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Atcha
In ancient Egyptian, a distant, splendid, vanished city, suggestive of Atlantis.
The prefix “At” recurs among ancient Egyptian mythic figures associated with
overtly Atlantean themes (Atum, Atfih, At-hothes, etc.).Atchafalaya
Known as the “Long River” to the Choctaw Indians of Louisiana. Its resem-
blance to the shorter Egyptian name Atcha is suggestive, especially in view of the
Choctaws’ own deluge myth. Here, too, “At” is used to identify water, one of the
three Atlantean themes (city, mountain, and/or water) associated with this prefix
by numerous cultures around the world.Atea
The Marquesans regarded Atea as their ancestral progenitor who, like the
Atlanto-Egyptian Atum, claimed for himself the creation of the world. Fornander
wrote, “In the Marquesan legends the people claim their descent from Atea and
Tani, the two eldest of Toho’s twelve sons, whose descendants, after long periods
of alternant migrations and rest in the far western lands, finally arrived at the
Marquesas Islands.”
Like Atlas, Atea was his father’s first son and a twin. With his story begins
the long migration of some Atlanteans, the descendants of Atea, throughout
the Pacific. Fornander saw Atea as “the god which corresponds to Kane in the
Hawaiian group” and goes on to explain that “the ideas of solar worship embodied in
the Polynesian Kane as the sun, the sun-god, the shining one, are thus synonymous
with the Marquesan Atea, the bright one, the light.” Atum, too, was a solar deity.Atemet
The dwelling place and/or name of the goddess Hat-menit, who was depicted in
Egyptian temple art as a woman wearing headgear fashioned in the likeness of a
fish. Worshiped at Mendes, where her title was “Mother,” she was somehow con-
nected to the Lands of Punt often associated with the islands of Atlantis. Budge
believed Atemet was a form of Hathor, the goddess responsible for the world flood.
Atemet’s Atlantean name, fish-crown (queen of the sea), and connections to both
Punt and Hathor identify her with some of the leading features of the Atlantis story.Atemoztli
Literally “the Descent of Waters,” or the Great Flood, as it was known to the
Aztecs. A worldwide cataclysm accompanied by volcanic eruptions, its few survivors