Midas was Cretan and around at least two thousand years before Mansa Musa.
81 posted on 08/11/2023 10:51:00 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear
(Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
Midas wasn't a Cretan. There's a mythical Midas (of the golden touch), a Phrygian, and a Phrygian king Midas in the late 8th century BC (known from cuneiform texts from the time of Sargon II).
What either of them had to do with mufflers when cars had not been invented yet, I don't know.