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Atlas

Greek mythology
“uncertain, possibly 'enduring'”
Where it comes from
uncertain; sometimes linked to tlenai ('to endure')
In Mythology
Atlas was the Titan condemned to hold up the sky, and his name was later given to collections of maps, a usage usually credited to the mapmaker Gerardus Mercator.
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