SYNOPSIS OF SOME UNPUBLISHED CHAPTERS OF THE DELUGED CIVILIZATION OF THE CAUCASUS ISTHMUS

(Use Stieler's Hayed Atlas or British Staff Maps)

BABYLON. The names of the gods of the Babylonian Creation legend, i.e. Lakamu, Lakmu, Kingu, Anshar, An, Marduk, Gaga, are the names of the most prominent mountains of the Caucasus range. The names are all unchanged except Kingu, now Elbruz, and Anshar, now Kasbek; whose old names are given in the Encyclopedia Britannica, article " Caucasus".

Almost all of these names are very distinctive and are found nowhere else, e.g. Lakamu, Gaga, etc., though Kingu is found as Kongur on the shore of Lake Sevanga. In addition their characteristics correspond with those of the gods. For example, Kingu is the greatest, Anshar next, then An; and Marduk is near Anshar; and Gaga is a smaller mountain between Marduk and Terek. The Apsu was the crest of the range.

The Creation epic gods were therefore the original Titan gods.

BABYLONIA AND FINLAND. The Encyclopedia Britannica, article " Babylonia", says:

" The country was divided into two halves, the Sumir (Sungir or Shinar) in the north west and the Accad in the south east, corresponding most remarkably to the Suomi and Akkara-k into which the Finnish race believed itself to have been separated in its first mountain home. Like Suomi, Sumir signified " The People of the Rivers" and, just as Finnic tradition makes Kemi a district of the Suomi, so Came was another name of the Babylonian Sumir. The Accadai or Accad were the " Highlanders", who had descended from the mountainous region of Elam and it was to them that the Assyrians ascribed the origin of Chaldean civilization."

The Apshuron peninsula was the home land of both races. It is a net work of rivers, locally called " -su". See Ach-su; Ach-Koissan-su; Sumgait; Sangat; Samur, etc. The people north of the mountains, on the peninsula, were called Su or Suoni in ancient times, see Strabo and Muller's Ptolemy. The people south of the mountains were called Shemi, Shumi or Shomi, (see maps). Suoni means " People of the River Lands". The people on the heights were. called Achd and the name still persists; see town of Achty. It was also where the Al or Alon race was. There is a mountain called Gil-gum-kock in the Suoni district, near a town called Dilum. The town of Sabuje is on the south side of the mountains, to the west. Ur-al-a was the name of the city of the Terek to the west, the old Erech. Wide-plaza-ed Erech was wide-plaza-ed Tartarus, with 'its great circular spaces and race-tracks. The old observatory at Shemash and Marash is just south of the mountains, and there was another Marash just north, see below. Lam is found as an additive term meaning " mountain" only in this peninsula. Compare Sukur-Lam. The eagle and the snake were the emblems of the Aet-Ur who lived south of the mountains to the west, and of the Seres who lived north and to the west. The Chalybs were the Chaldeans (see Strabo and Xenophon who state specifically that this was their original name). The plain of Shinar and town of Chaldan are on the south side of the peninsula.

EGYPTIAN. There are only two lands where the sun rises over a mountain called Bakau (the mountain of sunrise) out of the sea, and' sets over a mountain Ta Manu (peninsula and mountain of Tamen) into a sea called Maaitis (Sea of Maaitis or Maetis), and these are the Caucasus Isthmus and the land of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The route of the Book of the Dead was along the Mediterranean coast (the Great Green Sea); then along the west shore of the Black Sea (the original Lake Maaitis or Black Sea) to the Siwash, past Ak Metschet, Tatisch and Tschetyr Lak; then past Arabat, through the strait of Kertsch in the land of Res-tau or Tau-rus to Anapa. Then up the river Kuban to Ser-Ser or Tar-tar; through Erebus to Tioneti (Ta Neter) and Achmeti and Shemochada Sheni (the Sun City of the Shenit or Overseers); Thence to Harmakis and Baku and the Fields of the Sun, Sakataly, and to Baku and the Flaming Fields. The Pillars of Shu were the Two Brothers.

This route is the same as that of Homer. Why the Egyptians should have supposed that they went back to the home land when dead is not known. Bait there are many analogies; for example Curtis (" Children of the Sun" ) says that the Zuni expected to go back to the land their fathers came from when they died.

Seback near Baku of the Egyptians was Bacchus, who was said to be born near there at Nucha. Sabazios, the chief Thracian divinity, was another form of Sebak; and possibly the Sabathai who, though mostly Jews, were not of the Jewish religion.

CHINA AND INDIA. Siwash is Siv-ash, and Seb is Siv. Sevanga is the feminine goddess. The Hindi were originally the Sindi, at the mouth of the Kuban. The Seres later became the Chinese. Another branch were the Khani or Kaini. The Telchines were the Talachani; and the Surachani were the tribe from whom the " Siricon" of the ancients took its name. See Talachany and Surachany on opposite sides of the isthmus of Baku.

PILLARS OF HERCULES. The eastern or Jakin pillars of Hercules are shown on the maps on the old shore line of the Caspian, where the Udon used to fall into it. See Stieler's Atlas, sheet 49, 0, 19: the village Kurkeuli Juk Jewe. On the Times Atlas it is Stavka Terekli, (Stake of Hercules). The pillars of Alexander are forty miles to the east, on the Caspian shore.

VOCABULARY. A list of about forty primitive word roots has been prepared. Almost all of these are found to be common to all languages.

January 1, 1924.

Note 1 - The maps which are linked to this document are actually earlier (1929) versions of the maps than those which were published in the 1933 volume of Chapters 7-10 of the Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus Isthmus. The 1933 versions were smaller and spread across two pages making copying difficult. The 1929 editions which appear here were published as separate large sheets. There are no substantive differences between the content of the versions of the maps, the 1933 maps simply having been 'cleaned up' for publication somewhat. The 1929 version of Map 8 was additionally hand-colored whereas the 1933 version had the color printed on them.

Note 2 - The map labeled " CSM" linked ahead of the title of this document was not published in the 1933 volume of The Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus Isthmus but instead was published in the Christian Science Monitor of March 8, 1926 as an illustration for the article that now comprises Chapter 9, HOW IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THE SO-CALLED MYTH LANDS WERE THE CAUCASUS ISTHMUS. It was copied from the original article which had been attached, in an envelope, to the 1923 volume located at the Smith College Library.

Note 3 - The Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus Isthmus was published in three parts as separate volumes, with the latter two volume out of sequence:

Chapters 1-6 were published in 1923.

Chapter 11 was published in 1927.

Chapters 7-10 were published in 1933, posthumously, by Fessenden's son Reginald Kennelly Fessenden.

Every effort has been made to ensure accurate transcription of the original documents.

- Donald J. Holeman, January 7, 2001

 

 

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