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Gadeiros
The second king named in Plato’s account of Atlantis, Kritias. Gadeiros was
assigned to a region of south-Atlantic Spain, and the modern city of Cadiz is
indeed the ancient Gades known to the Romans. But the name is found else-
where throughout the Atlantean sphere of influence. Agadir is in Tunisia, while
another Agadir, a southern port in Morocco, was utterly destroyed during a
series of earthquakes and tsunamis that killed more than 20,000 persons between
February 29 and March 1, 1960. Fronting as it does the suspected location of Atlantis,
Agadir’s fate reaffirms the geologic feasibility of an Atlantis-like catastrophe
occurring in that area of the world.
But Plato is not the only source for information about Gadeiros. The Gauls
themselves spoke of their first chiefs arriving at the mouth of the River Tagus, in
or very near present-day Lisbon. There they settled for a time, naming their first
town Porto Galli (“Port of the Gauls”), from which derives modern Portugal.
Eventually they moved into the Continent to become the earliest leaders of the
Gallic tribes. Their king who led them from the sunken Turris Vitrea, or “Island
of Glass Towers,” was the “Chieftain of the Peoples,” Hu-Gadarn, likewise claimed
by the Druids. They told their Roman conquerors that the Celts were partly