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a towering wall of water and throw it against you wicked children
of the Earth, exterminating you and all living things!” Foaming,
crashing, rising to the sky rushed the wall of water over the sea,
crushing everything in its path, until neither mountains nor high-
lands were revealed any longer by the sun, which could not shine
in heaven. The groans of the dying filled the Earth, mankind’s
home, and dead bodies rolled about in the dark waters.The Maya “Acropolis” at Tikal, Guatemala, where a portrayal of the Atlantis catastrophe was discovered
by pioneering Mesoamericanist, Teobert Maler, in the early 20th century.