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an alloy invented by Atlantean metalsmiths through combining the world’s richest
grade of copper ore with gold.
The same precious metal was described in Old Irish accounts of Atlantis; the
Celtic authors referred to it as bath and findrine. Long after Atlantis perished,
orichalcum was still being manufactured by the descendants of Musaeus, an
Atlantean kingdom in Colombia. There the Muysica Indians produced tumbaga,
gold-alloy vessels outstanding for their buttery sheen of “gleaming copper.”
(See Findrine, Maeldune, Musaeus)Out of the Silent Planet
A novel about Atlantis by the early 20th-century British author, C.S. Lewis.Outer Continent
Mentioned by Plato in his Atlantis dialogues as a large territory on the opposite
side of the Atlantic Ocean, otherwise unknown to his fellow third-century B.C. Greeks,
and an apparent reference to America—18 centuries before it was “discovered” by
Christopher Columbus. Plato stated that its eastern shores were colonized by
Atlantean imperialists.Ova-herero
A Bantu people named after their chief culture heroes, a pair of white men who
arrived in southwest Africa following a terrific deluge, from which the ancestors of
the Ova-herero took refuge on mountain tops.Cairo Museum diorama of an early dynastic pharaoh impersonating Osiris, as
he blesses the soil, in preparation for planting. The Egyptians believed the
principles of scientific agriculture were brought to the Nile Delta by the god of
resurrestion after he arrived from his sunken homeland in the Distant West.