"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)

Writing about national parks and their connection with ancient pagan religions.

Writing about national parks and their connection with ancient pagan religions.

When we are thinking about the holy places of ancient pagans, we might ask, how they choose those places? What was so special in those places, and who selected them? Sometimes I have thought that maybe those ancient ritual places are somehow visible in our maps as the national parks because those places might be thought of as cursed.

National parks are usually really nice places to spend time, and some of them are near city centers. The thing is that many national parks or forests have a history as the area, where there are not many houses, and that's why those beautiful places have been protected, and people can come from the city centers for enjoying those places. But why those places have not built?

That is one very good question, and the answer could be that there are some bad stories of myths about some places. When we are thinking about the case, that some places have been so-called cursed, what that thing exactly mean? It means the "no go" zone, or area, where is not allowed to go.

Some of those stories are told for protecting people against the volcanoes, but the origin of some stories has ever found out. So if we want to track the origin of those stories, we must find out when the markings of those stories are begun, and the thing that there are no markings would also tell something about the birth of the tales.

And when we are thinking about the national or commuter memory the stories and myths are causing the bloodline of some cases, what might happen a long time ago, in the early ages of Christianity. When we are looking at the origin of those myths, people might act in some areas to their children, that they should not go to some areas, and then they created stories about some kind of monsters and wolves, which might be dangerous in real life.

But the purpose of those stories has been keeping wrong people away from the forests, where pagans made their rituals and what was holy to them. The stories are forgotten but it's possible that people still react negatively, when they are facing things, that somebody wants to go to some areas. If the fear is put in the mind of people at a very young age, they would transfer it to the next generations, because that kind of things causes reflex, that the prohibiting of things is very rough.

And that causes fear, which will transfer to children over the generations. But what might be the secret in the forest, what causes that kind of reaction, what is still visible in the maps? The thing is that the ancient pagans might think that some kind of place was holy to them, and they wanted to keep people out of those places.

When the new religion Christianity turns the ancient pagan religions away, there was a short period, when those religions were influenced by people at the same time. And in that situation, there were made contracts, which might not be wanted to show either to Vatican or local people.

The force or sword mission was possible when the military force was behind the priests and secular authorities turned to support the mission. As you might see, that Christianity was not always been the top religion in the world. And in the 1st to 14th century AD, the forming of the church has just begun. So at that time many books and writings are lost. And that means that part of those centuries are called as dark or "phantom time" because some noblemen destroyed their relationship with old religions.