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Frobenius, Leo
Early 20th-century German explorer and founder of modern African studies.
His pioneering collection of Yoruba oral traditions describing a catastrophic
flood in the ancient past and subsequent migration of survivors, together with
anomalous bronze manufacture among the Benin, convinced Frobenius that
native West Africans preserved folk memories of Plato’s Atlantis.Fu Sang Mu
In Chinese myth, a colossal mulberry tree growing above a hot “pool” (sea) in
a paradise far over the ocean, toward the east. The land itself is hot. No less than
nine suns perch in Fu Sang Mu’s lower branches. White women renowned for
their beautiful, long hair tend the li chih, or “herb of immortality,” in a garden at
the center of the island. The lost Pacific civilization of Mu was chiefly characterized
by a sacred Tree of Life, and its climate was said to have been very hot.
(See Chomegusa, Horaizan, Mu)Restoration of the Cuicuilco Pyramid in this Mexico City Museum
model reveals its concentric design, a hallmark of Atlantean
monumental construction.