According to the Greek science of religion and mythology chaos preexisted of gods. Uranus, the first "god", came from chaos as well as Oceanus, Gaia and the great sea Tethys. Gods and humans, the animal and natural kingdom of earth were later born by this natural environment. According to these Greek myths the substance preexisted and the spirit was later created. The names of this natural environment match, according to the Greek tradition, the names of the first "gods", who are at the same time considered to be founders of the Preatlanteans-Titans. Uranus and the great mother Gaia gave birth to the Titans and Titanides. Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus and Cronus were Titans. Tethys, Theia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe and Rhea were Titanides. Hesiod considers Titans the roots of earth and superior creatures (see Theogony 727 con.) and puts them among the first generation of "gods". The same founders, Uranus and Gaia, gave birth to the second generation named Cyclops; these were Brontes, Steropes and Arges. They were unique technicians and gun makers. They made thunder, lightning and the trident. They were like "gods" but they only one circular eye in the forehead just like their name indicates. There was a third generation of from Uranus named Giants; they were Aegeon, Briareus, Cottus and Gyges. These were later named Hecatoncheires (hundred-handed). Titan Oceanus and Tethys gave birth to the Oceanids and Gorgides. The Oceanids are three thousand according to the written documents. Homer writes the most famous of them are Eurynome, Perseis, Callirhoe, Melivia, Plione or Philira (she and Cronus gave birth to Cheiron), Dodona, Dorida, Electra (mother of Iris), Dione, Europe, Asia, Metis, Isionis, Calypso, Clymene and Styx. All these became mothers of famous men. The great generations from this family tree that we are particularly interested in is the generation of Titan Iapetus and the generation of Titan Cronus which were named and known as the generation of the atlanteans. Titan Iapetus, the written documents say, married two Oceanids, Clymene and Asia. He and Clymene gave birth to Atlas, Menoetius, Epimetheus and Prometheus, the so called after their father Titans. Atlas became the chief of the Titans and he was the founder of many offspring who were named Atlanteans after him. The generation of Titan Cronus was named "second divine dynasty". Titans and Cronus, as the ancients say, lived somewhere in the west, in the isles of the Blessed, in the Elysian fields, the islands of Eden, the "golden city of Cronus" that bear fruit and harvest twice a year. That is why Cronus's emblem was a golden scythe. The fact that their land or islands were in the Atlantic Ocean is confirmed by the older name of the Gibraltar narrow, "Columns of Cronus". During some periods these were called "Vriareo Columns" and "Garidides Columns". After Hercules' journey to the west and his meeting with Atlas in the Hesperides islands the narrow was named "Hercules' Columns" for many centuries. Cronus incited the other Titans, Cyclops and Giants to fight with their father Uranus who even with a minor fault of theirs used to "throw" them in Tartars (a sunless prison). Cronus after weakening his father massacred him with the scythe and became the leader along with the other Titans governing the "Universe". He married Rhea and they gave birth to Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. When Zeus grew up, he dethroned in his turn his father, Cronus, and shared the kingdom with his spouse who helped him. The new "gods" in order to dominate their kingdom, although they were Titans themselves, fought with the other Titans who supported Cronus' kingdom and beat them during the tremendous ten-year war called Titanomachy. It seems that the new "gods" shared their empire (the one they found from Cronus) because all myths say that: Poseidon, who ruled the sea, all the beaches and islands, lakes and all sea creatures, built his palace, according to many ancient writers to the Atlantic ocean on an island, the island of Atlantis. He became the new king of Atlantis and divided the island into ten sections. He assigned each section to one of his sons. He gave the main island to his first-born son, Atlas, (not the son of Iapetus). He gave birth to his ten sons who became gods with the beautiful Atlantis Cleito, the daughter of Evinorus and Lephcipis. They were Atlas, Gadeirus, Amphires, Evemonus, Mnisius, Aphtochonus, Elasipus, Mistoras, Azais and Diaprepes. Poseidon and his children continued the generation of the Atlanteans. During their time the empire of Atlanteans reached its peak.
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