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Today we look at the Legends, mythology and all that stuff and where to see some or at the memories of them…
6 haunting battlefields to explore in Scotland
just walk thru the door and follow the
Yeah that one.
Sword of the Crown
Overview
When an invading army crosses the Mercerian border, the only thing standing between victory and defeat is an heir to the crown with no battle experience.
Enter Dame Beverly Fitzwilliam, who has trained for this moment since she first held a sword. From her relentless pursuit of knighthood to the day she single-handedly saves the king’s life and earns her spurs, she has searched for someone worthy of her fealty.
By swearing to protect the life of this untried Royal, she undertakes an adventure that will have her travelling across the kingdom fighting desperate battles, all the while surrounded by powerful enemies who conspire to bring down the crown. Her destiny will be determined in a monumental clash of forces where success can save the kingdom, but failure can only mean certain death.
Sword of the Crown is an action-packed medieval adventure that is the second book in the Heir to the Crown series. If you like epic battle scenes, dangerous enemies and mysterious prophecies, then you will love Paul J Bennett’s tale of a knight who will not submit.
Myths & Legends
Not all Legends wear armor and ride horses
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Nessie, Scotland
Zora Hurston
A woman before her or anybody else I know of even today—time.
we have a festival every year in Central Florida celebrating her accomplishments:
Zora was born in 1891 in Florida in a small all black town in central Florida—Eatonville but by 16 she had left the backwoods and her parents John and Lucy Potts Hurston with a traveling theater company managing to eventually arrive in NYC Harlem during their Renaissance.
While in NYC she was able to study and gain all manner of knowledge–including studying anthropology with Franz Boas at Columbia University, taking a scientific approach to ethnicity.
As an ethnologist, she traveled t Haiti to study voodoo. She wrote TELL MY HORSE, published in 1937. Th title comes from a phrase used in Voodoo ceremonies where the person becomes possessed by a spirit and is used like a horse by the spirit. It is an expression that might be used by the spirit to address the person being used. She also wrote about Zombie beliefs and included in this discussion the idea that there was a poison that certain person knew about that could create these creatures. She was reportedly right. In her autobiography DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD, she also wrote about her Zombie findings.
It is said that her second novel THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD brought her creative, artist and folklorist works together in perfection.
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The religious icons are themselves legendary and the Russian ones are some of the most interesting. Look at one that like so much of Russian history involves loss an more.
ICON ALEXUS, MAN OF GOD, IN OKLAD
Moscow Kremlin Workshops
Painting Mid-17th century
Oklad: Moscow, 1654
Gold, silver-gilt, precious stones, pearls, wood, silk, egg tempera, Levkas
This icon was painted on the birth of the Czarevich Alexei Alexeevich, son of Alexei Mikhailovich. This is shown by the portrayal of St. Alexei’s, the Czarevich’s patron saint. He was an ascetic and hermit who lived at the turn of the 5th century. According to legend he was born into a Russian patrician family, but forgoing a life of wealth, left his family and died in poverty.
The Czarevich Alexi Alexeevich did not live long, dying in January 1670 at the age of sixteen. The christening (measured) icon was transferred to the Archangel Cathedral of the Kremlin.
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Behind the Norman church, which has mostly been rebuilt in later years) on a footpath that leads and within a gated gated enclosure is a well and a chapel, the largest in Cornwall. The chapel was once the only church here before the Normans came and erected a church making the parish church into a chapel.
The chapel was rebuilt in the 15th c but fell into disrepair again in and beginning in 1895 the process was began again and dedication took place in 1800, but the foundations remain Celtic and the alter inside the church is estimated to be over a thousand years old.
The water from the well—really a spring flows from behind the holy well and then thru a granite drain into the chapel itself behind the altar from north to south and collecting in the lower well on the other side. It was apparently routed this way to make it holier by flowing over the relics inside the chapel which are course themselves holy.
St. Clether was descended from Brychan of Brecknock or one of his family and traveled from Wales to the Inney Valley,e Cornwall. Names used for him include Cleer, Clydog, Sledog, Citanus and Cleodius. His day is Nov 3rd or was –or maybe August 19th and some say Oct 23.
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This small chapel and holy well are located in a pretty, rugged area above the River Inney. They lie about a quarter of a mile north west of St Clether’s parish church. The well is covered by a steep gable and the
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Jan 27 is the feast day of the lesser-known Irish holy woman – Lí Ban, Ireland’s Mermaid Saint.
And now here’s a legend that has been around for a long time I knew about the one in a church in Cornwall—though I was never able to visit it, but I did read the book.
The mermaid was a supernatural being who lived in the sea and had the human upper body with the lower body of a fish. The selkie was a seal that could become human at times. Both could transform themselves into human bodies and associate with humans on the land if they wished. Many Celtic legends tell of marriages with humans and the birth of children. Some families trace certain physical characteristics to an ancient union of one of their family with a selkie or mermaid. The unions river lasted, as the sea creature inevitably return to the ocean. Both mer-folk and selkies like to sit on rocks along the coasts of Ireland and Scotland where they combed their long hair and enchanted humans.
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From the same series as Abrams’ successful Saints: A Year in Faith and Art comes Angels: Heavenly Messengers, with representations of these celestial heralds from early Christian mosaics to the paintings of Marc Chagall. Art historian Marco Bussagli has organized the book by significant Biblical events, beginning with the Creation in Genesis and ending with John the Evangelist’s vision of Heaven on Earth in Revelations; each work of art is accompanied by the Biblical passage it illustrates, along with a commentary exploring its form and meaning. In addition to seldom-seen gems, Bussagli has included favorites such as Michelangelo’s Creation of Man in the Sistine Chapel, Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise, and Rembrandt’s Sacrifice of Isaac. Here are angels as assistants, messengers, punishers, soldiers, rebels, and saviors, assembled for the delectation and delight of both art lovers and believers
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