Talos Talos In Greek mythology, Talos, also spelled Talus (; , "Talōs") or Talon (; , "Talōn"), was a giant automaton made of bronze to protect Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders. He circled the island's shores three times daily. Talos's bronze nature suggested to the author of "Bibliothēkē" that he may have been a survivor from the Age of Bronze, a descendant of the brazen race that sprang from "meliae" "ash-tree nymphs" according to "Argonautica" 4. The conception that Hesiod's men of the Age of Bronze were actually made of bronze is extended to men of the age of
Escape from the Island of Aquarius island of Aquarius to locate MacKenzie, a missionary who, until his note was found, had been presumed dead. Following their arrival on the island, a Polynesian man who speaks little English but seems to recognize MacKenzie's name brings the Coopers to a village that seems more American than Polynesian, where the village's leader greets them and identifies himself as MacKenzie. He explains that the man found on the raft, who was known as Tommy, was a victim of a deadly curse known as "Moro-Kunda"; the Coopers are skeptical of the idea of a curse. A man appears by the edge