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Not least among these is that they represent the blood of Christ miraculously springing forth from the ground when Joseph of Arimathea buried or washed the cup used at the Last Supper.
Originally posted by Pimander
reply to post by NocturnalPhantom
Indeed there is an important dragon line passing through Glastonbury - which happens to be named after St. Michael.
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Originally posted by NocturnalPhantom
reply to post by Versa
My years of roamin' however have taught me that a lot of the most fascinating sites are never included on maps or guidebooks, and if you didn't know it was there, you'd walk right past it. I have often found that following Ley Lines and courses of Roman roads will often take you through many interesting sites that even half the locals have never heard of. And for that matter, a lot of people talk about Glastonbury, but I wonder how many of them have ever bothered to go just next door to Street, which also goes back to Roman times?
Originally posted by NocturnalPhantom
reply to post by Pimander
Always best on foot. See more that way. And a whole lot of other far-out stuff, too. I'd love to know some of the secrets buried beneath Wiltshire and Somerset. I've heard of churches, and even whole villages built on burial mounds, and no-one even knew it.
I think Versa can be forgiving, as long as it's interesting.
edit on 23/8/11 by NocturnalPhantom because: (no reason given)
One of the famous Local Myths was the story of the children who went down Crank Caverns in the late 18th century. Four children decided to explore the sandstone caverns in the area and vanished. One child survived and told a terrifying tale about small old men with beards who killed his three friends and chased him. The petrified child stumbled over human bones in the caves and finally managed to scramble through an opening to the surface as a hand was grabbing at his ankle. The authorities were concerned because a number of people had gone missing in the area near the cave entrances. Two heavily armed soldiers descended into the caverns with torches and claimed that they not only found a heap of human bones, they also found the ruins of an ancient church of some unknown denomination. The interior of the church was lit by three large candles and grotesque gargoyles formed part of an altar. Throughout the exploration of the underground, the soldiers said they felt as if they were being watched, and also heard voices speaking in an unknown language. One report said that a child's head was found in a cave, along with evidence of cannibalism. After a second investigation, the caves either collapsed or gunpowder was used to seal them, and so the riddle of the underground church of Crank Caverns remains unsolved.
Originally posted by NocturnalPhantom
I cannot, however find any reference to mummified animals in Britain, which I find a little surprising.edit on 24/8/11 by NocturnalPhantom because: (no reason given)
ETA it looks like a great thread! Ah... the mysteries of ATS, why one brilliant thread should fail while a two line comment about bunkum should soar is beyond me.
Originally posted by mr-lizard
I also heard that behind the shrine (where all the water is flowing through - the stone room with the basins that pool the water) - I heard that beyond that room - there is a sealed off area which leads into a cave system deep within the tor. Apparently this has only been sealed off in the last few decades as prior to that some pilgrims apparently decided to venture into the caves and were never seen again.
Have you heard about this?
He looks like a Bronze Age European. In fact, he's every inch a Celt. Even his DNA says so.
But this is no early Celt from central Scotland. This is the mummified corpse of Cherchen Man, unearthed from the scorched sands of the Taklamakan Desert in the far-flung region of Xinjiang in western China
At their peak, around 300BC, the influence of the Celts stretched from Ireland in the west to the south of Spain and across to Italy's Po Valley, and probably extended to parts of Poland and Ukraine and the central plain of Turkey in the east. These mummies seem to suggest, however, that the Celts penetrated well into central Asia, nearly making it as far as Tibet.
The Celts gradually infiltrated Britain between about 500 and 100BC. There was probably never anything like an organised Celtic invasion: they arrived at different times, and are considered a group of peoples loosely connected by similar language, religion, and cultural expression
Even older than the Cherchen find is that of the 4,000-year-old Loulan Beauty, who has long flowing fair hair and is one of a number of mummies discovered near the town of Loulan. One of these mummies was an eight-year-old child wrapped in a piece of patterned wool cloth, closed with bone pegs. The Loulan Beauty's features are Nordic. She was 45 when she died, and was buried with a basket of food for the next life, including domesticated wheat, combs and a feather. www.independent.co.uk...