Orphism and the Gold Leaves
Orpheus was claimed by later writers as older than Homer. The earliest physical Orphic text — the gold lamella from Hipponion, found 1969 — is fifth to fourth century BCE, centuries after the figure it is supposed to predate everything about.
The gold lamellae from Thurii, Petelia, Hipponion (found 1969) and Pelinna (found 1985), c. 400 BCE
Thin gold tablets buried with initiates, giving the dead instructions in their own voice rather than an outsider's report of belief.
