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Ramman
A Babylonian god whose destruction of the world describes the Atlantean
catastrophe. The Deluge engulfed mankind when “the whirlwind of Ramman
mounted up to the heavens and light was turned into darkness.” His cataclysmic
function was still recognized by the Assyrian king, Hammurabi, who invoked
him with the words, “May he overwhelm the land like the Flood! May he turn it
into heaps and ruins! And may he blast it with a bolt of destruction!” In the Old
Testament, Ramman appears as “Rimmon.”Ramu
The capital city of Lemuria, located in what later became the Hawaiian
Islands, according to a past-life memory experienced by actress and author,
Shirley MacLaine.Ra-sgeti-Mu
A Maldive island at the Equator, south of the Indian subcontinent, its name
contains both that of the worldwide sun-god, Ra, and Mu, the sunken Pacific
civilization from which Ra-sgeti-Mu’s first culture-bearers arrived in prehistory.
(See Mu, Redin)Rawana
Described in a Tamil religious text, Sillapadakaram, as the lord of a resplendent
“citadel,” Kumari Nadu, comprising 25 palaces with 4,000 streets, “swallowed by
the sea in a former age.” The myth probably refers to ruins of a city discovered
120 feet under the Gulf of Cambay, 25 miles off the coast of Gujurat, India, in
May, 2001, by researchers with India’s National Institute of Ocean Technology.
They found stone pillars, walls, pottery, jewelry, sculpture, human bones, and even
inscribed evidence of a written language. The site appears to have been part of
Harappa-Mohenjo Daro Civilization that flourished in the Indus Valley from
around 2800 to 1500 B.C. The island on which Rawana’s “citadel” was located
most likely sank under the Gulf of Cambay during the Late Bronze Age with the
same worldwide cataclysm that destroyed Atlantis.Redin
Racially alien seafarers who sailed from their distant kingdom, bringing civi-
lization to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Remembered as red-haired and
blue-eyed, with sharply defined noses, the Redin were probably the “Rutas”