In Morocco, Berber traditions describe Atala as an island of miners, wealthy in gold, silver, copper, and tin. Not content with these riches, they launched a military invasion that swept eastward across North Africa, a conquest cut short by a flood that drowned their homeland. The Berbers predicted that Atala will one day rise to the surface of the sea that long ago overwhelmed it. Berber tribesmen of the Shott el Hameina, in Tunisia, still refer to themselves as the “Sons of the Source, Atala.”
Herodotus, the "father of history," mentions Atlantis by name in referring to the body of water into which it sank. Below is the Greek text of a portion of Clio (History, Bk I, 202) in which the waters beyond the Straits of Gibraltar is said to be known as the Atlantis Sea.
In 500BC Africa was called Libya and was divided by the Nile. [See map] which rand from Atlas mountains to the east. Ancient Libya was inhabited by Nasamones north, Etheopians south Atlanteans west, and Syrians the the east? What we call the Atlantic, If you look at Herodotus' map you can get an idea of what he thought land was.
Canary Islands Atala, the “White Island”
In INDIA and In the Karna Parva, Book 8 of the Mahabharata, circa 600 BCE, and the Puranas, a ten-year war is described in which the island of Atala and all its inhabitants sink into the “Western Ocean.” Atala, the “WhiteIsland,” is described as the mountainous homeland of a powerful and highly civilized race on the other side of the world from India. Vishnu Purana located Atala “on the seventh zone” of heat. Colonel Francis Wilford who translated thePuranas in the early 19th century located Atala, the White Island, in the same latitude as the Canary Islands
"Atala, the White Island", which is described as an "island of great splendour."
In Hindu mythology, Atala was the center of seven realms. Greek poet Nonnus described “Atlas, in the enclosure of the Seven Zones.” In Morocco, Berber traditions describe Atala as an island of miners, wealthy in gold, silver, aunched a military invasion that swept eastward across North Africa, A Norse version of Atala was the “White Land” Landvidi. In the USA, in Georgia, Atala is the Cherokee word for “mountain”
The seventh zone or seventh climate,” — rather, on the seventh measure of heat: which thus locates it between the latitudes of 24 and 28 degrees north. It is then to be sought on the same degree as the Tropic of Cancer, 28 degrees = Atala, white island, Canary islands, Clearwater Florida, Texas, Tibet, Suex Canal, Mifway Atol and 24 degrees = Bahamas. N Mexico Abudabi Taiwan, Sudan
The two Americas* — or Pushkara. “We will consider, then, the latitude and longitude of the lost island, in the seventh climate (which is between the latitude of 24 degrees and latitude 28 degrees north) . . . This island, the daughter of the Ocean, is frequently described as lying in the West; and the sun is represented as setting at the foot of its mountain (Ashburj, Atlas, Teneriffe or Nila, no matter the name), and fighting the white Devil of the ‘White Island.’) Greeks, accused of borrowing a Hindu fiction (Atala), and inventing from it another (Atlantis), stand also accused of getting their geographical notions and the number seven from them
“The famous Atlantis exists no longer, but we can hardly doubt that it did once,” says Proclus, “for Marcellus, who wrote a history of Ethiopian affairs, says that such, and so great an island once existed. Atlantic island as related by their ancestors, was governing for many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea. From this isle one may pass to other large islands beyond, which are not far from the firm land, near which is the true sea.”
“These seven dwipas (inaccurately rendered islands) constitute, according to Marcellus, the body of the famous Atlantis, This evidently shows that Atlantis is the old continent. . . .
