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.

Atlas and the Atlantic Context

The Origin of Culture seeks to use astronomy to investigate the Greek cycle of the Generations of the Gods. The myths about the gods called Zeus, Cronus, Thoth, Helios, Uranus, and Ocean seem to represent great cultural time periods.

In order to validate the connection between myth, history, and astronomy The Origin of Culture sets  its focus upon the personage of Atlas, the famous scientist and cosmologer. Atlas was the brother of Cronus (Saturn). There are two important geographical places which commemorate his name, namely the Atlantic Ocean and the Atlas Mountains where Atlas is said to have made his observations. The Greek genealogists record that the daughters of Atlas, the famous Pleiades, were the ancestors of the greater part of Mediterranean heroes. The geographers, mythographers, and genealogists all agree that the birth of the gods, culture, science, and religion took place in Fez and Morocco, the homeland of Atlas.
 

Above is a portion of a map created by Sanson, Geographer Royal to the Court of France. The map is 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.

Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus of Sicily was an outstanding compiler of ancient histories written by noted authors that came before him. Both he and Herodotus have been abused by academia because of their faithful acceptance and uncritical retelling of those reports. In the world of forensic science this would qualify Diodorus as the most excellent historian, who has not twisted, disturbed, or commented upon the evidence that he has viewed. Much of Diodorus’ material was drawn directly from Dionysius of Mitylene, nicknamed Skytobrachion (“of the leathern arm”), who flourished in the city of Alexandria in the second century BC; and doubtless availed of the unique sources of the great library. This careful transportation of ancient material from a library that was burned down and no longer exists should qualify Diodorus Siculus for some manner of distinguished service award –yet he remains disparaged for his gullibility.

Siculus (III.56) begins the history of Skytobrachion by making a very telling statement in saying that the accounts of the Greeks concur with those of the Atlantians. But Greek accounts could only resemble those of the Atlantians if the Greeks or their rulers originally came from the Atlantians. There could be no other possible reason for them to possess matching traditions.

 

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