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- Atlantes described by Herodotus, 172.
- Atlantic Ocean impenetrable, 11; origin of name, 13, 171.
- Atlantids, the, 306.
- Atlantis, Plato's history of, was true, 1; was the birthplace of civilization, 1; was colonized by Europe and America, 1; was the Garden of Eden, 1; its kings became the gods of Greece, 2; founded Egypt, 2; its Bronze Age, 2; originated one alphabet, 2; original seat of Aryans and Semites, 2; sunk in the ocean, 2; Deluge legends refer to destruction of, 2; Solon's account of, 5; described by priests of Sais, 10; size of, 10; extent of its empire, 11; its invasion of Greece, 11; its destruction, 11; described in detail by Plato, 13; its fruits and flowers, 14; its kings, 14; its animals, 14; its temples, harbors, and docks, 15; its great canal, 15; its architecture, 15; its walls, 15; its baths and race-courses, 16; its docks, 17; its mountaius, 17; its ships and merchants, 17; its great plain, 18; its military service, 18; the arrangement of its government, 19; its columns covered with inscriptions, 19; the administration of justice in, 19; its records, 20; its golden age, 20; its wickedness, 20; traditions of, 276; sun-worship in, 284; its kings become the gods of the Greeks, 283, 285; and of the Phœnicians, 309; original seat of Phœnicians, 310; the Garden of Eden, 323; the colonies of, 348; the inventions derived from, 440; reconstructed, 472; interdiction of swine-flesh in, 472; practice of circumcision in, 472; its religion, 470; its destruction, 478.
- Atlas, oldest son of Poseidon, 13; supreme ruler of Atlantis, 14, 20, 149; origin of name, 171; mountains of, 172, 308; he lived in the Hesperides, 288, 289.
- Atl-tona-ti-uh, 282.
- At-otarho, 149.
- Atreus, Mycenæ, treasure house at, 205.
- Attika, 304, 308.
- At-tit, 282.
- Augurs, 144, 148.
- Australian Archipelago, 32.
- Autochthon, son of Poseidon, 13, 308, 309, 329.
- Ayar, 391.
- Aymaras, 189.
- Azaes, son of Poseidon, 14.
- Azores, black rocks of, 24; the islands of, are surviving fragments of Atlantis, 26; earthquakes in, 43; revealed by deep-sea soundings, 46; covered with volcanic débris, 46, 50; climate of, 473.
- Aztlan, 97, 105, 326, 327.
- Aztecs, the, were from Aztlan, 106; their civilization, 350; their religion, 351; their customs, 351.
B.
- Baal, 83; in Ireland, 414; the horns of, 427, 428.
- Baalim, 182.
- Babel, Tower of, American legend, 200, 202.
- Babylon, 76.
- Bacchus, 149, 305, 306, 464.
- Bacon, "New Atlantis," 23; his opinion of Greek mythology, 283.
- Balam Agab, 182.
- Balam Quitze, 176, 182.
- Balboa, 176.
- Banana, carried by man in ancient times across the Atlantic, 57.
- Banbha, the Lady, 408.
- Baptism, Mexican, described, 158, 208.
- Barbarians of Homer, 179.
- Barbary States, 172.
- Basques, the, described, 388; their language, 172; their American affinities, 173.
- Baths, hot and cold, in Atlantis, 16.
- Baukis, 302.
- Bearded men in America, 165, 166.
- Bel, 83.
- Belus, temple of, 335, 341.
- Berber languages, 196, 407.
- Berosus, 27; his version of the Chaldean Deluge legend, 75.
- Beth-el, 308, 425.
- Bhâgavata-Purâna, 88, 126.
- Bilma, 172.
- Bind Madhu, temple of, 334.
- Black Caribbees, 176.
- Black Celts, 183.
- Black Indians of California, 185.
- Black Sea, 311.
- Bochica, 105.
- Boeckh, 27, 91.
- Brahma, 27, 323.
- Brahmadikas, the, 27.
- Brasseur de Bourbourg, 100, 167, 179; his description of Indians, 196; he discovers Landa's MS. in Madrid library, 217, 419.
- Brazil, fauna of, 53.
- Bretons, the, 389.
- Bricks, use of, on both continents, 140.
- Bride-cake, 158.
- Brigantia, 411.
- British Islands, formerly submerged, 34.
- Britons, a civilized race, 134; ancient, horror of hares, 147.
- Bronze Age, its origin, 2; Flood occurred during, 90; in Europe, 237; a perplexing problem, 237; preceded by an age of copper and tin, 237; was imported into Europe, 238, 245; not attributable to Romans, 241; nor Phœnicians, 241; represents new people, 248; in Iceland, 249; came from common centre, 250; in Olympus, 290.
- Bronze celts, 250, 253; one with inscription, 258.
