Atlantis and the Silver City (56 page)

Straits of Hercules (Heracles),
14
,
245

submerged land: Atlantis and,
146
; desert island and,
154
; Grand Bahamas Bank,
163
; in mid-Atlantic,
138
; plain, described by Plato,
73
,
74
,
75–76
,
137
,
145

Sumeria/Sumerians: caduceus symbol originating from,
209
,
209
; clay tablet inscriptions and,
216
; egg symbol and,
210
; in Iraq,
9
; knowledge of,
231
; Kurdistan as ancestors of,
201
; Middle East peoples and,
204
; pyramids and,
222–23
; as rulers,
89
; Sitchin, Zechaira, and,
208
; standing stone (menhir) and,
213
; Vinca civilization and,
215
,
223

Swaziland, South Africa,
216

Sweden/Swedes,
203
,
241

Switzerland,
35

Sykes, Professor,
202

Syrian temple,
227

T

Tacitus,
178

Taffy Gaddaf’i,
50–51

Tagus, river on Portuguese/Spanish border,
75

Tanesos, evolved to Tartessos,
74

Tarshish,
53

tarte
,
182

Tartessos (or Tartessus)/Tartessians: in Algarve region,
171
,
172
; alphabet/script and,
182
; Arganthonius as ruler of,
54
,
172
; gold from,
83
; Huelva as capital of,
108
,
170
; in Iberia,
52–53
,
74
; migration of,
171
;
nesos
and,
74
,
241
; remains from,
106
; Silves and,
173
; Strabo and,
173
; Tharsis (later, Seville) as capital of,
107
; written records and,
174

Tavira, Portugal,
121
,
171

technology in Atlantis,
224–28

Teide, Mount (volcano on Tenerife),
148

Tellinger, Michael
(Temples of the Ancient Gods)
,
216

Temahu chieftain,
56

temple(s): Atlantean,
233
,
249
,
251
; book about,
216
; construction of,
17
; gold on,
18
; Hathor, electrical equipment and,
225
; Hercules’,
106
; Mortuary,
56
; orichalcum on,
113
,
177
,
251
,
253
; Poseidon’s,
18
,
22
,
113
,
177
,
250–51
; silver on,
18
; Silves and,
118
; story on column of,
13
; Syrian,
226

Temples of the Ancient Gods
(Tellinger),
216

Tenerife island, Canary Islands, Spain,
148
,
151

Tenochtitlan, Mexico,
220

Thailand, tsunamis in,
37

Tharsis,
107

Thera (present day Santorini, Greece),
24

Thoth,
182
,
200
,
210

Thracians (Trajans or Trojans),
197
,
203
,
214–15

Tiahuanaco, Bolivia,
199
,
233

Tiber (river),
241

Timaeus
(Plato), clues about Atlantis in,
10
,
12
,
13–14
,
60
,
174–75
,
245–47

timber (wood),
93
,
117
,
131
,
249

timeline concerning Atlantis,
21
,
79–80

Tiracians,
203

Tirias,
203

Titicaca, Lake (South America),
189

Tocharians,
197

Tomé, Ricardo,
116
,
121
,
122

Tower of Babel,
189

Trajans (or Trojans),
203

Tribe of Dan (or Dana/Danu),
197
,
204

tribes/tribal groups, in Algarve region,
110
,
172
,
172

Tripura,
238

Trojans (or Trajans),
51
,
203

Troy (formerly Troas, then Troi),
203

Trudos Mountains, Cyprus,
82

tsunamis: in 9600 B.C.,
138
; in Algarve region,
6
,
37
,
40
,
70
,
138
; alphabet/script and,
179
; on Canary Islands,
152
; Crete and,
24
; death/disappearance of Atlantis and,
38
,
39
,
77
,
138
,
139
,
143
; earthquake and,
37
,
40
; glacier melt and,
211
; protection from,
139
; Santorini and,
230
; in Silves,
123
,
125
,
139

Tuatha de D’anann (“Tribe of Dan”)
,
197

tumbago
,
83

Tunguska, Siberia, explosion in,
141

Turditanians/Turdetani,
54
,
171
,
172
,
178–79
,
180

Turin Papyrus,
182

Turkey,
76
,
242
,
243

Tyrrhenia region, Italy,
16
,
65
,
165
,
245
,
248