#avalon

[the-king-and-the-druidess]

Island of Lundy/Weir (Welsh coast) as Avalon

✨Back on Lundy island, the true Isle of Avalon, where Graham Phillips Andrew Collins Author and I had an absolutely amazing adventure, fil

Lundy Island, from Lundy, Isle of Avalon by Mystic Realms

Most people visit on a day trip, but stay longer to fully immerse yourself in the wild solitude of this rugged isle off the Devon coast

[the-king-and-the-druidess]

Avalon in France, one in the South-Eastern region, the other in Burgundy

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[tellurian-in-aristasia]

The Coming Age Issue 15, Summer 1980

Another Amazon edition! The inside cover of this one includes an Amazon "marching song" and notes that Atlantis was called Abolrai.

The first article, titled "Three Eternal Truths", uses the word "Drispeal" apparently meaning triple-message, which appears to be a word the Madrians created. Or at least, I have never heard it and the Google results are only Madrian writings. It is interesting to see it presented as ancient Amazon history. It seems that a lot of the Coming Age issues are slowly becoming more Amazon-centric, seemingly since issue 11. This seems to be setting up a fully formed previous world for the proto-Aristasians to have inhabited. The ancient Amazons were kind of a strange thing for Aristasians of later years, not wanting to abandon their ancient matriarchal Telluria. They have speculated that ancient Amazons on Telluria were actually Aristasian souls in Tellurian bodies, and seemed to have their own version of Bridgehead where they were commanded by direct Aristasian contacts, the same as they were in this post-eclipse world. Creating a sort of Ancient Aliens myth within Aristasia.

This article goes on for several pages to explain the 3 short lines in the Drispeal, but I did note that in this article it mentions that the word "maid" is "closely related" to "may", meaning that a maid may choose to go lower or higher as an axial being. A fairly long list of other etymologically linked words follows, such as "mag" "might" and "maia".

A Man's Place speaks of exactly that, men's place in Madrian society. It's interesting to note that about 2 or 3 years later is when it appears that St. Bride's seemed to kick men out of the group. This article mentions that "Straven" is the highest position a man can achieve (of note is that the previous issue had "Strave" as the name of a character, I am sure you are also familiar with the word as the title of the man who wrote the excommunication letters.), and at that position distinction between maid and man is not important. The article mentions that Maid is the sun and Man is the moon, and we get some etymologically relate words for man: moon, mind, matter, all coming from "ma" which means "matter", apparently.

This is also the article that mentions that same-sex marriages (at least between women) are a fine tradition, and that one could change their sex with a magical ritual if one wishes to.

Of further interesting note is that the hypothetical man the article is speaking to has a little hypothetical positive confirmational quote that a male Madrian can say to himself that lets him know he is enough and it includes "I am the son of Colwyn, I am the husband of Mari…" Mari da Colwyn being a pen name of Miss Martindale herself. So it seems she has a little imaginary husband (and brother, if he is the son of the same house?) in this article.

Overall, I like this article, not necessarily because I agree with it though! It takes the very usual "the destruction of the traditional family is destroying our society!" sort of argument and sort of flips it a bit on it's head. Society is falling apart because men are forced to be breadwinners when they should be at home obedient to their wives, the divorce rate is so high because people should have more non-sexual intimate relationships with people like the woman who teaches you how to spin yarn.

The very next article is penned by none other than Miss Mary Scarlett herself! As most articles are uncredited, this one is interesting to see. It is a little biography of her life (at the time) and how she came to find Madrianism. Pagan-bashing abounds, as well as the quote "I had always known that the world was on a path to destruction" echoing later concepts of The Eclipse. Of note is that she "had not always known about discipline and obedience", which is a bit interesting because Miss Mary is generally the one who was believed to bring more hard-edged discipline into the Madrian world. At the very least, she was certainly the spokestress for it!

The story "The Great Crusade" is the first part of the Madrian Literature Circle story titled "The Amazons in Sain Arien", and it includes a character named Alana Fi'Alana, apparently also called "Red Alana". The real-world location "Middle-world" is often mentioned and I just generally have no idea where this is supposed to be.

Symbolisim: The Holy City has some interesting bits of lore tossed about, the Heavenly or Celestial City was "founded by the angels upon the body of Hagal, the Universal Maid near the dawn of time". The Lady Theia, a Genia, occupies the temple at the center of the Celestial City. From here there is a LOT of talk about what words mean in other languages and how they are related to other words as well as a bunch of numbers related to the Megalithic Yard and how it relates to other measurements. Caire gets a mention, as the capital of the city of Aboirai, hub of the old Western Empire. It also states that the capital city of the Rhennish Empire was probably where modern Glastonbury stands and was called "Avalon", which apparently is the diminutive or masculine form of Avala. It may be familiar to you that Avalon was regarded as the resting place of King Arthur, which was believed to be in Glastonbury. Presumably the idea here is that the King Arthur legend was inspired by an even older Rhennish legend, something they seemed to do a lot of to sort of build a world of myths around already established myths. They were creating the lost matriarchal foundations upon which the current patriarchal world rests.

The inside back cover has a final advertisement for a pamphlet called "A Defense of Sacred Measures" which seems to be an argument against the metric system. Something that they would later devote themselves more fully to fighting in the late 1980s/early 1990s with the Anti Metric Society.

[steamandepic]

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[lonely-lorddominator]

Since 287, how did the rabbit thing work out for Avalon?

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🌍✨ I'm speaking in Glastonbury, U.K - join me! Avalon has always felt like one of those places. Not as mythology, but as a living field where deeper truths become easier to hear and integrate. This gathering is about remembering what still lives within us and learning how to carry it forward with clarity and responsibility. If you feel the quiet pull toward realignment, grounded insight, and meaningful connection, I invite you to walk this sacred land with us. www.AscensionGlastonbury.com @portaltoascension @neilarcturus @p2ascension