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The folk song “The Bells of Aberdovey” references an instance of this fate which happened because the guard Seithennin (“SAYTH-uh-nin”) got too drunk at a palace. Soldiers of Batu Khan witnessed another instance of this occurrence after following a secret path to Svetloyar (“SVET-lah-yar”). The legends of Cantre’r Gwaelod (“kon-TRAIR GWEH-loth”) and Kitezh (“kee-TEZH”) feature examples of this fate, another instance of which eliminated the main supply of orichalcum (“or-ee-KAL-kum”). When a silver key taken from the neck of princess Dahut (“DA-hoot”) is used to open a city’s gates, (10[1])this fate befalls the realm of King Gradlon in the Breton legend of Ys (“ess”). The gods inflict this fate on a well-ordered society that tried to invade Athens in a passage from the dialogue Critias used as an allegory of hubris. For 10 points, what occurrence hid Atlantis from the world? ■END■

ANSWER: sinking [accept equivalents such as sunken city; accept drowning or flooding or going underwater; accept sinking into a sea/ocean/lake; prompt on becoming invisible or disappearing by asking “what physical occurrence caused the city to disappear?”]
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