Glastonbury Tales [Sacred Geometry etc]

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Front Cover ......Page 1 Half-title ......Page 2 Printer's imprint ......Page 3 Contents ......Page 4 Fig. 1. Street Plan of central Glastonbury ......Page 5 Preliminary Introduction ......Page 6 Dedication and acknowledgments ......Page 7 Chap.1. Introduction -- the Lake Villages ......Page 8 Fig. 2. The Glastonbury District Today ......Page 9 Fig. 3. Glastonbury District at High Tide about 100 A.D ......Page 10 Fig. 4. Tor ......Page 15 Joseph ......Page 16 Jesus ......Page 20 The Wattle Church ......Page 23 The Thorn ......Page 24 The Virgin Mary ......Page 26 Caractacus and Co. ......Page 28 Fig. 5. Extent of the Glaston Twelve Hides in the c19th ......Page 30 Fig. 6. The Abbey ......Page 31 Chap.3. The Abbey -- and the Moors ......Page 32 The Early Faith ......Page 34 The Change to Benedictine Rule ......Page 36 The Coming of the Normans ......Page 40 After the Fire ......Page 41 The Moors in the Time of the Abbey, etc ......Page 44 Dissolution ......Page 47 The Moors after the Dissolution ......Page 50 Glastonbury after the Dissolution ......Page 52 Austin Ringwode ......Page 54 The Historical Arthur ......Page 55 The Late Mediaeval Arthurian Legend ......Page 56 The Grail ......Page 58 The Late Mediaeval Arthurian Legend (continued) ......Page 60 Earlier Mediaeval Versions ......Page 63 The Percival Story -- Introduction ......Page 64 The Percival Story -- Summary ......Page 65 The Percival Story -- A Suggested Explanation (...and the Grail) ......Page 66 The Arthurian Story up to Date ......Page 76 Chap.5. Ley Line and Vesica, Zodiac and Labyrinth ......Page 79 Ley Lines ......Page 80 Fig, 7. St. John's on the Wall, Bristol: a Ley Crossing ......Page 86 Fig. 8. Setting out a Ley ......Page 91 Fig. 9. Selection of Ley Lines in Somerset and Wiltshire ......Page 92 Fig.10, Fig.11. Vesica Piscis ......Page 94 Fig.12. A second Vesica ......Page 95 Fig.14. St. Mary's Chapel dimensions ......Page 96 Fig.16. Rectangle fitting a Hexagon ......Page 97 Fig.17. Buried Foundations of the Edgar Chapel ......Page 101 Fig.18. St. Mary's Chapel ......Page 103 Fig.19. Stonehenge (with St. Mary’s Chapel superimposed) ......Page 104 Fig.20. St. Mary's Chapel lengthened ......Page 105 Fig.21. Diagram from 'Britain -- A Study in Patterns' ......Page 109 The Somerset Zodiac ......Page 110 Fig.22. Three Figures of the Somerset Zodiac ......Page 111 Fig.23. A 10-mile Circle of Figures comprising Signs of the Zodiac ......Page 112 Fig.24. Three Figures of the Somerset Zodiac ......Page 113 The Nature of the Zodiac ......Page 116 The Message of the Zodiac ......Page 118 First Book (of the Zodiac) ......Page 119 Third Book (of the Zodiac) ......Page 121 Fig. 25. The Great Sheepfold ......Page 126 Application of the Message to the Somerset Zodiac ......Page 127 The 'High History' ......Page 129 Fig. 26. An Impression of the Tor Labyrinth ......Page 136 Fig. 27. Basics of the Labyrinth ......Page 137 Fig. 29. The Labyrinth Cross further extended ......Page 138 Fig. 31. The Labyrinth Cross further extended once more ......Page 139 A Recent Discovery ......Page 140 Chap.6. 'Glastonbury Fayre' -- or the 1971 Pop Festival ......Page 145 Chap.7. Glastonbury Today -- and What about Tomorrow? ......Page 153 1: (January) The Glastonbury Thorn ......Page 154 2: (March) The Tides ......Page 155 5: (End of May/Beginning of June) The Bath and West Show ......Page 156 6: (Mid-June) The Roman Catholic Pilgrimage ......Page 157 7: (21st June) The Essenes ......Page 159 9: (A Saturday Afternoon in Late June) The Church of England Pilgrimage ......Page 160 10: (From Late June to Early August) 'Miracle' Plays in the Abbey Ruins ......Page 161 11: (A Saturday Evening in Early November) The Carnival ......Page 162 12: (All the Year Round) 'The Alternative Society' ......Page 164 The View from the Tor ......Page 179 Fig. 33. The View from the Top of the Tor ......Page 183 Tail-piece -- Cross device ......Page 185 Rear Cover ......Page 186