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In Search of the Orichalcum of Atlantis

5/8/2015

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First, a bit of business: Many of you likely have seen that the History Channel is promoting Ancient Aliens: Giorgio Tells All, airing tonight at 9 PM ET. Tonight’s episode is a rerun of last fall’s “Secrets of the Mummies” episode from H2 with additional commentary from ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos. You will forgive me if I don’t sit through a rerun for an extra 90 seconds of Tsoukalos’s “enhanced” commentary. 
Second, some additional business: Last December on America Unearthed Scott Wolter mistook a nineteenth century hoax for the secret treasure map of the pirate Capt. William Kidd, leading him on a merry jaunt to Deer Island, Maine, in search of Kidd’s loot. When he failed to find the treasure, he told viewers ““the real treasure is learning the truth about who Captain Kidd really was.” Well, that may be nice for him, but it turns out that underwater explorer Barry Clifford, who found the pirate ship Whydah, announced that he actually did find Capt. Kidd’s treasure, off Madagascar, near where Clifford discovered Kidd’s ship, the Adventure Galley, in 1999. While not everyone is convinced that the silver Clifford uncovered belonged to Kidd (or that the wreck is that of the Adventure, for that matter), the 50 kg (110 lb.) bar of silver, if verified as Kidd’s, would be the only part of Kidd’s pirate treasure ever found. What a shock that it wasn’t the conspiracy theorist who found some of Kidd’s treasure.

Speaking of rare metals, I’m sure you’ve noticed that fringe historians love them. Ancient astronaut theorists think aliens are obsessed with gold, mining it to power their rogue planet and eating it as a combination immortality elixir and sex aid. Heck, fringe historians love gold so much, people with strange ideas about the past like Steve Quayle and Glenn Beck practically insist that you buy gold, preferably from them or their sponsors, where they get a cut.

It was therefore not surprising but nevertheless disappointing to see that this month’s Fortean Times had an article by freelance writer Jerry Glover giving credulous coverage to the ridiculous claim made by fringe theorists and media hacks back in January that “Atlantean” orichalcum, or mountain copper, had been discovered in an undersea exploration off Sicily. Plato mentioned orichalcum in his Atlantis dialogues as being used in Atlantis, though his use of the term suggested he was referring to a mythical substance and not the metal in use in his day. Italian authorities likened the metal to the Greco-Roman-era brass of the same name, but the media mangled the story, and Glover seems uninterested in finding the truth. Instead, Glover repeats the media mistake nearly verbatim, conflating the Greco-Roman alloy with the fabulous metal of Platonic usage, even though he actually cites the existence of the Roman use of the word to mean brass in his article. Unsurprisingly, Glover sees orichalcum as evidence for Atlantis rather than, say, the existence of Turnus, whose orichaclum-laden breastplate is equally fictitious (Virgil, Aeneid 12.87).

It’s interesting that Glover seems to have done some of his research from Wikipedia, apparently misreading the online encyclopedia’s grammar. Consider this line from Wikipedia’s article on orichalcum as it appears as of this writing: “Orichalcum is first mentioned in the 7th century BC by Hesiod, and in the Homeric hymn dedicated to Aphrodite, dated to the 630s” (emphasis added). And now Glover’s paraphrase: “Hesiod provides the earliest specific naming of Plato’s metal in his Hymn to Aphrodite and possibly the Shield of Heracles from c. 630 BC…” Glover makes Hesiod into the author of the hymns. This is doubly strange because Hesiod is not the author of the Homeric Hymns, which postdate him, and because in Antiquity, though, as the name suggests, they were thought to be the work of Homer, Hesiod’s purported rival. The reference to orichalcum occurs in line 9 of Homeric Hymn 6: To Aphrodite, where the Hours give Aphrodite earrings of the metal upon her emergence from the sea. Did Glover misunderstand the author of the hymns because the translation he uses, by H. G. Evelyn-White is called Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, which due to the graphic design of the Loeb text, looks a lot like Hesiod: The Homeric Hymns and the Homerica?

I have no idea why Glover attributes orichalcum to the Shield with only a half-hearted effort, as though he doesn’t know whether it’s true. On line 122 Heracles’ leg greaves are said to be made of orichalcum, which the most popular English translator, H. G. Evelyn-White, hid from English readers by rendering the word as “shining bronze.” (C. A. Elton, oddly, was more literal in his verse translation in 1832, translating it as “mountain brass.”)

There is an interesting sidelight on the question of what ancient authors meant when they used the name of metals. In the Shield at line 142, writing of the shield itself, the poet says that “its whole orb was a-shimmer with enamel and white ivory and electrum (elektron), and it glowed with shining gold” (trans. H. G. Evelyn-White). Electrum is not orichalcum, since the former is white and the latter reddish, but in the 1960s, John M. Riddle argued that electrum wasn’t electrum but amber, which was also orichalcum. Writing in The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science, he notes that in Timaeus 80c Plato writes of the static electricity in elektron, by which most editors and translators have taken him to mean amber. The long and short of it is elektron didn’t have to be electrum but could also be amber, with its gold coloring. These two meanings are found in Greek and are then carried over into Latin, beginning with Virgil, who uses the word in both senses; Ovid, who uses it only to mean amber; and Pliny the Elder, who uses it both ways. Then, just to confuse everyone further, the apparently Nazi-affiliated Atlantis proponent Jürgen Spanuth proposed that orichalcum was also amber, while others thought orichalcum and electrum to be the same.

Regardless of whether the Shield’s elektron was amber, it couldn’t be orichalcum because orichalcum was already mentioned in line 122 as a different metal, which Glover would have known had he investigated the underlying texts rather than secondary (and unnamed) sources. In other words, his “probably” qualifier tells us that he doesn’t know the originals of the texts he cites in Evelyn-White’s English translation.  

Nevertheless, we can be pretty sure that he orichalcum wasn’t a prehistoric metal of rare device since in the Iliad and the Odyssey Homer makes no mention of the metal among the gods’ treasures, nor does it appear in Hesiod’s most famous works, the Theogony and the Works and Days. (The Atlantipedia, based on fringe texts and old encyclopedias, claims Homer mentioned it, taking the Homeric Hymns for the work of Homer.) In other words, the metal only shows up after the Greeks encounter the Near East and have access to a wider range of metals and alloys, one of which is probably the inspiration for the name later applied to ordinary brass.

16 Comments
bear
5/8/2015 09:43:23 am

Once again, another fringe writer fails to check sources.
Hey, you know something Jason? All that checking sources is hard work. Why it takes time away from doing fun stuff. When the basic intelligence of the average reader of fringe literature(dare I use that term for it?) is most likely equal to or maybe less than the fringe writer, well, why bother?
At least we can trust you to show how the fringe writers almost never, ever check the sources.

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Clete
5/8/2015 10:25:12 am

Whew. I was almost fooled at first. I though you had said the average reader of fringe literature had the intelligence of a fridge.

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titus pullo
5/8/2015 10:03:21 am

I don't think Aliens have some sweet spot for gold (if they are that advanced they can create it using nuclear physics-heck if they can go faster than light speed)..

Now about gold...as the great socialist and author George Shaw once said,

“You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold."

Those of us who like gold as a base for currency are all not ancient alien fanatics...we just like the idea that the market determines values not a few central bankers...or governments. Nothing special about gold other than it is the choice of the market as a base of exchange and it ensures governments don't debase their currency in order to pay for wars and favor the well connected.

But aliens and gold...rubbish

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mhe
5/8/2015 02:41:54 pm

So your saying Ron Paul isn't an alien and doesn't consume gold "as a combination immortality elixir and sex aid"? I need some proof:)

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Andrew M
9/3/2015 05:42:23 am

There Is allot of things special about gold but why would you come to earth for it even if you cant make you're own gold it would still be far more efficient to mine asteroids for it.

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mhe
5/8/2015 02:05:14 pm

Now that it's looking more and more like there will be no further episodes of America Unearthed it might be interesting to do a retrospective on some of Wolter's claims and see where they stand based on new information that has come out since some of the older episodes were aired.

Possible topics:

Solutrean Hypothesis
Kennewick Man
Michigan Copper Mines
Newark Holy Stones

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Ed
5/8/2015 03:19:24 pm

How is it looking more and more likely there won't be any more episodes of America Unearthed? I could've sworn I heard that they are filming new episodes right now.

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Jerky
5/8/2015 03:36:36 pm

Just because there filming new episodes dose not mean that they will be aired. There is always a chance that the show gets canceled before of even in the middle of the airing of the episodes.

mhe
5/8/2015 04:00:52 pm

H2 will be gone at the beginning of 2016 and become VICE TV. The previous three seasons of AU start in the November/December timeframe so that doesn't work. It's possible the History channel could pick it up but there has been no announcement to that effect yet.

Joe
5/8/2015 04:26:42 pm

Actually, Wolter has said that he is fully aware of H2 going away and that he will be making an announcement soon about it. He seemed to imply that the show could be going somewhere else. It's still a possibility though that it could be getting cancelled.

mhe
5/8/2015 04:46:33 pm

Thank's Joe, I hadn't run across that.

Mike Morgan
5/8/2015 07:52:34 pm

Below are posts I made under http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/steve-quayle-the-nephilim-and-homosexuality#comments

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Mike Morgan
05/05/2015 11:20pm

I know this is not about the subject at hand. Many will cringe while others will look forward to Jason's future blog on the subject.

Please don't shoot the messenger.

"SpurgeonMay 5, 2015 at 11:24 AM

I haven't posted in a few months so I may have missed it, but has America Unearthed been picked up for a new season?"

"Scott WolterMay 5, 2015 at 5:08 PM

The new show I've been filming will air sometime in July. No hard date has been set yet."

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I Followed up by a post asking for some clarification to Mr. Wolter's blog. http://scottwolteranswers.blogspot.com/2015/01/two-brand-new-medieval-hooked-xs.html And posted the below under my original post.

"Mike Morgan
05/07/2015 6:26pm

Some clarification:

AnonymousMay 6, 2015 at 10:36 AM

Scott, if you could please clear this up for us, is the new show you've been filming part of a new season of your "Americas Unearthed" series or is it a special show apart and separate from "Americas Unearthed"?

Thanks, Mike Morgan"

"Scott WolterMay 7, 2015 at 10:49 AM

Mike,

The new show has not been announced yet, but I will let everyone know as soon as I am able. It's gonna' be good though!

Although it looks like H2 is going away, America Unearthed isn't dead yet...

Stay tuned."

David Bradbury
5/8/2015 09:26:10 pm

" John M. Riddle argued that electrum wasn’t electrum but amber, which was also orichalcum"

Riddle discusses the word chalkolibanon, found in the Book of Revelation (1:15 & 2:18), which can either mean "copperlike-incense" (i.e. perhaps amber) or "copper from Lebanon". Given that Lebanon was known as a copper-smelting centre in antiquity:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a4rcAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA120
the latter meaning is far more likely.

Although amber and the gold-silver alloy used in ancient Greek coins were both called elektron, neither could be called orichalcum (Greek oreichalkum, with the ch hard as in chaos) because chalkum is copper.

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5/13/2015 12:04:23 am

The recently found orichalcum from the shipwreck resulted in a really annoying mass media misunderstanding, that it would be orichalcum from Atlantis. Of course, this cannot be.

But what did Plato mean?

The word "orichalcum" was used in various ways in antiquity. Partly it meant mythical metals, partly it meant unknown metals, partly it maybe meant brass or an alloy such as the alloy now found before the coast of Gela. In case of Plato's Atlantis it clearly meant an unknown metal, as explicitly said in Plato's text, and the Latin "orichalcum" resp. Greek "oreichalkos" is only a descriptive identification (literally: "mountain ore") for lack of knowledge of its real name and composition.

See my Atlantis newsletter no. 79 from January 2015:
http://www.atlantis-scout.de/atlantis_newsl_archive.htm#an79

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Jerry Glover link
5/25/2015 09:31:20 am


Jason, you protest too much. I don't "see orichalcum as evidence for Atlantis", only the possibility that the reason Plato mentions it could be because such a metal was known closer to his time, as suggested by the Gela wreck. The reason I "repeat the media mistake verbatum" is in order to discuss it and what it might mean for Plato's influences, not to compound the errors, all right? From the article:

"But as an alloy from the early 1st millennium BC, could the orichalcum of Plato's Atlantis be one of the strongest clues to an influence much closer to home in Pato's time and location? ... The evocation of Atlantis in the announcement of this discovery underscores how few legends gleam more than its crafty alloying of mythology, tragedy, history, and allegory. Indeed, it is the only ancient legend that the gatekeepers of the mass media seem to pay attention to these days, so any opportunity to mention it, however tenuous, is seized on. Where there's Atlantis there's brass."

... That is to say, the myth has achieved a kind of critical mass that is self-propagating, making such claims more probable. Your interpretation on what I am saying is highly disingenuous, but I don't blame you as I am striving for nuances of fortean meaning, but good try.

You might also mention that the article discusses several other ancient metal discoveries from the past year that are much more interesting than the bloody Atlantean brass!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyglover/sets/72157650064144424

Your discussion of the shield and its sources is much more knowledgeable than mine, thank you. Good blog, too.

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9/22/2015 07:48:47 pm

Jason,
This discussion on orichalcum is one of the few mentions by you of Jurgen Spanuth, whose book Atlantis of the North is surprisingly well-written and buttressed with factual archaeology. I gather that you have not read this book, which I think you might enjoy. His identification of the North Sea island of Heligoland (which was originally heiligoland or "holy island") as "Atlantis" has its good and bad points--the good point was that including Atlantis in the title made his book an automatic best-seller in the early 1950s, especially in post-war Germany looking for escapism. The bad point is that this same inclusion of the name Atlantis also largely condemned his book to lunatic fringe status. Actually, his book is rather well-researched, including some original diving around Heligoland (not by old pastor Spanuth) which did locate submerged walls, etc. around the island and the nearby mainland.
Leaving aside all reference to "Atlantis," Spanuth's book gives an excellent possibility for the origin of the "Sea Peoples" who invade the Aegean and help overthrow Mycenean, Hittite, Ugaritic, civilizations. He bases this on the Naue II type sword originally cast in bronze but later in iron, which is found earliest around southern Denmark and adjacent Germany (precisely where Heligoland is located) but which shows up in the Aegean in just the right period archaeologically. Moreover, he provides several classical sources for the idea that Germanic peoples were set in motion in ancient times by an earthquake and inundation by the sea (similar to the later one in 1200s A.D. in Holland that flooded the Zuider Zee). He makes a pretty good case for this.
His Atlantis connection goes back straight to the source, Plato's two accounts, and he makes a rather convincing tie-in there--though actually it's not strictly necessary to support his Naue II Dano-teutons as one of the leading Sea Peoples.
What I respect about Spanuth is that he uses the myth of Atlantis to support the archaeology, not vice versa and, also, for the fact that unlike most writers invoking the Atlantis prestige he does not make extensive "corrections" to Plato, except for the obvious one of chronology, which even Plato gives two different versions for. At that, the Greeks actually were rather vague on ancient chronology, especially before the Olympiad system began--and just as Plato credits his Atlantis to an unbelievable antiquity, he does the same for his Egyptian priests and their culture which we clearly recognize as an exaggeration.
Spanuth says when the Egyptians say Atlantis was an island in the Outer Sea, this could apply to Heligoland, which was in its day a favorite religious pilgrimage site (hence the name). He does say that orichalcum must be amber, and in fact there are references in later Viking and other records of amber being used as decoration for temples, and also burnt as incense--moreover, the coast of the North Sea off Germany and Poland is the classic site for amber gathering, sometimes huge chunks.
Another interesting connection that he makes is that Plato mentions elephants in Atlantis--which would be an oddity for an island located out in the Atlantic (also Heligoland, of course). However, Spanuth's explanation is that this is a reference to the huge extinct bison of northern Europe, the aurochs, which with its out-reaching horns rather like a giant version of a Texas longhorn, and its shaggy coat, might well have looked something like a wooly mammoth (not that the Greeks, Egyptians, or Danish Teutons would have known). Caesar in his Commentaries mentions that the adult Aurochs was the size of a baby elephant--the aurochs only became extinct in the 1600s A.D. and attempts have been made to recreate it by back-breeding from modern cattle stocks it interbred with. Another tie-in Spanuth makes to the classical world is several references to the worship of Apollo coming late to the Greek world as "Hyperborean Apollo", who had a temple on an island in the north (conventionally assumed to be Stonehenge on Britain, but quite possibly Heligoland). There is even a Greek myth that Phaeton, son of Apollo, when allowed to fly his father's sun chariot was thrown out and perished in the Epidanus river--probably the Elbe-- near the Hyperboran ocean, where his sisters wept bitter tears which became drops of AMBER--not produced in the Mediterranean.
If you haven't read Spanuth, I urge you to do so. As a Lutheran pastor (and not a Nazi that anyone has proved) he does have the Teutonic love for mythical literature that the Nazis shared, (but so did Goethe and Grimm, etc.) One enjoyable aspect of his writing is that he gives plausible explanations, presents factual archaeological evidence, and leaves the reader to make his own decision. He does not have the dogmatic insistance of Velikovsky or the endless and tiresome empty rhetorical "why nots" and "we can suppose" that Von Deniken and others lard their

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