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We must concede that these legends of a world-embracing conflagration represent a race-remembrance of a great fact, or that they are a colossal falsehood — an invention of man. (p. 198) The Navajos The Navajos, living north of the Pueblos, say that at one time all the nations Navajo, Pueblos, Coyot- eros, and White People lived together underground, in the heart of a mountain, near the river San Juan. (p. 195) The inhabitants of central Europe and the Teutonic races who came late to England place their mythical heroes underground in caves, in vaults beneath enchanted castles, or in mounds which rise up and open, and show their buried inhabitants alive and busy about the avocations of earthly men. (p. 204) The Miztecs Believed that there ancestors after the deluge built a temple on a high place and waited for the higher gods to descend and lighten the darkness. They speak of the death of the daughters that had born chil- dren of the gods. In these myths we also read of the Miztec survivors praying to the gods to increase the land which is under water. They ask for the waters to be gathered for they only have a “little garden” on which to dwell. (p. 374) The legends speak of certain chosen mortals that would be transformed into gods once they had entered into a special flame or light. There is a clear legend relating this in the Aztec mythology. (see p. 215) Clearly mentions the coming of a time when advanced gods walked the planet, populated the earth and were with great intelligence but without conscience. In the Babylonian Genesis tablets we have the same references to the man or people who, after the great disaster, divided the heavens into constellations, and regulated, that is, discovered and revealed, their movements. (p. 223) Tezcatlipoca Egypt When we turn to Egypt, we find that their whole religion was constructed upon legends relating to the ages of fire and ice, and the victory of the sun-god over the evil-one. We find everywhere a recollection of the days of cloud ... (p. 233) 194 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Underground Living The Miztec Barbarians They considered themselves descendants of the Fallen Ones from the sky. The Fire of the Gods The Four Ages of the Quiches The Babylonians Represented as a winged serpent. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation