Trans-Europe St. Michael Line

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Contents

Lundy Island

Arthur, the rightful king

The Knights Templar

The Holy Grail

Gods, Saints and Heroes

Stonehenge

Celestial Stuff

Mythological Stuff

Historical Stuff

Mystical Places

St. Michael Lines

The Romans

Picture Galleries

References & Texts

Trans-England St. Michael Line

Trans-Europe St. Michael Line

Other St. Michael Lines

Trans- Europe St. Michael Line

In the late 1950's Jean Richer publicized the existence of a main axis of sacred sites in Greece through Delphi, Athens, Delos, Camiros, Prasaias [Apollo's Temple], the Temple of Artemis at Agra, Eleusis and other sites. The line links not only Temples and sanctuaries of the god Apollo but also sites earlier dedicated to the goddess Artemis / Diana. His brother Lucien followed this up in 1977 in an article entitled 'The Saint Michael and Apollo axis' in which he extended his brother's line north-west where it passes through the holy island of Skellig Michael on the south-western coast of Ireland, after crossing several of the most important sites in Europe dedicated to St. Michael, the archangel.

There are at least three legends concerning Apollo that seem to refer to this line.

One legend recalls how Abaris, a druidic British priest of Apollo, travelled on the god's golden arrow from the British Isles to Greece to visit Pythagoras. ( Pythagoras is also said to have lived for a time on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land another site on this line.)

Another legend describes the return of Apollo from the land of The Hyperboreans to Delphi in a chariot drawn by swans.

The third concerns what are known as the 'Hyperborean Gifts.' These, packed in straw, were sent from Hyperboreans (British?) to Delos as gifts ( tributes) to Apollo.

'These first fruits, it is said, are hidden in wheaten straw, and no one knows what they are.' - Pausanius

From northeast to southwest:-

Skellig Michael

St. Michael's chapel on Carn Brea in Cornwall

St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall

Mont St. Michel in Brittany

Bourges

Sagra di San Michele in Piedmont

San Michele at Castiglione di Garfagna

Perugia

Monte Sant' Angelo, Monte Gargano, the site of the first recorded appearance of the Archangel Michael.

Athens

Mount Carmel in the Holy Land.

The line follows a bearing of 60*11' from Mount Carmel to Skellig Michael.

Skellig Michael

'Skellig Michael consists of six stone beehive cells and a small oratory, set on a 700-foot pyramid of rock seven miles into the Atlantic off south-west Ireland.' Paul Johnson - A History of Christianity

The connection of the island with St. Michael is recorded from as early as the sixth century. from the ninth century the rock was subjected to the ravages of the Vikings. The Church suppressed the religious festivals at Skellig Michael during the nineteenth century. The rock has caverns and fissure caused by geological faults. There is a legend of an underground tunnel rediscovered and the blocked again in the nineteenth century. Three wells provide a water supply.

St. Michael's Carn Brea, Penwith

Until the late nineteenth century a chapel to St. Michael stood on this prominent hilltop, surmounting a prehistoric chambered burial mound.

St. Michael's Mount, Mounts Bay, Cornwall.

solitary hill - St. Michael chapel - iron age fortification / settlement.- beacon - giant legend

A legend tells how St. Michael appeared to local fisherman in a vision in 495. Giant's Well on the Mount commemorates the Cornish legend of the giant Cormoran who apparently piled the rocks to form the original mount.

Beacon fires were lit in an iron basket set on top of an angle turret. On a rock beside the causeway there was a chapel dedicated to St. Katherine.

To the Celts St. Michael's Mount was 'Din Sul' which translates as to Latin as 'Mons Solis' - (translation Sun?).

Mont St. Michel in Brittany.

solitary hill - St. Michael chapel - iron age fortification / settlement.- beacon - giant legend

Legend tells how in, 707 AD, when Bishop Aubert D' Avranches fell asleep on top of the 'Rocher de la Tombe' St. Michael visited him and instructed him to build a church there in the form of a circle. This necessitated the removal of two large rocks. The giant Gargantua is linked to this site, as is the legend of Arthur killing the giant of Mont St. Michel. The inundation of the sea around Mont St. Michel is recorded as happening in 709 AD. In Roman times one of the gods worshipped at this site was Belinus, the Celtic Apollo.

Bourges

Sagra di San Michele in Piedmont

visions of the Archangel and also stones moving miraculously overnight.

San Michele at Castiglione di Garfagna

a vision of the Archangel.

Monte Sant' Angelo, Monte Gargano

the site of the first recorded appearance of the Archangel Michael, either in 390 AD, or in another version 490 AD. The name derives from Gargantua, the giant.

Kerkyas

site of a temple to Artemis.

Delphi

When Apollo came to Mount Parnassus, at Delphi, he killed the previous occupant, Pythos, the earth- serpent . Nearby is the Castalian Spring and the Corycian cave.

It was an oracle of Delphi which stated the golden fleece would have to be brought back from Colchis

Delos

The smallest of the Cyclades group of Islands in the South Aegean Sea sometimes called 'the sacred Isle'. Delos was renowned in the ancient world both as a trading centre and as a temple of Apollo.

After a brief liason with Jupiter, latona fled from the wrath of his wife, Juno. She took refuge on the tiny island of Delos, which became the birthplace of the deities Apollo and his sister Diane /Artemis. A giant statue of Apollo towered over his temple. Nearby Mount Cynthus, crowned by another temple, is home to one of the oldest sacred sites on the island, a holy cave. A spring festival was held at Apollo's shrine on Delos.

Lindos

The sea around the Island of Rhodes is overlooked by a temple to Artemis at Lindos.

Mount Carmel

- in the Holy Land. The overthrow of the worship of Baal on Mount Carmel by the religion of Jehovah is related in 1 Kings 18. According to Iamblichus, writing in the fourth century, Pythagoras lived for a period on Mount Carmel. Other names associated with Carmel are the prophet Elijah, and the emperor Vespasian, who consulted the oracle before the siege of Jerusalem.