[Mastodon.] An extinct elephant larger but similar in form to existing species.
[Neolithic.] Belonging to the later stone age, when first indication of polished stone weapons and implements of agriculture began to appear.
[Mammoths.] A very large extinct Pleistocene elephant with coarse outer hair and close woolly under hair and enormous tusks usually much curved.
NOTES TO “AVE POST SAECULA”
[Stanza I.] The idea of a Peruvian captive at the court of an early Egyptian king will not seem incongruous to those who are familiar with the apparent evidences of a common origin of the races of ancient Egypt and of South and Central America, or of the occult traditions of a land connection between the old world and the new world before the submerging of Atlantis.
[Stanza II.] Kemi (Black) was the ancient Egyptians’ name for their own country. Aahlu was the paradise of the ancient Egyptian religion where the souls of those who were admitted by Osiris might dwell for three thousand years after which they must return to earth, for another incarnation.
[Stanza VI.] Roman Mars is, of course, a poetic figure for Cleopatra’s warrior lover, Mark Antony.
[Stanza VII.] Believers in reincarnation teach that in earth lives we gain experience and in the intervening lives on the higher planes we rest and transmute that experience into power for the next earth life.
Transcriber’s Note:
Partially printed letters and punctuation were completed. Unprinted word [“as”] added to “Then as we linger ...”