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Americans claim’ to have emerged from the subterranean or cavern world. - Branton)

    “She went on to forecast: ‘The power of the tides and taking power from the air and ethers that surround our planet will revolutionize transportation.’

     “Mrs. Savage had taken notes on seven ‘Psychic Journeys’ she says she has taken in a spiritual sense. She said she explored UNDERGROUND CITIES, and was led to believe that ‘Life was never ending and that as we cooperate with the LIFE SOURCE all knowledge is given us to be given out to others.’”

 

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The following legend, concerning a subterranean city north of Montreal (Canada), is recorded on pages 310-311 of "HURON AND WYANDOT MYTHOLOGY", by C.M. Barbeau:

 

     "...The war had desolated the great Island. This destruction was caused by the use of fire by Tseh-stah and of the use of the North Wind by Tah-weh-skah-reh. No means of substance were left. To preserve his people until he could re-create the destroyed works of the Great Island, Tseh-stah built the Yooh-wah-tah-yoh, or great underground City or subterranean Dwelling, far to the north of Montreal's present site. Into this he led his people, and then went forth to his work of reconstruction... Here the people were in a torpid state, like turtles and toads and snakes in winter. They were lying about the City in all positions, and they retained only a partial consciousness. The Woman who fell down from heaven ruled over them with her fiery torch given her by Heh-noh, the Thunder God.

     “In making these things anew, Tseh-stah could only reproduce them as they were before their destruction in the war, and as they had been left by the modifications of himself and Tah-weh-skah-reh. This work required an immense length of time.