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Some 28 centuries later, the Fomorach were virtually exterminated by the
last immigrant wave from Atlantis, the Tuatha da Danann, “Followers of the
Goddess Danu,” at the Battle of Mag Tured. The few survivors were permitted
to continue their functions as high priests and priestesses of Ireland’s megalithic
sites, which their forefathers erected. This Fomorach remnant lived on through
many generations to eventually become assimilated into the Celtic population,
after 600 B.C. The most common Irish name is Atlantean. “Murphy” derives
from O’Morchoe, or Fomoroche. The Murphy crest features the Tree of Life
surmounted by a griffin or protective monster and bearing sacred apples, the
chief elements in the Garden of the Hesperides.
(See Garden of the Hesperides)Formigas
An Irish rendition of Atlantis found in the ninth-century Travels of O’Corra and
Voyage of Bran. Formigas “had a wall of copper all around it. In the center stood
a palace from which came a beautiful maiden wearing sandals of findrine on her
feet, a gold-colored jacket covered with bright, tinted metal, fastened at the neck
with a broach of pure gold. In one hand she held a pitcher of copper, and in the
other a silver goblet.” Plato portrayed the Atlanteans as wealthy miners excelling
in the excavation of copper and gold. The findrine mentioned here appears to be
his orichalcum, the copper-gold alloy he stated was an exclusive product of Atlantis.
(See Findrine, Orichalcum)Fortunate Isles
Also known as the Isles of the Blest in Greek and Roman myth. They are
sometimes used to describe Atlantis, such as during Hercules’ theft (his 11th
labor) of the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides that were protected
by daughters of Atlas. In other contexts, the Fortunate Isles were believed to
still exist, and seem to have been identified with the Canary Islands. Phoenician,
Greek, and Roman amphorae have been found in the waters surrounding
Lanzarote and other islands in the Canaries. The Fortunate Isles and Isles of
the Blest were synonymous for the distant west and used as a metaphor for the
afterlife.Fountains of the Deep
German author Karl zu Eulenburg’s 1926 novel in which a passenger liner
runs aground on Atlantis after a part of the sunken civilization rises to the
surface.Die Brunnen der grossen Tiefe is an original, imaginative tale.