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Feathered Serpent—on August 10, 3110 B.C. The First Egyptian Dynasty, set up
by gods and men fleeing their sacred mound sinking in the Distant West, began
around 3100 B.C. So too, the earliest manifestations of arts and cities in the Cyclades
Islands and Troy date to sudden arrivals from the west around 3000 B.C. Ireland’s
greatest megalithic site, New Grange, was built before 3100 B.C. Even work on
Britain’s Stonehenge began around the same time.
Such abrupt, simultaneous developments in various parts of the world, where
traditions tell of founding fathers fleeing some terrible cataclysm, bespeak an
Atlantean upheaval serious enough to generate mass evacuations, without utterly
destroying the island. This 5,000-year-old event appears to have been associated
with flood heroes among various societies—the Egyptian Thaut, the Sumerian
Utnapishtim, the Babylonian Xiuthtros, the Hebrew Noah, the Greek Deucalion,
the Maya Itzamna, and so on. Severe as the late fourth-millennium B.C. upheaval
may have been, Atlantis survived, was rebuilt, and eventually prospered for another
1,900 years.
Being closer to us in time, the final catastrophe is provided with more precise
dating information. Scribes at Medinet Habu, in Thebes, Upper Egypt, recorded
the invasion of Atlantean “Sea Peoples” at the Nile Delta in 1190 B.C., eight years
after the loss of their western homeland to the sea. “Day of the Dead” festivals
around the world correlate with archaeo-astronomy to place the cataclysm in early
November. An abundance of supporting evidence tends to confirm that Atlantis
was finally destroyed on or about November 3, 1198 B.C.Chumael-Ah-Canule
Described as “the First after the Flood,” in The History of Zodzil—a 16th-
century collection of Maya oral traditions heard firsthand by Juan Darreygosa—
he escaped the deluge that engulfed his island kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean,
arriving first at the island of Cozumel, off the Yucatan coast. Proceeding to the
Mexican mainland, Chumael-Ah-Canule and his immigrating fellow country-
men built Chichen Itza, or “Mouth of of the Well of Itza,” and 149 other cities,
including Mayapan, Izamel, Uxmal, and Ake. His account suggests that not only
these ceremonial centers, but Mesoamerican civilization itself was founded by
Atlantean culture-bearers.Cichol Gricenchos
King of the Fomorach, the earliest Atlantean inhabitants of Ireland. He opposed
the arrival of a later Atlantean settlers, the “Family of Partholon,” survivors of
the 2100 B.C. cataclysm that wracked Atlantis.
(See Fomorach)