ATLANTIC

- Latin Atlanticus, from Greek Atlantikos = of Atlas.  The eponymous 🔍  ocean 🔍 was

named in reference to the Atlas Mountains on it's North African coast; named in turn

for Mount Atlas* in Mauritania, after the god:

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    ATLAS - [= the bearer; from tlenai = to bear (PIE 🔍 root tele = to lift / support, weight)]* 

        Originally an Arcadian mountain god, later incorporated into Greek mythology as a Titan

        (the old gods) who must forever uphold the pillars of heaven (or earth) as punishment for

        leading the war of the Titans against the Olympians (new gods.)​​

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     * Mount Atlas was important in Greek cosmology as a literal, physical support of the heavens

     ** Some contend the Greek derivation is a folk-etymological reshaping the Berber adrar = mountain ​