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Qamate
Supreme god of the Amoxosa Kaffir Negroes, who raise large burial mounds
in his honor. These earthworks represent the mountainous island from which their
ancestors arrived in Africa after he pushed it to the bottom of the sea. Since only
one man and woman survived, Qamate told them to pick up stones and throw
them over their shoulders. As they did so, human beings sprang from the ground
wherever the stones fell. To commemorate this repopulating of the world after
the flood, every passerby deposits a stone on one of the mounds. Resemblance
of the Amoxosa version to the Greek deluge account is remarkable, implying a
calamitous event both peoples experienced—the destruction of Atlantis.
(See Deucalion)Q’a’mtalat
The Canadian Kwakiutl Indians’ flood hero, who died in the Great Flood
while successfully trying to save his children by removing them to the summit of a
high mountain. They became the ancestors of a post-deluge humanity.
Here, as in other traditions among peoples more likely effected by the
Lemurian disaster, the story of Q’a’mtalat describes steadily rising waters, not the
more geologically violent destruction of Atlantis depicted in East coast myths.