"Avalon" and other holy places

"Avalon" and other holy places

Ukonsaari-island

There is an island in Lake Inari in Northern Finland is called as Ukonsaari-Island. That place was really special for the ancient Samis, and the reason for that is this place was an island, it made easy to control the traffic to that island. It was used in the ancient religion as the sacrifice place, and there is proves about scarification rituals in that island from the 17th century and this kind of thing has feed rumors, that still in the modern days some people are obeying the ancient gods. And this kind of thing is brought many things in my mind.

Ukonsaari-Island at Inari Finland has brought the mind of some archeologists, that the mythic "Avalon" in the stories of "King Arthur" might not be in England at all if it exists as the physical place. There is a possibility, that this thing would be some kind of ritual or just legend, which has no connection with real life.

I don't claim that Ukonsaari-Island is "Avalon", but there are similarities with this kind of mythic place and Ukonsaari-Island. The connection is that both of those places were holy. Have the rituals of "Avalon" been similar to rituals of the Ukonsaari-Island? And there is a similarity with the words "Inari" and "Avalon", so could the holy men of the same or similar religion use both places?

Was "Avalon" only one place or were there many places, what were used that name? And were "Avalon" the place, ritual or some symbolic thing?

So at first, we would need to find out the origin of that tale, is it the tale of Vikings, Anglos or Saxons, and where the tale has come from? This thing is really important if we would start to search the mythic "Avalon", the island, where the kind allowed to rest in peace at least. I have sometimes written that maybe "Avalon" was the tidal island, where the thin underwater isthmus connected to the mainland. And maybe that island was in dry land most of the year. That would explain, where that thing should be looking for.

Or sometimes I have wondered, was the "Avalon" the island in some lake, and that's why people didn't know, where that place could be. But what was "Avalon"? Was it some old people's home, or safe place for a king, who was too old and weak for ruling his country? Or was it the ritual, where some people took the testis of the died warrior, and then made the test-tube fertilization for the ovum, what is taken from the sisters of the qualified warriors.

That thing would be very interesting to think about before we are thinking about the things, what would cause the myth of "Avalon". There are tales about fog, what rises around that place, and that tells about the autumn, or that the "Avalon" would be located at the volcanic lake, and this is the thing, why somebody has been looking for that island from Iceland, but there is one thing, what we have forgotten. "Avalon" might also be a symbol or some kind of ritual, and there would be told many versions of that tale.

If we think that the "fog" would be the symbol when the time passes, and generations are changing the original ritual is forgotten, and maybe in that ritual, the king would transfer the power to his son. When we are thinking bout the "fog" that thing might symbolize the memory.

As I have written before, we don't know about the exact time when this tale has been told, and that means that those original stories have been forgotten at that time. But what if the "Avalon" was a real place, what it might be? When we are thinking about the role of the "Avalon" as the final rest of the King, we must realize that there must be many places, that were used this name. These kinds of things are really interesting to think about Halloween. And maybe we would someday find that place, and find out, what was the mean of that thing for ancient Englishmen.

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukonkivi_(Inari)