![]() ![]() Uranus was an intolerant father, to put it mildly, and as soon as his children were born he imprisoned them in their mother’s womb. The Titan Cronus had deposed his father, the sky god Uranus, at the urging of his mother, the earth goddess Gaia. ![]() The story of how the Titan Atlas gave the ocean its name takes us deep in humanity’s earliest culture, linking ancient Greece with the trickster Coyote, rabbit and raven of First Nations’ origin stories, with the heroes of Irish mythology and the saints of early Christian Ireland.Ītlantic means the sea of Atlas, a Titan from Greek mythology. Though often crossed, few know off-hand the origin of its title. What’s in a name? Quite a lot actually when it comes to the Atlantic Ocean. The shortest distance between Europe and Canada is between Ireland’s south western County Kerry and Newfoundland. Our relationship has been define by the crossings of the North Atlantic, or more accurately the north-North Atlantic. ![]() What better place to start with the story of the Irish in Canada than the great North Atlantic Ocean that separates and unites us. ![]()
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