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Coming as they did some time after the Fomorach, “Partholon’s people” were
probably immigrants from the geologic upheavals that beset Atlantis during
the late third millennium B.C. Certainly, Partholon’s division of Ireland into
five districts is the same kind of Atlantean geopolitics found in Plato’s Kritias.
(See Formorach)Patkinya-Mu
The Hopi “Dwelling-on-Water Clan” whose members anciently crossed the
Great Sea from the west. The flood refugees in North America, known as the
Patki, or “Water People,” were met by Massau, a native guide, who directed
them to the Southwest, where they could live in peace. All the Patki were able
to save from their sunken homeland was a stone tablet broken at one corner.
Massau prophesied that some day in the distant future a lost white brother,
Pahana, would deliver the absent fragment, thereby signalling the beginning of
a new age, when brotherhood would again prevail on Earth. Over the millennia,
the stone was in the special care of the Fire Clan. When their representative gave
it to a Conquistador in the 1500s, the Spaniard did not reciprocate as expected, so
the Hopi continue to wait for Pahana. It is remarkably similar to Pakeha, a name
bestowed by New Zealand natives on the first modern Europeans they met in the
late 18th century. It derives from the Pakahakeha, the Maui version of an ancestral
sea people, a white-skinned race from the sunken kingdom of Haiviki.
(See Mu)Patulan-Pa-Civan
A Quiche Maya variant of Atlantis. The Popol Vuh, a Yucatan cosmology,
tells how “the Old Men...came from the other part of ocean, from where the sun
rises, a place called Patulan-Pa-Civan.”
(See U Mamae)Payetome
A South American version of the “Feathered Serpent” or “Sea Foam” known
to various Indian tribes of coastal Brazil. Distantly removed from the high civili-
zations of both Mesoamerica and the Andes, their tradition of a tall, white-skinned,
light-eyed, fair-haired, and fair-bearded man arriving in the ancient past is folkish
evidence for a culturally formative event these less sophisticated natives shared
with the materially superior Mayas and Incas. The aboriginal Brazilians remember
Payetome as the leader of a “tribe” of fellow immigrants, whose kingdom across
the ocean was obliterated by a world flood. He was a gentle and wise man who
taught medicine, agriculture and magic.