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The ancient city of Tartessos (Huelva?) is given new life by Solon travelling from far Athens. Instead of returning to Athens he decides to ignite the flame of democracy at this end of the world that it might live on if Athens should die. However the incumbent royal family makes a democratic parliamentary monarchy a safer choice of system. He doesn't see Tartessos as a threat to Athens as they are so far apart. Maybe, one day they might be allies?

The Atlanteans have vast resources of bronze, so he casts a code of laws for them on bronze tablets in Greek and Tartessian script. He brings with him the technology of the potter's wheel olive oil and wine. His wisdom astounds the Atlantian royal family and they appoint him as first minister of their realm. Democratic legislation under the watchful eye of a hereditary monarch proves a stable system and Tartessos flourishes. Solon often talked of returning to Athens, but he died an Atlantian. Bronze tablets of the period record his funeral in the Athenian style.

The Atlantian custom of lining drinking vessels in silver acts as a mild natural disinfectant adding to their prosperity. However the large amount of silver in their environment turns the skin of Atlantian silver workers blue. They are marked out as a silver processing caste by this and can't find work elsewhere. This starts a rumour that the Atlantians have a magical race at their service.

Celtic migration brings iron bloomery production to the Atlantian empire. The soft metal workers of Tartessos soon become expert iron workers too. The magnetic property that allows compasses is discovered. Atlantian fishermen and merchants start to sail out of sight of land more confidently. Contact with the Northern Celts, Greeks, Phoneticians and Etruscans broaden the culture and philosophy of the Atlantians.

They worshipped a pantheon of gods, but El Elyon ruled them all (depicted in statuary as a bearded man with sickle and lightning bolt in right and left hand respectively).

Ēl ‘Elyōn / Yψιστος (hypsistos 'most high'). maker of heaven and earth.
"He is the Lord of all, self-originated, self-produced, ruling all things in some ineffable way, encompassing the heavens, spreading out the earth, riding on the waves of the sea; mixing fire with water, soil with air and earth with fire; of winter, summer, autumn and spring, causing the changes in their season, leading all things towards the light and settling their fate in harmonious order."

They declared that they would treasure, admire, and honour the best, the most perfect that might come to their knowledge, and inasmuch as it must have a close connection to the Godhead, pay it reverence. - Goethe
A monotheistic culture based on perfection emerged. The people of the Empire of Atlantis explored, experimented and sought perfection in their lives.
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