Blavatsky was also inspired by the work of the eighteenth-century astronomer Jean-Sylvain Bailly , who had " Orientalized " the Atlantis myth in his mythical continent of Hyperborea , a reference to Greek myths featuring a Northern European region of the same name , home to a giant , godlike race . Dan Edelstein claims that her reshaping of this theory in '' The Secret Doctrine '' provided the Nazis with a mythological precedent and a pretext for their ideological platform and their subsequent genocide . However , Blavatsky 's writings mention that the Atlantean were in fact olive-skinned peoples with Mongoloid traits who were the ancestors of modern Native Americans , Mongolians and Malayans
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