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the Arctic Ocean, was all that remained of Atlantis. Bailey was a victim of the
French Revolution.
It says something for the credibility of Atlantis that many of the most eminent
thinkers in the history of Western Civilization—Solon, Plato, Strabo, Plutarch,
Bacon, Kircher, Muck, Blake, Rudbeck, etc.—have been among its most prominent
advocates.Rutas
Another name for Mu or Lemuria found among a few scattered Polynesian
tales, mentioned by some Brahman traditions and in Beon-Buddhist monastery
records of Tibet. “Rutas” may have derived from Rudra, the “Cosmic Fire,” or
life-energy and title of Murrugan, one of Lemuria’s chief deities, described in
an Indian purana, the Shrimad Bhagavatam. Like Mu, Rutas was supposed to
have been a very large island located in the eastern Pacific, where dwelt a race
of spiritually advanced sun-worshippers before their land was destroyed by a
terrific flood. Survivors arriving in India established what eventually became
the elite Brahman caste.
(See Jacolliot, Sillapadakaram)Ruty
An epitaph meaning a “pair of lions.” They are represented in temple art
facing away from each other, their tails opposed, while Shu, the Egyptian Atlas,
appears in between them, thus defining Atlantis as the sacred center, the Navel
of the World. “Ruty” would also appear to have a philological relationship with
“Rutas,” one of the names or titles of Lemuria. Such a connection would be
appropriate, because the two civilizations shared some fundamental spiritual
beliefs. Indeed, the Navel of the World appears at two important cult centers in
the Pacific during post-Lemurian times; namely, Easter Island as Rapa-nui, and
Hawaii’s “Navel of Kane,” the creator-god. Ruty’s twin lions might have even
signified the two sunken civilizations, Atlantis and Lemuria, which both shared
a related spirituality.