in the “Island of the Blest,” perhaps
the most common epithet for Atlantis. Also regarded as the “Land of the Rose-
Apple Tree,” the Hesperides’ Atlantean Tree of Life, Jambu was similarly circular
in configuration, with the god Shiva’s “Diamond Seat” at the island’s sacred center.
Shiva is the Hindu Poseidon, whose “seat,” a chariot, was set up in the center of
Atlantis.