Basque
The English and French word used to describe a people who refer to themselves as the Euskotarak. They inhabit the Bay of Biscay in both France and Spain, including the western foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains. There are only about 1.25 million Basque people, living mostly in Europe but also in communities in South and North America, particularly the state of Nevada. Stocky, with auburn hair and gray eyes, they are genetically distinct from both French and Spanish and speak a unique tongue totally unrelated to any European language. Euskara is spoken by approximately half a million persons worldwide. It shares some affinity with Finno-Urgic Patumnili, the tongue of ancient Troy; Etruscan, as spoken by the pre-Roman civilizers in west-central Italy; Guanche, belonging to the native inhabitants in the Canary Islands; and, most surprisingly, Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, in ancient Mexico. Each one of these disparate peoples played important roles in the story of Atlantis.

A revealing cognate is “Atalya,” the name of a prehistoric ceremonial mound in Biarritz, in Basque country. “Atalaia” is also a site in southern Portugal featuring Bronze Age tumuli, or domed tombs, dating to the high imperial phase of Atlantis, in the 13th century B.C. Another “Atalya” is a Guanche region high in the central mountains of Gran Canaria that could pass for a scene taken directly from Plato’s account of Atlantis. “Atalya” is the name of a holy mountain in the Valley of Mexico, venerated by the Aztecs at the time of their discovery by the Spaniards in the 16th century.

Clearly, “Atalya” carries the same meaning in Euskara, Iberian, Guanche, and Nahuatl, the Aztec language; namely, the description of a sacred mountain, mound, or mound-like structure, and apparently derivative of “Atlas,” the holy peak at the center of the island of Atlantis. The “Atalya” of the Basque, Iberians, Guanches, and Aztecs were probably meant to commemorate, in both word and configuration, that original Mount Atlas, from which their ancestors fled the destruction. Indeed, they all preserved stories of a great flood that preceded the establishment of their own civilizations.

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