CHAPTER II.

The Egyptian colony.

What proofs have we that the Egyptians were a colony from Atlantis?

1.  They claimed descent from “the twelve great gods,” which must have meant the twelve gods of Atlantis, to wit, Poseidon and Cleito and their ten sons.

2.  According to the traditions of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians derived their civilization from them; and as the Egyptians far antedated the rise of the Phoenician nations proper, this must have meant that Egypt derived its civilization from the same country to which the Phoenicians owed their own origin.  The Phoenician legends show that Misor, from whom, the Egyptians were descended, was the child of the Phoenician gods Amynus and Magus.  Misor gave birth to Taaut, the god of letters, the inventor of the alphabet, and Taaut became Thoth, the god of history of the Egyptians.  Sanchoniathon tells us that “Chronos (king of Atlantis) visited the South, and gave all Egypt to the god Taaut, that it might be his kingdom.”  “Misor” is probably the king “Mestor” named by Plato.

3.  According to the Bible, the Egyptians were descendants of Ham, who was one of the three sons of Noah who escaped from the Deluge, to wit, the destruction of Atlantis.

4.  The great similarity between the Egyptian civilization and that of the American nations.

5.  The fact that the Egyptians claimed to be red men.

6.  The religion of Egypt was pre-eminently sun-worship, and Ra was the sun-god of Egypt, Rama, the sun of the Hindoos, Rana, a god of the Toltecs, Raymi, the great festival of the sun of the Peruvians, and Rayam, a god of Yemen.

7.  The presence of pyramids in Egypt and America.

8.  The Egyptians were the only people of antiquity who were well-informed as to the history of Atlantis.  The Egyptians were never a maritime people, and the Atlanteans must have brought that knowledge to them.  They were not likely to send ships to Atlantis.

9.  We find another proof of the descent of the Egyptians from Atlantis in their belief as to the “under-world.”  This land of the dead was situated in the West—­hence the tombs were all placed, whenever possible, on the west bank of the Nile.  The constant cry of the mourners as the funeral procession moved forward was, “To the west; to the west.”  This under-world was beyond the water, hence the funeral procession always crossed a body of water.  “Where the tombs were, as in most cases, on the west bank of the Nile, the Nile was crossed; where they were on the eastern shore the procession passed over a sacred lake.” (R.  S. Poole, Contemporary Review, August, 1881, p. 17.) In the procession was “a sacred ark of the sun.”

All this is very plain:  the under-world in the West, the land of the dead, was Atlantis, the drowned world, the world beneath the horizon, beneath the sea, to which the peasants of Brittany looked from Cape Raz, the most western cape projecting into the Atlantic.  It was only to be reached from Egypt by crossing the water, and it was associated with the ark, the emblem of Atlantis in all lands.