3.  They dwelt upon an island in the Atlantic,” in the remote west. . . . where the sun shines after it has ceased to shine on Greece.”

4.  Their land was destroyed in a deluge.

5.  They were ruled over by Poseidon and Atlas.

6.  Their empire extended to Egypt and Italy and the shores of Africa, precisely as stated by Plato.

7.  They existed during the Bronze Age and at the beginning of the Iron Age.

The entire Greek mythology is the recollection, by a degenerate race, of a vast, mighty, and highly civilized empire, which in a remote past covered large parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.

CHAPTER III.

The gods of the phoenicians also kings of Atlantis.

Not alone were the gods of the Greeks the deified kings of Atlantis, but we find that the mythology of the Phoenicians was drawn from the same source.

For instance, we find in the Phoenician cosmogony that the Titans (Rephaim) derive their origin from the Phoenician gods Agrus and Agrotus.  This connects the Phoenicians with that island in the remote west, in the midst of ocean, where, according to the Greeks, the Titans dwelt.

According to Sanchoniathon, Ouranos was the son of Autochthon, and, according to Plato, Autochthon was one of the ten kings of Atlantis.  He married his sister Ge.  He is the Uranos of the Greeks, who was the son of Gaea (the earth), whom he married.  The Phoenicians tell us, “Ouranos had by Ge four sons:  Ilus (El), who is called Chronos, and Betylus (Beth-El), and Dagon, which signifies bread-corn, and Atlas (Tammuz?).”  Here, again, we have the names of two other kings of Atlantis.  These four sons probably represented four races, the offspring of the earth.  The Greek Uranos was the father of Chronos, and the ancestor of Atlas.  The Phoenician god Ouranos had a great many other wives:  his wife Ge was jealous; they quarrelled, and he attempted to kill the children he had by her.  This is the legend which the Greeks told of Zeus and Juno.  In the Phoenician mythology Chronos raised a rebellion against Ouranos, and, after a great battle, dethroned him.  In the Greek legends it is Zeus who attacks and overthrows his father, Chronos.  Ouranos had a daughter called Astarte (Ashtoreth), another called Rhea.  “And Dagon, after he had found out bread-corn and the plough, was called Zeus-Arotrius.”

We find also, in the Phoenician legends, mention made of Poseidon, founder and king of Atlantis.

Chronos gave Attica to his daughter Athena, as in the Greek legends.  In a time of plague be sacrificed his son to Ouranos, and “circumcised himself, and compelled his allies to do the same thing.”  It would thus appear that this singular rite, practised as we have seen by the Atlantidae of the Old and New Worlds, the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Hebrews, the Ethiopians, the Mexicans, and the red men of America, dates back, as we might have expected, to Atlantis.