Orichalcum Find Off the Coast of Sicily Linked To The Biblical Descendants of Japheth
By: Marshall Ramsey II, Worthy News U.S. Correspondent
SICILIAN REGION, Italy -- (WorthyNews) A discovery off the coast of Sicily may soon have people thinking twice about whether or not so-called mythological accounts of history are real and their connection to the Bible.
Members of the Corps of Harbour Masters and Coast Guard, or Guardia Costiera in Italian, recently made a discovery off the southern coast of the island of Sicily made an amazing discovery of a rare metal called orichalcum. Orichalcum is described as being reddish in color, with variations ranging from copper to bronze, and in the ancient world was second in value only to gold.
"Nothing similar has ever been found," Tusa said. "We knew orichalcum from ancient texts and a few ornamental objects," said Sebastiano Tusa, Sicily's superintendent of the Sea Office in an interview with Discovery News. He noted that the 39 ingots found on the sandy sea floor represent a unique finding.
According to ancient Greeks, it was invented by a man named Cadmus, who was the son of Agenor, a son of Poseidon, now known as Iapetus and the biblical Japheth, the son of Noah. The ingots (an ingot is a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining) that were found had a makeup of 75-80 percent copper, 15-20 percent zinc and small percentages of nickel, lead and iron, said Dario Panetta of TQ - Technologies for Quality, who analyzed the metal using X-ray flourescence, which is "the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by bombarding with high-energy X-rays or gamma rays."
Many Christians will object to the assertion that Cadmus and Agenor were actual people, citing the fact that for centuries these people have been featured in what is called mythology, a term often used to describe a fanciful, or false, way of explaining events that happened in the past. Yet the Greek definition of mythology is quite different.
The ancient Greeks considered mythology, or a mythos, to be a historical telling of events that happened in the past, such as the Battle of Troy and the founding of Athens. Usually these were told orally, with listeners from time to time checking back to see if the things told them were accurate. This is much different from the 'telephone game' in which a person whispers something to another and that person is supposed to pass along what they were about to say was correct without being allowed to ask if what they heard.
Indeed, many archaeological discoveries have been made over the centuries and millenia that confirm much of what the modern world calls fantasy. What happens is that over time countries start warring and the victorious people change the former stories and/or adapt them to what they already have, many times assigning different names for the same people. To verify this, look up the name of a Greek or Roman god online, and there will in most cases be a comparison to their counterpart.
The following websites contributed to this report:
(1) www.guardiacostiera.it/en/
(2) http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/atlantis-legendary-metal-found-in-shipwreck-150106.htm
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmus
(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenor
(5) http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Ge-10.html
(6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(mythology)
(7) http://conspiracyprophecyguy.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-historical-life-of-perseus.html
(8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_fluorescence
(9) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mythos
By: Marshall Ramsey II, Worthy News U.S. Correspondent
SICILIAN REGION, Italy -- (WorthyNews) A discovery off the coast of Sicily may soon have people thinking twice about whether or not so-called mythological accounts of history are real and their connection to the Bible.
Members of the Corps of Harbour Masters and Coast Guard, or Guardia Costiera in Italian, recently made a discovery off the southern coast of the island of Sicily made an amazing discovery of a rare metal called orichalcum. Orichalcum is described as being reddish in color, with variations ranging from copper to bronze, and in the ancient world was second in value only to gold.
"Nothing similar has ever been found," Tusa said. "We knew orichalcum from ancient texts and a few ornamental objects," said Sebastiano Tusa, Sicily's superintendent of the Sea Office in an interview with Discovery News. He noted that the 39 ingots found on the sandy sea floor represent a unique finding.
According to ancient Greeks, it was invented by a man named Cadmus, who was the son of Agenor, a son of Poseidon, now known as Iapetus and the biblical Japheth, the son of Noah. The ingots (an ingot is a mass of metal cast in a convenient form for shaping, remelting, or refining) that were found had a makeup of 75-80 percent copper, 15-20 percent zinc and small percentages of nickel, lead and iron, said Dario Panetta of TQ - Technologies for Quality, who analyzed the metal using X-ray flourescence, which is "the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by bombarding with high-energy X-rays or gamma rays."
Many Christians will object to the assertion that Cadmus and Agenor were actual people, citing the fact that for centuries these people have been featured in what is called mythology, a term often used to describe a fanciful, or false, way of explaining events that happened in the past. Yet the Greek definition of mythology is quite different.
The ancient Greeks considered mythology, or a mythos, to be a historical telling of events that happened in the past, such as the Battle of Troy and the founding of Athens. Usually these were told orally, with listeners from time to time checking back to see if the things told them were accurate. This is much different from the 'telephone game' in which a person whispers something to another and that person is supposed to pass along what they were about to say was correct without being allowed to ask if what they heard.
Indeed, many archaeological discoveries have been made over the centuries and millenia that confirm much of what the modern world calls fantasy. What happens is that over time countries start warring and the victorious people change the former stories and/or adapt them to what they already have, many times assigning different names for the same people. To verify this, look up the name of a Greek or Roman god online, and there will in most cases be a comparison to their counterpart.
The following websites contributed to this report:
(1) www.guardiacostiera.it/en/
(2) http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/atlantis-legendary-metal-found-in-shipwreck-150106.htm
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmus
(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenor
(5) http://av1611.com/kjbp/kjv-bible-text/Ge-10.html
(6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_(mythology)
(7) http://conspiracyprophecyguy.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-historical-life-of-perseus.html
(8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_fluorescence
(9) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mythos
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