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Poseidonis Map of Atlantis according to William Scott-Elliott (The Story of Atlantis, Russian edition, 1910) Solon of Athens If the hypothesis (now so much doubted, and positively denied by some learned authors, who regard it as a joke of Plato's) is ever verified, then, perhaps, will the scientists believe that the description of the god-inhabited continent was not altogether a fable. And they may then perceive that Plato's guarded hints and his attributing the narrative to Solon and the Egyptian priests, were but a prudent way of imparting the fact to the world, and, by cleverly combining truth and fiction, so disconnecting himself from a story which the obligations imposed at initiation forbade him to divulge. –SD2:221 Mount Atlas, Bolivia 18th-century illustration of Mount Kailash, depicting the holy family: Shiva and Parvati, cradling Skanda with Ganesha by Shiva's side Athanasius Kircher's map of Atlantis, placing it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, from Mundus Subterraneus 1669, published in Amsterdam. The map is oriented with south at the top. S. N. The description of the Atlantean sudden death of her parents she civilization given by Plato in the was wooed by Poseidon, who Critias may be summarized as begat by her five pairs of male follows. In the first ages, the gods children. Poseidon apportioned his divided the earth among continent among these ten, and themselves, proportioning it Atlas, the eldest, he made overlord according to their respective of the other nine. Poseidon further dignities. Each became the called the country Atlantis and the peculiar deity of his own allotment surrounding sea the Atlantic in and established therein temples to honor of Atlas. Before the birth of himself, ordained a priestcraft, and his ten sons, Poseidon divided the instituted a system of sacrifice. To continent and the coastwise sea Poseidon was given the sea and into concentric zones of land and the island continent of Atlantis. In water, which were as perfect as the midst of the island was a though turned upon a lathe. Two mountain which was the dwelling zones of land and three of water place of three earth-born surrounded the central island, primitive human beings– Evenor; which Poseidon caused to be his wife, Leucipe; and their only irrigated with two springs of daughter, Cleito. The maiden was water– one warm and the other very beautiful, and after the cold. The description of the Atlantean sudden death of her parents she civilization given by Plato in the was wooed by Poseidon, who begat Critias may be summarized as by her five pairs of male children. follows. In the first ages, the gods Poseidon apportioned his divided the earth among continent among these ten, and themselves, proportioning it Atlas, the eldest, he made overlord according to their respective of the other nine. Poseidon further dignities. Each became the called the country Atlantis and the peculiar deity of his own allotment surrounding sea the Atlantic in and established therein temples to honor of Atlas. Before the birth of himself, ordained a priestcraft, and his ten sons, Poseidon divided the instituted a system of sacrifice. To continent and the coastwise sea Poseidon was given the sea and into concentric zones of land and the island continent of Atlantis. In water, which were as perfect as the midst of the island was a though turned upon a lathe. Two mountain which was the dwelling zones of land and three of water place of three earth-born surrounded the central island, primitive human beings--Evenor; which Poseidon caused to be his wife, Leucipe; and their only irrigated with two springs of daughter, Cleito. The maiden was water--one warm and the other very beautiful, and after the cold. Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. The Cleito is referred to as an humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them. The higher ether the etheric extremes lost was called Evenor, and their identity in their own the lower ether, progeny. –Atlantis, An Leucippe. From their Interpretation:25 The Etheric, by Ernst Marti The description of the Atlantean death of her parents she was civilization given by Plato in the wooed by Poseidon, who begat by Critias may be summarized as her five pairs of male children. follows. In the first ages, the gods Poseidon apportioned his divided the earth among continent among these ten, and themselves, proportioning it Atlas, the eldest, he made overlord according to their respective of the other nine. Poseidon further dignities. Each became the called the country Atlantis and the peculiar deity of his own allotment surrounding sea the Atlantic in and established therein temples to honor of Atlas. Before the birth of himself, ordained a priestcraft, and his ten sons, Poseidon divided the instituted a system of sacrifice. To continent and the coastwise sea Poseidon was given the sea and into concentric zones of land and the island continent of Atlantis. In water, which were as perfect as the midst of the island was a though turned upon a lathe. Two mountain which was the dwelling zones of land and three of water place of three earth-born primitive surrounded the central island, human beings--Evenor; his wife, which Poseidon caused to be Leucipe; and their only daughter, irrigated with two springs of Cleito. The maiden was very water--one warm and the other beautiful, and after the sudden cold. Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. The Cleito is referred to as an humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them. The higher ether the etheric extremes lost was called Evenor, and their identity in their own the lower ether, progeny. –Atlantis, An Leucippe. From their Interpretation:25 The Etheric, by Ernst Marti Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. The Cleito is referred to as an humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them. The higher ether the etheric extremes lost was called Evenor, and their identity in their own the lower ether, progeny. –Atlantis, An Leucippe. From their Interpretation:25 Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. Cleito is referred to as an The humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them. The higher ether the etheric extremes lost was called Evenor, and their identity in their own the lower ether, progeny. –Atlantis, An Leucippe. From their Interpretation:25 Having received his union was produced allotment, Poseidon Cleito, or the erheric began the process of body of the solar system. fashioning his world. The Cleito is referred to as an humid ethers of the orphan because her very watery diffusion were emergence was the result divided by the Greeks of the union of the into two parts, the one extremes which denoting a spiritous produced her. And the state, and the other a extremes themselves grosser or sedimentary. ceased to exist when Working through the their equilibrium had higher parts of the ether been accomplished. As upon the lower parts, hydrogen and oxygen therefore, Poseidon is disappear as pure said to have brought elements in the visible them together or united compound of water, so them.