Antichthon

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From Dante and the Early Astronomers by M. A. Orr, 1913.

Antichthon is a Greek word meaning "Counter-Earth." The Counter-Earth played an important part in the non-geocentric cosmos of the Pythagorean Philolaus. In the illustration shown right, the upper figure depicts night on Earth. However, it is confusing in that it depicts neither the Earth or Counter-Earth as flat or facing outward from the Central Fire, thus negating the need for a Counter-Earth.

In the 1st century A.D. Pomponius Mela, a Latin cosmographer, convinced that a spherical Earth must have a more or less balanced distribution of land and water, drew the first map on which the mysterious continent of Earth appears in the unknown half of Earth - our antipodes. This continent he inscribed with the name Antichthones.^{[citation needed]}Manly Hall speculated Antichthon may be identical with the alleged invisible moon that is called "Lilith" by some astrologers.^{[citation needed]}

References

• The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, by Manly P. Hall, Philosophical Research Society Inc. ISBN 1-58542-250-9
• Book of Earths, by Edna Kenton, Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 0-7661-2856-3

See also

• Counter-Earth

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