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of Atlas-Atlantis, powerful evidence supporting a profound Atlantean influence
in Mesoamerica.Atlantes
Described by many classical writers (Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, etc.), a
people who resided on the northwestern shores of present-day Morocco. They
preserved a tradition of their ancestral origins in Atlantis, and appear to have
been absorbed by the eighth-century invasion of their land by the forces of Islam.
Notwithstanding their disappearance, their Atlantean legacy has been preserved
by the Tuaregs and Berbers, who pride themselves on their partial descent from
the Atlantes.Atlanthropis mauritanicus
A genus name assigned by the French anthropologist, Camille Arambourg, to
Homo erectus finds at Ternifine, Algeria. It represented a slight development,
considered “superfluous” by some scholars, of a type along the Atlantic shores of
North Africa and may indicate that early man followed migrating animal herds across
former land bridges onto the island of Atlantis. There the abundance of game and
temperate climate fostered further evolutionary steps toward becoming Cro-Magnon.
The Atlanthropis mauritanicus hypothesis is bolstered by Cro-Magnon finds made
in some of the Canaries, the nearest islands to the suspected location of Atlantis.
Atlanthropis mauritanicus is also referred to as Homo erectus mauritanicus.Atlantiades
Atlantises, Daughters of Atlas.Atlantic Ocean
The sea that took its name from the land that once dominated it, Atlantis, just
as the Indian Ocean derived its name from India, the Irish Sea from Ireland, the
South China Sea from China, and so on.Atlantica
A four-volume magnum opus by Swedish polymath Olaus Rudbeck. Published
in the year of his death, 1702, Atlantica was eagerly sought out by Sir Isaac Newton
and other leading 18th-century scientists. It describes “Fennoscandia,” roughly
equivalent to modern Sweden, as the post-deluge home of Atlantean survivors in
the mid-third millennium B.C.
(See Rudbeck)