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The Fir-Bolg joined forces with the Fomorach in the disastrous Battle of Mag
Tured against later Atlantean immigrants, the Tuatha da Danann. Fir-Bolg survi-
vors escaped to the off-shore islands of Aran, Islay, Rathlin, and Man, named
after Manannan, the Irish Poseidon. The stone ruins found today on these islands
belong to structures built by post-diluvian Atlanteans, the Fir-Bolg.The Flood
See The Deluge.Foam Woman
Still revered among the Haida Indians of coastal British Columbia and
Vancouver Island as a sea-goddess and the patron deity of tribes and families.
Foam Woman appeared on the northwestern shores of North America immediately
after the Great Flood. She revealed 20 breasts, 10 on either side of her body, and
from these the ancestors of each of the future Raven Clans was nurtured. In South
America, the Incas of Peru and Bolivia told of “Sea Foam,” Kon-Tiki-Viracocha,
who arrived at Lake Titicaca as a flood hero bearing the technology of a previous,
obliterated civilization. Foam Woman’s twenty breasts for the founders of the
Raven Clans recall the 10 Atlantean kings Plato describes as the forefathers of
subsequent civilizations.Fomorach
Also known as the Fomorians, Fomhoraicc, F’omoraig Afaic, Fomoraice, or
Fomoragh. Described in Irish folklore as a “sea people,” they were the earliest
inhabitants of Ireland, although they established their chief headquarters in the
Hebrides. Like the Atlanteans depicted by Plato, the Fomorach were Titans who
arrived from over the ocean. Indeed, their name derives from fomor, synonymous
for “giant” and “pirate.” According to O’Brien, Fomoraice means “mariners of
Fo.” An Egyptian-like variant, Fomhoisre, writes Anna Franklin, means “Under
Spirits.” In the Old Irish Annals of Clonmacnois, the Fomorach are mentioned as
direct descendants of Noah.
Their settlement in Ireland, according to the Annals, took place before the
Great Flood. They “lived by pyracie and spoile of other nations, and were in those
days very troublesome to the whole world”—a characterization coinciding with
the aggressive Atlanteans portrayed by Plato’s Kritias. The Annals’ description of
the Fomorach’s sea-power, with their “fleet of sixty ships and a strong army,” is
likewise reminiscent of Atlantean imperialism. They represented an early migration
to Ireland from geologically troubled Atlantis in the late fourth millennium B.C,
about the time the megalithic center at New Grange, 30 miles north of Dublin,
was built, circa 3200 B.C.