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Martin Gardner describes Truthitonium as the invention of Ralph Cooper of Los Alamos. It is created momentarily (called a moment of Truth), by annihilating a Truthiton (a proto-proton) with a pseudo electron (a fiction), after which it degenerates releasing 2000 neutrinos and then implodes into nothingness "leaving behind not a particle of Truth".
Ostanes (from Greek Ὀστάνης), also spelled Hostanes and Osthanes, is a legendary Persian magus and alchemist. [1] [2] It was the pen-name used by several pseudo-anonymous authors of Greek and Latin works from Hellenistic period onwards.
Pseudo-mythology (Russian: кабинетная мифология or kabinetnaya mifologiya, "office mythology", literally "cabinet mythology") are myths and deities which are not properly attested in traditional mythology and folklore or their existence is doubtful or disproved. It may be created by researchers who liberally interpret scarce ...
Agathodaemon created his 'fiery poison' by fusing a mineral (probably realgar (seen here) or orpiment) with natron.. Agathodaemon (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθοδαίμων, Agathodaímōn; c. 300) was an alchemist in late Roman Egypt, known only from fragments quoted in medieval alchemical treatises, chiefly the Anepigraphos, which refer to works of his believed to be from the 3rd century. [1]
Depiction of Mary the Jewess, considered the first non-fictitious Western alchemist.From Michael Maier's Symbola Aurea MensaeDuodecim Nationum (1617). An alchemist is a person versed in the art of alchemy.
Joe Magarac / ˈ m æ ɡ ə ˌ r æ k / (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [mǎɡarat͡s]) is a pseudo-legendary American folk hero.He is presented to readers (see "Origin", below) as having been the protagonist of tales of oral folklore told by steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which later spread throughout the industrial areas of the Midwestern United States, sometimes referred to as the ...
The story of Fate/Zero takes place ten years prior to the events of Fate/stay night, detailing the events of the Fourth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City. [4] The Holy Grail War is a contest, founded by the Einzbern, Matou, and Tohsaka families centuries ago, in which seven mages summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete and obtain the power of the "Holy Grail", which grants a wish to each member of ...
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. A pseudepigraph (also anglicized as "pseudepigraphon") is a falsely attributed work, a text whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past.