Sonchis Transcript continues: "...when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand...they behaved unseemly...and grew visibly debased...they were full of avarice and unrighteous power."

Athene, a pure Xylanthian, looked out over the glorious city of Atlantis, but the beauty was becoming clouded by an ill spirit in the populous. Greed and prejudice were spreading quickly. An army had been formed and Athene knew that trouble was on the horizon. Athene gathered a band of like minded freedom-seekers and they departed Atlantis. They migrated to the west and then to the south, finally establishing a new kingdom, which they called Athens, to honor Athene.