CHAPTER X.
THE ARYAN COLONIES FROM ATLANTIS.
We come now to another question: "Did the Aryan or Japhetic
race come from Atlantis?"
If the Aryans are the Japhetic race, and if Japheth was one of
the sons of the patriarch who escaped from the Deluge, then
assuredly, if the tradition of Genesis be true, the Aryans came
from the drowned land, to wit, Atlantis. According to Genesis,
the descendants of the Japheth who escaped out of the Flood with
Noah are the Ionians, the inhabitants of the Morea, the dwellers
on the Cilician coast of Asia Minor, the Cyprians, the Dodoneans
of Macedonia, the Iberians, and the Thracians. These are all now
recognized as Aryans, except the Iberians.
"From non-Biblical sources,"
says Winchell, "we obtain further information respecting the
early dispersion of the Japhethites or Indo-Europeans--called
also Aryans. All determinations confirm the Biblical account
of their primitive residence in the same country with the Hamites
and Semites. Rawlinson informs us that even Aryan roots are
mingled with Presemitic in some of the old inscriptions of
Assyria. The precise region where these three families dwelt in a
common home has not been pointed out." ("Preadamites," p.
43.)
I have shown in the chapter in relation to Peru that all the
languages of the Hamites, Semites, and Japhethites are varieties
of one aboriginal speech.
The centre of the Aryan migrations (according to popular
opinion) within the Historical Period was Armenia. Here too is
Mount Ararat, where it is said the ark rested--another
identification with the Flood regions, as it represents the usual
transfer of the Atlantis legend by an Atlantean people to a high
mountain in their new home.
Now turn to a map: Suppose the ships of Atlantis to have
reached the shores of Syria, at the eastern end of the
Mediterranean, where dwelt a people who, as we have seen, used
the Central American Maya alphabet; the Atlantis ships are then
but two hundred miles distant from Armenia. But these ships need
not stop at Syria, they can go by the Dardanelles and the Black
Sea, by uninterrupted water communication, to the shores of
Armenia itself. If we admit, then, that it was from Armenia the
Aryans stocked Europe and India, there is no reason why the
original population of Armenia should not have been themselves
colonists from Atlantis.
But we have seen that in the earliest ages, before the first
Armenian migration of the historical Aryans, a people went from
Iberian Spain and settled in Ireland, and the language of this
people, it is now admitted, is Aryan. And these Iberians were
originally, according to tradition, from the West.
The Mediterranean Aryans are known to have been in
Southeastern Europe, along the shores of the Mediterranean, 2000
B.C. They at that early date possessed the plough; also wheat,
rye, barley, gold, silver, and bronze. Aryan faces are found
depicted upon the monuments of Egypt, painted four thousand years
before the time of Christ. "The conflicts between the Kelts (an
Aryan race) and the Iberians were far anterior in date to the
settlements of the Phœnicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and
Noachites on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea." ("American
Cyclopædia," art. Basques.) There is reason to
believe that these Kelts were originally part of the population
and Empire of Atlantis. We are told (Rees's "British
Encyclopædia," art. Titans) that "Mercury, one of
the Atlantean gods, was placed as ruler over the Celtæ, and
became their great divinity." F. Pezron, in his "Antiquity of the
Celtæ," makes out that the Celtæ were the same as the
Titans, the giant race who rebelled in Atlantis, and "that their
princes were the same with the giants of Scripture." He adds that
the word Titan "is perfect Celtic, and comes from tit, the
earth, and ten or den, man, and hence the Greeks
very properly also called them terriginæ, or
earth-born." And it will be remembered that Plato uses the same
phrase when he speaks of the race into which Poseidon
intermarried as "the earth-born primeval men of that
country."
The Greeks, who are Aryans, traced their descent from the
people who were destroyed by the Flood, as did other races
clearly Aryan.
"The nations who are comprehended under the common appellation
of Indo-European," says Max Müller--"the Hindoos, the
Persians, the Celts, Germans, Romans, Greeks, and Slavs--do not
only share the same words and the same grammar, slightly modified
in each country, but they seem to have likewise preserved a mass
of popular traditions which had grown up before they left their
common home."
"Bonfey, L. Geiger, and other students of the ancient
Indo-European languages, have recently advanced the opinion that
the original home of the Indo-European races must be sought in
Europe, because their stock of words is rich in the names of
plants and animals, and contains names of seasons that are not
found in tropical countries or anywhere in Asia." ("American
Cyclopædia," art. Ethnology.)
By the study of comparative philology, or the seeking out of
the words common to the various branches of the Aryan race before
they separated, we are able to reconstruct an outline of the
civilization of that ancient people. Max Müller has given
this subject great study, and availing ourselves of his
researches we can determine the following facts as to the
progenitors of the Aryan stock: They were a civilized race; they
possessed the institution of marriage; they recognized the
relationship of father, mother, son, daughter, grandson, brother,
sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law,
daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law, and had
separate words for each of these relationships, which we are only
able to express by adding the words "in-law."
They recognized also the condition of widows, or "the
husbandless." They lived in an organized society, governed by a
king. They possessed houses with doors and solid walls. They had
wagons and carriages. They possessed family names. They dwelt in
towns and cities, on highways. They were not hunters or nomads.
They were a peaceful people; the warlike words in the different
Aryan languages cannot be traced back to this original race. They
lived in a country having few wild beasts; the only wild animals
whose names can be assigned to this parent stock being the bear,
the wolf, and the serpent.
The name of the elephant, "the beast with a hand," occurs only
twice in the "Rig-Veda;" a singular omission if the Aryans were
from time immemorial an Asiatic race; and "when it does occur, it
is in such a way as to show that he was still an object of wonder
and terror to them." (Whitney's "Oriental and Linguistic
Studies," p. 26.) They possessed nearly all the domestic animals
we now have--the ox and the cow, the horse, the dog, the sheep,
the goat, the hog, the donkey, and the goose. They divided the
year into twelve months. They were farmers; they used the plough;
their name as a race (Aryan) was derived from it; they were, par
excellence, ploughmen; they raised various kinds of grain,
including flax, barley, hemp, and wheat; they had mills and
millers, and ground their corn. The presence of millers shows
that they had proceeded beyond the primitive condition where each
family ground its corn in its own mill.
They used fire, and cooked and baked their food; they wove
cloth and wore clothing; they spun wool; they possessed the
different metals, even iron: they had gold. The word for "water"
also meant "salt made from water," from which it might be
inferred that the water with which they were familiar was
saltwater.
It is evident they manufactured salt by evaporating salt
water. They possessed boats and ships. They had progressed so far
as to perfect "a decimal system of enumeration, in itself," says
Max Müller, "one of the most marvellous achievements of the
human mind, based on an abstract conception of quantity,
regulated by a philosophical classification, and yet conceived,
nurtured, and finished before the soil of Europe was trodden by
Greek, Roman, Slav, or Teuton."
And herein we find another evidence of relationship between
the Aryans and the people of Atlantis. Although Plato does not
tell us that the Atlanteans possessed the decimal system of
numeration, nevertheless there are many things in his narrative
which point to that conclusion "There were ten kings ruling over
ten provinces; the whole country was divided into military
districts or squares ten stadia each way; the total force of
chariots was ten thousand; the great ditch or canal was one
hundred feet deep and ten thousand stadia long; there were one
hundred Nereids," etc.
In the Peruvian colony the decimal system clearly obtained:
"The army had heads of ten, fifty, a hundred, five hundred, a
thousand, ten thousand. . . . The community at large was
registered in groups, under the control of officers over tens,
fifties, hundreds, and so on." (Herbert Spencer, "Development of
Political Institutions," chap. x.) The same division into tens
and hundreds obtained among the Anglo-Saxons.
Where, we ask, could this ancient nation, which existed before
Greek was Greek, Celt was Celt, Hindoo was Hindoo, or Goth was
Goth, have been located! The common opinion says, in Armenia or
Bactria, in Asia. But where in Asia could they have found a
country so peaceful as to know no terms for war or bloodshed;--a
country so civilized as to possess no wild beasts save the bear,
wolf, and serpent? No people could have been developed in Asia
without bearing in its language traces of century-long battles
for life with the rude and barbarous races around them; no nation
could have fought for ages for existence against "man-eating"
tigers, lions, elephants, and hyenas, without bearing the memory
of these things in their tongue.
A tiger, identical with that of Bengal, still exists around
Lake Aral, in Asia; from time to time it is seen in Siberia. "The
last tiger killed in 1828 was on the Lena, in latitude fifty-two
degrees thirty minutes, in a climate colder than that of St.
Petersburg and Stockholm."
The fathers of the Aryan race must have dwelt for many
thousand years so completely protected from barbarians and wild
beasts that they at last lost all memory of them, and all words
descriptive of them; and where could this have been possible save
in some great, long-civilized land, surrounded by the sea, and
isolated from the attack of the savage tribes that occupied the
rest of the world? And if such a great civilized nation had dwelt
for centuries in Asia, Europe, or Africa, why have not their
monuments long ago been discovered and identified?
Where is the race who are their natural successors, and who
must have continued to live after them in that sheltered and
happy land, where they knew no human and scarcely any animal
enemies? Why would any people have altogether left such a home?
Why, when their civilization had spread to the ends of the earth,
did it cease to exist in the peaceful region where it
originated?
Savage nations cannot usually count beyond five. This people
had names for the numerals up to one hundred, and the power,
doubtless, of combining these to still higher powers, as three
hundred, five hundred, ten hundred, etc. Says a high authority,
"If any more proof were wanted as to the reality of that period
which must have preceded the dispersion of the Aryan race, we
might appeal to the Aryan numerals as irrefragable evidence of
that long-continued intellectual life which characterizes that
period." Such a degree of progress implies necessarily an
alphabet, writing, commerce, and trade, even as the existence of
words for boats and ships has already implied navigation.
In what have we added to the civilization of this ancient
people? Their domestic animals were the same as our own, except
one fowl adopted from America. In the past ten thousand years we
have added one bird to their list of domesticated animals! They
raised wheat and wool, and spun and wove as we do, except that we
have added some mechanical contrivances to produce the same
results.
Their metals are ours. Even iron, the triumph, as we had
supposed, of more modern times, they had already discovered. And
it must not be forgotten that Greek mythology tells us that the
god-like race who dwelt on Olympus, that great island "in the
midst of the Atlantic," in the remote west, wrought in iron; and
we find the remains of an iron sword and meteoric iron weapons in
the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, while the name of the metal
is found in the ancient languages of Peru and Chili, and the
Incas worked in iron on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
A still further evidence of the civilization of this ancient
race is found in the fact that, before the dispersion from their
original home, the Aryans had reached such a degree of
development that they possessed a regularly organized religion:
they worshipped God, they believed in an evil spirit, they
believed in a heaven for the just. All this presupposes temples,
priests, sacrifices, and an orderly state of society.
We have seen that Greek mythology is really a history of the
kings and queens of Atlantis.
When we turn to that other branch of the great Aryan family,
the Hindoos, we find that their gods are also the kings of
Atlantis. The Hindoo god Varuna is conceded to be the Greek god
Uranos, who was the founder of the royal family of Atlantis.
In the Veda we find a hymn to "King Varuna," in which occurs
this passage:
"This earth, too, belongs to Varuna, the king, and this wide
sky, with its ends far apart. The two seas are Varuna's
loins; he is contained also in this drop of water."
Again in the Veda we find another hymn to King Varuna:
"He who knows the place of the birds that fly through the sky;
who on the waters knows the ships. He, the upholder of order, who
knows the twelve months with the offspring of each, and knows the
month that is engendered afterward."
This verse would seem to furnish additional proof that the
Vedas were written by a maritime people; and in the allusion to
the twelve months we are reminded of the Peruvians, who also
divided the year into twelve parts of thirty days each, and
afterward added six days to complete the year. The Egyptians and
Mexicans also had intercalary days for the same purpose.
But, above all, it must be remembered that the Greeks, an
Aryan race, in their mythological traditions, show the closest
relationship to Atlantis.
At-tika and At-hens are reminiscences of
Ad, and we are told that Poseidon, god and founder of
Atlantis, founded Athens. We find in the "Eleusinian mysteries"
an Atlantean institution; their influence during the whole period
of Greek history down to the coming of Christianity was
extraordinary; and even then this masonry of Pre-Christian days,
in which kings and emperors begged to be initiated, was, it is
claimed, continued to our own times in our own Freemasons, who
trace their descent back to "a Dionysiac fraternity which
originated in Attika." And just as we have seen the Saturnalian
festivities of Italy descending from Atlantean harvest-feasts, so
these Eleusinian mysteries can be traced back to Plato's island.
Poseidon was at the base of them; the first hierophant, Eumolpus,
was "a son of Poseidon," and all the ceremonies were associated
with seed-time and harvest, and with Demeter or Ceres, an
Atlantean goddess, daughter of Chronos, who first taught the
Greeks to use the plough and to plant barley. And, as the
"Carnival" is a survival of the "Saturnalia," so Masonry is a
survival of the Eleusinian mysteries. The roots of the
institutions of to-day reach back to the Miocene Age.
We have seen that Zeus, the king of Atlantis, whose tomb was
shown at Crete, was transformed into the Greek god Zeus; and in
like manner we find him reappearing among the Hindoos as Dyaus.
He is called "Dyaus-pitar," or God the Father, as among the
Greeks we have "Zeus-pater," which became among the Romans
"Jupiter."
The strongest connection, however, with the Atlantean system
is shown in the case of the Hindoo god Deva-Nahusha.
We have seen in the chapter on Greek mythology that Dionysos
was a son of Zeus and grandson of Poseidon, being thus identified
with Atlantis. "When he arrived at manhood," said the Greeks, "he
set out on a journey through all known countries, even into the
remotest parts of India, instructing the people, as be proceeded,
how to tend the vine, and how to practise many other arts of
peace, besides teaching them the value of just and honorable
dealings. He was praised everywhere as the greatest benefactor of
mankind." (Murray's "Mythology," p. 119.)
In other words, be represented the great Atlantean
civilization, reaching into "the remotest parts of India," and
"to all parts of the known world," from America to Asia. In
consequence of the connection of this king with the vine, he was
converted in later times into the dissolute god Bacchus. But
everywhere the traditions concerning him refer us back to
Atlantis. "All the legends of Egypt, India, Asia Minor, and the
older Greeks describe him as a king very great during his life,
and deified after death. . . . Amon, king of Arabia or Ethiopia,
married Rhea, sister of Chronos, who reigned over Italy, Sicily,
and certain countries of Northern Africa."
Dionysos, according to the Egyptians, was the son of Amon by
the beautiful Amalthea. Chronos and Amon had a prolonged war;
Dionysos defeated Chronos and captured his capital, dethroned
him, and put his son Zeus in his place; Zeus reigned nobly, and
won a great fame. Dionysos succeeded his father Amon, and "became
the greatest of sovereigns. He extended his sway in all the
neighboring countries, and completed the conquest of India. . . .
He gave much attention to the Cushite colonies in Egypt, greatly
increasing their strength, intelligence, and prosperity."
(Baldwin's "Prehistoric Nations," p. 283.)
When we turn to the Hindoo we still find this Atlantean
king.
In the Sanscrit books we find reference to a god called
Deva-Nahusha, who has been identified by scholars with Dionysos.
He is connected "with the oldest history and mythology in the
world." He is said to have been a contemporary with Indra, king
of Meru, who was also deified, and who appears in the Veda as a
principal form of representation of the Supreme Being.
"The warmest colors of imagination are used in portraying the
greatness of Deva-Nahusha. For a time he had sovereign control of
affairs in Meru; he conquered the seven dwipas, and led his
armies through all the known countries of the world; by
means of matchless wisdom and miraculous heroism he made his
empire universal." (Ibid., p. 287.)
Here we see that the great god Indra, chief god of the
Hindoos, was formerly king of Meru, and that Deva-Nahusha
(De(va)nushas--De-onyshas) had also been king of Meru; and we
must remember that Theopompus tell us that the island of Atlantis
was inhabited by the "Meropes;" and Lenormant has reached the
conclusion that the first people of the ancient world were "the
men of Mero."
We can well believe, when we see traces of the same
civilization extending from Peru and Lake Superior to Armenia and
the frontiers of China, that this Atlantean kingdom was indeed
"universal," and extended through all the "known countries of the
world."
"We can see in the legends that Pururavas, Nahusha, and others
had no connection with Sanscrit history. They are referred to
ages very long anterior to the Sanscrit immigration, and must
have been great personages celebrated in the traditions of the
natives or Dasyus. . . . Pururavas was a king of great renown,
who ruled over thirteen islands of the ocean, altogether
surrounded by inhuman (or superhuman) personages; he engaged in a
contest with Brahmans, and perished. Nahusha, mentioned by Maull,
and in many legends, as famous for hostility to the Brahmans,
lived at the time when Indra ruled on earth.
He was a very great king, who ruled with justice a mighty
empire, and attained the sovereignty of three worlds."
(Europe, Africa, and America?) "Being intoxicated with pride, he
was arrogant to Brahmans, compelled them to bear his palanquin,
and even dared to touch one of them with his foot" (kicked him?),
"whereupon be was transformed into a serpent." (Baldwin's
"Prehistoric Nations," p. 291.)
The Egyptians placed Dionysos (Osiris) at the close of the
period of their history which was assigned to the gods, that is,
toward the close of the great empire of Atlantis.
When we remember that the hymns of the "Rig-Veda" are admitted
to date back to a vast antiquity, and are written in a language
that had ceased to be a living tongue thousands of years ago, we
can almost fancy those hymns preserve some part of the songs of
praise uttered of old upon the island of Atlantis. Many of them
seem to belong to sun-worship, and might have been sung with
propriety upon the high places of Peru:
"In the beginning there arose the golden child. He was
the one born Lord of all that is. He established the earth and
the sky. Who is the god to whom we shall offer sacrifice?
"He who gives life; He who gives strength; whose command all
the bright gods" (the stars?) "revere; whose light is
immortality; whose shadow is death. . . . He who through his
power is the one God of the breathing and awakening world. He who
governs all, man and beast. He whose greatness these snowy
mountains, whose greatness the sea proclaims, with the distant
river. He through whom the sky is bright and the earth
firm. . . . He who measured out the light in the air...
Wherever the mighty water-clouds went, where they placed the seed
and lit the fire, thence arose He who is the sole life of the
bright gods. . . . He to whom heaven and earth, standing firm by
His will, look up, trembling inwardly. . . . May he not
destroy us; He, the creator of the earth; He, the righteous,
who created heaven. He also created the bright and mighty
waters."
This is plainly a hymn to the sun, or to a god whose most
glorious representative was the sun. It is the hymn of a people
near the sea; it was not written by a people living in the heart
of Asia. It was the hymn of a people living in a volcanic
country, who call upon their god to keep the earth "firm" and not
to destroy them. It was sung at daybreak, as the sun rolled up
the sky over an "awakening world."
The fire (Agni) upon the altar was regarded as a messenger
rising from the earth to the sun:
"Youngest of the gods, their messenger, their invoker. . . .
For thou, O sage, goest wisely between these two creations
(heaven and earth, God and man) like a friendly messenger between
two hamlets."
The dawn of the day (Ushas), part of the sun-worship, became
also a god:
"She shines upon us like a young wife, rousing every living
being to go to his work. When the fire had to be kindled by man,
she made the light by striking down the darkness."
As the Egyptians and the Greeks looked to a happy abode (an
under-world) in the west, beyond the waters, so the Aryan's
paradise was the other side of some body of water. In the Veda
(vii. 56, 24) we find a prayer to the Maruts, the storm-gods: "O,
Maruts, may there be to us a strong son, who is a living ruler of
men; through whom we may cross the waters on our way to the
happy abode." This happy abode is described as "where King
Vaivasvata reigns; where the secret place of heaven is; where the
mighty waters are . . . where there is food and rejoicing . . .
where there is happiness and delight; where joy and pleasure
reside." (Rig-Veda ix. 113, 7.) This is the paradise beyond the
seas; the Elysion; the Elysian Fields of the Greek and the
Egyptian, located upon an island in the Atlantic which was
destroyed by water. One great chain of tradition binds together
these widely separated races.
"The religion of the Veda knows no idols," says Max
Müller; "the worship of idols in India is a secondary
formation, a degradation of the more primitive worship of ideal
gods."
It was pure sun-worship, such as prevailed in Peru on the
arrival of the Spaniards. It accords with Plato's description of
the religion of Atlantis.
"The Dolphin's Ridge," at the bottom of the Atlantic, or the
high land revealed by the soundings taken by the ship
Challenger, is, as will be seen, of a three-pronged
form--one prong pointing toward the west coast of Ireland,
another connecting with the north-east coast of South America,
and a third near or on the west coast of Africa.
It does not follow that the island of Atlantis, at any time
while inhabited by civilized people, actually reached these
coasts; there is a strong probability that races of men may have
found their way there from the three continents of Europe,
America, and Africa; or the great continent which once filled the
whole bed of the present Atlantic Ocean, and from whose
débris geology tells us the Old and New Worlds were
constructed, may have been the scene of the development, during
immense periods of time, of diverse races of men, occupying
different zones of climate.
There are many indications that there were three races of men
dwelling on Atlantis. Noah, according to Genesis, had three
sons--Shem, Ham, and Japheth--who represented three different
races of men of different colors.
The Greek legends tell us of the rebellions inaugurated at
different times in Olympus. One of these was a rebellion of the
Giants, "a race of beings sprung from the blood of Uranos," the
great original progenitor of the stock. "Their king or leader was
Porphyrion, their most powerful champion Alkyoneus." Their mother
was the earth: this probably meant that they represented the
common people of a darker line. They made a desperate struggle
for supremacy, but were conquered by Zeus. There were also two
rebellions of the Titans. The Titans seem to have had a
government of their own, and the names of twelve of their kings
are given in the Greek mythology (see Murray, p. 27). They also
were of "the blood of Uranos," the Adam of the people. We read,
in fact, that Uranos married Gæa (the earth), and had three
families:
1, the Titans;
2, the Hekatoncheires; and
3, the Kyklopes.
We should conclude that the last two were maritime peoples,
and I have shown that their mythical characteristics were
probably derived from the appearance of their ships. Here we
have, I think, a reference to the three races: 1, the red or
sunburnt men, like the Egyptians, the Phœnicians, the
Basques, and the Berber and Cushite stocks; 2, the sons of Shem,
possibly the yellow or Turanian race; and 3, the whiter men, the
Aryans, the Greeks, Kelts, Goths, Slavs, etc.
If this view is correct, then we may suppose that colonies of
the pale-faced stock may have been sent out from Atlantis to the
northern coasts of Europe at different and perhaps widely
separated periods of time, from some of which the Aryan families
of Europe proceeded; hence the legend, which is found among them,
that they were once forced to dwell in a country where the
summers were only two months long.
From the earliest times two grand divisions are recognized in
the Aryan family: "to the east those who specially called
themselves Arians, whose descendants inhabited Persia,
India, etc.; to the west, the Yavana, or the Young Ones,
who first emigrated westward, and from whom have descended the
various nations that have populated Europe. This is the name
(Javan) found in the tenth chapter of Genesis." (Lenormant and
Chevallier, "Ancient History of the East," vol. ii., p. 2.) But
surely those who "first emigrated westward," the earliest to
leave the parent stock, could not be the "Young Ones;" they would
be rather the elder brothers.
But if we can suppose the Bactrian population to have left
Atlantis at an early date, and the Greeks, Latins, and Celts to
have left it at a later period, then they would indeed be the
"Young Ones" of the family, following on the heels of the earlier
migrations, and herein we would find the explanation of the
resemblance between the Latin and Celtic tongues. Lenormant says
the name of Erin (Ireland) is derived from Aryan; and yet we have
seen this island populated and named Erin by races distinctly.
connected with Spain, Iberia, Africa, and Atlantis.
There is another reason for supposing that the Aryan nations
came from Atlantis.
We find all Europe, except a small corner of Spain and a strip
along the Arctic Circle, occupied by nations recognized as Aryan;
but when we turn to Asia, there is but a corner of it, and that
corner in the part nearest Europe, occupied by the Aryans.
All the rest of that great continent has been filled from
immemorial ages by non-Aryan races. There are seven branches of
the Aryan family:
1. Germanic or Teutonic;
2. Slavo-Lithuanic;
3. Celtic;
4. Italic;
5. Greek;
6. Iranian or Persian;
7. Sanscritic or Indian; and of these seven branches five dwell
on the soil of Europe, and the other two are intrusive races in
Asia from the direction of Europe. The Aryans in Europe
have dwelt there apparently since the close of the Stone Age, if
not before it, while the movements of the Aryans in Asia are
within the Historical Period, and they appear as intrusive
stocks, forming a high caste amid a vast population of a
different race. The Vedas are supposed to date back to 2000 B.C.,
while there is every reason to believe that the Celt inhabited
Western Europe 5000 B.C.
If the Aryan race had originated in the heart of Asia, why
would not its ramifications have extended into Siberia, China,
and Japan, and all over Asia? And if the Aryans moved at a
comparatively recent date into Europe from Bactria, where are the
populations that then inhabited Europe--the men of the ages of
stone and bronze? We should expect to find the western coasts of
Europe filled with them, just as the eastern coasts of Asia and
India are filled with Turanian populations. On the contrary, we
know that the Aryans descended upon India from the Punjab, which
lies to the north-west of that region; and that their traditions
represent that they came there from the west, to wit, from the
direction of Europe and Atlantis.
CHAPTER XI.
ATLANTIS RECONSTRUCTED
