Message #66039

[Bianca]

The Atlantic Islands





Among the Seven Atlantic Islands — that is, "islands of Atlantis" and not indeed "islands of the
Atlantic" sought by the explorers and discoverers everywhere — there was always one of them
called by names such as "Selvaggia", "Madeira", "Boscosa", "Isla Verde" and other such names
that mean something like "woody", "forested", "wild".

In reality, this island is no other than Java, whose name derives from the Sanskrit Yava mean-
ing the same. And Java, like Sumatra and her other counterparts, indeed deserves the name,
as it was the wooded island whence the nations fetched their wood, in antiquity. Indeed, the Indonesian islands were the mysterious Meru whence the Egyptians fetched the wood for their
temples and their ships, just as did King Solomon and others.6

Yet an argument that is telltale of the true meaning of the origin of the pillars of Egyptian temples
has to do with the name of Atlantis. The Hindu name of Atlantis is Atala, (or Patala or Tala-tala), names which are derived from tala ("palm tree", "pillar").

Atala is the same place we know as Hades. This Abode of the Dead is often confused with Hell,
though the Hindu abode of the dead ancestors is indeed very pleasant, like the Punt of the
Egyptians, the Dilmun of the Babylonians and the Elysium or Islands of the Blest of the Greeks.
Indeed, Atala (or Patala) is the archetype of all such "Realms of the Dead" of the ancients.

Actually, Atala (or Atalas) is also the name of Shiva as "the Pillar of World". And this is the very
epithet of Atlas, the eponymous hero of Atlantis. It can hardly be doubted that Shiva Atalas was
the archetype of Atlas in Greece. In India, many legends tell of the "fall" of Shiva who is, indeed,
like Atlas, the Primordial Castrate. And this "fall" or "castration" indeed refers to the one of
Mt. Atlas, the Phallus of the World.

There is, yet, another connection between Atlantis and palm trees that is even more compell-
ing to Westerners than the one of Atala. The name of Punt (Puanit in Egyptian) is, as we saw
above, precisely the same as that of Phoenicia, the primordial Phoenicia that was both the
"Land of the Phoenix" and the "Land of the Palm-Trees".

The origin and reason of this name is not hard to discover. In the Far East, and particularly in
the Andaman Islands, the palm-tree is considered the Tree of Life, due to the many products
that are taken from it. Moreover, the palm tree is there equated with the Pillar of Heaven whose collapse caused the end of the previous era, the one of Atlantis, as is evident in hindsight.

In other words, this Primordial Phoenicia is the Paradise of origin not only of the Phoenicians,
but of many other races as well. Actually, the name of Atala, so closely connected with the
one of Atlantis, also means "Land of the Palm Trees", both in Sanskrit and in Dravida, the two
sacred tongues of the region of Indonesia before the cataclysm that forced its people to emi-
grate to better, safer regions of the world.7