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According to Plato; in this island of Atlantis there existed a confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power, which held sway over the entire island, and over many other islands also and parts of the continent. These elite of inherited kings or group of royal linked to the administration of the temple shrines and their granaries were responsible for mediating intra-group conflict and maintaining social order.
Administration and distribution of goods and
services in the community, advice and guiding,
scholar, and teacher, incorporating in there ranks men of any rank and dignity including the nobles. These learned priestly classes were the guardians of the unwritten ancient customary law they had the power of executing judgments, among which exclusion from society was the most dreaded.
Not a hereditary caste, though they enjoyed exemption from military service as well as from payment of taxes. "The principal point of their doctrine", “is the immortal and indestructible soul which does not die.” Subsidiary to the teachings of this main principle, they hold various lectures and discussions on astronomy, on the extent and geographical distribution of the globe, on the different branches of natural philosophy, and on many other problems connected with religion". As teachers, math, the art of building cities, law, order and justice, the knowledge of the Zodiac, and the course of the Planets. Instructing the sons of men, how too worship God, that they should fast, that they should pray, that they should give alms, votive offerings, food and shelter, abstain of the use of abominable foods and drunkenness. Wisdom to be associated with the tree of life .
These priests could punish members of society by a form of "excommunication", preventing them from attending religious festivals. As these religious festivals were common and well-attended, this was an effective means of excluding punished persons from society. The snake heads a dual symbol, representation of the paradox. Humans as combination of a mortal Body and immortal Spirit, existence of good and bad within the same body, life and death, principles Yin and yang and cycles, dynamics of life. The snake head, part of the story of the Garden of Eden, and the Gilgamesh epos. Gilgamesh had gone "down" from
