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  • Marriage, 150; to one of same clan interdicted, 155; made but once a year in Peru and Babylonia, 158; in ancient Mexico, 159, 351; in ancient Egypt, 363.
  • Mashab-Ad, 279.
  • Masonry, Free, its origin, 463.
  • Maxyans, the, were red men, 196.
  • Mayapan, city of, 145, 314.
  • Mayas, their alphabet, 216; their conservatism, 218.
  • Medicine, knowledge of, received by Egypt from Atlantis, 101.
  • Mediterranean Sea, 10; a cul de sac, 176.
  • Medusa, 149.
  • Megaros, 90.
  • Meidoun Dachhour, 341.
  • Melicertes, 284.
  • Menaboshu, 108.
  • Menes, 360, 366.
  • Menominees, 184.
  • Men with tails, legends of, 148.
  • Men-wolves, 147.
  • Mermaids in America, 149.
  • Meropes, people of Atlantis, 27, 171.
  • Merops, the hero of the Deluge, 91, 92.
  • Merou, human race issued from, 171, 391.
  • Meru, 326, 465.
  • Mesomphalos, 323.
  • Mestor, son of Poseidon, 14, 309.
  • Metallurgy in Atlantis, 140.
  • Mexico, 26; plants of, 61; Flood legends of, 99; ancient, described, 350; marriage in, 351; slavery in, 351; religion in, 351.
  • Michoacan Indians, ark of, 207.
  • Midas, 27.
  • Milidh or Milesius, 410.
  • Miocene Age, flora of the, 56, 59.
  • Miztecs, Deluge legend of, 327.
  • Mneseus, son of Poseidon, 13, 309.
  • Mœris, the lake of, 362.
  • Mohammed, allusion to Deluge, 86, 92.
  • Money, origin of, 343; articles used for, 343, 344; of Mexico, 345; of Palenque, 345.
  • Mongoloids in Europe, 28.
  • Monte da Guia, 24.
  • Monte Queimada, 24.
  • Montezuma, 326.
  • Months, twelve, used by Peruvians, Egyptians, and Chaldeans, 151, 211; derived remotely from Atlantis, 287, 463.
  • Moon, silver sacred to, 346, 347.
  • Moon-worship, 347.
  • Moses, 412.
  • Mound Builders of America, 23; their leaf-shaped swords, 251; their stone celts, 253; their pottery, 260, 261, 263; their copper implements, 262, 263; from Atlantis, 370; a river people, 370; their works, 371; their civilization, 372; their system of weights and measures, 372; their pyramids, 372; they used the emblem of the cross, 375; their metallurgy, 376; their sculptures, 380; their manufactures, 380; their antiquity, 383; possessed an alphabet, 386; probably had mariner's compass, 446.
  • Mound, great, at Miamisburg, Ohio, 339.
  • Mounds, 136; of England, 341; of Mississippi Valley, 342; of Ireland, 342.
  • Municipal republics, origin of, 452.
  • Music, Highland Scotch and Chinese alike, 142.
  • Mythology of Greeks derived from Atlantis, 283, 308.

N.

  • Nachan, the city of, 313.
  • Nahsu, 194.
  • Nahua, calendar same as that of Asia, 151.
  • Nahuatl, 167, 171.
  • Nata, 100.
  • Navigation, ancient, 446.
  • Nectar, 287.
  • Negro, granite-head, 175.
  • Negroes, no tradition of Deluge among, 66; in ancient America, 174; idols, 174; figure of, at Paleuque, 175.
  • Neimhidh, 409.
  • Neith, Egyptian goddess, 7.
  • Nemaun, 330.
  • Nena, 100.
  • Neph or Num, 425.
  • Nereids in Atlantis, 16, 181.
  • Nicaraguans, Flood legends, 117.
  • Nineveh, Deluge legend dug up at, 76; the library of the palace of, 77.
  • Nirumbees, the, 157.
  • Noah aud the Deluge, 68; his name Aryan, 102.
  • Nod, the land of, 326.
  • Noronha, Fernando de, 43.
  • Nubians, the, 406.
  • Nymphs, the, 306.
  • Nyöe, the new island, 35.

O.

  • Oannes, 236.
  • Obartes Elbaratutu, 75.
  • Obelisks of Egypt and America, 367.
  • Ocean, source of gods and men, 181.
  • Odin, 271, 210; an American hero, 313.
  • Oerafa, 43.
  • Ogyges, Deluge of, 89.
  • Ojibbeways, their vine legend, 207.
  • Okanagans, Deluge legends of, 117.
  • Okeanos, 323.
  • Olmecs, the, 167.
  • Olympus, 2; described, 286; it was in Atlantis, 286; a corruption of the word Atlantis, 291, 303.
  • Origin of American races, 165, 167, 168.
  • Orphic Argonaut, 29.
  • Osiris, 309, 466.
  • Otomi, the, of Mexico, relations of their language to Chinese, 435.
  • Ouranos, 308, 309; invented mariner's compass, 445.