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There’s an amazing place on the
northwest coast of Canada that
pulls us back to its fog-swept beauty
as inevitably as iron to a magnet.
This rugged area of 150 scattered islands cradles
some of the oldest living forests in the
New World. Europeans absurdly christened
this mystical place the Queen Charlotte Islands
after a long dead, bewigged, British aristocrat.
Far more suitable was its original, and
recently restored name, Haida Gwaii, ‘Islands
of the Surface People,’ bestowed by the
Haida who have lived there for at least ten
thousand years and believe that their home
is a sacred place delicately balanced between
the powerful sky and the sea gods.
These rain-drenched forests lie half a
world away from the sun-baked deserts of
ancient Sumeria yet, remarkably, their mythology
and language share critical elements
that push beyond the coincidental to break
through accepted paradigms. Recent evidence
suggests that these two peoples, now
so distant from each other geographically,
could have shared a common heritage
passed down from a common motherland,
a shared memory of a lost ‘Atlantis.’
Like the mythology of the Sumerians,
Egyptians, Greeks, and other ancient peoples,
Haida mythology reflected an intense
fear that earthquakes might violently rock
the land. They placed their faith in a god,
Sacred-One-Standing-and-Moving, the
Earth Supporter who restrained the buckling
earth and secured the sky from
falling. A ‘Pillar of the Heavens’ rises
from his breast and extends to the sky;
when he moves, earthquakes jolt the
land. If he were to lose control of the
Pillar of the Heavens the ensuing catastrophic
effects would mirror the events
of an earth crust displacement: violent
earthquakes, disastrous floods, and the
terrifying illusion of a falling sky.
Haida legend also depicts a time before
the Great Flood when their ancestors
lived in a magnificent city in a distant
land: “the great chief of the
heavens … decided to punish this great
village … he caused the river waters to
rise. Soon the rivers and creeks all over
the country began to swell. Some of the people
escaped to the hills, while others embarked in
their large canoes. Still the waters were rising
higher and higher until only the high mountain
peaks showed above the swollen water … [the
ancestors land on a mountain top] … When the
Flood was over, the lost stone anchors were
found there, at the place where they had anchored
their canoes.”
The Haida language, which they are making
a heroic effort to preserve, has never been satisfactorily
pigeon-holed by linguists. It most
closely resembles the First Nation language
known as Na-Dene (also spoken by the Navajo—
alternately known as the Dine) and may be related
to the language of the Sumerians who
created the world’s first known civilization in
the vicinity of Iraq six thousand years ago.
The Sumerians domesticated wild rabbits,
goats, sheep, wild wheat, rye, and barley. The remains
of these early agricultural experiments
were found in northern Syria on a mound overlooking
the Euphrates River at one of the
oldest agricultural sites in the world, Tell Abu
Hureya. Radiocarbon dating at the site revealed
that by 9500 BC, in addition to hunting and
gathering, villagers’ efforts had expanded to include
the radical innovation of farming. Radical,
because for hundreds of thousands of
years they had been sustained by hunting and
gathering before, suddenly, within the same
century as the fall of Atlantis, turning to agriculture.
The Sumerian story of their origins is remarkably
similar to the Haida account of their
own emergence. Three gods were held in high
esteem by the Sumerians. The first, Enlil, was
known as the “Lord of the Air” and the King
of Kings. He was the most worshipped and
feared because he wielded the most destructive
weapon of all, the power of the flood. “The
word of Enlil is a breath of wind, the eye sees it
not. His word is a deluge which advances and
has no rival.”
The second great god was Enki the “Lord of
the Earth” and god of waters. The Sumerians
believed that Enki had saved them from the
flood. After overhearing the flood-god, Enlil,
and the third powerful god, sky-god “An,” conspiring
to destroy mankind, Enki determined to
save one man and his family from the coming
disaster. He chose Ziusudra; a king and priest
living on the island of Dilmun. A Babylonian
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