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By late 1943, Ray Palmer, 33 year-old editor of the oldest science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories – founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1926 – had discovered an important marketing truth. Stories with Atlantis or Lemuria in their title made sales soar.
Lost Continent myths go all the way back to Plato and form an important sub-stratum of the flying saucer mythos. That this should be the case is curious, until we remember that Plato heard, second hand, his lost continent yarns from Egyptian sources. Egypt, as we noted earlier, retained knowledge from a planet-wide civilization, one engulfed by a cataclysm around 13,000 BC. In the nineteenth century, Ignastis Donneally produced two large best-selling volumes on Atlantis that became a part of occult folklore, influencing even Madame Blavatsky. Also, James Churchward’s series of volumes concerning Lemuria attained a small but significant following.
Most of this information would have been available to Amazing Stories’ readers. However, they wanted more. In the January 1944 issue, a letter from a war-plant welder in Barto, Pennsylvania, promised just that. Richard Shaver asserted that modern English had embedded within it the residue of an incredibly ancient language, possibly Atlantian or Lemurian. The key was something Shaver called the “Mantong” alphabet, a type of cipher for translating English letters into symbolic meanings. Shaver also claimed that his welding machines were telling him about his previous existence as a Lemurian.
Palmer encouraged him, and in the next few months Shaver produced a manuscript of sorts, written on odd scraps of paper, entitled “A Warning to Future Man” that claimed to be recovered race memories of life on the lost continent of Lemuria. In search of greater magazine sales, Palmer seized on the idea, and re-wrote Shaver’s rambling letter-warning into “I Remember Lemuria,” and “Mantong, the Language of Lemuria.” These appeared in the March 1945, issue of Amazing Stories.
Interestingly enough, Palmer chose to present these stories as fact. Just why is unclear. Palmer knew of Shaver’s history of mental illness, (eight years in the Pennsylvania State Hospital) and had crafted the fictional elements of Shaver’s stories himself. Yet, as truth they appeared, and, as truth, they bored deep within the collective unconscious of thousands of impressionable readers, creating the final component of the emerging mythos. Eighteen months later, when Kenneth Arnold spotted the disks flying past Mt. Rainier, a large segment of the popular consciousness was prepared. The text had found its host.
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"I used Shaver's MANTONG alphabet to compose my last daughter's name: Taunora. Translated, according to Shaver, it means (You are a creature with no negative aspects)."
"Glen.....the translation should have read (You are a highly developed creature with no negative aspects)."
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Taunora = integrated animal you seed source dangerous animal
Depends on where you put the emphasis. Child of beneficial energy free of horror or a best case scenario of a integrated life form of a degenerate animal. That was why Titan had no R in it.
http://shavertron.com/Mantong1.html