“In the old Irish manuscripts, the Celtic Otherworld was located in the midst of the Western O

“In the old Irish manuscripts, the Celtic Otherworld was located in the midst of the Western Ocean, as though it were the ‘double’ of the lost Atlantis and Manannan Mac Lir, the son of the Sea–perhaps himself the ‘double’ of an ancient Antlantean king–was one of the divine rulers of its fairy inhabitants, and his palace, for he was one of the Tuatha De Danann, was there rather than in Ireland; and when he traveled between the two countries it was in a magic chariot drawn by horses who moved over the sea-waves as on land.”

-W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911)