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In the Russian legends, a golden ship sails across the heavenly sea; it breaks into fragments, which nei- ther princes nor people can put together again. Always associated with the finding of precious metals like gold and silver. Associated with fortune and intellectual knowledge and with physical power. In Peru, the god of riches was worshipped under the image of a rattlesnake... (p. 266) And then we have the legend of “the City of Brass” or bronze. It relates to “an ancient age and period in the olden time.” And Talib and his party go on still further, and find “the City of Brass” a weird, mysterious, lost city, in a desolate land; silent, and with all its people dead: a city once of high civilization, with mighty, brazen walls and vast machinery and great mysteries; a city whose inhabitants had perished suddenly in some great calamity. And on the walls were tablets, and on one of them were inscribed these solemn words: Where are all the kings and the peoples of the earth? They have quitted that which they have built and peopled. And in the grave they are pledged for their past actions. There, after destruction, they have become putrid corpses. Where are the troops? They repelled not nor profited. And where is that which they collected and horded? The decree of the Lord of the Throne surprised them. Neither riches nor ref- uge saved them from it. (p 272-273) In the Arabian legend of the City of Brass, we are told that the people who were destroyed were great architects, metallurgists, agriculturists, and machinists and that they possessed a written language. (See p. 345) Book of Job ...the book of Job is not a Hebrew work; it was not written by Moses; it antedates even the time of Abraham. (p. 277) “Job is in the purest Hebrew. An author uses only the word Elohim for the name of God. The compiler or reviser of the work, Moses, or whoever he was, employed at the head of chapters and in the introduc- tory and concluding portions the name of Jehovah, but all the verses where Jehovah occurs, in Job, are later interpolations in a very old poem, written at a time when the Semitic race had no other name for God but Elohim; before Moses obtained the elements of a new name from Egypt. (from C. S. Bryant’s letter to Donnelly, see p. 277) “And behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee” (Verse 18: 19) If it is a drama of Atlantean times, it must have passed through many hands, through many ages, through many tongues, before it reached the Israelites. (p. 280) 195 Appendix B: Book Abstracts The Russians Serpent Worship The Peruvians ... chose as their arms two serpents with their tails interlaced. (p. 267) The City of Brass Genii in the Bottle Could this legend be an oblique reference to genetic engineering of some kind. Is the bottle a test-tube? Clearly relates to the conflagrations that beset the earth. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation