Writes Charles Berlitz in his book Atlantis: The Eighth Continent --
"The Berber tribes of North Africa retain their own legends of Atalla, a warlike
kingdom off the African coast with rich mines of gold, silver, and tin, which sent
not only these metals but conquering armies to Africa. . . ."The ancient Gauls, as well as the Irish, Welsh, and British Celts, believed that
their ancestors came from a continent that sank into the Western Sea, the latter
two naming this lost paradise Avalon.
"The Basques, a racial and linguistic island in south-western France and northern
Spain, believe that they are the descendants of Atlantis, which they call Atlaintika.
It is current belief among the Portuguese that Atlantis (Atlantida) once existed near
Portugal and that parts of it, the Azores Islands, are still pushing up their peaks from
under the sea. The Iberian peoples of southern Spain trace a direct kinship to Atlantis and are increasingly aware that Spain still owns what may have been a part of the Atlantean empire -- the Canary Islands. Here, curiously, the name Atalaya is still current as a place name, and the original inhabitants, when discovered, claimed to be the only survivors of a worldwide disaster.
"The Vikings believed that Atli was a wondrous land in the west . . . Phoenician
and Carthaginian seafarers were reportedly familiar with a thriving western island
that they called Antilla, but tended to keep secret their knowledge for reasons of
commerce and colonization" (Atlantis, the Eighth Continent, Charles Berlitz, p.9).
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