{"id":3911,"date":"2010-06-11T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T11:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sexual-undertones\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:55:16","slug":"sexual-undertones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sexual-undertones\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Undertones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>exual <\/strong><strong>U<\/strong><strong>ndertones <\/strong>in the Atlantis narrative have been identified by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wells-joseph-warren\/\">J. Warren Wells<\/a>,\u00a0who maintains that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/clieto\/\">Clieto<\/a> or Kleito in Greek is the diminutive of Kleitoris, which is rendered clitoris in English. He further contends that the name of her husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/poseidon\/\">Poseidon<\/a>, can have its constituent elements, Pos and Eidon, translated as \u2018penis idol\u2019<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>. His ideas have been supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/erlingsson-dr-ulf\/\">Ulf Erlingsson<\/a><sup>(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Sex at a more blatant level was achieved by John Grant with his <em>Sex Secrets of Ancient Atlantis <\/em>delivered with all the accuracy and sincerity we could expect from tabloid journalism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mcmillin-david-n\/\">David McMillin<\/a> has an extensive article on sex in Atlantis<sup>(c)<\/sup>, unfortunately the valueof his speculations are, in my view, marred by an over reliance on the \u2018readings\u2019 of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cayce-edgar-2\/\">Edgar Cayce.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090227112705\/http:\/\/greekatlantis.warpco.com\/Sexcentric.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090227112705\/http:\/\/greekatlantis.warpco.com\/Sexcentric.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190727102713\/https:\/\/www.ireland-hotels.net\/en\/atlantisinireland.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190727102713\/https:\/\/www.ireland-hotels.net\/en\/atlantisinireland.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(c) <\/span><\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180627092444\/https:\/\/www.mcmillinmedia.com\/atlantis-sex\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180627092444\/https:\/\/www.mcmillinmedia.com\/atlantis-sex\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexual Undertones in the Atlantis narrative have been identified by J. Warren Wells,\u00a0who maintains that Clieto or Kleito in Greek is the diminutive of Kleitoris, which is rendered clitoris in English. He further contends that the name of her husband, Poseidon, can have its constituent elements, Pos and Eidon, translated as \u2018penis idol\u2019(a). His ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,134,2661,82,1116,2660,280,1141],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-clieto","tag-david-mcmillin","tag-edgar-cayce","tag-j-warren-wells","tag-john-grant","tag-poseidon","tag-ulf-erlingsson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67300,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/67300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}