Myths and Legends of the World

Levitation Great Dragon of the Sea Originally cited as a “great sea monster” in the first chapter of Genesis, the Leviathan has because synonymous with any large monster or creature like the Greek Ceto. It is to blame for tsunamis and rogue wave destroying the regions. According to legend; the Leviathan was a fire-breathing sea dragon of such immense size that the sea boils when it swims on the surface. It ruthlessly and fearlessly rules over all the creatures of the sea. The Leviathan’s skin is like a double coat of mail, with overlapping scales as large as shields on its back, and as sharp and  hard as diamonds on  its underbelly.  Piercing  and slashing weapons will simply bounce off such protection. It breaths smoke from its nostrils and flames from its mouth which is rimmed with teeth. Its fins radiate a brilliant light and its eyes are like the shine of the sun. No living thing on earth could ever hope to oppose its might. Leviathan roamed the sea, br...

Great Temple of Poseidon With Poseidon's permission, and under the guidance of the ten kings, they built a magnificent city upon the circles of earth surrounding the Hill of Cleito. Atlantean architects used the red, black and white marble of their county to design buildings of dazzling splendor, with the three colors artfully blended or contrasted to attract and please the eye. On the hill of Cleito they built her a great palace, and this together with the palaces of the ten kings and the temple of Poseidon all blazed with inlays of gold and precious stones. The principle temple to Poseidon was the wonder of the entire world. The pinnacled roof was so high that clouds drifted around its spires, and it contained an enormous image of Poseidon riding in his chariot attended by sea nymphs and dolphins. The unique beauty of the city, on its circles of land linked by great bridges across the circles of water, was further enhanced by brilliant gardens, groves of flowering trees...

Plato continued Resource The Atlanteans were so vigorous and intelligent, so adept at developing their arts and technology and so industrious in exploiting the resources of the islands, that they soon established the world's first and finest civilization. They dug out of the earth whatever was to be found there, solid as well as fusible, and that which is now only a name and was then something more than a name, orichalcum, was dug out of the earth in many parts of the island, being more precious in those days than anything except gold.   There was an abundance of wood for carpenter's work, and sufficient maintenance for tame and wild animals.   Moreover, there were a great number of elephants in the island; for as there was provision for all other sorts of animals, both for those which live in lakes and marshes and rivers, and also for those which live in mountains and   on plains, so there was for the animal which is the largest and most voracious of all. ...

According to Critias, the Olympians, after the Titan War, divided the land so that each god and goddess might own a lot. Poseidon, Great God of the Sea was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis. The island was larger than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor combined. Looking towards the sea, but in the center of the whole island, there was a plain which is said to have been the fairest of all plains and very fertile. Near the plain again, and also in the center of the island at a distance of about fifty stadia, there was a mountain not very high on any side. In this mountain there dwelt one of the earth born primeval men of that country, whose name was Evenor, and he had a wife named Leucippe, and they had an only daughter who was called Cleito.  The maiden had already reached womanhood, when her father and mother died. When Poseidon inspected his new domain he found the islands to be more beautiful than anywhere else in the world. Every leaf on ...