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Lesser Arrival

The Mayan epic, the Popol Vuh (“The Book of Counsel”) records two major

immigrations of white-skinned foreigners from over the Atlantic Ocean. The earlier

is the Greater Arrival, and corresponds to large-scale, although not total, evacuation

of Atlantis in the late 4th millennium B.C., during a period of geologic upheavals. The

Lesser Arrival took place some 2,000 years later, when Atlantis was utterly destroyed

and some of its survivors made their way to the shores of Yucatan. According to the

Popol Vuh, the leading personality of the Greater Arrival was Itzamna, the founding

father of Mesoamerican Civilization. Votan led the Lesser Arrival. He was described

as saving sacred records written on deer hide that chronicled the early history of his

people from Valum before its destruction by a natural catastrophe.

(See Greater Arrival)

Leucaria

A Latin version of the ancestress cited in Plato’s account of Atlantis, she and

her husband founded the city of Rome.

(See Italus, Kritias, Leukippe)

Leukippe

“The White Mare,” the first woman of Atlantis mentioned briefly by Plato in

Kritias. A white mare motif in association with Atlantean themes appears in various

parts of the world. The most prominent example appears at England’s Vale of the

White Horse, north of the Berkshire chalk downs, in Uffington. The 374-foot long

hill-figure depicts a stylized horse cut into the turf. It is traditionally “scoured” by local

Peru’s Emerald Pyramid is adorned with the motif of an over-arching rainbow

through which a fair-skinned foreigner arrived with the gifts of civilization, following

a catastrophic deluge.