What is a Telekhine [Telechine] in Greek Mythology?

[Paul Ferguson]

"The Telekhines were primordial sea-dwellers and the first inhabitants of Rhodes, often described as the children of Pontus and Thalassa or the blood of Uranus... The mastery the Telekhines held over metal eventually bled into a mastery over the occult. They did not see a distinction between technology and magic; to them, smelting iron was as much an incantation as it was a physical process. This holistic view of the world made them the first alchemists of antiquity, but it also turned them into objects of intense fear among the surrounding human populations and the gods themselves."

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