1882 ATLANTIS Ancient World HISTORY MYTH Occult Lovecraft CTHULHU Mound Builders

Description: ATLANTIS: THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLDby Ignatius Donnelly. Illustrated. Description:This is an amazing speculative work by a 19th-century historian who firmly believed, and set out to prove, that eons ago an island paradise called Atlantis existed in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Home to an advanced civilization, Atlantis was revered throughout the world for its art, science and culture -- until one day "a terrible convulsion of nature" dragged Atlantis to the bottom of the sea, destroying virtually every trace of its existence.ATLANTIS, THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLD was wildly popular in its day. It fueled the imagination of Victorian audiences, for the author contends that Atlantis was NOT a fable invented by Plato, that in fact it was a real place, the very wellspring of modern civilization, whose scions sailed forth and seeded the great empires of the ancient world. From Atlantis Egypt was born. From Atlantis came the first implements of Bronze Age Europe. From Atlantis sprang the Phoenician alphabet, parent of all western alphabets.This island paradise, which the modern world regards as legend, was actually the inspiration for other legends, asserts the author: the Garden of Eden, Mount Olympus, Asgard … Its kings, queens and heroes the models for the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindus and the Scandinavians. And all the mighty feats and deeds of myth simply a confused recollection of real historical events that unfolded nowhere else but on Atlantis.Atlantis’s supremacy ended in cataclysm. “Atlantis perished in a terrible convulsion of nature,” he writes, “in which the whole island sunk into the ocean, with nearly all its inhabitants A few persons escaped in ships and on rafts, and carried to the nations east and west the tidings of the appalling catastrophe, which has survived to our own time in the Flood and Deluge legends of the different nations of the old and new worlds.”The Flood of Genesis? Atlantis. The Deluge of Chaldean tradition? Atlantis. The Deluge legends of the American Indians?Always Atlantis.In support of his thesis, Mr. Donnelly interprets the antiquities of the Americas and other nations as artifacts of Atlantean origin, including the mysterious “Indian Mounds” of the Mississippi Valley, ancient implements from Europe and South America, relics of the Inca and Mayan nations, and of course the monuments and antiquities of Egypt. He compares the Flood and Deluge myths of different cultures and demonstrates the similarities that led him to conclude that all such traditions can be traced back to Atlantis.ATLANTIS, THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLD continued to inspire readers even years after its publication. H.P. Lovecraft, universally regarded as the 20th-century's greatest writer of horror fiction, was inspired by Donnelly's work. In his short piece, "The Descendant," he directly cites ATLANTIS, THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLD, while the book's influence looms large in Lovecraft's own story of a sunken city, "The Call of Cthulhu." He also mentions Atlantis in "The Strange High House in the Mist" and his famous tale of cosmic terror, "The Haunter of the Dark." In the late 1930s and early '40s, Atlantis would also serve as the birthplace of the comic book superheros, Aquaman (DC) and Namor the Submariner (Marvel).ATLANTIS, THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLD is illustrated with numerous images of artifacts, scenes and maps from around the world, illuminating the author’s theory that every modern civilization and race is an offshoot of the original Atlantis.CONDITION: Published by Harper & Brothers, NY, 1892. Stated Eighteenth Edition (18th printing of First Edition). Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, light cover wear to corners & spine extremes, in publisher’s original green cloth boards with gilt embossed decoration of Poseidon wielding his Trident in a Sea-Horse drawn Chariot, gilt titling and design to spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, index 490 pages. No previous owner's signature, bookplate or marking. Contents Are:PART ONE ~ THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS:Chapter One ~ The Purpose of the BookChapter Two ~ Plato’s History of AtlantisChapter Three ~ The Probabilities of Plato’s StoryChapter Four ~ Was Such a Catastrophe Possible?Chapter Five ~ The Testimony of the SeaChapter Six ~ The Testimony of the Flora and the FaunaPART TWO ~ THE DELUGE:Chapter One ~ The Destruction of Atlantis Described in the Deluge LegendsChapter Two ~ The Deluge of the BibleChapter Three ~ The Deluge of the ChaldeansChapter Four ~ The Deluge Legends of Other NationsChapter Five ~ The Deluge Legends of AmericaChapter Six ~ Some Consideration of the Deluge LegendsPART THREE ~ THE CIVILIZATION OF THE OLD WORLD AND NEW COMPARED:Chapter One ~ Civilization an InheritanceChapter Two ~ The Identity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the NewChapter Three ~ American Evidences of Intercourse with Europe or AtlantisChapter Four ~ Corroborating CircumstancesChapter Five ~ The Question of ComplexionChapter Six ~ Genesis Contains a History of AtlantisChapter Seven ~ The Origin of Our AlphabetChapter Eight ~ The Bronze Age in EuropeChapter Nine ~ Artificial Deformation of the SkullPART FOUR ~ THE MYTHOLOGIES OF THE OLD WORLD A RECOLLECTION OF ATLANTIS:Chapter One ~ Traditions of AtlantisChapter Two ~ The Kings of Atlantis Become the Gods of the GreeksChapter Three ~ The Gods of the Phoenicians also Kings of AtlantisChapter Four ~ The God Odin, Woden or WotanChapter Five ~ The Pyramid, the Cross, and the Garden of EdenChapter Six ~ Gold and Silver the Sacred Metals of AtlantisPART FIVE ~ THE COLONIES OF ATLANTIS:Chapter One ~ The Central American and Mexican ColoniesChapter Two ~ The Egyptian ColonyChapter Three ~ The Colonies of the Mississippi ValleyChapter Four ~ The Iberian Colonies of the Mississippi ValleyChapter Five ~ The Peruvian ColonyChapter Six ~ The African ColoniesChapter Seven ~ The Irish Colonies from AtlantisChapter Eight ~ The Oldest Son of NoahChapter Nine ~ The Antiquity of Some of Our Great InventionsChapter Ten ~ The Aryan Colonies from AtlantisChapter Eleven ~ Atlantis ReconstructedIllustrations Include: The Profile of Atlantis * Coal-measures of Pennsylvania * Destruction of Pompeii * Calabrian Peasants Ingulfed by Crevasses (1783) * Fort of Sindree, on the Eastern Branch of the Indus, before it was submerged by the Earthquake of 1819 * View of the Fort of Sindree from the West in March, 1838 * Eruption of Vesuvius in 1737 * Map of Atlantis, with its Islands and Connecting Ridges, from Deep-sea Soundings * Ancient Islands between Atlantis and the Mediterranean, from Deep-sea Soundings * Ancient Carving, Stratford-on-Avon, England * Cereals of the Age of Stone in Europe * Ancient Irish Pipes * Ancient Indian Pipe, New Jersey * The World, according to Cosmos * Map of Europe, after Cosmos * The Mountain the Sun goes behind at Night * The Starting-point of the Aztecs, according to the Gamelli Careri Pictured MS * The Starting-point of the Aztecs, according to the Boturini Pictured Writing * Calendar Stone * The God of the Flood * Mosaics at Mitla, Mexico * Carving on the Buddhist Tower, Sarnath, India * Ancient Irish Vase of the Bronze Age * Ancient Vase from the Mounds of the United States * Ancient Mexican Vase * Bearded Head, from Teotihuacan * Elephant Mound, Wisconsin * Elephant Pipe, Louisa County, Iowa * Elephant-trunk Head-dress, Palenque * Mexican Representation of Elephant * Negro Idols found in Central America * Negroid Figure, Palenque * Negro Head, Vera Cruz * Governor and other Indians of the Pueblo of San Domingo, New Mexico * Choctaw * Shawnee * Savonarola * The Races of Men according to the Egyptians * Ruins of the Pyramid of Cholula * Great Serpent-mound, Ohio * Stone Implements of Europe and America * Landa'a Alphabet * The Alphabet * Implements and Ornaments of the Bronze Age * Ornaments of the Bronze Age * Celtic Warrior, from Egyptian Monuments * Celtic Warrior, from Assyrian Monuments * A Skull of the Age of Stone, Denmark * A Skull of the Earliest Times of the Age of Iron, Denmark * Irish Celt * Danish Celt * Leaf-shaped Bronze Swords * Stone Celt, Mound in Tennessee * Bronze Knives from Denmark * Bronze Knives from Switzerland * Hut Urn, Albano * Bronze Lake Village * Bronze Razor-knives * Ancient Galley, from a Roman Coin * Ship of William the Conqueror * Irish Bronze Dagger * Inscribed Celt * Bronze Hair-pins * Vases from Mounds in the Mississippi Valley * Vases from Switzerland * Ancient Swiss Vase and Supporter * Bronze Chisels * Spirals from Scotland * Spiral from New Mexico * Piscoidal Stones, Illinois * Copper Spear-head, Lake Superior * Bronze Hatchets, Switzerland * Spiral from New Mexico * Shell Ornament, Mound near Nashville, Tennessee * Copper Axe, from a Mound near Laporte, Indiana * Copper Axe, Waterford, Ireland * Fragment of Pottery, Lake Neufchatel, Switzerland * Fragment of Pottery, San Jose, Mexico * Stucco Bass-relief in the Palace of Palenque * Ancient Swiss Skull * Peruvian Skull * Chinook (Flat-head), after Catlin * Heads from Palenque * Doherty’s Description * Outlines of Skulls of Different Races * Egyptian Heads * Central American Head * Egyptian Head * Peruvian Inca Skull, from the Ancient Cemetery of Pachacamac * The Empire of Atlantis * Poseidon, or Neptune * Egyptian Tau * Cross from Monuments of Palenque * Ancient Irish Cross * Central American Cross * Copper Coin, Teotihuacan * Ancient Irish Cross — Pre-Christian — Kilnaboy * Cross from Egyptian Monuments * Pyramids of Egypt * Pyramids of Teotihuacan * The great Mound, near Miamisburg, Ohio * Great Pyramid of Xcoch, Mexico * Common Form of Arch, Central America * Section of the Treasure-house of Atreus at Mycenae * Arch of Las Monjas, Palenque, Central America * Graded Way near Piketon, Ohio * Walla fit Gran-Chimu, Peru and Pyramid Mound, Ohio * From the Mounds of the Ohio Valley * Cyclopean Wall, Greece * Cyclopean Masonry, Peru * Owl-headed Vase, Troy * Neetmok * Owl-headed Vase, Peru * Owl-headed Vase, Peru * Owl-headed Vase, Troy * Tamahu, from the Egyptian Monuments, 1500 b.c * The Burgh of Moussa, in the Shetlands * Round-tower of the Canon of the Mancos, Colorado, U.S. * Cow-headed Idol, Mycenae (from Schliemann) * Religious Emblem of the Bronze Age, Switzerland * Baal, the Phoenician God * Moqui Idol * Dakota Idol * Peruvian Devil * Greek Siren * Chinese Magnetic Car * Ancient Coins of Tyre * Coin from Central America * Ancient Egyptian Plough Loc: A7StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedback1882 ATLANTIS Ancient World HISTORY MYTH Occult Lovecraft CTHULHU Mound Builders ATLANTIS: THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLDby Ignatius Donnelly. Illustrated. Description:This is an amazing speculative work by a 19th-century historian who firmly believed, and set out to prove, that eons ago an island paradise called Atlantis existed in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Home to an advanced civilization, Atlantis was revered throughout the world for its art, science and culture -- until one day "a terrible convulsion of nature" dragged Atlantis to the bottom of the sea, destroying virtually every trace of its existence.ATLANTIS, THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLD was wildly popular in its day. It fueled the imagination of Victorian audiences, for the author contends that Atlantis was NOT a fable invented by Plato, that in fact it was a real place, the very wellspring of modern civilization, whose scions sailed forth and seeded the great empires of the ancient world. From Atlantis Egypt was born. From Atlantis came the first implements of Bronze Age Europe. From Atlantis sprang the Phoenician alphabet, parent of all western alphabets.This island paradise, which the modern world regards as legend, was actually the inspiration for other legends, asserts the author: the Garden of Eden, Mount Olympus, Asgard … Its kings, queens and heroes the models for the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindus and the Scandinavians. And all the mighty feats and deeds of myth simply a confused recollection of real historical events that unfolded nowhere else but on Atlantis.Atlantis’s supremacy ended in cataclysm. “Atlantis perished in a terrible convulsion of nature,” he writes, “in which the whole island sunk into the ocean, with nearly all its inhabitants A few persons escaped in ships and on rafts, and carried to the nations east and west the tidings of the appalling catastrophe, which has survived to our own time in the Flood and Deluge legends of the different nations of the old and new worlds.”The Flood of Genesis? Atlantis. The Deluge of Chaldean tradition? Atlantis. The Deluge legends of the American Indians?Always Atlantis.In support of his thesis, Mr. Donnelly interprets the antiquities of the Americas and other nations as artifacts of Atlantean origin, including the mysterious “Indian Mounds” of the Mississippi Valley, ancient implements from Europe and South America, relics of the Inca and Mayan nations, and of course the monuments and antiquities of Egypt. He compares the Flood and Deluge myths of different cultures and demonstrates the similarities that led him to conclude that all such traditions can be traced back to Atlantis.ATLANTIS, THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLD continued to inspire readers even years after its publication. H.P. Lovecraft, universally regarded as the 20th-century's greatest writer of horror fiction, was inspired by Donnelly's work. In his short piece, "The Descendant," he directly cites ATLANTIS, THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLD, while the book's influence looms large in Lovecraft's own story of a sunken city, "The Call of Cthulhu." He also mentions Atlantis in "The Strange High House in the Mist" and his famous tale of cosmic terror, "The Haunter of the Dark." In the late 1930s and early '40s, Atlantis would also serve as the birthplace of the comic book superheros, Aquaman (DC) and Namor the Submariner (Marvel).ATLANTIS, THE ANTIDELUVIAN WORLD is illustrated with numerous images of artifacts, scenes and maps from around the world, illuminating the author’s theory that every modern civilization and race is an offshoot of the original Atlantis.CONDITION: Published by Harper & Brothers, NY, 1892. Stated Eighteenth Edition (18th printing of First Edition). Very good hardcover, no dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, light cover wear to corners & spine extremes, in publisher’s original green cloth boards with gilt embossed decoration of Poseidon wielding his Trident in a Sea-Horse drawn Chariot, gilt titling and design to spine, clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, index 490 pages. No previous owner's signature, bookplate or marking. Contents Are:PART ONE ~ THE HISTORY OF ATLANTIS:Chapter One ~ The Purpose of the BookChapter Two ~ Plato’s History of AtlantisChapter Three ~ The Probabilities of Plato’s StoryChapter Four ~ Was Such a Catastrophe Possible?Chapter Five ~ The Testimony of the SeaChapter Six ~ The Testimony of the Flora and the FaunaPART TWO ~ THE DELUGE:Chapter One ~ The Destruction of Atlantis Described in the Deluge LegendsChapter Two ~ The Deluge of the BibleChapter Three ~ The Deluge of the ChaldeansChapter Four ~ The Deluge Legends of Other NationsChapter Five ~ The Deluge Legends of AmericaChapter Six ~ Some Consideration of the Deluge LegendsPART THREE ~ THE CIVILIZATION OF THE OLD WORLD AND NEW COMPARED:Chapter One ~ Civilization an InheritanceChapter Two ~ The Identity of the Civilizations of the Old World and the NewChapter Three ~ American Evidences of Intercourse with Europe or AtlantisChapter Four ~ Corroborating CircumstancesChapter Five ~ The Question of ComplexionChapter Six ~ Genesis Contains a History of AtlantisChapter Seven ~ The Origin of Our AlphabetChapter Eight ~ The Bronze Age in EuropeChapter Nine ~ Artificial Deformation of the SkullPART FOUR ~ THE MYTHOLOGIES OF THE OLD WORLD A RECOLLECTION OF ATLANTIS:Chapter One ~ Traditions of AtlantisChapter Two ~ The Kings of Atlantis Become the Gods of the GreeksChapter Three ~ The Gods of the Phoenicians also Kings of AtlantisChapter Four ~ The God Odin, Woden or WotanChapter Five ~ The Pyramid, the Cross, and the Garden of EdenChapter Six ~ Gold and Silver the Sacred Metals of AtlantisPART FIVE ~ THE COLONIES OF ATLANTIS:Chapter One ~ The Central American and Mexican ColoniesChapter Two ~ The Egyptian ColonyChapter Three ~ The Colonies of the Mississippi ValleyChapter Four ~ The Iberian Colonies of the Mississippi ValleyChapter Five ~ The Peruvian ColonyChapter Six ~ The African ColoniesChapter Seven ~ The Irish Colonies from AtlantisChapter Eight ~ The Oldest Son of NoahChapter Nine ~ The Antiquity of Some of Our Great InventionsChapter Ten ~ The Aryan Colonies from AtlantisChapter Eleven ~ Atlantis ReconstructedIllustrations Include: The Profile of Atlantis * Coal-measures of Pennsylvania * Destruction of Pompeii * Calabrian Peasants Ingulfed by Crevasses (1783) * Fort of Sindree, on the Eastern Branch of the Indus, before it was submerged by the Earthquake of 1819 * View of the Fort of Sindree from the West in March, 1838 * Eruption of Vesuvius in 1737 * Map of Atlantis, with its Islands and Connecting Ridges, from Deep-sea Soundings * Ancient Islands between Atlantis and the Mediterranean, from Deep-sea Soundings * Ancient Carving, Stratford-on-Avon, England * Cereals of the Age of Stone in Europe * Ancient Irish Pipes * Ancient Indian Pipe, New Jersey * The World, according to Cosmos * Map of Europe, after Cosmos * The Mountain the Sun goes behind at Night * The Starting-point of the Aztecs, according to the Gamelli Careri Pictured MS * The Starting-point of the Aztecs, according to the Boturini Pictured Writing * Calendar Stone * The God of the Flood * Mosaics at Mitla, Mexico * Carving on the Buddhist Tower, Sarnath, India * Ancient Irish Vase of the Bronze Age * Ancient Vase from the Mounds of the United States * Ancient Mexican Vase * Bearded Head, from Teotihuacan * Elephant Mound, Wisconsin * Elephant Pipe, Louisa County, Iowa * Elephant-trunk Head-dress, Palenque * Mexican Representation of Elephant * Negro Idols found in Central America * Negroid Figure, Palenque * Negro Head, Vera Cruz * Governor and other Indians of the Pueblo of San Domingo, New Mexico * Choctaw * Shawnee * Savonarola * The Races of Men according to the Egyptians * Ruins of the Pyramid of Cholula * Great Serpent-mound, Ohio * Stone Implements of Europe and America * Landa'a Alphabet * The Alphabet * Implements and Ornaments of the Bronze Age * Ornaments of the Bronze Age * Celtic Warrior, from Egyptian Monuments * Celtic Warrior, from Assyrian Monuments * A Skull of the Age of Stone, Denmark * A Skull of the Earliest Times of the Age of Iron, Denmark * Irish Celt * Danish Celt * Leaf-shaped Bronze Swords * Stone Celt, Mound in Tennessee * Bronze Knives from Denmark * Bronze Knives from Switzerland * Hut Urn, Albano * Bronze Lake Village * Bronze Razor-knives * Ancient Galley, from a Roman Coin * Ship of William the Conqueror * Irish Bronze Dagger * Inscribed Celt * Bronze Hair-pins * Vases from Mounds in the Mississippi Valley * Vases from Switzerland * Ancient Swiss Vase and Supporter * Bronze Chisels * Spirals from Scotland * Spiral from New Mexico * Piscoidal Stones, Illinois * Copper Spear-head, Lake Superior * Bronze Hatchets, Switzerland * Spiral from New Mexico * Shell Ornament, Mound near Nashville, Tennessee * Copper Axe, from a Mound near Laporte, Indiana * Copper Axe, Waterford, Ireland * Fragment of Pottery, Lake Neufchatel, Switzerland * Fragment of Pottery, San Jose, Mexico * Stucco Bass-relief in the Palace of Palenque * Ancient Swiss Skull * Peruvian Skull * Chinook (Flat-head), after Catlin * Heads from Palenque * Doherty’s Description * Outlines of Skulls of Different Races * Egyptian Heads * Central American Head * Egyptian Head * Peruvian Inca Skull, from the Ancient Cemetery of Pachacamac * The Empire of Atlantis * Poseidon, or Neptune * Egyptian Tau * Cross from Monuments of Palenque * Ancient Irish Cross * Central American Cross * Copper Coin, Teotihuacan * Ancient Irish Cross — Pre-Christian — Kilnaboy * Cross from Egyptian Monuments * Pyramids of Egypt * Pyramids of Teotihuacan * The great Mound, near Miamisburg, Ohio * Great Pyramid of Xcoch, Mexico * Common Form of Arch, Central America * Section of the Treasure-house of Atreus at Mycenae * Arch of Las Monjas, Palenque, Central America * Graded Way near Piketon, Ohio * Walla fit Gran-Chimu, Peru and Pyramid Mound, Ohio * From the Mounds of the Ohio Valley * Cyclopean Wall, Greece * Cyclopean Masonry, Peru * Owl-headed Vase, Troy * Neetmok * Owl-headed Vase, Peru * Owl-headed Vase, Peru * Owl-headed Vase, Troy * Tamahu, from the Egyptian Monuments, 1500 b.c * The Burgh of Moussa, in the Shetlands * Round-tower of the Canon of the Mancos, Colorado, U.S. * Cow-headed Idol, Mycenae (from Schliemann) * Religious Emblem of the Bronze Age, Switzerland * Baal, the Phoenician God * Moqui Idol * Dakota Idol * Peruvian Devil * Greek Siren * Chinese Magnetic Car * Ancient Coins of Tyre * Coin from Central America * Ancient Egyptian Plough Loc: A7

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