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| Here's THE Glastonbury Egg Stone: http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/14509 "It is possible that the central Omphalos of Glastonbury, utilised by the Normans for the crossing of the great church, was marked by a stone cross in Saxon times, possibly by a megalith or egg-stone in pagan times. This place may have been considered too holy to be covered by a building, perhaps earlier revered as a powerful pagan cult centre. In the 1912 excavations an egg-stone was discovered. Roughly egg-shaped, the huge boulder measured 3ft x 2ft x 1ft 4in. One side of the egg-stone was artificially flattened and bore a cavity, perhaps a socket for a cross-shaft. In Bligh Bond's writings he mentions an unnamed friend who remarked "...that such a cult-stone must necessarily have existed at any place bearing the name of Avalon". The stone was carved with small circular holes, parallel grooves, convergent grooves like star points, grooves with X-shaped intersections, chisel marks and "other incised marks of peculiar shape". Being found in the bank by the east alley of the cloister it was not far from the Omphalos, and it had obviously been shifted about. Possibly this stone originally marked the actual Omphalos, and subsequently, on christianisation, had a cross erected in a socket prepared for the purpose." http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/history/h-abbypenn.html I can only find one possible reference to Nat's egg stone: "On our first day, we walked into the centre of the Glastonbury Tor Labyrinth, the 7 levels of which correspond to different energies, elements and charkas. I particularly enjoyed level 1 and Banbha's earth energy, and feeling the wind on level 4. We repeated a mantra as we walked, or prayed in our own way (I sang silently to myself), and really felt different as the journey continued. It was strange and somehow familiar, to be going up and down, in and out, all at the same time. In the center, we got to a clump of thorn and elder trees, where between the roots, nestles an egg stone, a boulder, a gate to the underworld, and one of the gateways into Avalon. We prayed and left our offerings here, and returned to the Challice Well gardens, all of us feeling tired, excited and subdued at the same time." http://www.kathyjones.co.uk/retreat_review.html  This topic is locked |  7th May 2005ce 21:33 In reply to: Glastonbury Tor - The Egg Stone (Nat) |
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