The descendants of Atlas continued as rulers of Atlantis, and with wise government and industry elevated the country to a position of surpassing dignity.
Learn more about the mysteries by visiting Infinite Immortality YouTube Channel. Two zones of land and three of water surrounded the central island, which Poseidon caused to be irrigated with two springs of water–one warm and the other cold. Before the birth of his ten sons, Poseidon divided the continent and the coastwise sea into concentric zones of land and water, which were as perfect as though turned upon a lathe. Poseidon further called the country Atlantis and the surrounding sea the Atlantic in honor of Atlas. Poseidon apportioned his continent among these ten, and Atlas, the eldest, he made overlord of the other nine. The maiden was very beautiful, and after the sudden death of her parents she was wooed by Poseidon, who begat by her five pairs of male children. In the midst of the island was a mountain which was the dwelling place of three earth-born primitive human beings–Evenor his wife, Leucipe and their only daughter, Cleito. To Poseidon was given the sea and the island continent of Atlantis.
Each became the peculiar deity of his own allotment and established therein temples to himself, ordained a priestcraft, and instituted a system of sacrifice. In the first ages the gods divided the earth among themselves, proportioning it according to their respective dignities. “The description of the Atlantean civilization given by Plato in the Critias may be summarized as follows.
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