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of astrological time. In Greek myth, Atlas, too, was the inventor and deity of
astrology-astronomy.
Mexican archaeologists have associated the post-Deluge arrival of the Bacabs
in Guatemala with the foundation date of the Mayas and the start of their calendar:
August 10, 3113 B.C. This date finds remarkable correspondence in Egypt, where
the First Dynasty suddenly began around 3100 B.C. after gods and men were said
to have sailed to the Nile Delta when their sacred mound in the Distant West
began to sink beneath the sea. The Babylonian version of the Great Flood that
produced Oannes, the culture-bearer of Mesopotamian civilization, was believed
to have taken place in 3116 B.C. Clearly, these common dates commemorated by
disparate peoples define a shared, seminal experience that can only belong to
Atlantis.Bahr Atala
Literally, the “Sea of Atlas,” a south Tunisian archaeological site known as
Shott el Jerid. With concentric walls enclosing what appears to be a centralized
palace, it resembles the citadel of Atlantis, as described by Plato. Nearby hills are
locally referred to as the Mountains of Talae, or “the Great Atlantean Water.”
Bahr Atala was probably an Atlantean outpost in Tunis during the Late Bronze
Age, from the 16th to 13th centuries B.C.Balam-Qitze
According to the cosmological Popol Vuh, the Mayan “Book of Counsel,” he
was unanimously elected chief by the U Mamae to lead the “Old Men” across the
Atlantic Ocean from Patulan-Pa-Civan, their realm drowning beyond the eastern
horizon. Balam-Qitze appears to have been the authentically Atlantean name of
a leader who conveyed survivors from Atlantis to Yucatan.
(See Giron-Gagal, U Mamae)Bailey, Jean
An 18th-century French Atlantologist who traced Atlantean influences into
Scandinavia.
(See Rudbeck)Balearic Islands
An archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, ranging from 50 to 190
miles off the east coast of Spain, forming two distinct island groups, which are
actually a continuation of the Andalusian Mountain chain. An Early Bronze Age
people settled in the Balearics who were notable for their military aggressiveness,
as evidenced in surviving representations on stone stelae of helmeted warriors