Among the Navajo Indians in the American Southwest, Ahson-nutli was a
god who, in the days before the Great Flood, created a quartet of twin giants to
support the four corners of the sky. In Plato’s account of Atlantis, supreme
leadership of the antediluvian civilization belonged to twin brothers, likewise
Titans, or giants. Atlas, the first of these, was mythically perceived as supporting
the sky on his shoulders. His name derives from the Sanskrit atl, “to support or
uphold.”
(See Atlas, Ayar-aucca)
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