Facsimile Website

Note: I am awe-stricken by the beauty and profundity of this website! It contains many, many glorious images, but you really need to look at the site itself, so I don't want to reproduce many of them! You must see it! For anyone who is interested in these sacred natural phenomena (as I am), the author offers a wide variety of other sites to view, and adds more wonderful features to be absorbed all the time! This is a teaching site you have to visit!

 

 

MYTH*ING LINKS

An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links

to Mythologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore,

Sacred Arts & Traditions

And a gorgeous new feature,

 

THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR

 

Also, you may click on the image for a page of Celtic lore:

http://www.mythinglinks.org/Wheel.html

Winter Greetings & Lore........................Beltane / May Day

Yuletide Around theWorld..................Summer Greetings & Lore

Imbolc / Candlemas..............................Lammas

Asian Lunar New Year........................Autumn Greetings & Lore

Spring Greetings & Lore..........................Samhain / Halloween

Earth Day................................................Day of the Dead: 

Mt. Putucusi, Peru and the Urubamba Gorge - Photographer: Andrys Basten, © 1997

[Note: if you click on Andrys' link, http://www.andrys.com/peru-p12.html, you'll go to

this spectacular shot - and feel as if you're in the Andes yourself. 

From there you can reach her other Peruvian pages.]

 

Stonehenge.... Machu Pichu.... The Pyramids....

Jerusalem....Banaras.... Mt. Fuji.... Mecca...

From Kathleen Jenkins' description of Martin Gray's website at http://www.sacredsites.com/explore.html:

Since prehistoric times sacred places have exerted a mysterious attraction on billions of people around the world. Ancient legends and modern day reports tell of extraordinary things that have happened to people while visiting these places. Different sacred sites have the power to heal the body, enlighten the mind, increase creativity, develop psychic abilities, and awaken the soul to a knowing of its true purpose in life. While contemporary science cannot explain - and therefore disregards - the seemingly miraculous phenomena which occurs at the holy places, they continue to be the most venerated and visited locations on planet earth. What is the key to the mystery of the sacred sites and how are we to explain their power?

Explorer-anthropologist Martin Gray has spent 17 years as a wandering pilgrim visiting, studying, and photographing over 1000 sacred sites in 70 countries around the world. To share his fascinating insights and photographs with a wide audience, Martin lectures at museums, universities and conferences throughout the US. Based upon extensive academic knowledge and his own mystical experiences at the sacred sites, Martin offers an intoxicating discussion of the mythology and anthropology of pilgrimage places and a radical explanation of the miraculous phenomena that occurs at the sites. Featuring hundreds of stunningly beautiful photographs, the slide show is a magical blend of art, history and travel adventure, shamanism, inspiration and spiritual ecology.  The 110 places illustrated [below] are a small selection of those shown in the slide shows. Each of the following photographs are accompanied with information on the archaeology, mythology and significance of the sites. 

LANDSCAPE:

SACRALITY & LORE

MOUNTAINS, WELLS, SPRINGS, POOLS, LAKES, CAVES,

LABYRINTHS, SPIRAL MOUNDS, CROP CIRCLES, STONE CIRCLES,

FENG SHUI

Author's Note:

"Landscape: Sacrality & Lore" reminds us that place is as much a guide, teacher, and companion as people are.  Certain places, especially, are experienced by us as sacred and holy.  When Moses saw the burning bush, a voice from the bush told him to remove his shoes, for the place where he stood was a holy place.  In the Navajo Mountainway, a youth is rescued and tutored in ritual by many mountain spirits and cave-dwelling animals.  In medieval times, wells and springs were sacred places, tended by Well Maidens who refreshed thirsty travellers with cool water; when a ruthless king and his men raped the Well Maidens, the waters dried up, leaving the land devastated -- a wasteland; according to one legend, King Arthur established his order of knights to protect the Well Maidens and restore fertility to the land.  In our own time, crop circles, many springing up in Arthur's own land, bespeak a deep sense of mystery and wonder connected with ancient lore.  With this in mind, let's explore the sacredness, the spirituality, the intelligence of land.

 

WELLS, SPRINGS, POOLS, LAKES, CAVES, LABYRINTHS

Eleven-circuit labyrinth from Chartres Cathedral in France. Click here for more examples of ancient labyrinths, including a facsimile of the actual Chartres labyrinth so beautifully stylized above.

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