1 The word hypostyle comes from the Greek hypos ("under") and stylos ("pillar"). The term
means a room with pillars that support the roof (usually heavy and having an upper structure
above it) from below. As we shall see, this peculiar structure has a most direct connection
with Atlantis. In many places such as Dendera and Kom Ombo, the temple is fully hypostyle
and subterranean, and the city is built directly above the roof.
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2 Actually, in contrast to the modern religions such as Christianism, the Hades (or "Hell") of the
ancients was very pleasurable and, indeed, a sort of idyllic Paradise where the dead spent their
time in endless hunts and banquets. Clearly, this "Celestial Egypt" was Punt, the Realm of the
Dead and the Land of the Gods.
Punt was indeed the First Egypt whence the Egyptians originally came when the region sunk under-
ground, forcing them to leave. As we shall see, this underground Egypt is no other than
sunken Atlantis, characterized by its sturdy, world-supporting pillars and its many palm-trees
and papyrus covered marshes.
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3 Certain Gnostic gospels explicitly identify the Holy Ghost as the Mother of Christ, the Celestial coun-
terpart of the terrestrial Virgin Mary. And the role of Gabriel - whose name means something like "God's
Male" - at the Annunciation (Luke I:26-38) is far from clear. Sex changes of Celestial
beings are rather frequent, gods and angels being indeed androgynous in character.
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4 The walls of Atlantis were plated with bronze, tin and orichalc, according to the texts of Plato. Ob-
viously, the Egyptians were unable to embody this costly feature on their walls. Many ancient traditions
(Hesiod, Theog. 723; Virgil, Aen. 540, etc.) tell how the walls of Tartarus, the realm of Hades, were
triple and bronzy, being garnished with a lofty defense tower at the front gate.
Hades (or Tartarus) is, indeed, an allegory of sunken Atlantis, turned infernal after the cataclysm
that devastated it.
As is clear, it is hard not to see that the Egyptian temples, with their triple walls and lofty towers,
were indeed an imitation of Atlantis, whose features they paralled very closely. The descriptions
of the Duat or Amenti — the Egyptian equivalent of the Elysium or Islands of the Blest, with its
towers, walls and pylons, its well-watered gardens, and its canals and districts — that one can
read about in the Book of the Dead, are too perfect a replica of Atlantis to allow any doubts about
its identification with the sunken continent. It is not conceivable, then, that the Egyptians were
merely inventing a legend when they told the story of Atlantis and its demise to Solon, through
whom it reached Plato.
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5 It seems that the legendary Karibus (or Cherubs) that guarded the Gates of Paradise in all mytho-
logies were a personification of the barbaric custom. Indeed, the word karibu ultimately
derives from the Dravidian karippu ("skewer", "spit"), related to the Greek kharax, the Sanskrit
khara, and several other bases meaning more or less the same. Many legends tell of the habit
of the Guardians of Paradise skewering their victims as a punishment for trespassing. One such
is the tradition on Cerberus, the guardian dog of Hades that had the bad habit of thus "caressing"
trespassers in the infernal realms he guarded.
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6 The name of Java (or Yava, etc.) also applied to Sumatra, its twin, from which it became sepa-
rated by the colossal explosion that razed Atlantis, built right on top its volcano, the Krakatoa.
The ancients had a fatal attraction for volcanoes, which bring abundance at a price, due to the
fertilization of the soil effected by their ashes. It is clear that the legendary Ophir where King
Solomon and Hiram of Tyre fetched their wood could not have been the desertic Lebanon. Other-
wise, they would have sailed from the Mediterranean Sea, and not from the Red Sea (Ezion Geber)
as they did. So did the Egyptians, by the way, as we read in their annals.
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7 In Egyptian, the t ending marks the feminine, so that the original name must be Puani (or Poani).
The Phoenicians were called Puni, Punici, Poeni by the Romans, visibly the same name as Poanit or
Puanit, except for the feminine ending. It is known that, originally, the Phoenicians came from be-
yond the ocean (Indian), which they crossed when their original birthplace was destroyed, settling
in the Near East. As we argue elsewhere, the Phoenicians really came from the Primordial Phoenicia
that is indeed Punt/Indonesia. So did the Egyptians and, also, the Aryans, the Jews, and many other
ancient nations as well.
In Greek, the word phoinix ("phoenix") means "palm-tree", so that the primordial Phoenicia was "the
Land of the Palm Trees". Indonesia is really the Land of the Palm-trees and, particularly, of the most
useful of them all, the coconut palm. According to Egyptian legends, the Phoenix bird, the "soul" of
Phoenicia, came to Heliopolis from beyond the ocean (Indian), from Punt (the Island of Fire) every
time an era ended. This was a direct recollection of the primordial migration we just discussed.
These Proto-Phoenicians are, as we show elsewhere, the pre-Dynastic Gerzeans, well-known from
the archeological records of the Nagada cemeteries in Upper Egypt.
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