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Wakt’cexi
In Native American oral traditions of the Upper Midwest, a horned giant who
gathered up survivors of the Great Flood and carried them to safety on the eastern
shores of Turtle Island (North America).
(See Man Mounds, Wilmington Long Man, Wolf Clan)Wallanganda
A monarch who built the first cities in the Lemurian kingdom of Baralku,
according to chronologer Neil Zimmerer.Wallum Ollum
The “Red Record” is a preserved oral tradition of the Lenni Lenape, or
Delaware Indians. It tells of the Talega—”strangers” or “foreigners”—who arrived
on New England shores after a deluge overwhelmed their homeland across the
Atlantic Ocean: “All of this was long ago, in the land beyond the great flood
(book 1). Flooding and flooding, filling and filling, smashing and smashing,
drowning and drowning” (book 2, line 7).
Led by Nanabush to the North American coast, the survivors formed a new state
with their “Great Sun” as monarch. He ruled over “lesser suns,” nobles, “honored
men,” and the vast majority of native peasants and laborers contemptuously known as
“stinkers.” The Talega eventually intermarried with these “stinkers,” and their “sun
kingdom” dissolved into chaos, leaving behind impressive earthworks in abandoned
ceremonial centers. Thus, the so-called “mound builders” are depicted as Atlanteans
(the Talega) by the Delaware Indians.
The same story is related by a Shawnee dance ceremoniously performed in
Oklahoma forest groves. The Mayas’ flood hero, as described in the cosmological
epic, the Popol Vuh, arrived in Yucatan following a deluge that overwhelmed his
island kingdom across the Atlantic Ocean. It was called Valum, which appears to
be a Mayan contraction of Wallum Ollum—doubtless one and the same location.
(See Nanabush, Wotan)Washo Deluge Story
The Washo are a native California people who recounted an early golden
period of their ancestors. For many generations, they lived in happiness on a far
away island, at the center of which was a tall, stone temple containing a represen-
tation of the sea-god. His likeness was so huge, its head touched the top of “the
dome.” This part of the Washo account is found, perhaps surprisingly, in the
Encyclopaedia Judaica, and virtually reproduces Plato’s description in Kritias of
the Temple of Poseidon at the center of Atlantis, where a colossus of the sea-god
was “so tall his head touched the roof.” It seems no less remarkable that the Washo,