“There were tales of personal visits and adventures of the gods among men, taking part in battles and appearing in dreams.  They were conceived to possess the form of human beings, and to be, like men, subject to love and pain, but always characterized by the highest qualities and grandest forms that could be imagined.” (Ibid.)

Another proof that the gods of the Greeks were but the deified kings of Atlantis is found in the fact that “the gods were not looked upon as having created the world.”  They succeeded to the management of a world already in existence.

The gods dwelt on Olympus.  They lived together like human beings; they possessed palaces, storehouses, stables, horses, etc.; “they dwelt in a social state which was but a magnified reflection of the social system on earth.  Quarrels, love passages, mutual assistance, and such instances as characterize human life, were ascribed to them.” (Ibid., p. 10.)

Where was Olympus?  It was in Atlantis.  “The ocean encircled the earth with a great stream, and was a region of wonders of all kinds.” (Ibid., p. 23.) It was a great island, the then civilized world.  The encircling ocean “was spoken of in all the ancient legends.  Okeanos lived there with his wife Tethys:  these were the Islands of the Blessed, the garden of the gods, the sources of the nectar and ambrosia on which the gods lived.” (Murray’s “Mythology,” p. 23.) Nectar was probably a fermented intoxicating liquor, and ambrosia bread made from wheat.  Soma was a kind of whiskey, and the Hindoos deified it.  “The gods lived on nectar and ambrosia” simply meant that the inhabitants of these blessed islands were civilized, and possessed a liquor of some kind and a species of food superior to anything in use among the barbarous tribes with whom they came in contact.

This blessed land answers to the description of Atlantis.  It was an island full of wonders.  It lay spread out in the ocean “like a disk, with the mountains rising from it.” (Ibid.) On the highest point of this mountain dwelt Zeus (the king), “while the mansions of the other deities were arranged upon plateaus, or in ravines lower down the mountain.  These deities, including Zeus, were twelve in number:  Zeus (or Jupiter), Hera (or Juno), Poseidon (or Neptune), Demeter (or Ceres), Apollo, Artemis (or Diana), Hephaestos (or Vulcan), Pallas Athena (or Minerva), Ares (or Mars), Aphrodite (or Venus), Hermes (or Mercury), and Hestia (or Vesta).”  These were doubtless the twelve gods from whom the Egyptians derived their kings.  Where two names are given to a deity in the above list, the first name is that bestowed by the Greeks, the last that given by the Romans.

It is not impossible that our division of the year into twelve parts is a reminiscence of the twelve gods of Atlantis.  Diodorus Siculus tells us that among the Babylonians there were twelve gods of the heavens, each personified by one of the signs of the zodiac, and worshipped in a certain month of the year.  The Hindoos had twelve primal gods, “the Aditya.”  Moses erected twelve pillars at Sinai.  The Mandan Indians celebrated the Flood with twelve typical characters, who danced around the ark.  The Scandinavians believed in the twelve gods, the Aesir, who dwelt on Asgard, the Norse Olympus.  Diligent investigation may yet reveal that the number of a modern jury, twelve, is a survival of the ancient council of Asgard.