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Lexicon
Central concepts:


 * “life” — ankhus
 * “life place; anchorage” — Ank-ara, Angk-or, Anc-ud
 * “man” — hum-an (→ sand/earth)
 * “origin; Genesis” — (sw) kilima-njar-o, (lt) kilmi-nink-as
 * “deep blue” — Nile, night

Cosmology
The cardinal directions and their canonical meaning:


 * North—Nether—Neitherland—Netherland—Neverland
 * The new world. Land's end; Thule; where Atlantis has gone.
 * The place beyond the World Sea and what we can see; Nadir, the land of the midnight sun and aurora; where the waters of the Nile go;
 * where Noah's Ark is heading for; the land of treasure, justice and wisdom, of gold and blue; abode of the Gods and Kings; Atlas and Yggdrasil.
 * → India, Europe, Japan; Tasmania, the Pacific, Hawaii, New Zealand, Patagonia, Greenland, America.


 * West—Wither—Eden—Heaven—Heatherland—Everland, Wasteland
 * Then: Our old home. Paradise, Atlantis.
 * The land of Genesis, of plenty; of green and red; earth and fire; abode of the Sun;
 * → Lake Victoria; Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo;
 * → Gulf of Aden; Yemen, Ethiopia, Socotra, Egypt.
 * → Tigris–Euphrates; Elam, Crete, Armenia, Anatolia, the Caucasus.


 * Now: The wither world — Your home. Hell.
 * The land of Ragnarök, the Apocalypse, of dust, blood and tears; yellow, black and white; the land of the low sun;
 * A place occupied by darkness and night; giants and dwarves, witches and wretches, thieves and barbarians; heathen warriors and armed horsemen that bring war and misery upon our lands.
 * → The Occident; the Black Forest, the Congo; the Caspian Steppe and Forests; Sahel and Sahara, the Black and Red Sea.


 * East—Auster—Ether—Esther—Earth—Eitherland—Everland
 * Midgard. The Oecumene. The center of the world, as we see and feel it; fire and water. The land under the stars, the moon and the rising sun;
 * → Mesopotamia, the Orient, the Levant; China and Japan.


 * South—Sound—Sutherland—Sunderland
 * Our new home. The sunder world. The land of Exodus. A sound; a safe haven. Zenith, the Horizon; the land of the high noon.
 * → Arabia, the Gulf, the Sinai.

South America
1000 (~ 1015—1060) Roman miles = 100 myriameters. Note that the modern towns are approximations and may not represent a surviving pre-Columbian settlement in this place; see also Milestone.


 * Cape Horn/Navarino Island, Patagonia: 10000 miles from Cape Eluanbi, Taiwan;
 * Guafo Island, Chiloé Province, Chile, 10000 miles from Mayon Volcano area, Luzon, Phillipines;
 * Mocha Island, Arauco Province, Chile: 10000 miles from Banda Aceh, Sumatra;


 * San Lorenzo Island, Lima, Peru: 10000 miles from Cape Ashizuri, Shikoku, Japan;
 * Nazca, Ica Region, Peru: 10000 miles from Ise area, Japan;
 * Cuzco, Peru: 10000 miles from Fuji area, Japan;


 * Tikal, Peten, Guatemala: 10000 miles from Angkor Wat, Cambodia.

South Eurasia

 * Campuchea (Phnom Penh): 10000 miles from Campeche, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico;

The Language

 * See User:Ivadon/Language.

Links
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 * Christopher Ehret
 * Atlantean (documentary series)