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alone in a cave on an island in the mid-Atlantic. Here she is identical to Calypso,
the sibyl of Ogygia, a daughter of Atlas and, consequently, an “Atlantis.”Fathach
The poet-king of Atlantean immigrants in Ireland, the Fir Bolg. From his name
derived the Irish term for “Druid,” Fathi.Fathach may be one of the few words
we know with any degree of certainty is at least close to the spoken language
heard in Atlantis.
(See Fir Bolg)Fatua-Moana
“Lord Ocean,” who caused a worldwide deluge, but preserved some animals
and a virtuous family from the calamity. When the waters abated, all other life
had been drowned, and the survivors disembarked on the first dry land they saw,
Hawaii. This pre-Christian version of the Flood is remarkably similar to the
Genesis account of Noah, suggesting the Marquesas’ and biblical versions both
stem from an actual natural catastrophe experienced in common.Fenrir
A cosmic wolf that swallowed the sun at the time of the Great Flood, spreading
darkness over the whole world. His Norse myth is a dramatic metaphor for the
phenomenal clouds of ash and dust raised by the Atlantean cataclysm, which
obscured daylight and plunged the Earth into temporary, but universal darkness.Fensalir
“The Halls of the Sea,” the divine palace of the Norse Frigg, the Teutonic
Fricka, or Frija, as Odin’s wife, the most powerful goddess in the Nordic pantheon.
Fensalir may have been the Norse Atlantis.Findrine
In a Celtic epic, The Voyage of Maeldune, the Irish explorer lands at a holy
island with a city laid out in concentric rings of alternating land and water inter-
connected by a series of bisecting canals. Each artificially created island is
surrounded by its own wall ornamented with sheets of priceless metals. The
penultimate ring of land has a wall sheathed in a brightly gleaming, gold-like metal
unknown to Maeldune, called “findrine.” The place he describes can only be Plato’s
Atlantis, where the next-to-innermost wall was coated in orichalcum, a metal the