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Nancomala
The flood hero of South America’s Guayami Indians. Nancomala waded into
the receding tide of the Deluge, where he found a water-maiden, Rutbe, whose
children became ancestors of the Guayami. Here, as in so many similar traditions
around the world, the survivor of some catastrophic inundation during the
ancient past is revered as the progenitor of a whole people. In these universal folk
memories culture-bearers from the destruction of Atlantis are strongly suggested.Nata and Nena
In Mixtec myth, a husband and wife who were warned by the god Tezcatlipocha
of a coming, world-destroying deluge. Like Shiva in the Hindu flood epics, he
instructed them to build a large ship in which they could survive. When the natural
catastrophe occurred, it eclipsed a former “Sun” (or Age), in which most of man-
kind was obliterated. But Nata and Nena rode out the tempest in their vessel,
eventually coming to rest at what is now the east coast of Mexico. Disembarking,
they promptly proceeded to repopulate the world in the normal fashion.
The resemblance of this pre-Conquest story to the Genesis flood is remarkable,
even to comparisons between the
MixtecNataand biblical Noah. Still
closer to the Old Testament version
was a Venezuelan flood hero of the
Orinoco Indians, Noa.Nausicaa
An Atlantean princess, who be-
friended Odysseus, the shipwrecked
Greek war veteran in Homer’s epic.
A variation of her myth has her leav-
ing Phaeacia, the Homeric Atlantis,
a few years before its destruction, to
marry Telemachus, Odysseus’ son.Navaho Child Initiation Ceremony
It featured a masked figure wearing a red wig and horned helmet, accompanied
by a woman, her face painted white. She portrayed the man’s wife. Both were
supposed to represent the couple which survived the Great Flood, as a reminder
of the child’s ancestral origins. The Atlantean and racially alien implications of
the Navaho Child Initiation Ceremony are self-evident.
(See Man Mounds)Inca cranial remains show that head-elongation was
practiced by both ancient Peruvian and Egyptial royals
as a means of physically distinguishing themselves
from others missing an Atlantean heritage.