> I think ATLAS (ATLANT-) is a pre-Greek name, whose Greek analysis
is clearly a folk-etymology. Perhaps the same root of name ATALANTA.
The same can be true for almost all Titans. Suffix -AS (-ANT-) is
very common in Giants' and Titans' names: Mimas, Gigas, Gyas,
Phorbas, Pallas.
>
And in Krahe's Old European river names.
Torsten
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