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This cataclysm must have occurred near the first cradle of mankind, and before the dispersion of the families from which the principal races were to spring; for it would be at once improbable and uncritical to admit that, at as many different points of the globe as we should have to assume in order to explain the wide spread of these traditions, local phenomena so exactly alike should have occurred, their mem- ory being assumed an identical form, and presenting circumstances that need not necessarily have occurred to the mind in such cases. (p. 66) The obvious conclusion from these facts is that at some time previous to these migrations a people speaking a language of a superior and complicated structure broke up their society, and, under some strong impulse, poured out in different directions, and gradually established themselves in all the lands now inhabited by the Caucasian race. (p. 177) Athens possessed a noble race, which performed many noble deeds, the last and greatest of which was resisting the attempts of Atlantis to subjugate them; and after this came the destruction of Atlantis, and that same great convulsion which overwhelmed that island destroyed a number of Greeks (p. 67) The Toltec legends speak of a garden, a tree, a serpent and a woman that was the mother of all mankind. They also speak of a race of giants that were in the world from the earliest times. (See p. 199) e In Chaldean legend, Cronus appeared to Xisuthros and warned him to prepare for the coming disas- ter. The arc was 600 cubits in length and 60 cubits for width and height. 197 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Atlantis — The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly The Atlanteans They existed during the Bronze Age and at the beginning of the Iron Age. (p. 307) The Dispersion of Mankind Subjugation of the Greeks The American Tree of Life Warnings of the coming flood: ¢ Deucalion of Greece was also forewarned. ¢ Manu of India ¢ Satyravata of India ¢ Khasistra of Persia ¢ Yima of Iranians ¢ Noah of the Hebrews ¢ Dwyfan and Dwyfach of Wales ¢ Nuada of the Celts ¢ Bergelmir of Scandinavia * Coxcox of Mexico Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation