The shapes of the figures are marked by lanes, field boundaries and streams. Using maps and aerial photographs, she was able to recognise vast symbolic figures in outline, located on slight elevations in the landscape. The ‘Temple of the Stars’, as she called it, consists of a circle some 16 km (10 miles) in diameter, around Glastonbury Tor. She may have been guided by hints left by the Elizabethan astrologer John Dee (1527-1609) that such a feature existed. In the 1920s, an artist and antiquarian collector, Katherine Emma Maltwood (1878-1961), generally referred to as ‘Mrs Maltwood’) formulated the idea that a gigantic zodiac exists in the landscape around Glastonbury (UK). This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or part without the express written permission of AncientPages.The ‘Glastonbury Zodiac’ as depicted by Katherine Maltwood Sutherland Staff WriterĬopyright © All rights reserved. Legends and myths cannnot give us satisfactory answers and despite modern theories, this enigmatic place still remains an unsolved enigma. We know very little about the builders of Glastonbury Tor and its true meaning. Others disagree saying the Chalice Well is probably a Victorian invention. Legend says the well was built by the Druids to hide the cup used during the Last Supper, the Holy Grail, which was filled with the blood of the crucified Christ and brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea. There is an old well the so-called Chalice Well, at the foot of the Tor where the water, blood red from the iron oxide in the surrounding bedrock, bubbles up with a specific sound like the heartbeat. Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, England, enigmatic sacred mound its rearing volcanic shape is surrounded by man-made serpentine paths
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