The first Adites were followed by a second Adite race; probably the colonists who had escaped the Deluge.  The centre of its power was the country of Sheba proper.  This empire endured for a thousand years.  The Adites are represented upon the Egyptian monuments as very much like the Egyptians themselves; in other words, they were a red or sunburnt race:  their great temples were pyramidal, surmounted by buildings. ("Ancient History of the East,” p. 321.) “The Sabaeans,” says Agatharchides ("De Mari Erythraeo,” p. 102), “have in their houses an incredible number of vases, and utensils of all sorts, of gold and silver, beds and tripods of silver, and all the furniture of astonishing richness.  Their buildings have porticos with columns sheathed with gold, or surmounted by capitals of silver.  On the friezes, ornaments, and the framework of the doors they place plates of gold incrusted with precious stones.”

All this reminds one of the descriptions given by the Spaniards of the temples of the sun in Peru.

The Adites worshipped the gods of the Phoenicians under names but slightly changed; “their religion was especially solar...  It was originally a religion without images, without idolatry, and without a priesthood.” (Ibid., p. 325.) They “worshipped the sun from the tops of pyramids.” (Ibid.) They believed in the immortality of the soul.

In all these things we see resemblances to the Atlanteans.

The great Ethiopian or Cushite Empire, which in the earliest ages prevailed, as Mr. Rawlinson says, “from the Caucasus to the Indian Ocean, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the mouth of the Ganges,” was the empire of Dionysos, the empire of “Ad,” the empire of Atlantis.  El Eldrisi called the language spoken to this day by the Arabs of Mahrah, in Eastern Arabia, “the language of the people of Ad,” and Dr. J. H. Carter, in the Bombay Journal of July, 1847, says, “It is the softest and sweetest language I have ever heard.”  It would be interesting to compare this primitive tongue with the languages of Central America.

The god Thoth of the Egyptians, who was the god of a foreign country, and who invented letters, was called At-hothes.

We turn now to another ancient race, the Indo-European family—­the Aryan race.

In Sanscrit Adim, means first.  Among the Hindoos the first man was Ad-ima, his wife was Heva.  They dwelt upon an island, said to be Ceylon; they left the island and reached the main-land, when, by a great convulsion of nature, their communication with the parent land was forever cut off. (See “Bible in India.”)

Here we seem to have a recollection of the destruction of Atlantis.

Mr. Bryant says, “Ad and Ada signify the first.”  The Persians called the first man “Ad-amah.”  “Adon” was one of the names of the Supreme God of the Phoenicians; from it was derived the name of the Greek god “Ad-onis.”  The Arv-ad of Genesis was the Ar-Ad of the Cushites; it is now known as Ru-Ad.  It is a series of connected cities twelve miles in length, along the coast, full of the most massive and gigantic ruins.