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Greek philosopher is no less at a loss to identify, stating only that pure gold alone
was more esteemed. Findrine and orichalcum are one and the same, most likely
an alloy of high-grade copper and gold the Atlantean metallurgists specialized in
producing because of their country’s monopoly on Earth’s richest copper mines,
in the Upper Great Lakes Peninsula.
(See Formigas, Orichalcum)Finias
The sunken city from which Partholon and his followers arrived in Ireland
from the second Atlantean flood, circa 2100 B.C. The sacred object of Finias was a
mysterious spear.
(See Falias, Gorias, Murias, Patholon, Tir-nan-Og, Tuatha da Danann)Fintan
The leader of the Fomorach, a sea people who sailed from the drowning of
their island home to the shores of Ireland. Fintan’s, along with that of his wife,
Queen Kesara, may be among the few authentic Atlantean names to have sur-
vived. In Celtic tradition, Fintan drowned in the Great Flood, and was transformed
into a salmon. Following the catastrophe, he swam ashore, changed himself back
into human shape, and built the first post-diluvian kingdom at Ulster, where he
reigned into ripe old age. His myth clearly preserves the folk memory of Atlantean
culture-bearers, some of whom perished in the cataclysm, arriving in Ireland.
Remarkably, the Haida and Tlingit Indians of North America’s Pacific Northwest
likewise tell of the Steel-Headed Man, who perished in the Deluge, but likewise
transformed himself into a salmon.
(See Fomorach)Fir-Bolg
Refugees in Ireland from the early third-millennium B.C. geologic upheavals
in Atlantis. Their name means literally “Men in Bags,” and was doubtless used by
the resident Fomorach, themselves earlier immigrants from Atlantis, to excoriate
the new arrivals for the hasty and inglorious vessels in which they arrived: leather
skin pulled over a simple frame to form a kind of coracle, but the only means
available to a people fleeing for their lives. The Fir-Bolg nonetheless reorganized
all of Ireland in accordance with their sacred numerical principles into five prov-
inces. According to Plato, the Atlanteans used social units of five and six.
The Fir-Bolg got along uneasily with their Fomorach cousins, but eventually
formed close alliances, especially when an outside threat concerned the future
existence of both tribes. The last Fir-Bolg king, Breas, married a Fomorian princess.