Sir William Jones gives the tradition of the Persians as to the earliest ages.  He says:  “Moshan assures us that in the opinion of the best informed Persians the first monarch of Iran, and of the whole earth, was Mashab-Ad; that he received from the Creator, and promulgated among men a sacred book, in a heavenly language, to which the Mussulman author gives the Arabic title of ‘Desatir,’ or ‘Regulations.’  Mashab-Ad was, in the opinion of the ancient Persians, the person left at the end of the last great cycle, and consequently the father of the present world.  He and his wife having survived the former cycle, were blessed with a numerous progeny; he planted gardens, invented ornaments, forged weapons, taught men to take the fleece from sheep and make clothing; he built cities, constructed palaces, fortified towns, and introduced arts and commerce.”

We have already seen that the primal gods of this people are identical with the gods of the Greek mythology, and were originally kings of Atlantis.  But it seems that these ancient divinities are grouped together as “the Aditya;” and in this name “Ad-itya” we find a strong likeness to the Semitic “Adites,” and another reminiscence of Atlantis, or Adlantis.  In corroboration of this view we find,

1.  The gods who are grouped together as the Aditya are the most ancient in the Hindoo mythology.

2.  They are all gods of light, or solar gods. (Whitney’s Oriental and Linguistic Studies,” p. 39.)

3.  There are twelve of them. (Ibid.)

4.  These twelve gods presided over twelve months in the year.

5.  They are a dim recollection of a very remote past.  Says Whitney, “It seems as if here was an attempt on the part of the Indian religion to take a new development in a moral direction, which a change in the character and circumstances of the people has caused to fail in the midst, and fall back again into forgetfulness, while yet half finished and indistinct.” (Ibid.)

6.  These gods are called “the sons of Aditi,” just as in the Bible we have allusions to “the sons of Adab,” who were the first metallurgists and musicians.  “Aditi is not a goddess.  She is addressed as a queen’s daughter, she of fair children.”

7.  The Aditya “are elevated above all imperfections; they do not sleep or wink.”  The Greeks represented their gods as equally wakeful and omniscient.  “Their character is all truth; they hate and punish guilt.”  We have seen the same traits ascribed by the Greeks to the Atlantean kings.

8.  The sun is sometimes addressed as an Aditya.

9.  Among the Aditya is Varuna, the equivalent of Uranos, whose identification with Atlantis I have shown.  In the vedas Varuna is “the god of the ocean.”

10.  The Aditya represent an earlier and purer form of religion:  “While in hymns to the other deities long:  life, wealth, power, are the objects commonly prayed for, of the Aditya is craved purity, forgiveness of sin, freedom from guilt, and repentance.” ("Oriental and Linguistic Studies,” p. 43.)