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482 *Atlantes described by Herodotus, 172.
 * Atlantic Ocean impenetrable, 11; origin of name, 13, 171.
 * Atlantids, the, 306.
 * Atlantis, Plato's history of, was true, 1; was the birthplace of civilization, 1; was colonized by Europe and America, 1; was the Garden of Eden, 1; its kings became the gods of Greece, 2; founded Egypt, 2; its Bronze Age, 2; originated one alphabet, 2; original seat of Aryans and Semites, 2; sunk in the ocean, 2; Deluge legends refer to destruction of, 2; Solon's account of, 5; described by priests of Sais, 10; size of, 10; extent of its empire, 11; its invasion of Greece, 11; its destruction, 11; described in detail by Plato, 13; its fruits and flowers, 14; its kings, 14; its animals, 14; its temples, harbors, and docks, 15; its great canal, 15; its architecture, 15; its walls, 15; its baths and race-courses, 16; its docks, 17; its mountaius, 17; its ships and merchants, 17; its great plain, 18; its military service, 18; the arrangement of its government, 19; its columns covered with inscriptions, 19; the administration of justice in, 19; its records, 20; its golden age, 20; its wickedness, 20; traditions of, 276; sun-worship in, 284; its kings become the gods of the Greeks, 283, 285; and of the Phœnicians, 309; original seat of Phœnicians, 310; the Garden of Eden, 323; the colonies of, 348; the inventions derived from, 440; reconstructed, 472; interdiction of swine-flesh in, 472; practice of circumcision in, 472; its religion, 470; its destruction, 478.
 * Atlas, oldest son of Poseidon, 13; supreme ruler of Atlantis, 14, 20, 149; origin of name, 171; mountains of, 172, 308; he lived in the Hesperides, 288, 289.
 * Atl-tona-ti-uh, 282.
 * At-otarho, 149.
 * Atreus, Mycenæ, treasure house at, 205.
 * Attika, 304, 308.
 * At-tit, 282.
 * Augurs, 144, 148.
 * Australian Archipelago, 32.
 * Autochthon, son of Poseidon, 13, 308, 309, 329.
 * Ayar, 391.
 * Aymaras, 189.
 * Azaes, son of Poseidon, 14.
 * Azores, black rocks of, 24; the islands of, are surviving fragments of Atlantis, 26; earthquakes in, 43; revealed by deep-sea soundings, 46; covered with volcanic débris, 46, 50; climate of, 473.
 * Aztlan, 97, 105, 326, 327.
 * Aztecs, the, were from Aztlan, 106; their civilization, 350; their religion, 351; their customs, 351.

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 * Baal, 83; in Ireland, 414; the horns of, 427, 428.
 * Baalim, 182.
 * Babel, Tower of, American legend, 200, 202.
 * Babylon, 76.
 * Bacchus, 149, 305, 306, 464.
 * Bacon, "New Atlantis," 23; his opinion of Greek mythology, 283.
 * Balam Agab, 182.
 * Balam Quitze, 176, 182.
 * Balboa, 176.
 * Banana, carried by man in ancient times across the Atlantic, 57.
 * Banbha, the Lady, 408.
 * Baptism, Mexican, described, 158, 208.
 * Barbarians of Homer, 179.
 * Barbary States, 172.
 * Basques, the, described, 388; their language, 172; their American affinities, 173.
 * Baths, hot and cold, in Atlantis, 16.
 * Baukis, 302.
 * Bearded men in America, 165, 166.
 * Bel, 83.
 * Belus, temple of, 335, 341.
 * Berber languages, 196, 407.
 * Berosus, 27; his version of the Chaldean Deluge legend, 75.
 * Beth-el, 308, 425.
 * Bhâgavata-Purâna, 88, 126.
 * Bilma, 172.
 * Bind Madhu, temple of, 334.
 * Black Caribbees, 176.
 * Black Celts, 183.
 * Black Indians of California, 185.
 * Black Sea, 311.
 * Bochica, 105.
 * Boeckh, 27, 91.
 * Brahma, 27, 323.
 * Brahmadikas, the, 27.
 * Brasseur de Bourbourg, 100, 167, 179; his description of Indians, 196; he discovers Landa's MS. in Madrid library, 217, 419.
 * Brazil, fauna of, 53.
 * Bretons, the, 389.
 * Bricks, use of, on both continents, 140.
 * Bride-cake, 158.
 * Brigantia, 411.
 * British Islands, formerly submerged, 34.
 * Britons, a civilized race, 134; ancient, horror of hares, 147.
 * Bronze Age, its origin, 2; Flood occurred during, 90; in Europe, 237; a perplexing problem, 237; preceded by an age of copper and tin, 237; was imported into Europe, 238, 245; not attributable to Romans, 241; nor Phœnicians, 241; represents new people, 248; in Iceland, 249; came from common centre, 250; in Olympus, 290.
 * Bronze celts, 250, 253; one with inscription, 258.