The Twins, related by Plato to have been the original rulers of Atlantis, provide one of the more unusual aspects of the story. Could there be any connection between the male twins of the Atlantis and the male twins, Romulus and Remus, who founded Rome?

According to Jim Allen, the leading proponent of the idea of Atlantis having existed in the Andes, the Aymara kingdoms which existed on the Andean Altiplano also governed in pairs, so he has no doubt that the story of Atlantis had its origins in a Bolivian legend(a). It is accepted that ‘The Hero Twins’ are part of Mayan mythology and the anthropologist Robert L. Hall has detected twins in the native symbolism as far north as the Mississippi. The existence of twin rulers also existed in Bronze Age Scandanavia – one being the chief of war, the other the chief of rituals.

Also interesting is the paper presented by Thérèse Ghembaza to the 2008 Atlantis Conference in which she referred to the Oromos of Ethiopia, who also were governed by five pairs of rulers^[750.519].

(a) http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/atlantisoriginstwinsons.htm