#Glastonbury Tor

[geopsych]

Reminded by someone else's post so here are some pictures from Glastonbury Tor in 2015. The Tor is often associated with summer solstice and the 3rd photo is from the midsummer gathering of a druid organization called OBOD. The horn player turned and played in the 4 directions calling the opening of the ceremony. Happy solstice, everyone!

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Through St. Michael's Tower

Glastonbury, England -- 4/6/06

[vintagecamping]

Roadtrip to do some camping in Glastonbury.

England

1993

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Some much needed sunshine this morning. Taken at sunrise on Glastonbury Tor.

📸 by Michelle Cowbourne @glastomichelle

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Avalon. A view from Glastonbury Tor a week ago.

"Glastonbury, Avalon, the Isle of Glass as seen through the archway of St Michael's tower this morning before sunrise. The colours in the sky reflected in the flood waters below."

~ 'Visions of Somerset'

[Thank you Ian Sanders]

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“And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.” ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

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“Avalon will always be there for all men to find if they can seek the way thither, throughout all the ages past the ages. If they cannot find the way to Avalon, it is a sign, perhaps, that they are not ready." - Kevin” ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

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“Beyond the River of the Blessed, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Avalon. Our swords were shattered in our hands and we hung our shields on the oak tree. The silver towers were fallen, into a sea of blood. How many miles to Avalon? None, I say, and all. The silver towers are fallen. …waters,where the stars shone like bonfires at night and the green of day was always the green of spring. Youth, love, beauty-I knew them in Avalon. Proud steeds, bright metal, soft lips, dark ale. Honor…” ― Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber

[anglo-norman]

Shrines to St. Michael.

"Mountains figure prominently at the mighty ganglia of the story of Christianity... As Jesus prays atop the holy mountain, the other world intersects with ours as the divine comes down to the human, as the eternal touches the temporal and mortal. And that other world is the ultimate reality, not this one. No wonder that St Michael, ‘Quis ut Deus,’ has his shrines on lofty peaks; no wonder the Celts worshipped on hills and mountains...

The spirit of the Archangel Michael permeates discussion of the world of the Celts—shrines such as Skellig Michael on precipitous mountain-tops in the cold and wet Celtic desert; early connections with the ancient Eastern world; guardianship of Tuscany, Provence, Normandy, and Cornwall; safe-keeping of wanderers and hermits; motifs of spear, sword, and stone; waging of the war in Heaven and the downfall of Lucifer; the communion of the Grail."

St. Michael: Early Anglo-Saxon Tradition, Raymond JS Grant

(1) Mont St. Michel, Normandy, France; (2) St. Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, England; (3) Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, Italy; (4) Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe, Le Puy-en-Velay, France; (5) Abbey of San Galgano, Siena; (6) Skellig Michael, County Kerry, Ireland; (7) Sacra di San Michele, Mount Pirchiriano, Turin, Italy; (8) St. Michael’s Tower, Glastonbury Tor, England

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

Ah, yes, my birthplace. It was cool seeing it featured in one of my favourite movies.

This "field," though, however, is not Glastonbury. 😂

This, is Glastonbury.

Photos 1, 2, and 3 I'm in doing a couple of acting gigs/zombie walk.

I was born in a house at the base of the Tors hill, near the Springs and Chalice Well.

Below are the 3 shops my godmother and her partner owned, I used to watch the carnival behind those very windows of the Speaking Tree, growing up.

Queen of the Damned did miss an opportunity with this, not going to lie.

I still adore the movie, nonetheless.

[kowarth]

Chapter 14: "The snows of yesterday, where did they go, Eh?"

Fanart for @technicallywrite 's My Csmos is Yours. Chapter 14 adapts the Big Finish audio "Once & Future: Past Lives"

Yes, chapter 14 was some time ago , but this illustration is released on the occasion of the shared birthdays of Ingrid Oliver and Sadie Miller so, yeah.

[terebelli]

Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, England.

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Glastonbury, Somerset, England

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Northern Lights over Glastonbury Tor, 10th May 2024.

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Jupiter, andromeda and part of the Milky Way behind Glastonbury Tor, and of course the traditional singers and dancers inside the doorway causing a spirit like image. Happy Equinox. Credit: arry12@live.co.uk

[hafrenfae]

she went to glastonbury in hopes of finding some inspiration for her final chapter

[maypoleman1]

29th September

Michaelmas

St Michael Expelling Lucifer and the Rebel Angels by Peter Paul Rubens (1622). Source: Thyssen Bornemisza Museo Nacional website

Today is Michaelmas (literally the Mass of St Micheal). Michael is quite different from most saints in the Christian calendar in that he is a supernatural being - an Archangel - charged by God with protecting the holy sites of Judaism and Christianity. His ultimate act of divine defence was to save Heaven itself from the beautiful but evil Archangel Lucifer and his insurrection against God’s rule. Michael led the loyal Angels in a mighty battle against Lucifer and his rebel Angels, defeating him and casting his rival and his acolytes out of Heaven and into Hell. On the long descent, Lucifer and his followers were corrupted into Satan and his horde of devils. Embarrassingly, the would-be King of Heaven landed painfully on a bramble bush leading him vengefully to blight the brambles at the end of September every year.

Michaelmas was characterised by many end of Harvest fairs , where people traded in jobs, livestock, gossip and drinking. Frequently the farm workers travelled to the fairs to spend the money they had earned in the late summer bringing in of the harvest. As a result the fairs frequently became rowdy alcohol-fuelled events, leading some organisers to formalise the violence. At Kidderminster and Worcester, an hour of fruit fighting, called Kellums, was allowed between the standing down of the old bailiff and the accession of his successor. Michael, as mentioned yesterday, as a muscular and powerful Christian figure, was often conflated with pagan gods. His commemoration at St Michael’s Mount, near the attested old pagan site of Glastonbury Tor, is unlikely to be a coincidence.

The main dish at Michaelmas was goose, either arising from a mishearing of St Michael’s Biblical reading (the Latin phrase ‘esse intentos’ became ‘goose intentos’) or because Queen Elizabeth I celebrated the defeat of the Spanish Armada with a feast of cooked goose every Michaelmas. Neither origin myth is particularly credible. More likely, geese became payment in kind to agricultural workers at the end of Harvest.

[dopescissorscashwagon]

It was nice to see that strange shiny thing in the sky today. Taken at sunrise on Glastonbury Tor.

📸 by Michelle Cowbourne @glastomichelle

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Andromeda over Glastonbury Tor. :: Taking on the same night as my previous post from the Tor. [Matt's World of Photography]

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“The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.” ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West