But, above all, it must be remembered that the Greeks, an Aryan race, in their mythological traditions, show the closest relationship to Atlantis.  At-tika and At-hens are reminiscences of Ad, and we are told that Poseidon, god and founder of Atlantis, founded Athens.  We find in the “Eleusinian mysteries” an Atlantean institution; their influence during the whole period of Greek history down to the coming of Christianity was extraordinary; and even then this masonry of Pre-Christian days, in which kings and emperors begged to be initiated, was, it is claimed, continued to our own times in our own Freemasons, who trace their descent back to “a Dionysiac fraternity which originated in Attika.”  And just as we have seen the Saturnalian festivities of Italy descending from Atlantean harvest-feasts, so these Eleusinian mysteries can be traced back to Plato’s island.  Poseidon was at the base of them; the first hierophant, Eumolpus, was “a son of Poseidon,” and all the ceremonies were associated with seed-time and harvest, and with Demeter or Ceres, an Atlantean goddess, daughter of Chronos, who first taught the Greeks to use the plough and to plant barley.  And, as the “Carnival” is a survival of the “Saturnalia,” so Masonry is a survival of the Eleusinian mysteries.  The roots of the institutions of to-day reach back to the Miocene Age.

We have seen that Zeus, the king of Atlantis, whose tomb was shown at Crete, was transformed into the Greek god Zeus; and in like manner we find him reappearing among the Hindoos as Dyaus.  He is called “Dyaus-pitar,” or God the Father, as among the Greeks we have “Zeus-pater,” which became among the Romans “Jupiter.”

The strongest connection, however, with the Atlantean system is shown in the case of the Hindoo god Deva-Nahusha.

We have seen in the chapter on Greek mythology that Dionysos was a son of Zeus and grandson of Poseidon, being thus identified with Atlantis.  “When he arrived at manhood,” said the Greeks, “he set out on a journey through all known countries, even into the remotest parts of India, instructing the people, as he proceeded, how to tend the vine, and how to practise many other arts of peace, besides teaching them the value of just and honorable dealings.  He was praised everywhere as the greatest benefactor of mankind.” (Murray’s “Mythology,” p. 119.)

In other words, he represented the great Atlantean civilization, reaching into “the remotest parts of India,” and “to all parts of the known world,” from America to Asia.  In consequence of the connection of this king with the vine, he was converted in later times into the dissolute god Bacchus.  But everywhere the traditions concerning him refer us back to Atlantis.  “All the legends of Egypt, India, Asia Minor, and the older Greeks describe him as a king very great during his life, and deified after death. . . .  Amon, king of Arabia or Ethiopia, married Rhea, sister of Chronos, who reigned over