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Dardanus
The offspring of Electra, in other words, a son of Atlantis; his mother was an
“Atlantis,” a daughter of Atlas, his grandfather. As Virgil wrote in The Aeneid
(Book VIII, 135–138), “Dardanus, who was first father to our city, Ilium, and
made her strong, was, as the Greeks relate, sprung from Electra, the daughter of
Atlas.” She warned Dardanus of a coming deluge, and he fled to the northwest
coast of Asia Minor. There he became the monarch of a new kingdom, Troy. The
straits controlled by the Trojans were named after him, and are still known as the
Dardanelles. The Trojans sometimes referred to themselves as “Dardanians” to
emphasize descent from their Atlantean forefather. He gave them the Palladium,
a sacred stone from Atlantis, as the centerpiece of their religion they revered
until it was seized by victorious Greeks in the Trojan War.
The historical myth of Dardanus signifies the arrival in Troy of culture-bearers
from Atlantis following a major, but not final natural catastrophe 5,000 years ago,
which coincides with the earliest date or event-horizon archaeologists find at Ilios,
the Trojan capital.