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Scomalt
The North American Okanaguas’ ancestral “Medicine Woman,” who ruled
over “a lost island” at the time of the Deluge. In the Hopi version, she was called
Tuwa’bontumsi.Sea Peoples
In Egyptian, the Meshwesh or Hanebu. In 1190 B.C., they mounted a major
invasion of the Nile Delta. After initial success, they were defeated and taken captive.
The testimony of Sea People prisoners-of-war, recorded in the wall-texts of Pharaoh
Ramses III’s Victory Temple at Medinet Habu, in West Thebes, showed them to be
the same aggressors described in Plato’s account of Atlantis. The Greeks claimed
their land was first civilized by the Pelasgians, a “sea people” from the Far West.
In North America, the Menomonie Indians of the Upper Great Lakes remem-
ber an alien race of white-skinned “Marine Men” or “Sea People,” who arrived
from over the Atlantic Ocean long ago to “wound Earth Mother by extracting her
shining bones,”—that is, they mined copper.
(See Bronze Age, Pelasgians, Ramses III)Sekhet-Aaru
The Egyptians’ realm of the dead, but also their ancestral homeland on an
island in the Distant West, from which their forefathers arrived at the Nile Delta
in the Tep Zepi, or “First Time,” at the start of dynastic civilization. On the other
side of the world, the Aztecs believed their ancestors came from an island kingdom
in the Distant East, called Aztlan. Both Sekhet-Aaru and Aztlan mean “Field of
Reeds.” To the Egyptians and the Aztecs alike, reeds, employed as writing utensils,
were symbolic of literacy and wisdom, implying that Sekhet-Aaru/Aztlan was a
place of extraordinary learning.
(See Aztlan, Aalu)Sekhmet
Egyptian goddess of fiery destruction credited in the wall texts of Medinet Habu
with the destruction of Neteru (Atlantis). Sekhmet was actually identified with a
threatening comet, “shooting-star,” or awesome celestial phenomenon of some kind.Semu-Hor
In ancient Egyptian tradition, “The Followers of Horus,” they were culture-
bearers who arrived at the Nile Delta from Sekhet-aaru, “the Field of Reeds,”
their sunken homeland in the Distant West. The Semsu-Hor were survivors from
the upheavals that beset Atlantis in the late fourth millennium B.C.
(See Menentiu, Sekhet-aaru)