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Limu-kala
Hawaiian for the common seaweed (Sargassum echinocarpum), distinguished by
its toothed leaves, used as a magical cure. A lei of limu-kala was placed around the
neck of the patient, who then walked into the sea until the waves carried the garland
away and, with it, all illness. It was also eaten by mourners as part of funeral rites.
Limu-kala leis still adorn fishing shrines and ancient temples, or heiau, throughout the
Hawaiian Islands. Its name and functions clearly define limu-kala’s Lemurian origins.
(See Hina-lau-limu-kala, Lemuria)Ling-lawn
The supreme sky-god worshiped by the Shans, a tribal people inhabiting north-
eastern Burma (Myanmar). Offended by the immorality of his human creations,
Ling-lawn dispatched the gods to destroy the world. His myth relates, “They sent
forth a great conflagration, scattering their fire everywhere. It swept over the Earth,
and smoke ascended in clouds to heaven.” With all but a few men and women still
alive, his wrath was appeased, and Ling-lawn extinguished the burning world in a
universal flood that killed off all living things, save a husband and wife provisioned
with a bag of seeds and riding out the deluge in a boat. From these survivors, life
gradually returned.
The fundamental similarities of Ling-lawn’s flood story with accounts in other,
distant cultures is particularly remarkable in view of the obscure Shans’ remote
isolation. Doubtless, their ancestors experienced the same natural catastrophe
witnessed by the rest of humanity.Llyn Syfaddon
Also remembered in some parts of Wales as Llyn Savathan, Llyn Syfaddon
was the great kingdom of Helig Voel ap Glannog, which extended far out into the
Atlantic Ocean from Priestholm, until it sank entirely beneath the sea. Another
name for the drowned realm, Llys Elisap Clynog, seems related to Elasippos, the
Atlantean king in Plato’s dialogue, Kritias.Llyon Llion
Remembered as the “Lake of Waves,” which overflowed its banks to inundate
the entire Earth. Before this former kingdom was drowned, the great shipwright
Nefyed Nav Nevion completed a vessel just in time to ride out the cataclysm. He
was joined in it by twin brothers, Dwyvan and Dwyvach who, landing safely on the
coast of Wales, became the first Welsh kings. This myth is less the slight degenera-
tion of an obviously earlier tradition than it is an example of the Celtic inclination
toward whimsical exaggeration, making a mere lake responsible for a global flood.
In all other respects, it conforms to Atlantean deluge accounts throughout the
world, wherein surviving twins become the founding fathers of a new civilization.