The Garden of the Hesperides (which ancient writers sometimes located in or near the Canary Islands).
(11) - Statius Sebosus, Greek geographer of the 1st century BC, says that Atlantis was located 40 days' sail from the Gorgades islands to the Hesperides [so in the center of the Atlantic].
The racial memory of Atlantis is found in the legends of the Garden of Eden of the Bible, the Garden of the Hesperides of the Greeks, the Asgard of the Scandinavians, the Tir n'Og of the Celts and in all the legends of a wonderful, mysterious land in which dwelt gods or godlike mortals.
Agriculture.--The Greek traditions of "the golden apples of the Hesperides" and "the golden fleece" point to Atlantis.
This is the Greek story of Elysion; these are the Elysian Fields of the Egyptians; these are the Gardens of the Hesperides; this is the region in the West to which the peasant of Brittany looks from the shores of Cape Raz; this is Atlantis.
It was one of the Hesperides, the islands at the westernmost edge of the known world in the Mediterranean.
Erytheia was part of the mythical geography of the far west, often associated with other legendary locations like the Hesperides.
"According to the traditions of the Phœnicians, the Gardens of the Hesperides were in the remote west." (Murray's "Manual of Mythology," p.
"The Garden of the Hesperides" (another name for the dwelling-place of the gods) "was situated at the extreme limit of Africa.
The Greek mythology, in speaking of the Garden of the Hesperides, tells us that "the outer edge of the garden was slightly raised, so that the water might not run in and overflow the land." Another reminiscence of the surrounding mountains of Atlantis as described by Plato, and as revealed by the deep-sea soundings of modern times.
376), "relate to Spain, North-western Africa, and other regions on the Atlantic, such as those concerning Hercules, the Cronidæ, the Hyperboreans, the Hesperides, and the Islands of the Blessed.
The Hesperides were also "daughters of Atlas;" their mother was Hesperis, a personification of "the region of the West." Their home was an island in the ocean," Off the north or west coast of Africa.
This tree was put in the care of the Hesperides, but they could not resist the temptation to pluck and eat its fruit; thereupon a serpent named Ladon was put to watch the tree.
Hercules slew the serpent, and gave the apples to the Hesperides.
Hesperides: Mythical figures associated with the island Hespera, linked to the Amazones’ homeland in some accounts.
Herakles (Hercules): Mentioned as visiting the Hesperides in the same context as Perseus.
Mythical Connections: Diodorus blends tales of the Hesperides, the Makhlyes tribe, and Plato’s Atlantis, rationalizing them as history.
For the Libyan Amazones, Diodorus combines accounts of the mythical Hesperides and the legendary warrior-women of the Makhlyes (Machlyes) tribe of Lake Tritonis.
Herakles is mentioned in the same context visiting the Hesperides.
"The Gardens of the Hesperides, with their golden apples, were believed to exist in some island of the ocean, or, as it was sometimes thought, in the islands off the north or west coast of Africa.
They were guarded by the Hesperides, nymphs of the evening and the golden light of sunsets, and a hundred-headed dragon named Ladon.
Source: Greek mythology, particularly the story of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
The Hesperides: The Hesperides were nymphs known as the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West." They were tasked with tending a beautiful garden located at the western edge of the world.
They were so precious that Hera placed them under the protection of the Hesperides and a fearsome, hundred-headed dragon named Ladon.
Atlantis, a name recorded in various permutations by hundreds of cultures, has been called: Antilla, Amenti, Arallu, Attala, Atvantika, Aztlan, Azatlan, Atlantia, Atli, Asgard, Avalon, Arcadia, Arktos, Agartha, Shangri-la, Hyperborea, Tula, Rutas, Thule, Hesperides, Hy-Brasil, to mention a few.