694 Buschmann über die azlekifchen Ortsnamen. 



gehört aber wieder zu einem fehr grofsartigen Phantafiebilde, wie fie 

 diefem vielfeiligen und lhatigen nordamerikaniuhen Naturforfcher eigen 

 find, wenn er ficli auf dem Gebiete der Völker- und Spraohen-Verhält- 

 niffe bewegt; zu einer Zufammenfaffung der neuen mit der alten Welt 

 unter der Ägide der Atlantis! In einem Auffatze, betitelt: t he At- 

 lantic Nations of America, Tagt Prof. Rafinesque {Atlantic Journal P- 8) 

 fo: The Ocean separaling Euro/je and Africafrom America is yet called 

 the Atlantic ocean, our litoral states are called the Atlantic states. 

 The Allan/es of North Africa, who gare their name to the Atlas moun- 

 tains, and whose descendants exist there as yet under the names of 

 Tuarics, Berbers, Shclluh, Showiah etc., were one of the primitive na- 

 tions ofbolh continenls. They came to America soon afler the flood, 

 if not before; colonised and named the Ocean and the islands in it, as 

 well as America, which was called the Great Atlantis, or ralher 

 ATALA, meaning the first or main land. This name is preserved 

 in Hindu tradi/ions. The Allantes were not the only primitive colonists 

 of America, bat they were the most conspieuous and civilized. Their 

 true name was Alalans. They may have been the founders of Otolum 

 and many other ancient cities. Their descendants exist to this day in 

 America, under the names of Talus or Tarascas, Atalalas, Matalans, 

 Talesawis, Otalis or Tsulukis, Talahuicas, Chontalas or Tscndalas etc., 



from Carolina to Gualimala This could be proved in many ways, 



and by their languages cumpared with those of their African brethren, 

 Tuarics, Guanches etc., afler a Separation of nearly 5000 years. But 

 the proofs would fül a volume. ... It remains (p. 9) here to survey the 

 genuine branch of Atalans, eklest perhaps of the American Allantes. 

 Among this, the best known (and yet hardly known) are the Tarascas 

 of Michuacan in TVest Mexico — Their true name is TALA, and 

 TALA, S, CA, meaning Tala, seif, the, or in our idiom the very- 

 self Tala. — Die Gätulier find (p. 41): GE-TULA, or Tulas of the 

 plains. — In einem Auflatze: the Cradle of JMankind or the Imalaya 

 Mountains: But the collective name (p. 102) of these lofty regions was 

 very ancienlly designated by appcllations — the rools of which were 

 TAL, TOL, TUL, meaning lall, high, . . . as it does yet in many lan- 

 guages, the English, Chinese and Arabic for inst ante. Such were 



