In what have we added to the civilization of this ancient people?  Their domestic animals were the same as our own, except one fowl adopted from America.  In the past ten thousand years we have added one bird to their list of domesticated animals!  They raised wheat and wool, and spun and wove as we do, except that we have added some mechanical contrivances to produce the same results.  Their metals are ours.  Even iron, the triumph, as we had supposed, of more modern times, they had already discovered.  And it must not be forgotten that Greek mythology tells us that the god-like race who dwelt on Olympus, that great island “in the midst of the Atlantic,” in the remote west, wrought in iron; and we find the remains of an iron sword and meteoric iron weapons in the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, while the name of the metal is found in the ancient languages of Peru and Chili, and the Incas worked in iron on the shores of Lake Titicaca.

A still further evidence of the civilization of this ancient race is found in the fact that, before the dispersion from their original home, the Aryans had reached such a degree of development that they possessed a regularly organized religion:  they worshipped God, they believed in an evil spirit, they believed in a heaven for the just.  All this presupposes temples, priests, sacrifices, and an orderly state of society.

We have seen that Greek mythology is really a history of the kings and queens of Atlantis.

When we turn to that other branch of the great Aryan family, the Hindoos, we find that their gods are also the kings of Atlantis.  The Hindoo god Varuna is conceded to be the Greek god Uranos, who was the founder of the royal family of Atlantis.

In the Veda we find a hymn to “King Varuna,” in which occurs this passage: 

“This earth, too, belongs to Varuna, the king, and this wide sky, with its ends far apart.  The two seas are Varuna’s loins; he is contained also in this drop of water.”

Again in the Veda we find another hymn to King Varuna: 

“He who knows the place of the birds that fly through the sky; who on the waters knows the ships.  He, the upholder of order, who knows the twelve months with the offspring of each, and knows the month that is engendered afterward.”

This verse would seem to furnish additional proof that the Vedas were written by a maritime people; and in the allusion to the twelve months we are reminded of the Peruvians, who also divided the year into twelve parts of thirty days each, and afterward added six days to complete the year.  The Egyptians and Mexicans also had intercalary days for the same purpose.