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Asburj (or Azburj), whether the peak of Teneriffe or not, was a volcano, when the sinking of the “ western Atala ” (or hell) began, and those who were saved told the tale to their children. Plato’s Atlantis perished between water below and fire above ; the great mountain vomiting flames all the while. “ The ‘ fire-vomiting Monster ’ survived alone out of the ruins of the unfortunate island.” | Asburj (or Azburj), whether the peak of Teneriffe or not, was a volcano, when the sinking of the “ western Atala ” (or hell) began, and those who were saved told the tale to their children. Plato’s Atlantis perished between water below and fire above ; the great mountain vomiting flames all the while. “ The ‘ fire-vomiting Monster ’ survived alone out of the ruins of the unfortunate island.” | ||
Do the 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 ? (''Vide ''in Part II. the several sections on the Septenate in nature.) | Do the 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 ? (''Vide ''in Part II. the several sections on the {{Style S-Small capitals|Septenate}} in nature.) | ||
“ 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, and this is evidenced by those who composed histories relative to the external sea. For ''they relate that in this time there were seven islands ''in the Atlantic sea sacred to Proserpine ; and besides these, three of immense magnitude, sacred to Pluto . . . Jupiter . . . and Neptune. And, besides this, the inhabitants of the last island (Poseidonis) ''preserved the memory of the prodigious magnitude ''of the Atlantic island as related by their ancestors, and of its governing for many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea. From this ''isle ''one may pass to other large | “ 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, and this is evidenced by those who composed histories relative to the external sea. For ''they relate that in this time there were seven islands ''in the Atlantic sea sacred to Proserpine ; and besides these, three of immense magnitude, sacred to Pluto . . . Jupiter . . . and Neptune. And, besides this, the inhabitants of the last island (Poseidonis) ''preserved the memory of the prodigious magnitude ''of the Atlantic island as related by their ancestors, and of its governing for many periods all the islands in the Atlantic sea. From this ''isle ''one may pass to other large | ||