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Merope
An Atlantis, daughter of Atlas, one of the seven Pleiades. Her name and varia-
tions of it appear in connection with Atlantis among several cultures over a long
period of time. Euripides, Plato’s contemporary, who was considered the most
realistic of classical playwrights, wrote in “Phaeton” of an island in the Distant
West called Merope, a possession of Poseidon, the sea-god creator of Atlantis.
Aelian’sVaria Historia (Book III, Chapter XVIII) quotes the fourth-centuryB.C.
Theopompous of Chios on an island beyond the Pillars of Heracles ruled by Queen
Merope, described as a daughter of Atlas. The Merops, according to Theopompous,
launched an attack on Europe, first against Hyperborea (Britain).
But the war was lost, and the kingdom of Merope received a sudden increase
in population immediately following the fall of Troy. Queen Merope was sup-
posed to have been contemporary with Troy’s Laomedon, King Priam’s father, so
she would have lived around the turn of the 14th century B.C., a time when the
Atlanto-Trojan Confederation came into effect. These events are dimly shadowed
in myth and the name of an historical people, the Meropids, who occupied the
Atlantic shores of northern Morocco in the first century B.C. Merope was probably
the name of an allied kingdom or colony of the Atlantean Empire in coastal North
Africa, perhaps occupying the southern half of present-day Morocco.Mesentiu
The “Harpooners,” sometimes called “Metal Smiths” in ancient Egyptian
tradition, who, along with the “Followers of Horus,” escaped in the company of the
gods from their oceanic homeland sinking in the Distant West. They arrived at
the Nile Delta, where they created Egyptian Civilization, a fusion of native culture
with Atlantean technology. The Mesentiu were a particular group of survivors
from one of the Atlantean catastrophes, perhaps the late fourth-millennium event.
(See Sekhet-aaru, Semsu-Hor)Mestor
In Plato’s Kritias, an Atlantean monarch of which nothing is known. Only the
meaning of his name, “The Counselor,” suggests Mestor’s kingdom may have been
in Britain, where that foremost Atlantean monument, Stonehenge, gave counsel
through its numerous celestial alignments. “Merlin” was perhaps a linguistic
variant of “Mestor.”
(See Stonehenge)Miwoche
A “Master” with whose birth in 1917 B.C. the history of Tibet officially began.
Miwoche is described in the pre-Buddhist Boen religion as directly descended
from the spiritual hierarchy that dominated Mu.