>>21217413>>21217414>>21217415>>21217416>>21217417The Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon, writing 600 years before Plato's birth, refers to the original kings of Egypt as "Aleteans" (Atlantians). He mentions this well after speaking of Hephaestus, saying "He was Hephaestus, and invented the hook, and bait, and line, and raft, and was the first of all men to make a voyage: wherefore they revered him also as a god after his death. And he was also called Zeus Meilichios" and before talking about the Caibiri (Sons of Hephaestus in Greek Mythology), the inventors of ships, and Atlas, the founder of Atlantis. Sanchuniathon said that he learned about all this from the Ammouneis (priests of the god Amun-Ra, the greatest god in Egypt). and with Hierombalus, which is actually the Phoenician name of the biblical prophet Gideon.
Plato learned about Atlantis from Solon, who learned it from the priests of the 26th dynasty in Sais, Egypt, whose goddess Neith was syncretized with Athena, goddess of Plato's city-state. Neith is a very important goddess in predynastic Egyptian dynasties (before Egypt was unified). Supposedly, the Greeks called the first kings of Ancient Egypt, Aeritae or Aeria, and they also claimed that both are corruptions of the same root for Atlas and Atlantis. The Aeritaens are predynastic demigods and spirits of the dead who migrated to Egypt. Or something like this. And the lineage given by Plato supposedly corresponds to the lineage given by Manetho, an Egyptian priest who lived during the Ptolemeic era. He is the author of Aegyptiaca, the history of Ancient Egypt, a work that has not survived in its entirety. Manetho knew how to read and write Hieroglyphs, but he did all his work in Greek. The first Aeritaen king according to Manetho was Ptah (Egyptian Hephaestus).
https://atlantisquestscience.wordpress.com/culture/ancient-writings/timeline-of-ancient-sources/