As I was writing Ancient Fire many questions went through my mind.  What if the earth was populated by a superior race before recorded time?  What if the Egyptians learned to build their pyramids from them?  Was the sphinx built by this ancient race?  Are legends based on fact?  If so, was there an Atlantis and what caused its fall?

In gneisses 11:27 it is thought a curtain has fallen on the prologue of the Bible and is risen again about 1900 B.C.  Ancient Fire takes place darning this era.  What was the worship of God like at this time?

Some archeologists believe the underwater ruins off the coast of Bimini could be a part of Atlantis.

A Disney program on TV promoting their movie about Atlantis mentioned that Cuba could be a part of what remains of the lost continent.

According to some studies there may have been a land bridge from Yucatan to South America, and the islands between the two land masses were a part of that land bridge.

There is an island by the name of Andros in both the Bahamas and the Aegean Sea.

An area in the Atlantic Ocean, east of the Bahamas, is known as the Sargasso Sea.  This sea is bound on all sides by currents that calm its waters and rotates slowly clockwise pulling anything adrift into its center.  Often it was a death trap for ancient ships caught in its current.

There is a theory that the great sphinx of Egypt was originally a great lion covered in white limestone.  It faced the constellation of Leo thousands of years ago when the stars were in a different position.

Notes about Bull Dancer

Bull dancing, also known as bull leaping, was a religious ritual performed buy both Minoan men and women on the island of Crete from about 2,000 to 1,400 BC.  The bull dancer would pull herself up by the horns of a charging bull and do a handspring over his back.  The dancer had a companion waiting to steady her when she landed on the ground behind the bull.  Both male and female athletes wore only loincloths when in the arena.

Ubar, Lost City of Arabia, is mentioned in the Koran.  One group of people who lived there, the Adites, date back to one of Noah's sons.  The space shuttle, when taking pictures on the earth with an infrared camera, located the ruins of Ubar under the sand.  More about Ubar is on the web at NOVA.com.  They have a transcript of the program they did about the lost city.

The people of Ubar saw the wild humpback animal that made its home in the desert.  At first they thought it was a creature conjured by djins, but later they domesticated the camel