Greek and Egyptian traditions place the birth of their gods, their ancestors, culture, and science upon the Atlantic shores of Fez and Morocco. This was the land where Atlas, the heaven-holder, studied the stars; and his daughters, the Pleiades guarded the Golden Apples in the Garden of the Hesperides. Here Hercules fought with the giant Antaeus when he came to find the Golden Apples, and to learn the mysteries of the heavens from Atlas, the greatest astronomer and cosmologer of all times.
Above is a portion of a map created by Sanson, Geographer Royal to the Court of France. The map is most likely based upon an earlier creation by the famous Abraham Ortelius, who was a noted collector of very rare ancient maps. The map shows a beautiful bay with several peninsulas, and islands. Perhaps, San Francisco Bay is reminiscent of this ancient bay where the nobility of the ancient world congregated, socialized, and conducted the affairs of the world. It may have been a strategic place of empire, and the mercantile capital of the world. It is also possible, that like so many beautiful places along sculptured coastlines -that one awful day in 9000BC it succumbed to massive earthquakes and tsunami. It is well within the scope of possibilities that here was the scene of the legend of Atlantis that the Egyptian priests reported to Solon of Athens. This Egyptian-Greek legend became the repository for all information concerning ancient Atlantic history and culture. It is therefore as close as we can reasonably get to a colonial outpost of Atlantic tradition. The exquisite bay depicted on the above map was carefully copied over and over again from ancient maps -until modern navigators realized that it was no longer there. Curiously, the vicinity became one of the homes of the Barbary pirates.
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