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Ladon
The serpent who guards the Tree of Life in the Garden of the Hesperides,
scene of a mystery cult in Atlantis known as “The Navel of the World.” When
Ladon entwines his length around its bough he becomes the Kundalini snake
winding about the human spinal column, the symbolic force of rising consciousness
and spiritual power. The Golden Apples of immortality he protects are the fruits
of enlightenment. These concepts, so long associated with Eastern thought,
originated in Atlantis, where even their appearance in classical Greek myth still
predated Buddhism by centuries. Ladon was also the name of a Trojan warrior,
another linguistic connection between the Trojans and their Atlantean ancestry.Lak Mu-ang
A pillar venerated in its own small shrine at the spiritual center of Thailand, in
the capital city of Bangkok. It is a copy of the original brought to southeast Asia by
the Thens from their drowned homeland in the Pacific Ocean. They managed to
carry away just one column that belonged to the most important temple in Lemuria
before the entire structure was engulfed by the sea. Arriving on the shores of
what much later became Thailand, the Thens set up the Lak Mu-ang at the center
of their new capital, Aiyudiya. During centuries of subsequent strife, the city was