Reblogged from Atala - A journey to the Golden Age by Marie Cachet:
Quotations are (still) from Critias by Plato:
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Regarding the description of the inner solar system, it is recognized as follows:
And Poseidon,
receiving for his lot the island of Atlantis, begat children by a mortal
woman, and settled them in a part of the island, which I will describe.
Looking towards the sea, but in the centre of the whole island, there…