In his book Star.Ships, Gordon White makes a strong case for Oceania (the geographic region encompassing Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, and the island chains surrounding Indonesia) as the source for a pre-ice age, advanced human civilization, often referred to as Atlantis. According to Gordon, the sapiens’ migration out of Africa can be traced directly to Oceania and the population there.
After the last ice age, all of this area flooded, creating a basis for the ubiquitous flood myth and covering over a large percentage of the land mass in that part of the world. Remnants of that civilization migrated back west, and founded the great civilizations of antiquity.
Here’s my humble contribution of evidence. To follow the diaspora of magi from Atlantis, follow the bird. Our friend, Threskiornis (i.e. the Ibis, also the basis for my magical name).
Here’s
Threskiornis aethiopicus, the African Sacred Ibis.
Here’s where they currently live.
Note, they are no longer in Egypt, but certainly were in Egypt during antiquity, as evidenced by the hundreds of mummified Ibis found in tombs. When Egyptians saw the birds dipping their beaks in the Nile, it reminded them of a scribe dipping their pen in an inkwell, hence the Ibis being the animal most commonly associated with Thoth.
Now here is Threskiornis moluccus, the Australian white Ibis and their current habitat.
You may be saying to yourself, “hey, that’s the same fucking bird.” And you would be right. In fact, both belong to a superspecies complex, and only have minor genetic differences.
I propose that when the ancient magi took the Word of magick and culture with them, they also took the Bird, and that the spirit of Threskiornis has a pre-historic connection to humans and magick. Whether they went with humans out of Africa, or were brought to Africa on the return migration is yet to be determined.
Alternatively, the magi were lead by the spirit of Threskiornis as they migrated between the two, essentially following the Word.