Near the beginning of Plato on Atlantis, the time of the gods (early bronze age which was the Ice Age) is described when such as the legendary map man Atlas were given regions of the earth, Atlas who was a son of Posidon, when too the Bible describes the dispersion of the people after Babel all over the world, many by sea, such as the seafarers of Canaan, one of his sons who was Sidon.