and Spain.  Murray tells us ("Mythology,” p. 58) that Pluto’s share of the kingdom was supposed to lie “in the remote west.”  The under-world of the dead was simply the world below the western horizon; “the home of the dead has to do with that far west region where the sun dies at night.” ("Anthropology,” p. 350.) “On the coast of Brittany, where Cape Raz stands out westward into the ocean, there is ‘the Bay of Souls,’ the launching-place where the departed spirits sail off across the sea.” (Ibid.) In like manner, Odysseus found the land of the dead in the ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules.  There, indeed, was the land of the mighty dead, the grave of the drowned Atlanteans.

“However this be,” continues F. Pezron, “the empire of the Titans, according to the ancients, was very extensive; they possessed Phrygia, Thrace, a part of Greece, the island of Crete, and several other provinces to the inmost recesses of Spain.  To these Sanchoniathon seems to join Syria; and Diodorus adds a part of Africa, and the kingdoms of Mauritania.”  The kingdoms of Mauritania embraced all that north-western region of Africa nearest to Atlantis in which are the Atlas Mountains, and in which, in the days of Herodotus, dwelt the Atlantes.

Neptune, or Poseidon, says, in answer to a message from Jupiter,

     No vassal god, nor of his train am I.
     Three brothers, deities, from Saturn came,
     And ancient Rhea, earth’s immortal dame;
     Assigned by lot our triple rule we know;
     Infernal Pluto sways the shades below: 
     O’er the wide clouds, and o’er the starry plain
     Ethereal Jove extends his high domain;
     My court beneath the hoary waves I keep,
     And hush the roaring of the sacred deep.

     Iliad, book xviii.

Homer alludes to Poseidon as

     “The god whose liquid arms are hurled
     Around the globs, whose earthquakes rock the world.”

Mythology tells us that when the Titans were defeated by Saturn they retreated into the interior of Spain; Jupiter followed them up, and beat them for the last time near Tartessus, and thus terminated a ten-years’ war.  Here we have a real battle on an actual battle-field.

If we needed any further proof that the empire of the Titans was the empire of Atlantis, we would find it in the names of the Titans:  among these were Oceanus, Saturn or Chronos, and Atlas; they were all the sons of Uranos.  Oceanus was at the base of the Greek mythology.  Plato says ("Dialogues,” Timaeus, vol. ii., p. 533):  “Oceanus and Tethys were the children of Earth and Heaven, and from these sprung Phorcys, and Chronos, and Rhea, and many more with them; and from Chronos and Rhea sprung Zeus and Hera, and all those whom we know as their brethren, and others who were their children.”  In other words, all their gods came out of the ocean; they were rulers over some ocean realm; Chronos was the son of Oceanus, and Chronos was an Atlantean god, and from him the Atlantic Ocean was called by the ancients “the Chronian Sea.”  The elder Minos was called “the Son of the Ocean:”  he first gave civilization to the Cretans; he engraved his laws on brass, precisely as Plato tells us the laws of Atlantis were engraved on pillars of brass.