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ancestors at the time of a Great Flood. The ancestors climbed the mountain to escape the rising ocean. And this is not the only mountain which saved humanity from the Flood in native American mythology. We have two types of stories: those in which the people are already in America when the Flood comes (stories like that of the Shasta), and stories that tell of their arrival in ships that land on mountain-tops. The Okanagan of British Columbia and Washington state tell us that their ancestors fled from a sinking island in the middle of the ocean. The Haida relate how, long ago, their ancestors lived in the world's largest village. Life was carefree until the chief of the heavens decided to destroy humankind by changing the sky and bringing a worldwide flood. Survivors escaped in large canoes that took them to a new land where they landed on a mountain-top. We believe the sky did appear to change dramatically before the Flood, and that's why we called our book When The Sky Fell. We take perfectly seriously the Haida's story of the loss of a great city at the time of the Flood. Perhaps archaeologists should listen with a little respect to the so-called "stories" of the first people. In 681 AD, the Japanese Emperor Temnu ordered the Guild of Narrators to record the most ancient myths. The resulting book, the Ko-ji-ki, told of a time when the Earth was very young, and the first land, called "Onogorojima", lay near either the North Pole or the South Pole. I believe that Onogorojima and Atlantis are different names for Antarctica. I realise these are bold claims, but I presented evi- dence for the reality of an Earth crust displacement in my 1981 article in the Anthropological Journal of Canada (vol. 19, no. 4), a copy of which appears in the appendix of When The Sky Fell. carefree until the chief of the heavens decided to destroy T= problem archaeologists face is that the fine art of agri- humankind by changing the sky and bringing a worldwide flood. culture suddenly appears on different continents at approxi- Survivors escaped in large canoes that took them to a new land mately the same time, around 9,600 BC—that is, at the time where they landed on a mountain-top. of the destruction of Atlantis, the opening of the ice-free corridor, We believe the sky did appear to change dramatically before —_and the so-called "sinking" of Beringia. Now I saw the hand of the Flood, and that's why we called our book When The Sky Fell. the Atlanteans in this development, but I couldn't use the "A- We take perfectly seriously the Haida's story of the loss of a great word" if I wanted to be published in a scientific journal in 1981. ~ _ _ : : And it's no different now. The idea that Fig. 21 “Ta fg “Lc Mont | Antarctica might have experienced the same \ i \ ‘_| fate as Beringia is just not considered scien- | tific by the powers that control scientific publishing. But I'm proud to be associated with Atlantis. I think the taboo against the word should be broken. In the crescent or "horn" beneath Japan we find the earliest known civilisations in the world and the most important sites for agricultural origins in what is called "the a Old World". I call this crescent (as defined by the current and former path of the Tropic of Cancer) "the Horn of Plenty", for it was the most favoured land after the last Earth crust displacement. There were also favourable places in the tropics which I will all 7 discuss later, but I want you to appreciate = rir in | how much happened in that particular area. / a I call the whole area the Horn of Plenty rv) because it was such an important area for et gf fi the domestication of both plants and ani- ‘a = ifomnka Narth Pole (ourrerst} 58 + NEXUS JUNE - JULY 1998