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Coxcoxtic
He and his wife, Xochiquetzal, were sole survivors in one of several Aztec
versions of the Great Flood. During the previous era in which they lived, humanity
spoke the same language. But their offspring in post-diluvial times received the
gift of speech from a variety of birds. The children of Coxcoxtic and Xochiquetzal
grew up speaking many different tongues. Later, they left their parents to wander
over the face of the Earth, spreading new languages around the world. Their myth
refers to the cultural unity of Atlantean times destroyed by a natural catastrophe,
and scattered around the globe.
(See Xochiquetzal)Coyolxauqui
Aztec version of the earlier Maya Ixchel, the White Lady, who brought civiliza-
tion to Middle America from a lost kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean after a great flood.
(See Ixchel)Crannog
Also known as “the ruined city of Kenfig,” Crannog is familiar in both Irish
and Scottish traditions as a sunken city. “Og” is a derivative of the Atlantean
catastrophe in the British Isles, Greece, and South America.
(See Ogma, Ogriae)Crow Deluge Story
The Crow Indians tell that the Great Spirit, angry with the sins of the world,
destroyed all mankind with a great flood. After the cataclysm, he created another
humanity by scooping up a handful of dust. Blowing upon it, the first black birds
and a new race of people sprang into existence together. When he asked them
what they wished to be called, they chose the name “Crow” after the birds that
had appeared with them. The Crow, like virtually all Native Americans, trace their
origins back to a catastrophic deluge. Similar to Plato’s account of Atlantis, the
Crow flood story relates that a people were destroyed by the supreme being for
their moral decay.Crystal Skull
The life-size representation of a female human skull carved from a single piece
of quartz crystal. Its earliest documented history began in 1936, when the Crystal
Skull was obtained in Mexico from an unknown source by a British buyer, and put
up for public auction in London eight years later, when it was purchased by a