Part Iii. Chapter Vii. The Origin Of Our Alphabet : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 214 CHAPTER VII. THE ORIGIN OF OUR ALPHABET ["Transcribers note": the argument in this section heavily depends on the Bishop Landa Maya alphabet, which has now been discredited. The Mayan writing was not decoded until late...
Part Iv. Chapter I. Traditions Of Atlantis : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 276 PART IV. THE MYTHOLOGIES OF THE OLD WORLD A RECOLLECTION OF ATLANTIS. CHAPTER I. TRADITIONS OF ATLANTIS. WE find allusions to the Atlanteans in the most ancient traditions of many different races. The great "antediluvian"...
Part Ii. Chapter I. The Destruction Of Atlantis : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 65 PART II. THE DELUGE. CHAPTER I. THE DESTRUCTION OF ATLANTIS DESCRIBED IN THE DELUGE LEGENDS. HAVING demonstrated, as we think successfully, that there is no improbability in the statement of Plato that a large island, almost...
Part V. Chapter I. The Central Americ : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 348 PART V. THE COLONIES OF ATLANTIS. CHAPTER I. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN AND MEXICAN COLONIES. THE western shores of Atlantis were not far distant from the West India Islands; a people possessed of ships could readily pass...
Part V. Chapter V. The Peruvian Colony : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 390 CHAPTER V. THE PERUVIAN COLONY. IF we look at the map of Atlantis, as revealed by the deep sea soundings, we will find that it approaches at one point, by its connecting ridge, quite closely to the shore of South. Americ...
Part V. Chapter Ix. The Antiquity Of Some : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 440 CHAPTER IX. THE ANTIQUITY OF SOME OF OUR GREAT INVENTIONS. IT may seem like a flight of the imagination to suppose that the mariner's compass was known to the inhabitants of Atlantis. And yet, if my readers are satisfied...
Part Iii. Chapter V. The Question Of Complexion : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 183 CHAPTER V. THE QUESTION OF COMPLEXION. THE tendency of scientific thought in ethnology is in the direction of giving more and more importance to the race characteristics, such as height, color of the hair, eyes and sk...
Part Iv. Chapter Iii. The Gods Of The Phoenicians : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 308 CHAPTER III. THE GODS OF THE PHNICIANS ALSO KINGS OF ATLANTIS. NOT alone were the gods of the Greeks the deified kings of Atlantis, but we find that the mythology of the Phnicians was drawn from the same source...
Part Iv. Chapter Ii. The Kings Of Atlantis : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 283 CHAPTER II THE KINGS OF ATLANTIS BECOME THE GODS OF THE GREEKS. LORD BACON said: "The mythology of the Greeks, which their oldest writers do not pretend to have invented, was no more than a light air, which had passed...
Part V. Chapter Vi. The African Colonies : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 404 CHAPTER VI. THE AFRICAN COLONIES. AFRICA, like Europe and America, evidences a commingling of different stocks: the blacks are not all black, nor all woolly-haired; the Africans pass through all shades, from that of a light...
Part Iii. Chapter Ii. The Identity : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 136 CHAPTER II THE IDENTITY OF THE CIVILIZATIONS OF THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW Architecture.--Plato tells us that the Atlanteans possessed architecture; that they built walls, temples, and palaces. We need not add that this art...
Part Ii. Chapter Iii. The Deluge Of The Chaldeans : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 75 CHAPTER III. THE DELUGE OF THE CHALDEANS. WE have two versions of the Chaldean story--unequally developed, indeed, but exhibiting a remarkable agreement. The one most anciently known, and also the shorter, is that which...
Part I. Chapter I. The Purpose Of The Book : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 1 ATLANTIS: THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD. PART I. THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS. CHAPTER I. THE PURPOSE OF THE BOOK. THIS book is an attempt to demonstrate several distinct and novel propositions. These are: 1. That there once existed...
Additional Information About Donnelly : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT DONNELLY. BY NORM WOLCOTT This is a message which Norm Wolcott posted to the Gutenburg Project discussion list. Norm produced the Gutenburg Project text of Atlantis, the Antediluvian World using...
Part Ii. Chapter Vi. Some Considerati : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 119 CHAPTER VI. SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE DELUGE LEGENDS. The Fountains of the Great Deep.--As Atlantis perished in a volcanic convulsion, it must have possessed volcanoes. This is rendered the more probable when we remember...
Part V. Chapter Ii. The Egyptian Colony : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 358 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, Poseid...
Part Iii. Chapter Iii. American Evidences : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 165 CHAPTER III. AMERICAN EVIDENCES OF INTERCOURSE WITH EUROPE OR ATLANTIS. 1. ON the monuments of Central America there are representations of bearded men. How could the beardless American Indians have imagined a bearded race...
Part Ii. Chapter V. The Deluge Legends Of America : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 98 CHAPTER V THE DELUGE LEGENDS OF AMERICA. "IT is a very remarkable fact," says Alfred Maury, "that we find in America traditions of the Deluge coming infinitely nearer to that of the Bible and the Chaldean religion than among...
Part Iii. Chapter Viii. The Bronze Age In Europe : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 237 CHAPTER VIII. THE BRONZE AGE IN EUROPE. THERE exist in Europe the evidences of three different ages of human development: 1. The Stone Age, which dates back to a vast antiquity. It is subdivided into two periods: an age...
Part V. Chapter X. The Aryan Colonies : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 456 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...
Part Ii. Chapter Iv. The Deluge Legends : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 85 CHAPTER IV. THE DELUGE LEGENDS OF OTHER NATIONS. A COLLECTION of the Deluge legends of other nations will throw light upon the Biblical and Chaldean records of that great event. The author of the treatise "On the Syri...
Part I. Chapter V. The Testimony Of The Sea : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 46 CHAPTER. V. THE TESTIMONY OF THE SEA. SUPPOSE we were to find in mid-Atlantic, in front of the Mediterranean, in the neighborhood of the Azores, the remains of an immense island, sunk beneath the sea--one thousand miles...
Part I. Chapter Vi. The Testimony : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 54 CHAPTER VI. THE TESTIMONY OF THE FLORA AND FAUNA. PROOFS are abundant that there must have been at one time uninterrupted land communication between Europe and America. In the words of a writer upon this subject, "When...
Part I. Chapter Iii. The Probabilities : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 22 CHAPTER III. THE PROBABILITIES OF PLATO'S STORY. THERE is nothing improbable in this narrative, so far as it describes a great, rich, cultured, and educated people. Almost every part of Plato's story can be paralleled by...
Part Iii. Chapter Ix. Artificial Deformati : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 268 CHAPTER IX. ARTIFICIAL DEFORMATION OF THE SKULL. AN examination of the American monuments shows (see figure on page 269) that the people represented were in the habit of flattening the skull by artificial means. The Greek...
Part Iv. Chapter Iv. The God Odin, Woden, Or Wotan : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 313 CHAPTER IV. THE GOD ODIN, WODEN, OR WOTAN. IN the Scandinavian mythology the chief god was Odin, the Woden, Wotan, or Wuotan of the Germans. He is represented with many of the attributes of the Greek god Zeus, and is...
Part Iii. Chapter Vi. Genesis Contains : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 198 CHAPTER VI. GENESIS CONTAINS A HISTORY OF ATLANTIS THE Hebrews are a branch of the great family of which that powerful commercial race, the Phnicians, who were the merchants of the world fifteen hundred years before...
Part Iii. Chapter Iv. Corroborating Circumstances : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 171 CHAPTER IV. CORROBORATING CIRCUMSTANCES. 1. LENORMANT insists that the human race issued from Ups Merou, and adds that some Greek traditions point to "this locality--particularly the expression , which can only mean '...
Part V. Chapter Viii. The Oldest Son Of Noah : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 423 CHAPTER VIII. THE OLDEST SON OF NOAH. THAT eminent authority, Dr. Max Mller, says, in his "Lectures on the Science of Religion," "If we confine ourselves to the Asiatic continent, with its important peninsula of Europe, we...
Atlantis The Antediluvian World, Introduction : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], ATLANTIS THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD INTRODUCTION BY J.B. HARE Ignatius Donnelly (1831-1901), lawyer, land promoter, politician and virtuoso author, is today best known for his pioneering work on the subject of Atlantis, "Atlantis...
Part I. Chapter Iv. Was Such A Catastrophe : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 31 CHAPTER IV. WAS SUCH A CATASTROPHE POSSIBLE? COAL-MEASURES OF PENNSYLVANIA ALL that is needed to answer this question is to briefly refer to some of the facts revealed by the study of geology. In the first place, the earth's...
Part I. Chapter Ii. Plato's History Of Atlantis : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 5 CHAPTER II. PLATO'S HISTORY OF ATLANTIS. PLATO has preserved for us the history of Atlantis. If our views are correct, it is one of the most valuable records which have come down to us from antiquity. Plato lived 400 years...
Part Iv. Chapter V. The Pyramid, The Cross : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 317 CHAPTER V. THE PYRAMID, THE CROSS, AND THE GARDEN OF EDEN. No fact is better established than the reverence shown to the sign of the Cross in all the ages prior to Christianity. We cannot do better than quote from an able...
Title Page : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], ATLANTIS THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD. BY IGNATIUS DONNELLY. New York, Harper when lived That great, original, broad-eyed, sunken race, Whose knowledge, like the sea-sustaining rocks, Hath formed the base of this world's fluctuous lore...
Part V. Chapter Xi. Atlantis Reconstructed : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 472 CHAPTER XI. ATLANTIS RECONSTRUCTED. THE farther we go back in time toward the era of Atlantis, the more the evidences multiply that we are approaching the presence of a great, wise, civilized race. For instance, we find...
Part V. Chapter Iii. The Colonies : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 370 CHAPTER III. THE COLONIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY IF we will suppose a civilized, maritime people to have planted colonies, in the remote past, along the headlands and shores of the Gulf of Mexico, spreading thence...
Part V. Chapter Iv. The Iberian Colonies : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 387 CHAPTER IV. THE IBERIAN COLONIES OF ATLANTIS AT the farthest point in the past to which human knowledge extends a race called Iberian inhabited the entire peninsula of Spain, from the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees. They...
Part Iv. Chapter Vi. Gold And Silver : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 343 CHAPTER VI. GOLD AND SILVER THE SACRED METALS OF ATLANTIS. MONEY is the instrumentality by which man is lifted above the limitations of barter. Baron Storch terms it "the marvellous instrument to which we are indebted...
Part Iii. Chapter I. Civilization An Inheritance : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 129 PART III THE CIVILIZATION OF THE OLD WORLD AND NEW COMPARED. CHAPTER I. CIVILIZATION AN INHERITANCE. MATERIAL civilization might be defined to be the result of a series of inventions and discoveries, whereby man improves...
Part V. Chapter Vii. The Irish Colonies : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 408 CHAPTER VII. THE IRISH COLONIES FROM ATLANTIS. WE have seen that beyond question Spain and France owed a great part of their population to Atlantis. Let us turn now to Ireland. We would naturally expect, in view...
Part Ii. Chapter Ii. The Deluge Of The Bible : * "Atlantis, the Antediluvian World", by Ignatius Donnelly, [1882], p. 68 CHAPTER II. THE DELUGE OF THE BIBLE We give first the Bible history of the Deluge, as found in Genesis (chap. vi. to chap. viii.): "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were...