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de Carli, G.R.
Prominent, late 18th-century French scholar who went public with his belief
in a historical Atlantis.
(See de Gisancourt)de Gisancourt, L.C. Cadet
A pioneering chemist, who joined fellow scholar G.R. de Carli and geographer
Christophe Cellarius during 1787 in declaring that the Atlantis described by Plato
was located on an Atlantic island.Delphi
The foremost oracle of the ancient Old World, perched on Mount Parnassus
above the Gulf of Corinth, in Greece. It was governed by a hoisioi, or “college” of
priests required to trace their family lineage to Deucalion before taking office,
because he was believed to have brought the principles of divination to Delphi
from a former Golden Age overwhelmed by the Deluge. Mount Parnassus itself
was consecrated to Poseidon, the sea-god of Atlantis. Delphi’s Omphalos stone
characterized it as “the Navel of the World,” after the Atlantean mystery cult of
the same name. Practioners from Atlantis appear to have arrived on the shores of
the Gulf of Corinth, where they reestablished the antediluvian spiritual center no
later than the late third millennium B.C.
(See The Deluge, Deucalion, Navel of the World)The Delphic oracle in Greece was presided over by priests directly descended from
survivors of the Atlantean flood.