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Qoluncotun
Creator deity of the Sinkaietk, or Southern Okanagon Indians, in Washington
State. Angered by the ingratitude of their ancestors, he hurled a star at the Earth,
which burst into flames. Just before the entire planet was reduced to ashes,
Qoluncotun extinguished the conflagration by pushing “a great land” beneath the
sea, making it overflow into a world flood. From the few survivors, he refashioned
mankind into various tribes.Q’o’mogwa
“Copper-maker,” leading culture hero of the Kwakiutl, native inhabitants of
the Canadian Pacific coast. According to Kearsley, “His exploits are invariably
associated with long sea voyages, sometimes to the Land of Ancestors, or the
Upper World, beyond the West where the sun sets, or into the middle of the
ocean, clearly the Pacific Ocean, where the Copper-maker was also said to exist”
(50,51). Q’o’mogwa commanded a magical vessel that took him to all parts of the
world, “a self-paddling copper canoe ‘filled with coppers’...probably a sailing craft.”
“Copper-maker” is the self-evident memory of the Lemurian captain of a sail-
ing ship from the mid-Pacific kingdom of Mu, the Kwakiutl “Land of Ancestors,”
which dispatched miners to excavate North America’s rich and anciently worked
copper deposits. While Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was dominated by Atlantean
miners, Lemurian interest in metallurgy was certainly less commercial than spiri-
tual. Adepts of the Pacific Motherland probably used copper primarily for psychic
activity, due to its alleged conductivity of various energy forms, a quality still
prized in many native cultures throughout the world.Quaitleloa Festival
The Aztec legend of Tlaloc told how the god of water raised a great mountain
out of the primeval sea. His Quaitleloa Festival commemorated the destruction of
the world by flood: “Men had been given up to vice, on which account, it (the world)
had been destroyed.” Tlaloc’s wife, Chalchihuitlicue, was represented as a torrent
carrying away a man, woman and treasure chest, intending to portray Otocoa, “the
loss of property.” As though to emphasize the Atlantean identity of Tlaloc, the
Quaitleloa Festival took place in the vicinity of Mount Tlalocan, or “Place of Tlaloc,”
in nothing less than a ritualized recreation of the final destruction of Atlantis.Queevet
Worshiped by South America’s Abipon Indians as the white-skinned god of the
Pleiades, he long ago destroyed the world with fire and flood. The Abipon regarded
Francisco Pizzaro and his fellow Conquistadors as manifestations of Queevet. Their
veneration did not, however, prevent the Spanish from exterminating them.