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Atri
In Hindu myth, one of 10 Prajapatis, beings intermediate between gods and
mortals, known as the progenitors of mankind, and assigned by Manu to create
civilization throughout the world. Atri may be an Indus Valley version of Atlas,
who likewise had nine brothers, Titans, who similarly occupied a position between
the Olympians and men. The Prajapatis were sometimes associated with the
Aditayas, the “upholders” of the heavens (sustainers of the cosmic order), just
like Atlas, who supported the sky. Atri’s prominent position as a world-civilizer
echoes the far-flung Atlantis Empire.Atsilagigai
Literally, the “Red Fire Men” in Cherokee tradition. The name more broadly
interpreted means the “Men from the Place of Red Fire,” Cherokee ancestors.
Some of them escaped the judgement of heaven, when the Great Flood drowned
almost all living things. Atsilagigai refers to culture-bearers from a volcanic island,
and is a Native American rendering of the word “Atlantean.”Atso, or Gyatso
Tibetan for “ocean,” associated with the most important spiritual position in
Boen-Buddhism, the Dalai Lama. The Mongolian word for ocean is dalai, a deriva-
tive of the Sanskrit atl for “upholder,” and is found throughout every Indo-European
language for “sea” or “valley in the water,” as though created by high waves: the
Sumerian Thallath, the Greek thallasa, the German Tal, the English dale, and so on.
Dalai, according to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, stems from the
Tibetan word for “ocean” that forms his name. Although Dalai Lama has sometimes
been translated as “Ocean of Wisdom,” it really means “Wise Man (Guru) of (or
from) the Ocean,” a title that appears to have originated with the pre-Buddhist Boen
religion somewhat absorbed by the creed introduced from India in the eighth century.
Atlantologists have speculated since the late 1800s that the history and religious
tenets of Atlantis are still preserved in some of Tibet’s secret libraries or even
encoded in the very ritual fabric of Tibetan religion itself. Some investigators
discern traces of the Atlantean mystery cults in Boen-Buddhism, particularly the
central importance placed on the doctrine of reincarnation and the sand mandalas
designed to portray the celestial city, with its concentric layout of alternating rings
of land and water powerfully reminiscent of Plato’s sunken capital, even to the
sacred numerals and elephants of Atlantis recurring through the sand-paintings.
These considerations seem stressed by Atlantean influences in the high-holy
terminology of Tibetan just discussed: Gyatso, Dalai, and so forth.
Edgar Cayce spoke of an unnamed person from the land now known as Tibet,
who visited Atlantis at a time when Atlantean teachings were being disseminated.
Perhaps this refers to the early spread of spiritual concepts to Tibet from Atlantis