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Palatkwapi
An Atlantic island that the Patki Indians told of, on which a sorceress lived a
very long time ago. Her evil powers so menaced the world, the gods drowned her
by sinking Palatkwapi. The resulting tsunami destroyed almost all living things on
Earth, but a few human survivors reached the eastern shores of North America to
become the founders of the Patki tribe.Pali-uli
Legendary island of plenty and joy from which the Hawaiian ancestors escaped
before it was destroyed in a terrible deluge.
(See Hiva, Kahiki)Pan
The Algonkian Atlantis. Its flood myth tells how:
...the Earth rocked to and fro, as a ship and sea, and the rains fell in
torrents, and loud thunderings came up from beneath the floor of
the world. And the vortex of the Earth closed in from the extreme,
and, lo, the Earth was broken! A mighty land was cut loose from its
fastenings, and the fires of the Earth came forth in flames and clouds
with loud roarings. And again the vortex of the Earth is about on all
sides, and the land sank down beneath the waters, to rise no more.
The Algonkian version takes a line from Plato’s account: “In the same day,
the gates of heaven and Earth were opened” (Churchward, 74). Pan is likewise
identified with Atlantis in various Puranas of India. An Atlantean saga was retold
in the Mexican Toltec tradition of Pantitlan.Pandyan
Indian version of Mu.
(See Rawana, Sillapadakaram)Partholon
InThe Book of Invasions, a Medieval collection of Celtic and pre-Celtic oral tradi-
tions, he was the tragic leader of a lost sea people who sought refuge in Ireland. They
were preceded by the Fomorach, who stubbornly opposed them. Partholon none-
theless succeeded in conquering much of the country, dividing its land into five dis-
tricts, after defeating Cichol Gricenchos, the Fomorach king. Unfortunately, a plague
so decimated the Family of Partholon, they were unable to defend themselves against
renewed Fomorach resistance, so they evacuated Ireland and disappeared into myth.