Atlantis - above the waves
traditions, theories, evidence and facts
Give words from Nahuatl dictionary.
Matlock, in his defence of the Yucatan Straits as the site of
Atlantis, cites place names as one of his compelling proofs. He
points to:
Atlán, Autlán, Mazatlán, Cihuatlán, Cacatlán, Tecaltitlán,
Tihuatlán, Atitlán, Zapotlán, Minititlán, Ocotlán, Miahuatlán, Tecaltitlán,
Tepatitlán, Tihuatlán, Texiutlán, and the like.
Notice that the Nahuatl Tlán root of these place names is exactly
like the Tlan in "Atlantis."
Atlas - or his substitute - is also encountered in diverse places
performing his function of holding up the world. Quetzalcoatl is
shown in paintings and in an engraving holding up the world.
The Basque people living in the Pyrenees between Spain and France
are a unique people. The Romans called them Vascones. The
name "Basque" was used by the French and English. The Basque people
themselves say they came from Atlaintika, a powerful maritime
nation that sank into the Atlantic Ocean ofter a terrible cataclysm
and from which a few survivors reached the Bay of Biscay and the
Pyrenees mountains.
From Edgar Cauce's Atlantis and Lemuria
page 32-34:
The Basque call their language, Euskara. It is
an absolutely unique tonque, unrelated to any Indo-European speech.
Strangely, Euskara shares some affinity with Finno-Urgic Patumnili
(spoken in ancient Troy), Etruscan (belonging to the pro-Roman civilizers
of western Italy, traditionally descended from the Trojans), Guanche
(spoken by the highly Atlantean inhabitants of the Canary Islands)
and Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. These long-dead
languages are themseles only very imperfectly understood today.
But the fact that Basque Euskara contains legitimate cognates wiht
the languages of four identifiably Atlantean poeples is not without
significance.
Perhaps the cognate most revealing in our investigation of Atlantis
is "Atalya." It is the name of an ancient ceremonial mound in
Biarritz, Basque country.
"Atalya" is also a sacred mountain in the Valley of Mexico venerated
by the Aztecs.
"Atalaia" is a site in southern Portugal featuring Bronze Age
tumuli, or domed tombs, dating to the late period of Atlantean
florescence in the thirteenth centery BC.
"Atalya" is in Gran Canaria, where pyramids built by the Guanches
in black, white, and red volcanic stone- the same construction
materials described for Atlantis by Plato- may still by seen.
There is an additional link between the Basque and the ancient
Canary Islanders. The Guanches embraced a singular goat cult with
rituals likewise observed in tradition Basque withcraft.
The name "Italy" derives from "Atalia," when, according to Etruscan
tradition surviving in Virgil's Aeneid, Atlas ruled there
in prehistory. "Italy" means, literally, "the Domain of Atlas,"
whose daugher was Atlantis.
Indeed, this seems to be the meaning of "Atalia" whenerver and
wherever it was used, even by such widely diverse and otherwise
unrelated peoples as the Basque, Guanches, Aztecs, and Etruscans.
The implication is obvious; namely, that all of them were impacted
earlier in their histories by culture bearers from Atlantis. Is
is clear tha "Atalia" carries the same connotation in Euskara,
Nahuatl, Iberian, and Guanche - the description of a sacred mound,
mound-like structure, or mountain. Moreover, "Atalia" would appear
derivative of Atlantis itself, where the holy mountain of Atlas
was at the center of the empire's mystery religion.
The "Atalia" of the Basque, Aztecs, Iberians and Guanches was
probasbly meant to commemorate, in word and image, the original
sacred peak, Mount Atlas. No other concievable connection could
have linked such dissimilar and widely separated peoples as the
Basque, Aztecs, and Guanches, save through the intermediary culture
of Atlantis, which stretched so far as to touch them all. To be
sure these peoples fell within the Atleantean sphere of influence.
Incredible as it may seem, Euskara's resemblance to Nahuatl and
certain North American Indian languages, particularly Algonquin-Lenape,
is unmistakable. ...
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