The Legend of Ogyges
Grc: Ὠγύγης - Alt: Ogygus, Ogygos
The first to occupy the land of Thebai are said to have been the Silver Age Ectenes, whose king was Ogyges. From his name is derived Ogygian, which is an epithet of Thebai used by most of the poets. The Ectenes perished, they say, in a great deluge.Ogyges was king of the Ectenes, a tribe of Second Age inhabitants of Boiotia. He founded the city of Ogygia (Ὠγυγία) atop the ruins of Kalydnai, atop the citadel hill where Thebai would later be located and, as a result, Thebai is sometimes nicknamed Ogygidai (Ὠγυγίδαι). There are many variants on what Ogyges did to so offend the theoi, such that he and his tribe were driven from their city. Their first stop, in Attike, was an encampment called Eleusus after Ogyges's son, Eleusinus, who remained there with a portion of the Eclenes as Ogyges was hounded into the sea. Eleusus still stands as a center of mystery. Ogyges used powerful magic to transform himself into an island, also called Ogygia by its inhabitants, and moved around the sea to confound the daimones. But the Olympians saw through the disguise and pinned Ogygia to the bottom of the ocean, setting a daimon to watch over the place to ensure it would not rise again. This was Kalypso, daughter of the Titan Atlas, and so the submerged island is also referred to as Atlantis in her honor.
Spread
Boats sometimes fall into the great hole in the sea that surrounds the island. A few have returned with tales of the underwater civilization and its daimonic queen.
Variations & Mutation
Most variations place Atlantis in different locations: in the great ocean beyond the sea,
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