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Mataco Flood Myth
The Argentine Indians of Gran Chaco describe “a black cloud that came
from the south at the time of the flood, and covered the whole sky. Lightning
struck and thunder was heard. Yet the drops that fell were not like rain. They
fell as fire.” Here, too, a celestial event coincides with the deluge in a South
American recollection of the Atlantean catastrophe.Medinet Habu
The “Victory Temple” of XX Dynasty Pharaoh Ramses III at West Thebes, in
the Upper Nile Valley, completed around 1180 B.C. It is the finest, best preserved
example of large-scale sacred architecture from the late New Kingdom, and built as
a monument to his important triumph over a massive series of invasions launched
by the “Sea People” against the Nile Delta at the beginning of the 12th century B.C.
The exterior walls of Medinet Habu are decorated with lengthy descriptions of the
war and illustrated by incised representations of the combatants.
Recorded testimony of captured “Sea People” warriors leaves no doubt about
their Atlantean identity. The text quotes them as saying they came from an
island the Egyptians transliterated as “Netero,” like Plato’s Atlantis, a “sacred
isle,” in the Far West after it had been set ablaze by a celestial event identified
with the fiery goddess Sekhmet and sank into the sea. Medinet Habu’s profiles
of various “Sea People” invaders are the life-like portraits of Atlanteans in the
Late Bronze Age.The grand entrance of Medinet Habu,
Ramses III’s monument to his victory over
Atlantean invaders.Medinet Habu as it appeared when approaching final
construction, around 1180 B.C. A gigantic Ramses III,
impersonating Amun-Ra, presents the captured armies
of Atlantis to his fellow gods. Model, Milwaukee Public
Museum, Wisconsin.