Chapter Title Here Please 1 THETHE Atlantis Encyclopedia F RANK JOSEPH Author of The Destruction of Atlantis Foreword by B RAD STEIGER New Page Books A division of The Career Press, Inc. Franklin Lakes, NJ 2 Book Title Here Please Copyright© 2005 by Frank Joseph All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press. THE ATLANTIS ENCYCLOPEDIA EDITED AND TYPESET BY CLAYTON W. LEADBETTER Cover design by Lu Rossman/Digi Dog Design Printed in the U.S.A. by Book-mart Press To order this title, please call toll-free 1-800-CAREER-1 (NJ and Canada: 201- 848-0310) to order using VISA or MasterCard, or for further information on books from Career Press. The Career Press, Inc., 3 Tice Road, PO Box 687, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 www.careerpress.com www.newpagebooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Joseph, Frank. The Atlantis encyclopedia / by Frank Joseph ; foreword by Brad Steiger. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-56414-795-9 1. Atlantis--Encyclopedias. I. Title. GN751.J675 2005 001.94--dc22 2004059279 Chapter Title Here Please 3 To William A. Donato, the foremost explorer of Poseidia. This page intentionally left blank Chapter Title Here Please 5 Contents Foreword by Brad Steiger..................................................7 Introduction: A Lost Civilization .......................................9 A: Aalu to Aztlan ...............................................................11 B: Bacab to Byamspa ........................................................64 C: Caer Feddwid to Cuchavira..........................................80 D: Dardanus to Dzilke.......................................................93 E: Ea to Exiles of Time ....................................................104 F: Falias to Fu Sang Mu ..................................................113 G: Gadeiros to Gwyddno ................................................119 H: Haiyococab to Hyne ...................................................133 I: Iamblichos to Izanagi and Izanami.............................143 J: Jacolliot to Jubmel........................................................150 K: Ka’ahupahau to Kuskurza..........................................154 L: Ladon to Lyonesse ......................................................163 6 Book Title Here Please M: Macusis to Mu-yu-Moqo............................................174 N: Naacals to Nyoe ..........................................................195 O: Oak to Ova-herero ......................................................208 P: Pacata-Mu to Pur-Un-Runa .......................................216 Q: Qamate to Quikinna’qu .............................................233 R: Ragnarok to Ruty ........................................................236 S: Sacsahuaman to Szeu-Kha .........................................243 T: Tahiti to Tyche.............................................................260 U: Ualuvu levu to Uxmal.................................................277 V: Vediouis to Vue ...........................................................282 W: Wai-ta-hanui to Wotan ..............................................287 X: Xelhua to Xochiquetzal ..............................................295 Y: Yamquisapa to Yurlunggur.........................................298 Z: Zac-Mu-until to Zuni Deluge Story............................302 Afterword by Professor Nobuhiro Yoshida.................305 Bibliography ....................................................................307 About the Author ...........................................................312 Foreword 7 Foreword By Brad Steiger I must confess that the first thing I did when I received a manuscript copy of Frank Joseph’s The Atlantis Encyclopedia was to check for myself just how thorough the text really was. I started with Viracocha, the early Inca culture-hero, who has fascinated me since our trip to Peru, where I stood at his legendary tomb site at Machu Picchu. I thought it unlikely that many researchers would associate Viracocha’s “rising” from the great depths of Lake Titicaca with his possible arrival from Atlantis after the deluge, but there he was. Score one for Joseph. Next, I tried an even more obscure reference—Balor, the king of the giant Sea People in Irish folklore. Another hit for Joseph. And so it went with name after name, geographical location after geographical location, until I put the manuscript aside and agreed that there was no single reference work on Atlantis quite as complete as this unique work. The vast majority of the thousands of books and magazine articles pub- lished about the lost civilization of Atlantis present a particular researcher’s pet theory about where the place was; whether it was really a continent, an island, or a metropolis; and where we might find bits and pieces of the vanished world to prove the validity of the author’s hypothesis. The Atlantis Encyclopedia is by no means the first book Joseph has written about this perennial subject. His Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis and Lemuria (A.R.E. Press, 2001) showed that the Sleeping Prophet was uncanny in his correct description of these antediluvian civilizations, and Cayce reappears in this latest effort with his intriguing predictions for their future discovery. But The Atlantis Encyclopedia is unique because it is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind; the author was about its research for nearly a quarter of a century. In my own Atlantis Rising, first published in 1973, I examined and reevaluated the evidence for what I considered the eight most prevalent theories of what the “lost continent” was or what it represented, from ancient terrestrial sea-kings, to ancient T 7 T 8 The Atlantis Encyclopedia extraterrestrial colonizers. But in this extensive encyclopedia, Joseph has no particular axe to grind or theory to postulate. These are the facts, figures, fauna, flora, figments, and fantasies that surround the mystery of Atlantis. Although I have written books on many different subjects since Atlantis Rising, researching the true origins of humankind’s sojourn on this planet remains one of my greatest passions in terms of personal research. While I am fascinated by our plans to explore outer space—and I do support such efforts—I truly believe that it remains one of our greatest responsibilities, as a species, to discover who we truly are, before we begin our trek to the stars. I very much believe, as I titled a subsequent book on the mysteries of humankind’s vast antiquity, that there have been “worlds before our own” on this planet. Yes, once the subject of Atlantis and lost civilizations seizes your imagination and invades your dreams, you will find that you, too, must join the search for establishing the reality of what the great majority of your peers will consider nonsense. But read this impressive work by Frank Joseph, and you will discover for yourself that Atlantis is far more than a metaphor for humankind’s brief glory before the dust. The subject of Atlantis can really get a hold on you. After all, Frank was kind enough to share with me that it was my Atlantis Rising that whetted his own appetite for the quest. Now make it your own in The Atlantis Encyclopedia! Introduction: A Lost Civilization 9 Introduction: A Lost Civilization The Atlantis Encyclopedia is a result of more than two decades of continuous study and international travel. It began in 1980, when I started picking up clues to the lost civilization in locations from the ruins of Troy and Egypt’s desert pyramids, to Morocco’s underground shrine and Britain’s Stonehenge, beyond to the mountaintop city of Peru and a ceremonial center in the jungles of Guatemala. My quest took me to Polynesia’s cannibal temple, the seldom seen solar monuments of Japan’s remote forests, and the golden pillar of Thailand. I sought out credible proof in my own country, traveling from coast to coast, finding telltale evidence—among the world’s most northerly pyramids, in Wisconsin; at Ohio’s Great Serpent Mound; and in the ruins of North America’s oldest city, in Louisiana. I participated in diving expeditions to the Bahamas, Yucatan, the Canary Islands, the Aegean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. Decades of these on-site explorations was combined with research in the libraries of the world and the shared wisdom of devoted colleagues to produce this unique volume. Of the estimated 2,500 books and magazine articles published about the lost civili- zation, The Atlantis Encyclopedia is the only one of its kind. It is an attempt to bring together all the known details of this immense, continually fascinating subject, as well as to provide succinct definitions and clear explanations. It is a handbook of Atlantean information for general readers and specialists alike. Everything one wants to know about Atlantis is here in short form. It is a source for students of archaeology, myth, and prehistory. Unlike most other books on the subject, The Atlantis Encyclopedia offers fewer theories and more facts. Areas of interest include geology, astronomy, and oceanogra- phy, but with strong emphasis on the folk traditions of numerous peoples around the world who preserved memories of a great flood that destroyed an ancestral island of memorial splendor.