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both by Edgar Cayce and Greek myth in the Ogygian Deluge, following Deucalion’s
Flood. Although the Oera Linda Bok is the only Frisian document of its kind with
specific references to Atlantis (Atland), folktales of sunken islands and drowned
kingdoms of old are still common throughout modern Frisia.Oergelmir
The original name of Ymir, the Norse giant whose death caused the Great
Flood. The Hrim Thursar, a race which sprang into being from the only two survivors
of the catastrophe, knew him as Oergelmir, a designation in keeping with variations
of “Og” recurring in the flood traditions of other cultures.
(See Hrim Thrusar, Ogma, Ogriae)Ogma
In Celtic myth, the chief of the
Tuatha da Danann, refugees from the
final destruction of Atlantis, who ar-
rived in Ireland around 1200 B.C.
Ogma was known in Gaul as Ogimos
and in Wales as Gwydion. He is pri-
marily remembered for the script as-
sociated with his name, Ogham. This
is a system of notches for five vowels
and lines for 15 consonants. They
were etched into natural stone or the
walls of cut tombs to memorialize the
dead and/or a visitor.
Although the earliest surviving
examples of Ogham date only to the
fourth century A.D., connections with
runic and Etruscan alphabets imply its
antiquity, whose ultimate roots as an
elemental script appear to lie in the
Middle-Late Bronze Age. Ogham’s
identity as an import is suggested by
its signs for H and Z, letters which do
not appear in Irish.
Ogham may be at least one of the
original written languages developed
and used in Atlantis, but it is more
likely a later, simplified version of
Atlantean script modified to accom-
modate Celtic speech. An AtlanteanOlmec sculpture, Villahermosa, Mexico.
Mesoamerican beginnings, growth, and population
surges from 3100 to 1200 B.C. parallel the rise and
fall of Atlantis. Photograph by Claudette Nichols.