>On 7/31/2015 6:22 PM, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
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>>> On 7/31/2015 5:36 PM, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>>>> Sorry, not exactly aviation related but I thought the regulars in this group might enjoy this picture.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The tower in the picture is on top of Glastonbury Tor and is St
>>> Michael's Tower It was built after an earthquake demolished the wooden
>>> church there in 1275!
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>> In Somerset England?
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>
>Where else would Somerset be?
>
>;-)
There is a Somerset county in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine and Maryland here in the USA. I suspect there
are several others as well.
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>I live within sight of this monument!
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>http://www.glastonburytor.org.uk/mysterytor.html
>
>Note also St Michael - he was the one who fought the dragon that
>encircled the earth.
>
>Amongst other things, in more recent time he became the patron saint of
>paratroopers, a symbolic association with past events. I still have a St
>Michael medallion which I got, as a British paratrooper, when I worked
>with a Belgian Para-Commando unit in the 1960's.
>
>I don't know if you are aware of the concept of Ley Lines in ancient
>landscapes, but it is a fascinating subject and there is more
>information here, specifically relating to to what is called a "Dragon
>Line" associated with St Michael.
>
>http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/englandtour2014.html
>
>There's a lot of myth and hype about these things, but there is an
>unexplained power that runs across not just our English landscape, but
>throughout the ancient world.
>
Yeah, I read about ley lines many years ago, along with the hollow earth, etc. As for St. Michael and the
Dragon, you Brits have such rich folklore!
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