20 The Atlantis Encyclopedia
Chinese is mu. In Japanese and Korean, mu signifies that which does not exist,
referring perhaps to the vanished Nirai-Kanai signified by the tree branch carried
through the water by the Ama celebrant.
(See Mu, Nirai-Kanai, Sobata)Amadis
This opera by the French composer Jules Massenet premiered in Monte
Carlo, in 1927, and was based on the Breton folk legend of King Perion who,
with his family, barely escaped before his island kingdom was swallowed up by
the sea with its wicked inhabitants. The story of Amadis belongs to “the Green
Isle” oral traditions of a sunken island city still preserved among various western
coastal populations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Brittany, Biscay (among the
Basque), Spain, and Portugal.Amaicaca
Remembered by the Carib Indians of Venezuela as a deluge hero who escaped
some natural catastrophe in “a big canoe” that settled at the top of Mount Tamancu
after the flood waters receded. Amaicaca resembles Edgar Cayce’s Amaki and
the Colombian Amuraca.Amaiur
The legendary first king of the Basque is equated with biblical parallels of
Tubalcain, a grandson of the flood hero in Genesis, Noah. Amaiur means, “Monarch
of Maya,” a kingdom referred to as the Green Isle, swallowed by the Atlantic
Ocean. In Greek myth, Maya was one of the seven Pleiades, daughters of the
goddess Pleione and the Titan Atlas, and hence, an “Atlantis.”
(See Maia, Pleiades)Ambrosia
As a daughter of Atlas, she was an Atlantis, one of the five Hyades. Her name
means “immortality.”
(See Hyades)Ami
A tribal people of Taiwan, whose flood story shares details in common with
deluge accounts in other parts of the world. As explained by John Canon MacCullow:
“They say at that time [in the remote past] the mountains crumbled down, the
Earth gaped, and from the fissure a hot spring gushed forth, which flooded the