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YUTU - THE JADE RABBIT - BEIJING, CHINA
Jade Rabbit Stone is found in Beijing's Phoenix Ridge - Fenghuangling - Nature Park. Jade Rabbit is the pet of the Chinese Moon Goddess, Chang E, and can be seen on the face of the moon using a mortar and pestle to crush the elixir of life. Chang E was summoned to the palace of the Jade Emperor, and she placed her beloved pet on Phoenix Ridge so that whilst she was gone it could eat and drink. Jade Rabbit explored Phoenix Ridge and played with the other rabbits that lived there. Chang E returned from the palace but couldn't find Jade Rabbit, but with her orders from the Jade Emperor she had a mission to accomplish, and couldn't take any more time to find Jade Rabbit. Jade Rabbit waited and waited at the exact spot where Chang E had left her and turned to stone. So is the Jade Rabbit seen on the moon the spirit of Jade Rabbit returned to the Moon Goddess Chang E. Was the re-union complete when China's first lunar rover landed and explored the moon in December 2013, called by the Chinese public 'Yutu' - Jade Rabbit in an online vote? See on the Map-Olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Jade_Rabbit_Stone_-_Beijing
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RING OF GULLION - CU CHULAINN
Here Cu Chulainn hero of the Ulster Cycle, aged 17, single-handedly defended Ulster from the invading army of Cannacht , led by its queen in a bid to seize a prized stud bull. The battle continues further south and Cu Chulainn with his battle chariot and battle frenzy ranged across the Muirthemne Plain. Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland has as its motto 'I gave birth to Cu Chulainn'. Cu Chulainn is also known of the 'Hound of Ulster' arising from his childhood slaying of a hound in self-defence and then being ready to take its place. See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Ring_of_Gullion_-_Cu-Chulainn LOCH NESS, SOUTH WEST OF INVERNESS, HOME OF THR LOCH NESS MONSTER - NESSY
Home of Nessy / Nessie the Loch Ness Monster. A large water creature with numerous sightings in the Loch. Numerous attempts have been made to try and find Nessy using fleets of boats and radar / sonar. A lost dinosaur, a floating log, a large sturgeon or a feature of the local water currents? See on the Map-olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Loch_Ness The lost lands of Welsh King, Gwyddno Garanhir, lay submerged beneath the waves.
The town of Cantrer Gwaelod had stood below sea level protected by sea walls but a drunken Seithennyn forgot to close them one night and a storm submerged the town as its people fled. See the petrified forest at Ynyslas, as you listen out for the ring of the bells sounding from the lost church. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Welsh_Atlantis_-_Cantre'r_Gwaelod Sightings of a dragon at Henham-on-the-Mount were reported in a pamphlet of 1669 - "The Flying Serpent or Strange news out of Essex".
Numerous locals were said to have attested to the sighting and further sightings continued after the pamphlet. Find Henham home of the 'Essex Serpent' on the Map-Olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Dragon_of_Henham The Tower of London's ravens must stay at the Tower or else the monarch loses their crown and the kingdom will fall.
This legend is said to date back to Charles II, who either he or his astronomer wanted them removed but on being reminded of the importance of the ravens allowed them to stay whilst the royal observatory was moved to Greenwich. Though the links with fortresses, and particularly the Tower of London, and ravens goes back further than that to Celtic times. The lead god/king of the Britons was Bran the Blessed, whose name means raven. Bran when fatally wounded instructed that his head be cut off and taken to the White Hill, the site of the Tower of London to be buried, so as to protect Britain from invasion. Hill forts have been found to have crow, magpie or raven skeletons buried within them seemingly as a way of bringing protection to the fort. A poem that attests to a king who had many of the characteristics of Arthur, though who wasn't Arthur, is said to have fed ravens on the walls of his castle. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Ravens_of_the_Tower_of_London Tintagel Castle birthplace of King Arthur and in the caves below Merlin the magician lived and tutored the young Arthur.
See Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Tintagel_Castle Rothesay Castle - unique amongst Scottish castles for being circular, having a lengthy history that includes the earliest recorded assault on a Scottish castle by Viking forces.
Captured by Robert the Bruce in the Wars of Scottish Independence and also by Oliver Cromwell's 'New Model Army'. Home of the Stewarts / Stuarts. And still today the Dukedom of Rothesay is a title bestowed on the heir to the monarch. See on the Map-olah map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=Rothesay_Castle_-_Scotland's_Most_Remarkable_Castle You are never more than 30 miles from a legendary location or historical site in Northern Ireland using the Map-olah map!
From St. Patrick to Amelia Earhart, and Conn-Edda to Finn MacCool - there's plenty to discover! As Advent begins and the Advent Calendars come out and the Christmas Trees and decorations go up, here is the legend of the first Christmas Tree and the miracle performed by the Devonian Saint, St. Boniface in Bavaria in Germany....
ST. BONIFACE AND THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE Crediton, Devon, birthplace of Winfrith who became St. Boniface in c672 AD. As an Anglo-Saxon monk he was sent to do missionary work in Germany in the Frankish Kingdom - and began the first organised Christianity in Germany, and today is the patron saint of both Germany and the Netherlands. Legend has it that in Bavaria, Germany St.Boniface saw pagans worshipping around an oak tree on the winter solstice, whereupon he grabbed an axe and cut the oak down - at that moment in the place of the oak grew a fir tree grew. In awe the pagans were converted to Christianity, with the evergreen tree seen as the everlasting love of God. At the next winter solstice the tree was hung with decorations to worship Christmas. See on the Map-Olah Map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=St._Boniface_and _the_first_Christmas_Tree |
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