Part II. _Antidiluvian History and Flood.

_11th Event._ JAIA-EL rebels against his father JAIA and wants to kill him; a warfare, in which _Jaia-El_ is killed by his father, who puts his bones into a gourd. _Higuera_, or _Hibuera_, and people the land of that name.

This refers to the fall of man and the wars of the Titans. The name for bones is omitted, it would perhaps afford another clue. Many American nations venerate and animate bones. Dangleria says, that _Jaia_ peopled all the islands of the sea with these bones.

_12th Event._ JAIA being childless marries _Itiba-Jatuvava_ from whom he has 4 twin sons called _Dimivan_, who became afterwards _Cara-cara-cols_ or the great Cara-cols, the great beastly beings; but their mother dies at their birth.

_Itiba_ means woman ancient and alludes perhaps to _Thibet_, refuge, or land of Noah. (_I_, is the article _the_). _Jatuvava_ perhaps Japhet-father, but in Aruac _Kati-uiua_ means the moon heavenly. The name of _Dimivan_ is remarkable, being identic with the _Demavends_ or antidiluvians of Persia, called _Dawand_ in the Zendavesta, the _Demoi_ or old people of the Pelasgians, the _Demons_ of many nations. The _Caras_ and _Cols_ are found all over America and Asia.(69)

_13th Event._ AHIACAVO (grand father) or _Baia-manicoel_ an ancestor of the _Dimivan_, forms the nation of CON-EL, at _Basamanaco_, and invents agriculture, with the art of making cakes and bread.

The Dimivan acknowledge him as grandfather of mankind. CON-EL is certainly a personification, meaning the sons or Elohim of CON, who is the primitive Lybian Hercules KON or KHON; and is found in Peruvian history as the first legislator of Peru. The XONS or CONES were the oldest people of Spain and Italy, same as _Xâones_ of Greece. Their god was XON or _Konah_. _Basamanaco_ is inexplicable unless it alludes to the primitive antidiluvian _Manaco_ or _Manco_ of Peru. _Ba_ is dwelling, _Samana_ an island near Hayti.

_14th Event._ The four brothers _Dimivan_ meeting a mute _Conel_, making bread, ask him for some; but he only gives them instead _Cogioba_ or _Cohiba_ which is tobacco: this happened at the door of Basamanaco. This fable indicates an intercourse of the Dimivans and the _Conels_ which are probably a branch of the Atlantes or Lybians.

_15th Event._ This refusal of bread was the cause of a quarrel and war, in which _Conel_ kills or destroys one of the brothers or tribes of _Dimivan Caracol_, but a turtle _Hicotea_ came out of his body, or an island thus called, as Hayti was. This _Conel_ conqueror was _Baia-mani-coel_, whose name means _Father of food celestial_; but _Baya_ is also the ocean.

This indicates a great war, and probably alludes to that of the Atlantes.(70)

_16th Event._ The _Dimivans_, probably in revenge, broke the gourd of JAIAEL (_Khayahel_); but a flood of waters issue from it and drowns the land.

This deluge is called _Niquen_: there is no indication in Roman of the men who were destroyed, nor who were saved and how; but in Cuba was found a more ample tradition of the flood as follows.

_17th Event._ Three Behiques or priests who come to Cuba later, taught them that the flood had been general, had broken the land; and that a good man had been saved in a big boat with his family. That many animals were also in the boat, a vulture and dove are mentioned.

Herrera and others relate this, but in different words, and without native names. Some have supposed this account made out by the Spanish priests; but it appears to refer to a tradition brought by the Olmecas or Mayas in Cuba, being very similar to the Mexican accounts.

_18th Event._ Another subsequent flood although omitted by Roman, is alluded to by others, Garcia says that Hayti and Cuba were then cut asunder and separated from Yucatan. Dangleria says that the islands Lucayas that then joined to the great islands, were divided by irruptions of the sea. It is the second flood of Peleg, which in the Antilles broke the islands by volcanic explosions. It is impossible to say what events of the next period, may belong to the interval between the two floods; but probably some of them. All these antidiluvian events appear to belong to a different country than the Antilles, which did not even then exist, at least in their actual state, and may properly be referred to the island Atlantis or the eastern hemisphere. It was at this last cataclysm that the Antilles assumed their actual shape and number.