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Ragnarok
The Norse “Twilight of the Gods,” the destruction of the world that has been
and will be again, over and over, as part of the cyclical nature of destiny. With its
vivid descriptions of fiery skies and sinking land-masses, Ragnarok undoubtedly
reflects folk memories of Atlantis. It reads in part, “Already the stars were coming
adrift from the sky and falling into the gaping void. They were like swallows, weary
from too long a voyage, who drop and sink into the waves.”Ramses III
XX Dynasty Pharaoh who defeated the “Sea People” invasion of the Delta in
1190 B.C., and subsequently raised a great Victory Temple, Medinet Habu, to his
success in the Upper Nile Valley, West Thebes. On its walls, Ramses documented
his military campaigns in incised illustrations and hieroglyphs. They still exist and
document a serious attempt by Atlantean forces to subdue Egypt eight years after
the capital of their island empire had been obliterated by a natural catastrophe.
The wall texts explain that Sekhmet, the goddess of fiery destruction, “pursued
them like a shooting-star” and incinerated their homeland, which immediately
thereafter “vanished beneath the waves.” The Sea People’s head city was referred