Adites

Among the Arabians the first inhabitants of that country are known as the Adites, from their progenitor, who is called Ad, the grandson of

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

But it seems that these ancient divinities are grouped together as "the Aditya;" and in this name "Ad-itya" we find a strong likeness to the Semitic "Adites," and another reminiscence of Atlantis, or Adlantis.

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

Shaddád bin Ad and the City of Iram the Columned; but it relates chiefly to the building by the King of the First Adites who, being promised a future Paradise by Prophet Húd, impiously said that he would lay out one in this world.

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Adites and “imád” being a tent-pole: hence “Iram with the numerous tents or tent-poles.”

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Adites, I have said, did not all perish: a few believers retired with the prophet Hud (Heber?) to Hazramaut.

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He was commissioned (Koran, chaps. vii.) to preach Al – Islam to his tribe the Adites who worshipped four goddesses, Sákiyah (the rain-giver), Rázikah (food-giver), Háfizah (the saviouress) and

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“The Arab al-Arabá” (or al — Aribah, or al-Urubíyat) are the autochthones, prehistoric, proto-historic and extinct tribes; for instance, a few of the Adites who being at Meccah escaped the destruction of their wicked nation, but mingled with other classes.

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The Second Adites, who had Márib of the Dam for capital and Lukman for king, were dispersed by the Flood of Al – Yaman.

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These Adites were probably the people of Atlantis or Ad-lantis.

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866

Adites are represented upon the Egyptian monuments as very much like the

Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866