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eighth century B.C. If so, the Euskotarak may be the last direct descendants of
Atlantis, and their strange language is perhaps the same heard in that lost world,
more than 3,000 years ago.
(See Atlaintika, Belesb-At, Muck)Bath
See Orichalcum, Findrine.Battle of Mag Tured
Also known as Moytura, a military campaign in which the Formorach were
defeated by the Tuatha da Danann, as described in The Book of Invasions. Stripped
of its mythic colors, Mag Tured tells how the Atlanteans lost control of Ireland to
Celtic invaders.The Begetting of Nanna
A late third-millennium B.C. Sumerian epic in which Atlantis is described,
according to Noah Kramer: “Behold, the Bond-of-Heaven-and-Earth, the kindly
wall, its pure river, its quay where the boats stand, its well of good water, its
pure canal!” Here, at the birthplace of the gods, they “built the lofty stage-tower
on the nether-sea, and chapels for themselves,” devised the first laws, and founded
the science of astronomy-astrology.
The Babylonian version of the Sumerian Ea was Marduk, who “made supreme
the glorious city, the seat dear to their [the gods’] hearts, constructed an enclosure
around the waters.” In a liturgical text, Ea is described as “the lord who dwells in
a fane in the midst of the ocean” (Gaster, 135).
These mythic accounts of Enki’s “sea-house,” Ninhursag’s “cosmic mountain”
and Ea’s “glorious city in the midst of the ocean” are self-evident portrayals of the
same homeland of civilization Plato depicts in his Atlantis dialogue. Ninhursag’s
“Bond-of-Heaven-and-Earth” is Atlas, “the Upholder” of the heavens, inventer
of astrology-astronomy, etc.
(See Atlas)Belesb-At
The Basques’ sunken “Green Isle” from which their ancestors arrived in the
Bay of Biscay. “Belesb” is a prefix or title referring to the sun-god Bel, whose symbol,
the oriphile swastika, adorns many of the oldest houses in the Pyrenees, and is still
revered as a Basque national emblem. Belesb-At is a clear reference to Atlantis.
(See Basque, Atlaintika)