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Maeldune’s nameless island is doubtless the same as Atlantis, from its
mountains to the circular city plan and richly covered walls. Bath is Plato’s
orichalcum, the gold/copper alloy he said the Atlanteans delighted in displaying.
That the island was depicted as hidden by mists and uninhabited are metaphors
for its disappearance.
(See Findrine, Orichalcum)Mag Meld
An island in the Atlantic Ocean from
which the Family of Partholon immi-
grated to pre-Celtic Ireland before the
“Pleasant Plain” disappeared in a “storm.”
(See Partholon)Magog
Cited in the Old Testament (Genesis
10: 2) as the grandson of Noah, who led
his family and followers in post-Deluge
times. Magog is also mentioned in the
New Testament (Revelation 20:8). Gog
and Magog appear to have been less for-
mal than descriptive names referring to
mighty kingdoms at either ends of the
world—“in the four corners of the Earth.”
They “went up over the breadth of the
Earth” before a “fire from heaven came
down out of heaven and devoured them,”
together with their “beloved city.” The
Atlantean implications of these lines
seem inescapable, especially in view of the “og” appellation identified with Atlantis
in Celtic traditions in Ireland, Britain, and the European Continent. Gog and
Magog may be associated, respectively, with Lemuria and Atlantis.
The 17th-century Swedish savant, Olaus Rudbeck, concluded that the tribe of
Magog was the biblical name for Atlantean survivors of the Second Cataclysm
who arrived in Scandinavia during the mid-third millennium B.C.
(See Rudbeck)Mahabalipuram
In ancient Indian scriptures, “City of the Great Bali” was copied after the
palace of the gods, which its architect and ruler, Bali, visited. For this impro-
priety, Mahabalipuram was entirely swallowed by the sea in a terrible flood.Sacred gateway, Machu Picchu. Photograph by
William Donato.