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of events from 3100 through 1198 B.C., when a comet or multiple comets rained
down rocky debris on the Earth. Massive, destructive waves were caused when
large meteors fell into the sea.Oduduwa II
In Yoruba folk tradition, the native queen of West Africa when her realm was
invaded by Atlantean “Sea Peoples,” who refrained from deposing her because
she was a competent ruler.Oera Linda Bok
Literally, “The Book of What Happened in the Old Time,” a compilation of
ancient Frisian oral histories transcribed for the first time in 1256 A.D., and pub-
lished in Holland, in 1871. The Frisians are a Germanic people of mysterious
origins. All that is known of their earliest history is that they ousted the resident
Celts of what is now a northern province of the Netherlands, today’s Frisia, and
the Frisian Islands. They also live in Nordfriesland and Ostfriesland, in Germany.
Their language is closely related to English.
TheOera Linda Bok tells of the ancestral origins of the Frisian people in the
island kingdom of Atland. Subjected to seismic and volcanic violence, many of its
residents fled to other lands. Those who arrived in Britain, according to the Oera
Linda Bok, brought with them the Tex; this was the legal structure of Atland,
which, in subsequent generations, came to be known as Old English common law.
One of today’s Frisian Islands is called Texel.
Other Atland immigrants sailed into the Mediterranean, where they reestab-
lished their worship of Fasta, the Earth Mother, with her perpetual flame, at the
Roman Temple of Vesta. Voyaging further eastward, a princess from Atland,
Min-erva, founded Athens and, after her death, was worshiped in Italy, first by
the Etruscans, later by the Romans, as Minerva, the goddess of technical skill and
invention.
Two royal brothers of troubled Atland parted in mid-ocean. Neftunis steered
along the shores of North Africa, settling at what later became Tunis in his honor.
After his death, the Etruscans named their sea-god after him—Nefthuns, subse-
quently adopted by the Romans as Neptune. His brother, with a smaller contingent,
sailed to the west, and was never heard of again. But his name, Inka, suggests he,
like Neftunis, was a culture-founder who bequeathed his name to subsequent gen-
erations, this time in South America, where they became the Incas of Peru and
Bolivia.
According to the Oera Linda Bok, the ancestors of the Frisians left Atland in
2193 B.C.. Their oceanic homeland went under the sea either at that time or some-
time later; the text is not entirely clear on this matter. In any case, its late third-
millenniumB.C. date fits the Bronze Age context of Atlantis, and probably
corresponds to the penultimate geologic upheaval and mass-evacuation described