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The spirituality of Avalon is a spiritual concept originating in Celtic and Arthurian literature, and later popularized in Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel The Mists of Avalon and other novels of the so-called Avalon series.
Accolon is a knight loyal to Avalon, the second son of Uriens, and Morgaine's lover. She wants him to kill King Arthur and so restore the power of Avalon; however, Arthur slays Accolon in direct combat, and Morgaine is disgraced when her role becomes evident. Avalloch is Uriens' eldest son. He intends to rule North Wales as a Christian king ...
Avalon: Legendary Island of Apples, believed by some to be the final resting place of King Arthur. Camelot: The city in which King Arthur reigned. Cantre'r Gwaelod: A legendary ancient sunken kingdom said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island. Celliwig
Avalon (/ ˈ æ v ə l ɒ n /) [note 1] is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend.It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
The Avalon series retells the Matter of Britain from the point of view of the women behind the throne. Through a set of stories that spans several centuries, it tells of how the mystic isle of Avalon was created, its history, life in Britain under Roman authority, and how Avalon and its ancient traditions faded from the world because of a new religion, Christianity.
The Sons of Avalon Saga; Spear (Griffith novel) Spirituality of Avalon; The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady; The Story of King Arthur and His Knights; The Sword and the Circle; Sword at Sunset; The Sword in the Stone (novel)
The nine sorceresses or nine sisters (Welsh: naw chwaer) are a recurring element in Arthurian legend in variants of the popular nine maidens theme from world mythologies. . Their most important appearances are in Geoffrey of Monmouth's introduction of Avalon and the character that would later become Morgan le Fay, and as the central motif of Peredur's story in the Peredur son of Efrawg part of ...
The Tor is supposedly a gateway into "The Land of the Dead (Avalon)". [ 71 ] A persistent myth of more recent origin is that of the Glastonbury Zodiac , [ 72 ] a purported astrological zodiac of gargantuan proportions said to have been carved into the land along ancient hedgerows and trackways, [ 73 ] in which the Tor forms part of the figure ...