11.  The Aditya, like the Adites, are identified with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.  Yama is the god of the abode beyond the grave.  In the Persian story he appears as Yima, and “is made ruler of the golden age and founder of the Paradise.” (Ibid., p. 45.) (See “Zamna,” p. 167 ante.)

In view of all these facts, one cannot doubt that the legends of the “sons of Ad,” “the Adites,” and “the Aditya,” all refer to Atlantis.

Mr. George Smith, in the Chaldean account of the Creation (p. 78), deciphered from the Babylonian tablets, shows that there was an original race of men at the beginning of Chaldean history, a dark race, the Zalmat-qaqadi, who were called Ad-mi, or Ad-ami; they were the race “who had fallen,” and were contradistinguished from “the Sarku, or light race.”  The “fall” probably refers to their destruction by a deluge, in consequence of their moral degradation and the indignation of the gods.  The name Adam is used in these legends, but as the name of a race, not of a man.

Genesis (chap. v., 2) distinctly says that God created man male and female, and “called their name Adam.”  That is to say, the people were the Ad-ami, the people of “Ad,” or Atlantis.  “The author of the Book of Genesis,” says M. Schoebel, “in speaking of the men who were swallowed up by the Deluge, always describes them as ‘Haadam,’ ’Adamite humanity.’” The race of Cain lived and multiplied far away from the land of Seth; in other words, far from the land destroyed by the Deluge.  Josephus, who gives us the primitive traditions of the Jews, tells us (chap. ii., p. 42) that “Cain travelled over many countries” before he came to the land of Nod.  The Bible does not tell us that the race of Cain perished in the Deluge.  “Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah;” he did not call on his name; the people that were destroyed were the “sons of Jehovah.”  All this indicates that large colonies had been sent out by the mother-land before it sunk in the sea.

Across the ocean we find the people of Guatemala claiming their descent from a goddess called At-tit, or grandmother, who lived for four hundred years, and first taught the worship of the true God, which they afterward forgot. (Bancroft’s “Native Races,” vol. iii., p. 75.) While the famous Mexican calendar stone shows that the sun was commonly called tonatiuh but when it was referred to as the god of the Deluge it was then called Atl-tona-ti-uh, or At-onatiuh. (Valentini’s “Mexican Calendar Stone,” art.  Maya Archaeology, p. 15.)

We thus find the sons of Ad at the base of all the most ancient races of men, to wit, the Hebrews, the Arabians, the Chaldeans, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Ethiopians, the Mexicans, and the Central Americans; testimony that all these races traced their beginning back to a dimly remembered Ad-lantis.

CHAPTER II

The kings of Atlantis become the gods of the Greeks.