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harbor works were already in use throughout the eastern Mediterranean by that
time. Moreover, Lake Superior copper mining was simultaneously nearing the
zenith of its output. A port located off the North American coast, situated in the
heart of the North Atlantic Current, would have been a valuable asset for freight-
ers carrying cargos of mined copper back to their headquarters in Atlantis.
An Atlantean connection is, after all, suggested in the Andros platform’s six
alternating bands of stone: 6 was the sacred numeral of Atlantis, whose city-
planners incorporated the holy number in the capital’s alternating stone walls,
according to Plato’s description of the sunken civilization.
(See Bimini Road, Kritias)Annals of Cuauhtitlan
An Aztec chronicle of earliest Mesoamerican beginnings, from when the first
civilizers arrived on the eastern shores of Mexico after a destructive flood. “For
fifty two years the waters lasted,” it reports. “Thus, they [an ancestral people]
perished. They were swallowed by the waters, and their souls became fish. The
heavens collapsed upon them, and in a single day they perished. All the moun-
tains perished [under the sea].”
These “Annals” compare with the Babylonian deluge story of Ishtar (the
Sumerian Inanna), wherein the goddess laments how her people were “changed
into fish” by a great flood that overwhelmed a former kingdom. So too, the Aztecs
chose virtually the same words Plato used to describe the destruction of Atlantis
“in a single day and night.” That “the heavens collapsed upon them” also suggests
a celestial event as part of the Deluge.
(See Asteroid Theory, Berosus, Inanna)Annwn
From the Brythonic an (“abyss”) and dwfn (“world”), known throughout Celtic
myth as “Land Under Wave,” or the “Revolving Castle” (Caer Sidi); formerly a
fortified island of great natural beauty with freshwater streams and a circular-
shaped city, at the center of which was a magic cauldron of immortality. These
details clearly point to Atlantis, while Annwn’s cauldron is a pre-Christian refer-
ence to the Holy Grail—another legendary link with the sunken civilization.Antaeus
Possibly a pre-Platonic mythological rendering of Greek victory over the forces
of Atlantis. Like Atlas, Antaeus was a Titan, the son of Poseidon and Gaia (Kleito,
described as the mother of Atlas in Kritias, was likewise an Earth Mother goddess).
Similar to the imperialist Atlanteans, he was everywhere invincible, until Heracles
overcame him on the Atlantic shores of North Africa, fronting the position of
Atlantis, “beyond the Pillars of Heracles,” according to Plato. Archaeological