Fig.93The Golden Empire
Plato tells us that Atlantis was an Island-continent consisting of seven separate land masses that
was located in the area that is now the Atlantic Ocean and that it was founded around about
11,000 years ago. He describes Atlantis as a land that was abundant in a variety of natural
resources and whose people prospered greatly due to this natural wealth. It was known to be a
great center of trade and commerce in the Ancient World, a powerful nation that controlled many
sea routes and also held sway over other territories it controlled in Africa and Europe.
We are told that the God ‘Poseidon’ took to himself, a mortal wife whose name was ‘Cleito’
and he made Atlantis his domain. Poseidon loved Cleito deeply and on a hill, in the middle of the
central island of Atlantis, Poseidon constructed a dwelling for himself and his wife and then built
seven moats around the house in ever larger circles, to protect her. Cleito gave birth to five sets of
twin boys who were to become the first rulers of Atlantis. Poseiden divided Atlantis among his
ten sons and control of the hill and the surrounding lands was given to his eldest son ‘Atlas’.
Atlas built a temple on the central hill to honor his father and inside he erected an enormous
golden statue of Poseidon standing astride great chariot drawn by magnificent winged horses that
dominated the central hall. It was here that the High council and governing body of Atlantis
would meet to discuss and decide policies, pass laws, make judgments and pay tribute to the great
Poseidon. A great canal, to be used for the purposes of travel and trade was dug from the central
hill and ran south through the rings of land and water for 5.5 miles eventually arriving at the sea.
The city of Atlantis itself was very densely populated and sat just outside of the central ring of
moats covering a circular area of 11 square miles. The majority of the Atlantian population was
said to have lived within the actual city itself. Plato describes it as being a beautiful city with
walls that were clad with gold, silver, bronze, tin and an unknown metal named by Plato as
orichalch. Just beyond the city, surrounded by another great canal, lay a vast fertile plain 330
miles long and 110 miles wide where food crops were grown. So fertile was the ground and so
temperate the climate, that two harvests were made each year, one harvest nurtured by the winter