The Sun King at Glastonbury: (Pictured: King Arthur & Knights of the Round Table at Winchester Castle...Winchester is the site of a Roman town (Venta Bulgarum), a fifth-century cemetery, the Anglo-Saxon capital city under Alfred the Great, and a medieval cathedral city. Malory claimed that Winchester was the site of Arthurs famous court which the French writers called Camelot. The Round Table which hangs in the Great Hall of Winchester Castle was claimed, by Henry VIII and others, to have belonged to Arthur. Most likely this eighteen-foot tabletop originated as a thirteenth century pageant device repainted in the Tudor era. ) ***Note: the following text has been redacted from an article entitled, `: The The Sun Temple at Glastonbury`...to view article in its entirety, see attached link.*** theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/38-88-9/my-lydee.htm ``The stories of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table are also fairy tales to all appearance; yet they are based on facts, and pertain to the History of England. — H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 2:393 `` Old tales and traditions, along with their symbolic content, in many cases contain real historic events. In the year 1184 a conflagration destroyed the famed Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset, in the Southwest of England. In 1191, during the rebuilding of the monastery, the monks made a sensational and profitable discovery: in the old Celtic churchyard they came upon a grave which supposedly contained the remains of King Arthur and his Queen Guenievre (Guinevere). The bodies are said to have been found in an oak tree trunk some five meters below the ground, at the south side of the Lady Chapel. This discovery resulted in an increased number of pilgrims and donors who supplied the monks with the means to build the new monastery, which was to become the largest in England. On 19 April 1278 the royal remains were moved in the presence of King Edward and Queen Eleanor (Eleonora of Castile) to a grave of black marble which remained until the monastery was dissolved in the year 1539. A monk, describing the event, relates: The Lord Edward . . . came to Glastonbury . . . to celebrate Easter, the following Tuesday . . . at dusk, the Lord King had the tomb of the famous King Arthur opened. Wherein, in two caskets, painted with their pictures and arms, were found separately the bones of the said King which were of great size, and those of Queen Guinevere, which were of marvellous beauty . . . On the following day . . . the Lord King replaced the bones of the King and those of the Queen, each in their own casket, having wrapped them in costly silks. When they had been sealed they ordered the tomb to be placed forthwith in front of the High Altar. — Graham Ashton, The Realm of King Arthur, pp. 25-6 The same eye witness mentions also a leaden cross whose Latin inscription reads: Here lies Arthur, the renowned king, in the Isle of Avalon. The finds connect King Arthur and Glastonbury with the mythical Avalon. During the Reformation the grave was destroyed, only the bottom of the chamber remaining. In the year 1931 the remains were found in the Western choir near the original site of the high altar. A plaque in the grass states: THE SITE OF KING ARTHURS GRAVE. Some time during the latter half of the Middle Ages — year unknown — a man in Glastonbury Abbey in England was occupied with writing down the Arthur tales which in the French version, a 13th century manuscript, are known as Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal. The source of his inspiration was a Latin text of unknown age, which apparently was preserved at the monastery. The French medieval manuscript gives us the following information: The Latin from whence this History was drawn into Romance, was taken in the Isle of Avalon, in a holy house of religion that standeth at the head of the Moors Adventurous, there where King Arthur and Queen Guenievre lie. (Translated by Dr. Sebastian Evans into old English and titled The High History of the Graal. It is this account which comprises the Ariadne thread in Katherine E. Maltwoods A Guide to Glastonburys Temple of the Stars, published in England in 1935.) The unknown author who transformed the Latin texts message and drew it into Romance, must have known the great Glastonbury zodiac in Somerset, England, and its former function as a Mystery site. He knew that the Isle of Avalon lay at the head of the Moors Adventurous and that there stood a holy house of religion (Glastonbury Abbey) and further that King Arthur and his Queen were there interred. The mythical King Arthur was created by the unknown author himself, who wove together the pre-Christian tales of the zodiacal constellations with the pseudo-Christian legend of the Grail. At the end of the 16th century, the learned Dr. John Dee had rediscovered Glastonburys great star map, which again was soon forgotten. A number of other British poets, visionaries, scientists, students of ancient religions, sensed secrets in the English landscape. William Stukeley, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, and many others intuitively sought the secret knowledge of antiquity, whose key had long since been lost. In A Guide Maltwood describes her years of searching for the Glastonbury zodiacs different figures, which are formed with the aid of hills and waterways (natural or artificial features of the terrain) in the vale of Avalon. The solar and stellar temple at Glastonbury, sixteen kilometers in diameter, lies there like a gigantic star chart in relief and is included in ordnance survey maps of the area. The zodiac contains the picture gallery of the Arthurian legend as it is depicted in The High History, and on that great stage, which reflects the traditional astronomical star map of the northern hemisphere, is played out the Arthurian drama. One may imagine the stellar vault spread out like an enormous garden. In The High History it is called the Garden of Eden....
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